How to create a chatbot for discord without being a developer?

Lazy AI is starting to revolutionize application development with incredible speed, unlocking its potential for a wider audience.

17:24 14 December 2023

Lazy AI is starting to revolutionize application development with incredible speed, unlocking its potential for a wider audience. The solution’s core strength lies in its AI engine, which converts user specifications into functional code, dramatically reducing development time and eliminating the need for extensive coding knowledge. This makes app development several times easier, empowering anyone, regardless of technical expertise, to create custom solutions.

Lazy AI provides pre-built templates for popular application types, such as mobile apps, web apps, and chatbots, accelerating the prototyping and development process. Its seamless integration with various APIs and services allows for enhanced functionality and customization, unlocking a world of possibilities for developers.

Currently, Lazy AI shines in app development, facilitating the creation of mobile apps with minimal technical skills, business apps for basic tasks, and even rough drafts for testing and validation. However, its potential extends far beyond app development.

With continuous refinement of its user interface and experience, Lazy AI promises to become even more intuitive and user-friendly, further lowering the barrier to entry and making its powerful capabilities accessible to a wider audience. This will lead to increased adoption across diverse industries, as businesses and individuals leverage Lazy AI to solve specific problems through tailor-made applications.

Lazy AI's ability to process natural language and generate various creative text formats suggests applications in fields like writing, translation, and even art generation, expanding its impact beyond the realm of app development.

The future of Lazy AI holds immense potential. The expansion of its pre-built template library will provide users with a diverse range of components and functionalities, enabling them to quickly create complex and customized applications without starting from scratch. This will further accelerate development and empower users to bring their ideas to life with ease.

Speaking of templates, Lazy AI’s template library is already rather impressive, offering a vast selection of templates that can solve various problems that users may encounter at one point or another. As an example, we can take a single interesting template that creates a Discord clear chat bot in seconds.

Discord is a social platform with VoIP and IM capabilities, it offers multiple different ways to communicate with users all over the world – including voice calls, video calls, media sharing, and text messaging. There can be entire servers in Discord dedicated solely to text communication, but Discord’s capabilities in terms of server management can be rather lackluster.

For example, users with administrator privileges should be able to delete most of the messages from the server where they have these privileges – but it can only be done manually for every single message. There is an obvious problem here – going through hundreds of thousands of messages to delete them all for one reason or another is an extremely tedious and time-consuming process.

Luckily, Lazy AI can fix that problem by offering a bot template that can wipe out the entire channel’s worth of messages in mere seconds. The bot itself is extremely simple, it only reacts to a single command from the end user (except for the confirmation command), and is not particularly difficult to install at all.

The bot in question only requires a single environment variable to be able to do its job – the DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN. This token acts as an environment secret that the future bot will use to authenticate with Discord and perform its operations. It can be obtained from the Discord Development Portal – a convenient resource for Discord that offers plenty of tools and resources to developers who are willing to create and manage various Discord add-ons and bots.

Once the token has been generated, the installation process is as easy as going to the “environment secrets” tab in the Lazy Builder interface and inputting the token in question in a newly created designated field for the secret token.

As soon as the token is in place, the end user is free to initiate the bot creation process using the “test” button in Lazy AI’s interface. After the process is complete, the bot should be online and ready to delete messages off of Discord servers and channels.

Of course, a bot needs to be invited in a specific server for it to be able to delete messages. While this problem is easy to fix with a regular link invitation, the bot also needs to have permission to do anything in the first place. This can be done using the aforementioned Discord Development Portal – the OAuth2 page and the “Scopes” tab should offer a selection of “Bot Permissions” that the end user can check or uncheck. Chat deletion falls under the “message management” permission category.

Once the bot is on the server, it is ready to do its job. The message deletion command is “!clear_chat”. It asks for confirmation before performing the task (a simple “yes” or “no” answer will suffice), and the end user must have administrator privileges within the same channel for the bot to delete messages when asked.

Lazy AI is more than just a tool for app development; it represents a paradigm shift in the way we interact with technology. By democratizing software creation and unlocking its potential for a wider audience, Lazy AI paves the way for a future where anyone can become a creator, regardless of their technical background and coding experience.