What is this?

This is a simple Discord Bot coded in Python that uses the free CryptoCompare API to display cryptocurrency prices

Download

Use git to clone the repository or just download it as a ZIP

git clone https://github.com/kevintr303/Discord_Crypto_Bot

Installation

The only external Python libraries that are needed are:

pip3 install discord.py
pip3 install cryptocompare

Next, create your bot on Discord. Afterwards, you need to set the environment variables.

• Set "CRYPTOCOMPARE_API_KEY" to your CryptoCompare api key which you can get here for free (100k calls monthly, 250k cap).
• Next, set "TOKEN" to your Discord Bot's token.

Usage

In the script, there are some simple settings you can change:

# Settings:
base_command = "$cb"
bot_channel = "crypto_tracker"
# End of settings--

The base_command variable is the command people will use for the bot, and bot_channel is the name of the channel where the bot works. The main command of the bot: $cb will show all the current commands that exist. For ease I will also list the commands here: (make sure to have exact capitalization and formatting)

1. $cb lists information and commands
2. $cb [coin] [currency] Usage: $cb BTC USD Shows current price of a coin
3. $cb history [coin] [currency] [date] Usage: $cb history BTC USD 2021,6,20 Shows historical price of a coin
4. $cb coins Links to the CryptoCompare website that shows all coin types

Why did I make this?

Well, mostly for fun and as a learning experience. I wanted to create something that might be useful and thought, "hey, bitcoin's pretty popular right now. I should make a discord bot that tells you the current price," And so I did. This also marks my very first repository on GitHub(and first Discord bot). At the time of writing this, I have been learning Python for about 4-5 months now, so the code isn't the greatest.

What did I learn?

From this, I learned about environment variables and how to use them, how to create discord bots, github repositories and git, and event handling using Python decorators. That's a win if you ask me, to future projects we go! (Although I might revisit this in the future to improve on my code!)

License

MIT