A3: Trolling a Discord Command Bot

A3: Trolling a Discord Command Bot#

Choose Social Media Platform: Reddit | Discord | Bluesky | No Coding

In this assignment, your job will be to modify the slash command bot below (see section Demo: Trolling a Discord Command Bot) and make your own version of a reply bot (look for the TODO section below). Then after you’ve modified it, see if you can troll it. At the end, you will have some reflection questions to answer.

When you are done, you will need to download this file (file menu -> download) and turn it in on Canvas.

Below is the code for the first command bot from the book:

It is a slash command called do_action which will ask us to provide an “action”
The bot will then reply, “I will now ____” (where the ___ is the action the user provided).
Subject: “Wanting bot response”, body: “I want you to ___” (where the ___ is some action)
then the bot will reply, “I will now ____” (where the ___ is that same action).

Running a slash command#

To run the action, in discord start typing / and you should be able to chose the do_action command and then enter the text to do the action._

1: user starts typing "/" and discord shows a popup of available actions includiing "/do_action". 2: with "/do_action" selected, user has to provide text for "action", which they have done with "jump", 3: Discord shows "kmthayer used :: do_action" above a post by "soc_media_bot_teaching_demo_2" saying "I will now jump

Command Bot#

First we need to do our Discord setup (using the discord interactions library, which helps us set up commands):

# Load some code called "interactions" that will help us make Discord commands
import interactions

# Load another library that helps the bot work in Jupyter Noteboook
import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()

(optional) make a fake Discord connection with the fake_discord_interactions library

For testing purposes, we’ve added this line of code, which loads a fake version of the “interactions” Discord library, so it wont actually connect to Discord. If you want to try to actually connect to Discord, don’t run this line of code.

%run ../../../../fake_apis/fake_discord_interactions.ipynb

Fake interactions discord is replacing the interactions.py library. Fake discord doesn't need real passwords, and prevents you from accessing real discord

To use this on your real Discord account, copy your developer access passwords into the discord_keys.py file.

import discord_keys

# TODO: put the server/guild id you want your bot command to work on below
server_id = "123456"

Create a command bot#

We will make a slash command bot

TODO: Modify this section (create a slash command)#

This code starts a bot that creates a discord slash command on the server with the server_id we saved above.

The bot logs into discord, then starts (and displays a message showing it has started)

The initial version of the bot then creates a slash command called “do_action” which requires users to enter a piece of text for the “action.”

The initial version of the bot then creates a post that says “I will now ___” where the “___” is the action the user provided.

You must must modify at least one thing in the code below. You could change the name of the slash_command, or the name of the action, or you could change the code that makes the post (ctx.send(...)), or you could change both.

# Log into discord
bot = interactions.Client(token=discord_keys.discord_token)

# Listen for when the bot is logged in and ready, then print that the bot has started
@interactions.listen()
async def on_ready():
    print("The bot has started running")    

# Define a slash command called "do_action" for the given server_id
@interactions.slash_command(name="do_action", description="A bot that does what it's told.", scopes=[server_id])
# make the slash command require an option called "action"
@interactions.slash_option(
    name="action",
    description="Action for bot to do",
    required=True,
    opt_type=interactions.OptionType.STRING
)
# Define a function to call when the "/do_action" command is used
async def do_action_function(ctx: interactions.SlashContext, action: str):
    print('We recieved the following action: "' + action + '"')
    
    # Make a post using the "action" provided by the user
    await ctx.send("I will now " + action)
    
    # For testing purposes, we close the bot after one response
    # normally we wouldn't stop and leave the bot running so it
    # can continue responding
    print("Bot is now stopping")
    bot.stop()
    

# start running your bot
bot.start()

Fake interactions.py is pretending to set up a Discord client connection

fake discord interactions setting a slash command called: 'do_action'. With options: action

Fake discord bot is fake logging in and starting to run

The bot has started running
We recieved the following action: "jump"

Bot is posting:

I will now jump

Bot is now stopping

Fake discord bot is stopping

Reflection questions#

What changes did you make to the command bot?

TODO: Write your answer here

How could you troll this bot? Give an example of a message that would let you troll it. Or, if you don’t think it can be trolled, explain why.