Building a Discord Bot for ChatOps, Pentesting or Server Automation (Part 1)
In this step by step tutorial we will create fully functional bot from scratch in which you can execute any command or cli program you like on your server or integrate with any API that you have access for example Jira. This is the part #1 of the series.
Prerequisites
- A discord account
- A discord client: web, desktop app or mobile app
- A discord server. You can create one inside your discord client of choice
Part #1: Discord setup
Create the discord application
In your preferred browser go to
Click on the “New Application” button
Enter your app name and press the “Create” button
Copy the “Client Id” because we are going to use it later
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Click the “Click to reveal” blue text
Copy the “Client Secret” token
Go to the bot section in the side panel
Press the “Add Bot” button
Read the disclaimer and press the “Yes, do it!” button
Click the “Click to Reveal Token” blue text
Take note of the Token. We will call it Bot Token in the future and will be used in our code to login to a discord server
For security reasons verify that the toggle “Public Bot” is off and if it isn’t turn it off. Press the “Save Changes” button
Read the available Bot Permissions
Assign at least some text permissions for our coding tests
We will use now the Client Id value that we saved early. Open a browser and paste this url:
https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=
and concatenate at the end your “Client Id” and press enter. In my case:
https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=720301035486183534
Select the server in which you want to include the bot
Press the “Authorize” button
We will receive a new notification in our discord server’s general channel that the bot is in the server
This only indicates that we created a bot, but until we code it we will only see it as offline and we cannot interact with it.
We are all set for this step. In Part #2 we will start programing a basic Discord Bot in Python. When I publish the second part I will paste a link here.
Note:
If you encounter typos or something doesn’t work no more write me a comment and I will keep this guide updated. Last update June 11 2020.
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