Well, If you run a Discord server, you have a lot of options for providing cool features to your players. The addition of bots is one of these features. Once you’ve figured out how to add these bots, customizing your server is a breeze.
This article will walk you through the process of creating a Discord server, as well as introduce you to the Bot’s world and describe how to add bots to Discord server.
What Are Discord Bots?
Well, Bots are simply computer programs that interact with humans (and occasionally with other bots) to perform specific tasks automatically. For example, a bot is a website that has a helpful chat window that immediately opens up and offers to talk with you about their product or service. You can see bot interactions (beep! boop!) all the time if you use Reddit.
Further, Bots can be helpful or infuriating, depending on their purpose, design, and deployment. Bots on Discord offer various useful and unhelpful features to the community on the server where they “live.” Also, You can add bots to your Discord server to help you moderate members or to make your server more unique and fun.
Here, There are bots that play music, bots that offer amusing memes on demand, bots that fetch your game stats, and bots that play a loud air horn noise on the channel when prompted.
Finding Good Bots
The Discord world is teeming with bots; there are thousands of them available for free. If you want, you can find a list of some silly and semi-useful bots here; nevertheless, more and more serious bots can be found on the Carbonitex site, considered to be one of the best repositories of Discord bots available. Another reputable repository for Discord bots is simply called Discord Bots. Finally, for the truly dedicated, a GitHub search for Discord bots will yield nearly everything that is publicly available.
Adding Bots To Your Discord Server
Well, Adding Bots to your Discord server can be a time-consuming process the first time. However, it’s quite simple once you get the hang of it.
Step #1: Turn On Administrator Access
Well, To add bots to your Discord Server, you must be the server’s Administrator. If you do not own the server, you should probably check with the owner before adding any changes to it.
- First, From your Discord home page, choose the server you’d like to add the bot to (on the left-hand side of the Discord site).
- Here, Once Selected; Next, Choose the drop-down menu (The server name is in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, next to a small down arrow).
- Next, Tap “Server Settings.”
- Then, Tap “Roles.”
- Now, Scroll down to the General Permissions setting and toggle “Administrator” on.
- Lastly, Click “Save Changes.”
Step #2: Get the Bots You Want
Here, It’s important to note that depending on the source website of your Bots. You may see “Invite” or “Add Bots.” We’ll use Dyno in this example, but the instructions may differ slightly if you’re adding another Bot.
1- Find the Bot that you’ll add to your server and log in using your Discord credentials.
2- Tap “Invite” or “Add Bot,” whichever is listed, then tap on the server to which you’d like to add the Bot.
3- Follow the prompts – Here, This will take you through a series of permissions, and also it will ask for Administrator access which is why Step #1 is so important.
Now, Authorize the Bot and complete the Captcha.
There are several bot options available; their bots may differ, but following the prompts will result in a successful installation.
If you can’t find your server, make sure you’re logged into Discord in the same browser you’re using to access the Bots’ website. Also, make sure you’re signed in to the right account.
Well, Dyno, a full-featured bot with moderation features, music playing capabilities, CleverBot integration, and a slew of other features not covered in this article, is one popular Bot. It has been added to over 1.4 million Discord servers, indicating its popularity.
Dyno is available from the Carbonitex website.
- First, Click the green “Add Bot to Server” button. Here, This will bring up a confirming dialog from Discord asking you to choose which server you want to add Dyno to. Now, You’ll need to be logged in to your server for Discord to know that it’s you trying to add something.
- Next, Select your server and click “Authorize.”
You may be required to enter an “I’m not a robot” Captcha, but the bot will be automatically added to your discord server, and you’ll be directed to the administration page for managing Dyno on your server.
Simple as that!
You can also add bots directly if you’re a purist and don’t want to deal with the pretty interface. You will need to know the bot’s client ID and be logged in to your Discord server. This is the method to use for most GitHub bots that do not have a web interface.
- First, Open your browser and paste the following URL: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<Bot_Client_ID>&scope=bot&permissions=0.
- Next, Change ‘Bot_Client_ID’ in the above URL with the actual client ID of the bot you want to add.
- Here, You may still have to authorize the bot even though the command uses Oauth2 to do that very thing.
Authorizing Your Discord Bot
Discord is very cautious about bots and may require multiple authorizations to allow one to function. Even if the platform uses Oauth2 to allow a permitted bot to access and interact with the platform, you may be asked to authorize it within the channel.
Some Popular Discord Bots
Discord is very cautious about bots and may require multiple authorizations to allow one to function. Even if the platform uses Oauth2 to allow a permitted bot to access and interact with the platform, you may be asked to authorize it within the channel.
Pancake:
It is a basic multi-featured bot with moderation features and music playing.
Dank Member:
It displays memes and has a variety of other meme-related features.
MedalBot:
It lets your users record clips.
Nadeko:
It plays games, offers to gamble, and has administration tools.
Groovy:
It is a music bot that supports Spotify, YouTube, and Soundcloud.
RickBot:
It offers more than 4500 custom soundboards.
Translator:
It is a multilingual bot that provides instant translation between more than 100 languages.
Mantaro:
It is a customizable “fun” bot.
Rythm:
It is a very stable and fully functional music bot.
More Bot Resources
There are numerous resources available to assist you in selecting, customizing, and even creating your Discord bots. Well, Here you’ll find some of the most popular and useful Web bot resources to help you make the most of your experience.
First, Discord.me is a large Discord community where users can add and promote servers, but the site’s overall goal is to “help people find online communities they love.” The site’s server categories range from Military to Mature, Anime to Art, and Fitness to Furry.
An active blog keeps the community informed, and the site includes an NSFW toggle that allows you to avoid (or seek out) the “after dark” servers out there.
Second, Discordbots.org is a bot-themed Discord community with a plethora of bot-related resources. The site categorizes and rates thousands of bots, and it also publishes and supports its bot creation API, which is available in JavaScript, Java, Python, C#/.NET, and Go variations.
This website is a goldmine of great resources and examples for bot developers.
Third, Bastionbot.org takes an unusual philosophical stance in the bot world. Instead of a dozen bots performing their functions each, Bastion attempts to be an all-in-one bot capable of handling everything a server may require.
Music, a suggestions channel, giveaways and promotions, games, voting, user profiles, leveling systems, virtual currencies, a server shop, filters, searches, game stats, moderation features, messaging, emojis, “fun” features like airhorns and quotes, scheduled commands, starboard, and triggers and reaction events are among the features available in Bastion. Well, Bastion is a full-featured bot that can do almost anything you want it to do, and it is constantly adding new features.
Fourth, Carbonitex is a statistics-gathering website devoted to Discord servers and bots, and it’s a fantastic resource for those who want to know where the action is in the server and bot arena. In addition, Carbonitex can be invited to monitor your server and collect statistics to show where you stand in the vast server ecosystem.
The Bottom Line: Add Bots To Discord Server
Well, now that you know how to add bots to a Discord server, go ahead and enhance your server with useful bots. There are numerous bots available for Discord, and you can find some of the best ones by reading the article and visiting the website I mentioned. As always, we’d like to hear your thoughts on Discord bots and the app itself. So here, In the comment section below, let us know what you think.
