ChatGPT Discord Bot

Build your own Discord bot using ChatGPT

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Warning

According to OpenAI's latest announcement, using unofficial API may result in the ban of your account. Please assess the risks yourself

2023-03-03 Update: Official GPT-3.5 model

2023-02-25 Update: Website ChatGPT model

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-model Switch different chat model
  • Modifying CHAT_MODEL field in the .env file change the default model
  • OFFICIAL: GPT-3.5 model
  • UNOFFICIAL: Website ChatGPT

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 channel without using slash commands (/chat will also be unavailable)

  Warning The bot will easily be triggered in replyall mode, which could cause program failures

Setup

Critical prerequisites to install

• run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Rename the file .env.dev to .env

• Recommended python version 3.10

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: Official API authentication

Geanerate an OpenAI API key

1. Go to https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys

2. Click Create new secret key

   

3. Store the SECRET KEY to .env under the OPENAI_API_KEY

4. You're all set for Step 3

Step 2: Website ChatGPT 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