discordgo/examples/new_basic

Basic New Example

This example demonstrates how to utilize DiscordGo to connect to Discord and print out all received chat messages.

This example uses the high level New() helper function to connect to Discord.

Build

This assumes you already have a working Go environment setup and that DiscordGo is correctly installed on your system.

go build

Usage

This example uses bot tokens for authentication only. While user/password is supported by DiscordGo, it is not recommended.

./new_basic --help
Usage of ./new_basic:
  -t string
        Bot Token

The below example shows how to start the bot

./new_basic -t YOUR_BOT_TOKEN