ChatGPT Discord Bot

Build your own Discord bot using ChatGPT

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Warning

2023-02-03 Update: ChatGPT API working again

2023-02-02 Update: OpenAI has closed ChatGPT API, temporarily switching to using GPT-3 model

2023-02-01 Update: Now using the official ChatGPT API

Features

• /chat [message] Chat with ChatGPT!
• /private ChatGPT switch to private mode
• /public ChatGPT switch to public mode
• /replyall ChatGPT switch between replyall mode and default mode
• /reset Clear ChatGPT conversation history

Chat

Mode

• public mode (default) the bot directly reply on the channel

  

• private mode the bot's reply can only be seen by the person who used the command

  

• replyall mode the bot will reply to all messages in the server without using slash commands

  Warning The bot will easily be triggered in replyall mode, which could cause program failures

Setup

Install

1. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Rename the file config.dev.json to config.json

Step 1: Create a Discord bot

1. Go to https://discord.com/developers/applications create an application

2. Build a Discord bot under the application

3. Get the token from bot setting

   

4. Store the token to config.json under the discord_bot_token

   

5. Turn MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT ON

   

6. Invite your bot to your server via OAuth2 URL Generator

   

Step 2: Generate a OpenAI API key

1. Go to https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys

2. Click Create new secret key

   

3. Store the SECRET KEY to config.json under the openAI_key

Step 3: Run the bot on the desktop

1. Open a terminal or command prompt
2. Navigate to the directory where you installed the ChatGPT Discord bot
3. Run python3 main.py to start the bot

Step 3: Run the bot with Docker

1. Build the Docker image & Run the Docker container docker compose up -d

2. Inspect whether the bot works well docker logs -t chatgpt-discord-bot

   Stop the bot:

   • docker ps to see the list of running services
   • docker stop <BOT CONTAINER ID> to stop the running bot

Have a good chat!

Optional: Setup starting prompt

• A starting prompt would be invoked when the bot is first started or reset

• You can set it up by modifying the content in starting-prompt.txt

• All the text in the file will be fired as a prompt to the bot

• Get the first message from ChatGPT in your discord channel!

  1. Right-click the channel you want to recieve the message, Copy ID

     

  2. paste it into config.json under discord_channel_id