MemeBot

• This is a basic Discord meme bot that scrapes memes from a website and sends them to a Discord channel based on a user's tag input. The bot is implemented using the Discord.py library and Selenium for web scraping.
• This bot runs Locally in your system
• The selenium webdriver (Chrome) runs headlessly

Setup

To set up and run the bot, follow these steps:

1. Install the required dependencies:

   • discord.py
   • selenium

2. Install the necessary modules and libraries:

pip install selenium
pip install discord 

Usage

To use the bot, follow these steps:

1. Goto https://discord.com/developers and setup a bot and make sure it has the necessary permissions

2. Invite the bot to your Discord server using the auth section in developer portal.

3. In a Discord channel, type the command >meme followed by a tag. For example, >meme cat will fetch a random meme with the "cat" tag.

The bot will then scrape the website for a meme based on the provided tag and send it as a message in the Discord channel.

Optional

• If you are familiar with selenium and discord in python , feel free to change the source of website from which the bot is scraping and also specify the right xPath for the html element
• You can use https://github.com/trembacz/xpath-finder to find the xpath of an element.
• xPath Finder - Chrome web store

Note

• Make sure to replace env.DEFAULT, env.ERROR, env.SOURCE, and env.TOKEN with the appropriate values for your environment.
• Currently this bot uses Memedroid as source for memes