Discord Bot on App Engine Demo

This is the code repository for Discord Bot on App Engine Demo.

Video Tutorials

This collection of tutorials demonstrate how to create a Discord Bot on Google Cloud using Python:

1. Creating a Discord Bot on App Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczvOQ6S6sA
2. Using Secret Manager to Manage Tokens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb4RU5rpooQ
3. Hosting a Poll Bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdZKMeLG4w

Github repo: https://github.com/yoyu777/discord-bot-on-app-engine

How to use it

1. Create a Google Cloud account: https://cloud.google.com/
2. Install gcloud SDK for Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install, and initialise it.
3. Follow the App Engine Quickstart, either node.js or Python, to create a Google Cloud project.
4. Clone this repository and, in the terminal, change to the default(for node.js) or python directory.
5. Deploy the Discord bot using the following commands

gcloud app create --project=[YOUR_PROJECT_ID]
gcloud app deploy

Important: if you deploy the python bot before you deploy the node.js bot, remove the service line in app.yaml

Useful Links

Creating a Discord Bot on App Engine

• Node.js discord.js documentaition: https://discord.js.org/#/
• Python discord.py Quickstart: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html
• Creating a Bot Account: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discord.html#discord-intro (applying to both node.js and Python)

Using Secret Manager to Manage Tokens

• google-cloud-secret-manager: https://googleapis.dev/python/secretmanager/latest/index.html
• Secret Manager Product Quickstart: https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs/quickstart#secretmanager-quickstart-python