Discord bot by Bronko

Setup

Create bot account, generate token, invite to server

How to create bot and generate its token?

To use riot api features you have to obtain riot api key

How to register product and get riot api key?

Install python and pip if it's not already installed

Python version must be 3.9 or newer
use python3 --version to check your python version (python --version on windows)

Download the bot

git clone https://github.com/MBronko/discord_bot
cd discord_bot

create .env file using .env.temp template and put previously generated token and key inside

create virtual environment, activate it and install required modules

linux

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

windows

python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

finally run your bot

linux

python3 main.py           # with venv activated
                          # or
venv/bin/python3 main.py  # with venv deactivated

windows

python main.py                # with venv activated
                              # or
venv\Scripts\python main.py  # with venv deactivated

Setup as Systemd service

Create SERVICE_NAME.service file in "/etc/systemd/system/" directory
(you will later address the service by the filename used here)

Inside the file put following configuration

[Unit]
Description=My Discord Bot
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=BOT_DIRECTORY
ExecStart=BOT_DIRECTORY/venv/bin/python3 BOT_DIRECTORY/main.py
StandardInput=tty-force

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

replace BOT_DIRECTORY with absolute path to your bot
i.e. /home/bronko/discord_bot

then run command
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

finally you can use following commands

sudo systemctl status SERVICE_NAME
sudo systemctl enable SERVICE_NAME
sudo systemctl disable SERVICE_NAME
sudo systemctl start SERVICE_NAME
sudo systemctl stop SERVICE_NAME