How to Build a Discord Bot

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Learn how to build your own discord bot from scratch with JavaScript and deploy it to the cloud in this beginner friendly tutorial.
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[@shateq]

This dude covered 30-ten minute long video series in 4 minutes 😂

[@autumndev]

Well, serverless is possible if you only need a bot to do slash commands which is a valid use case

[@ocean3323]

Interactions not only slash commands (message components and context menus, modals also)

[@hrvs]

Well, telegram bot are very easy to deploy in serverless environment. I built a Telegram Bot with Deno and deploy it in Deno Deploy and it is just blazingly fast.

[@lapraswastaken]

currently working on a Python library that focuses solely on Discord interactions! the timing for this video is pretty funny

[@arkayv]

@@hrvs *ThePrimagean intensifies*

[@h.hristov]

How would that work if it requires a persistent connection?

[@lucasguimaraes7041]

I absolutely loved the “create your own discord bot” experience. I built mine using Heroku + DialogFlow 2+ years ago. Such a cool memory !

[@yeppiidev]

ah yeah heroku, remember using it to create server side apps. unfortunately they stopped giving free tiers

[@arjittw]

Do not take servers too seriously, you will someday get out of free tear - Arjit Tiwari

[@coolguy1083]

@@yeppiidev so sad my first app on heroku was a discord bot

[@vabtech7627]

@@yeppiidev What are the alternative options nowadays?

[@yeppiidev]

@@vabtech7627 hmm i haven't done much backend development to know that but repl.it provides some stuff you can use to run things server side

[@parker02311]

I love watching videos about creating Discord bots even know I have made multiple. This content is just so satisfying to watch.

[@gducrash]

My favorite part was when Jeff said "it's Discord time" and botted all over the servers. Definitely one of the tutorials of all time ever!!

[@makkusaiko]

Definitely one of the comments of all time

[@jamesprentor8433]

This is perfect timing! I am just working on a discord server for a product I am making and here comes fireship with the discord bot video!

[@flamableassassin5105]

1:55 I'm really sorry but you are kind of wrong you are able to build bots with server-less functions (discord has an example on their docs for cloudflare workers). However you will only be able to receive interaction events not any other event. Keep up with the amazing vids tho

[@beyondfireship]

Good call, yeah serverless will work in certain cases.

[@krishgarg2806]

@@beyondfireship yeah it works on interaction model with webhooks like system

[@hrvs]

Telegram Bots works amazing in serverless environment.

[@azeemhaider5278]

Didn't App Engine standard automatically shutdown when no incoming request? It means bot can't listen events after a shot time. How you are managing it on App Engine

[@tymianek]

4:33 well, I don't think I can ask you any questions when activity is super high and slowmo is 25sec. Your videos are amazing, keep doing them 🔥

[@amrelmohamady]

The Builder Pattern is my favorite!

[@beyondfireship]

Let's chat. UPDATE: Thanks for boosts, we have a custom link now discord.gg/fireship

[@Denny-77]

less goo!!!!!

[@Kat21]

😮

[@wppq6944]

Is there a particular reason why this comment isn't pinned?

[@PatrickAlphaC]

Question, are you still editing all your videos? The edits are so clean.

[@PatrickAlphaC]

@@jujimufi472 fireship is just too good

[@victorhenriquecollasanta4740]

that's the man! thank you for your tutorials! today i am employed as a web3 dev and your videos had a huge influence on it ;)

[@PatrickAlphaC]

@@victorhenriquecollasanta4740 LETS GOOOO!!!!!

[@developerpranav]

Thanks for the tutorial :D BTW why does the video have 480p as the max res?

[@eternalgamer496]

I just logged into KZbin to learn how to make a discord bot and your video popped up in my recommendations, Just the thing I needed. Although I was planning to use Python for the bot I changed my decision to use Node instead

[@i3looi2]

Building a Discord bot is easy. Keeping it from taking over the world .. now that's a challenge !

[@nicetrooper2]

keep up the amazing work🙌

[@mattplaygamez]

Good video. "Follow the principal of least privilege"

[@mirzazplayz_rblx]

Literally the best tutorial of discord bot making damnn

[@yasanduseenapatabendige9108]

Few months ago I made a discord bot for my discord server with python(nextcord) and it was awesome. I learned many things from it and it encouraged me to keep coding. BTW I am really happy you made a discord server

[@JamesBezza01]

hey you probably wont respond but can you help me learn to make a bot

[@detective_solar]

@@JamesBezza01 I at least will respond. What type of bot do you want to make?

[@YuriG03042]

when you said you were going to create your bot from scratch, i thought you were actually going go reinvent this wheel, but then you imported discord.js lol glad to know you aren't crazy

[@YuriG03042]

guild messages is a privileged intent, you shouldn't ask for that intent or rely on it anymore as discord will only approve those requests on case by case. just use interactions for everything

[@YuriG03042]

you listed to event messageCreate but then show a screenshot of the bot replying to an interaction wtf???

[@RedCrafter07]

Finally, we've been waiting for so long 😂 Great video as always, please keep doing this, you help out so many people (including me). Thanks for that!

[@ezra6094]

I was just thinking about making a discord bot, you're a mind reader!

[@crupayan]

I generally use builder patterns while coding and when you that that you are not a fan of that, it got me really curious to know you thoughts. Maybe can you elaborate on what is the thing builder pattern lacks, and which pattern you use personally for most cases. Thanks :-)

[@Andressuquaz156]

X2, personally I find the builder pattern really useful and readable, can simplify the sometimes complex way of building objects.

[@parmajohn238]

0:12 you got me - you really got me

[@Nexurl]

Good vid but why is it in 480p ?

[@deepshah2305]

Gonna be 1M subscribers in a Month 🔥🔥

[@ibrahimmohammed3484]

why is this video in 480?!!!

[@richasrivastava7739]

The most fireship way of announcing the discord

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@Twingamerdudes]

The long awaited tutorial. 2:32 thanks for the free token.

[@dimitritsikaridze6220]

full discord bot tutorial would be nice

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@eliasmangoro413]

Great video! but why don't you like the builder pattern?

[@yss64]

wow I'm early!!

[@nathanwatson296]

Lol same

[@asdasddas100]

1:55 You can 100% build a bot using serverless functions because that's what I'm doing right now

[@ai-whisperer]

can you lease shed more light on the how?

[@SuperElephant]

I tried. Not possible for discord bots.

[@ieatthighs]

how

[@pmj_studio4065]

It's made possible by using HTTP interactions instead of Gateway events.

[@mghq-mobilegamerzhq2533]

Wish this came out 2 weeks earlier, love this though!

[@GrzyPix]

I'm pretty sure you will have the best tutorials (and shortest) about “how to make *good* discord bot”

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@nicolasramos7084]

Great as usual. I would love to see a 'How to build a Twitch extension' video

[@BarryPLAYz]

I did this in 2020 because nothing existed to automatically assign a role based on email verification. It was a pretty fun project.

[@sage_gamers]

Please make video on your journey as a developer and the ups-downs you faced. btw love watching your video and it inspires a lot ^⁠_⁠^ I'm not a bot

[@detective_solar]

That's probably what a bot would say

[@Nick12_45]

3:30 youtube not THAT liike 😭

[@jnovak01]

Not going to lie, I read the thumbnail as: "How I built a cyber bully"

[@harvanchik]

I didn't realize how easy it is. Definitely will try making my own bot soon!

[@R80QZ]

He lost me at the coding part

[@Nesha_duncan]

@@R80QZ this fr

[@awhux]

nice video mate

[@dendysaptoadi9652]

its very easy when you explain it

[@TheSkyCries1]

My God.. the discord notification noices triggered me. I can't resist checking if there is actually a message. Great video though :D

[@evildoer1606]

Why you are not a fan of builder pattern? What do you prefer to solve lots of parameters in the constructor/constructors?

[@thecodebuddha7246]

Hey! There's this scammer on using your logo that replies to commentsvon your channel. Reported it earlier today not sure if the channel got taken down. Just putting it out so you know and if possible you could give a heads up to your followers

[@s0er3n33]

nice video but were the discords notification sounds necessary?

[@mrdrummer2564]

I guess we only get 480p eh?

[@RovelStars]

I can confirm this youtube video will hit a lot of views, due to the topic being so popular ;)

[@simonbrandner]

My rather biased self would love to see a How to Build a [matrix] Bot video :)

[@0x5DA]

+1

[@pixelsbyme]

Why the quality of video is set to 480p ??

[@pazzoeo]

I would *really* love to know how to use Google App Engine. I hear it's "free" but i cannot wrap my head around how to use it and the limits this "free" tier apply to.

[@0x5DA]

have you considering opening s matrix room as well?

[@returnZeroo]

props to you.

[@SpeedyRacist]

You released this after i figured slash commands out lmao

[@wlockuz4467]

I have never used Discordjs, how does it compare to DiscordPy? personally I've used discordpy for a long time and some of the tools that it offers out of the box like tasks, extensions etc are extremely powerful and on top of that you also have the full power of python at your disposal.

[@sage_gamers]

Please make video on your journey as a developer and the ups-downs you faced. btw love watching your video and it inspires a lot ^⁠_⁠^ I'm not a bot

[@priyanshmishra404]

Jeff : " do not expose your discord_TOKEN as hacker can gain control of your bot " ..also JEFF- exposing on youtube... . . 2:27

[@fkw0k3t4rd5]

Is there a reason you didn't use something like a Heroku worker? That's what I'm using now and wondering if its a bad idea.

[@bity-bite]

@ 3:40 why not? It's pretty awesome in my humble opinion.

[@imagineabot3166]

شكلها بيض بالنسبه لي

[@MentorMode]

Awesome 👍

[@muaz840]

why your videos aren't in hd?

[@Spacey.]

Should have added an anti raid feature to the bot lmaooo. The server is already being raided.

[@gamemak0r]

This works amazingly with langchain.

[@clean7886]

Thanks Brother

[@CodyDBentley]

Curious to know why you don't like builder pattern?

[@-Cocell]

2:31 *Proceeds to exposes sensitive information online after warning not to do so.*

[@flamenate]

I love the vid, but tbh does it really count as "from scratch" if you're using a wrapper library that makes things 100x easier and saves literally tens of hours?

[@derfl007]

is anything from scratch if you don't write your own compiler?

[@flamenate]

@@derfl007 🤷

[@khalilbessaad5553]

only 480p?

[@jasonbenfrin]

LET'S GOOOO

[@nerdvananc]

12 hours later I can still only watch the video in 480p - wtf YT?

[@official-obama]

youtube can't upscale videos from its original resolution

[@dddeiv]

Hey could you take a look at the biscuit library for Discord API? :)

[@minetomek]

Can you make example repo on GitHub with base for a bot? It would be really helpful. Btw great video

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@idrissberchil25]

Do matrix next

[@willinton06]

Not a fan of the builder pattern huh, spicy

[@360noscooper]

can you give some examples of free bot hostings?

[@benjaminshinar9509]

can we get a video about a TEAMS bot?

[@smachgame]

ok man cool where is the discord developer dashboard?

[@Imran_FBD]

I have a question. What code editor do you use? I have no solid one, so I use notepad or notepad++

[@MdSamir-ce5pe]

How do I check if the bot is working fine or not? when I'm running the index file its giving errors like 'Privileged intent provided is not enabled or whitelisted'

[@iamnotstanley]

Hey Jeff, why is this video in 480p?

[@andrewm6788]

I see every guide use Client rather than commands.Bot, please use the latter it makes implementing things 1000% more efficient

[@Temari_Virus]

I remember I once tried making a discord bot but it wouldn't respond at all despite being online. Eventually I gave up and chalked it up to my lack of understanding of js but now watching this video I think I was just missing some intents...

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@simplybrocoli58]

Not helpful. How do i use google engines?

[@mrmm1110]

I misread it as "How to Build a Discord Mod" XD

[@FaisalAfroz]

But why were so many butt jokes in this bot video.

[@morganjennings3164]

It,s so so good 😀🤘🏼

[@sotofpv]

Does the like/dislike button on youtube do a fancy rainbow animation thingy when he says Button @ 3:35 ?

[@Thatoneguyeveronenows]

Yeah

[@bishnudas3562]

3:10 !message?.author.bot can anyone explain why there is question mark?

[@dafa5911]

480p? Are we back in 2008?

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@misaelpereira9679]

Javascript or Python is better for easily builds a bot?

[@funwithalbi2425]

im new to javascript, ive only used other languages

[@user-gm3eo1dp1y]

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[@killerdroid99]

well u can reset which u did obv

[@samiulbasirfahim112]

Love from bangladesh

[@brightworld7550]

Is it just me or this video is in 480p. If so, WTF Fireshit??

[@Ouchie]

I have a bot that will turn on a led if my mic is muted and off when unmuted, hosted on my raspberry pi

[@TheOneAnOnlyGuy]

Why are you not a fan of the builder pattern?

[@0xC4aE1e5]

Why 480p?

[@7heMech]

Cool

[@FadeThePlayer]

for me it doesnt run. have everything correctly installed and i only receive syntaxerror. tried multiple ways and it wont work. what am i doing wrong

[@Knightmare-of-Shadows]

Is it possible to imbue a bot with the memories/information of fictional characters? I need to know, as I must create a Lelouch Vi Britannia bot as well as a Zero bot.