Build your own Discord bot using ChatGPT

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

• /chat [message] Chat with ChatGPT!
• /private ChatGPT switch to private mode
• /public ChatGPT switch to public mode
• /reset ChatGPT conversation history will be erased

• 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

  

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

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

   

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

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

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

• 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