ChatGPT Discord Bot

Build your own Discord bot using ChatGPT

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Warning

2023-02-25 Update: Free ChatGPT model

2023-02-08 Update: ChatGPT API is highly unstable now

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

Critical prerequisites to install

1. run pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Rename the file .env.dev to .env

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 .env under the DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN

   

5. Turn MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT ON

   

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

   

Step 2: ChatGPT(website) authentication - 2 approaches

Email/Password authentication (Not supported for Google/Microsoft accounts)

1. Create an account on https://chat.openai.com/chat

2. Save your email into .env under OPENAI_EMAIL

3. Save your password into .env under OPENAI_PASSWORD

4. You're all set for Step 3

Session token authentication

1. Go to https://chat.openai.com/chat log in

2. Open console with F12

3. Open Application tab > Cookies

   

4. Copy the value for __Secure-next-auth.session-token from cookies and paste it into .env under SESSION_TOKEN

5. You're all set for Step 3

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: Disable logging

• Set the value of LOGGING in the .env to False

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 .env under DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID