meowBot >.< - a simple discord bot

Hello! Welcome to meowBot! :3

This project mainly originated from me seeking a new programming experience other than C++ - Python. With this, I could step into the fundamentals of Python and learn a new library / framework used to create Discord bots. This simple framework is known as discord.py, and with it comes many functions that Discord users use on a daily basis! Hence, my inspiration to create my own discord bot came with consistently using Discord as a platform to communicate with friends and family.

Below can be seen a general outline of the things that meowBot can accomplish!

Installation

To install and actually run meowBot on your local machine, perform the following steps.

1. Clone the repo to your local machine - store it in a Projects folder preferably.
2. Create a virtual environment by running python3 -m venv meowBot-env in the directory of the project. You can activate the virtual environment by running meowBot-env\Scripts\activate.bat on Windows, and source meowBot-env/bin/activate on Mac or Linux. From here, run pip install -U discord.py.
3. Install the dependencies from the requirements.txt file by running pip install -U -r requirements.txt.
4. From here, create a .env file that contains the following fields.

BOT_TOKEN = "your_bot_token"
CLIENT_ID = "your_client_id"

General Commands

Some useful commands to access meowBot:

m.help (none, music, misc, channels) - Lists commands pertaining to a particular topic.

m.intro - Greets the user.

m.users - Prints number of users.

m.purge (num) - Purges however many messages you provide it prior to sending command.

m.invite - Provides the user with a link to invite meowBot to different servers!

Music Commands

Some useful commands to access meowBot's music functionality:

m.join - Adds the bot to a voice channel if user is already in one. Otherwise, nothing will happen.

m.leave - Takes meowBot out of whatever channel the user is in.

m.play (url) | m.play search term - Plays a song from youtube given by the user.

m.pause - Pauses the current song playing.

m.resume - Resumes the current song on queue.

m.stop - Completely stops any audio from playing on meowBot.

Channel Commands

Some useful commands to create and delete channels with meowBot:

m.create (name) - Creates a basic text channel with the given name.

m.create voice (name) - Creates a basic voice channel with the given name.

m.create priv (name) - Creates a private text channel with the given name.

m.create priv_voice (name) - Creates a private voice channel with the given name.

m.delete (name) - Deletes a voice / text channel with the given name.

Miscellaneous Commands

Some fun and miscellaneous functions that meowBot offers:

m.quote - Prints a random quote for you fellas feeling under the weather.

m.github - Gives the caller a link to the GitHub repo that meowBot runs off of.

m.dadprogjoke - Provides the user with a funny dad programming joke, if you're into that stuff.

m.profile {other users) - Sends the user a detailed tag of their profile on Discord.

Developer Commands

Listed below are some commands created in order to ease workflow as I developed meowBot:

m.load (cog file name) - Loads a specified cog back into the bot after edits are finished.

m.reload (cog file name) - Reloads a specified cog into the bot during runtime.

m.unload (cog file name) - Unloads a specified cog off the bot in order to allow for edits.