Discord Ping Bot 🤖🚀

This Go program implements a simple Discord bot that responds to messages containing specific commands. The bot is designed to respond with "pong" when it receives the command "ping".

Usage 🚀

1. Create a config.json file in the project root with the following format:

   {
       "Token": "your_discord_bot_token",
       "BotPrefix": "!"
   }

2. run the program:

    go run main.go
   

The bot will now be running and responding to messages in Discord.

Code Explanation 📜

main Function 🚀

Load Configuration:

• Calls the ReadConfig function from the config package to read the Discord bot token and command prefix from the config.json file.

Start Discord Bot:

• Calls the Start function from the bot package to initialize and start the Discord bot.

config Package 🌐

ReadConfig Function:

• Reads the config.json file to retrieve the Discord bot token and command prefix.
• Sets global variables Token and BotPrefix with the values from the configuration file.

bot Package 🤖

Start Function:

• Creates a new Discord bot session using the DiscordGo library.
• Retrieves bot user information and sets the global variable BotID with the bot user ID.
• Adds a message handler (messageHandler) to handle incoming messages.
• Opens a connection to the Discord gateway and prints a message indicating that the bot is running.

messageHandler Function:

• Ignores messages sent by the bot itself.
• Responds with "pong" to messages containing the command "ping."
• Responds with "Anjas Gantenk" to messages containing the command "anjas."

Closing Notes 📝

Feel free to adjust the configuration, and if you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Happy coding! 🤖👨‍💻