What is Discord?
Discord is a free chat app that provides different chat functionalities such as voice, video, and text chat it is used by millions of people around the world for professional as well as fun use.
People create communities referred to as servers in discord and other people can join these servers to hangout there to meet new people and talk about their interests. Discord also offers functionality to create private servers where only invited people can join using these private servers people can have a private talk with their close ones.
Discord Servers are filled with channels created by the owner they can be text channels, audio or video channel. These channels are used to talk about specific topics on the server.
Creating a Discord Bot in Python
If you are familiar with online communities and if you are a part of one or you own one, you must have heard about discord and in discord, you may have seen bots managing those communities. So in this article, we are going to set up our discord developer portal account and will create a discord bot. A minimal bot with basic functionalities and if you want you can always extend the functionalities of this bot according to your needs.