Cheery Bot

Inspiration

2020 was a rough year, to say the least. We wanted to provide some sort of relief to individuals in the online community during this abnormal holiday season when they least expect it. We also wanted to pursue a more difficult coding challenge because we never pursued anything like this before.

What it does

Cheery Bot uses Python and API to identify Christmas-related words and reacts with inspirational quotes and Christmas gifs.

How we built it

We built the bot using the Discord API and our limited Python knowledge.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into minor issues such as the Python not recognizing the Christmas-related words and the API wouldn’t deliver quotes to the server with the $inspire command. We also had minuscule typos, which took up an excruciating amount of time and eye-strain to identify and fix.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of making a discord bot for our first time in under a few days and after failed attempts (approx. 3) we are able to not only create a bot that is cheerful but also can contextualize in whatever topic we wish to create it on.

What we learned

We learned how to use the Discord API and how to make a Python bot. We used videos such as freeCodeCamps tutorial to aid in our new learning stretch, alongside Repl.it’s the optimization of the python language and their guided blog.

What's next for Cheery Bot

After enabling this to run 24/365 on Discord on any server, we are looking into jumping straight into creating this bot and similar cheerfulness to affect the general online public at a larger level: such as expanding the API to Twitter, Slack, Reddit, and Facebook for our lovely grandparents!