Spotlight Bot

Inspiration

Several social media platforms will automatically compile bits of content which a user creates or interacts with.

What it does

We developed a bot that will archive media data every time a picture or video is shared on discord and when called upon by the user, the bot will present the pictures and videos had the most reactions

How we built it

We started off by defining which exact problem we wanted to address and what the solution will look like. From there we worked on creating milestones for the project which could stand alone in case we failed in accomplishing our overall goal. We began researching simple tutorials for discord bots, reached out to hackathon mentors, and talked with others who had experience with Discord. We used VS Code, Python, and the Discord API. We worked on one milestone at a time and were able to achieve our original solution.

Challenges we ran into

We struggled understanding how to interact with the Discord API and integrating python functions. It was also difficult to find comprehensive tutorials online for building Discord bot code with python.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of achieving our original solution and all functions that we planned for. It was also great to challenge ourselves with a new API and using Git Hub more.

What we learned

We learned how to research for better resources online and find information about a new API. We also learned more about connecting front-end code with back-end code.

What's next for Spotlight Bot

Continue to improve the code and potentially establish the bot code on a dedicated discord bot hosting service.

Built With

• discord
• python
• visual-studio