it's become super outdated, the codebase is flaming trash, and I've had much better stuff to do in recent times

you can still run it but I won't help and good luck honestly

the version of the bot I develop is not public mostly because I don't use any development bots out of laziness — the stuff I'm testing goes directly to production and is pushed to github independently of it being run, meaning that there's probably gonna be a lot of crashing and security flaws if I made it public

as a result it's mostly intended to be forked and run on your own, which is why it's on github in the first place

anyways bearing that in mind use this at your own risk lol

requirements

• have python installed (minimum 3.10 because match case)
• the following libraries: (some of them are installed by default I'm too lazy to figure out which ones)
  • discord.py (obviously)
  • os (used for database/token stuff)
  • random (used for 8ball command and a few other things)
  • wikipedia (used for wikipedia command)
  • json (used for the database)
  • time (used for startup message)
  • dotenv (used for bot token)

go make a discord app at https://discord.com/developers

further instructions are at https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/discord.html

copy the .env.example file and rename it to .env

insert your bot token into where it says "your_bot_token_here", surrounded with double quotes

this just makes the connection between the actual bot and these python files

Warning

your bot token is basically your bot password, be careful with it and do not post it anywhere

in your main working folder (the one that this file and the RUN_ME.py file are contained in) create a file called database.json.

it just uses regular json formatting, read the example file for specifics

config.py contains most of the hardcoded stuff like colors and channel ids, so feel free to edit that to change most defaults

oh also if you're renaming the bot etc the frame of that one gif used on static images is always 106

the default method that the Code Runner extension uses for running a python file is by running it straight from the path

however since there are multiple files in the directory this can and will cause issues

to resolve this go into the settings.json file (contained in your appdata/application support folder under Code/User/settings.json) and paste in the following code

"code-runner.fileDirectoryAsCwd": true,

this will ensure that you are changing to the proper directory before running the file, allowing you to access all the other files contained in the directory (database, config, etc)

from there just run the python file and enjoy