swayamshu / discord-bot

A Discord Bot built upon slash commands provided by Discord Beta. It works on the principle of webhooks by awaiting commands and can be deployed on serverless architecture like Vercel.

COPS Discord Bot

Create an application on Discord Developer Portal

• Go to https://discord.com/developers/applications (login using your discord account if required).
• Click on New Application button available at left side of your profile picture. Name your application and click on Create.
• Go to Bot section, click on Add Bot, and finally on Yes, do it! to confirm.

That's it. A new application is created which will hold our Slash Command. Don't close the tab as we need information from this application page throughout our development.

Creating Command

Before we can write some code, we need to make a post request to register a Slash Command in our app.

Fill BOT_TOKEN with the token available in the Bot section and APPLICATION_ID with the ID available on the General Information section of the page

Make a POST request to "https://discord.com/api/v10/applications/<APPLICATION_ID>/commands" using your preferred GUI or CLI containing

• body:

  {
    name:"name",
    description:"description"
  }

• headers:

  {
      "Authorization": "Bot <BOT_TOKEN>"
  }
  

NOTE: currently bot supports only devtalks

Authorizing Your Application

Application commands do not depend on a bot user in the guild; they use the interactions model. To create commands in a guild, your app must be authorized with the applications.commands scope.

In order to make commands work within a guild, the guild must authorize your application with the applications.commands scope. The bot scope is not enough.

Deployment

publickey is available on the General Information section of the page

• vercel login
• Add environment variable publickey in your vercel project for prod
• Deployment vercel --prod