Having a Discord bot is a cool feature on your server. If you have landed here from a search on how to deploy your Discord bot then chances are you’re still curious on how to do that. The options for deploying a Discord bot are several, as we outline in our quick overview of how to setup a Discord bot. In this post you will understand how our Discord bot is deployed on our platform.
Basically the Discord bot consist of the following
- Python code
- Docker image
We employ a simple process when deploying our Discord bot. All our code is hosted publicly on Github here for the Discord bot. We have written it in Python using the discord.py package. The deployment of the code is simply running a Docker container on our platform. Therefore we have full control of how the process is running. We can monitor the bot for errors as well.
Our Discord Bots is deployed on a solid platform with enough processing power and bandwidth to handle current needs, with the flexibility to scale if requirements change. New changes or bug fixes is handled through quick commands on our server. The script is outlined at the end of this post for your reference.
The features for the Discord bot are the following at this moment
- Stock information from Yahoo Finance API. Provides history, recommendations and general information about stocks.
- Twitter feed search. Provides functionality to search Twitter for a specific term
- Toy functions for arithmetic. Why not a calculator on your server, just cool!
How do we test our Discord bot?
Right now in the current state of the bot all functions are tested on the Discord server manually. If the code base grows and more tests are introduced this can be integrated into the pipeline. We have a setup locally for unit tests and integrations.
Are you curious to try and see if our hosting is suitable for you? Our simple 3 step process looks like the following
- Contact us through the form below
- Discuss what is required to have your Discord bot hosted and adapted to our platform
- Together we decide if your requirements are a good match for both us.
What are you waiting for? Click the button below and let’s get started with hosting your Discord bot 🙂