In this installment, we’ll dive deeply into how to add interactive buttons to your chat messages in Discord. Additionally, we’ll explore the variety of responses you can trigger when these buttons are pressed.

About Message Components

Discord provides a framework for adding “message components” (or simply “components”), which are interactive elements you can place within chat messages.
(See: Message Components)

Continuing from our last session, we’ll be using discord.ext.commands to add options to our chatbot commands.
(Reference: Documentation)

We’ll add a new ‘category’ option to the ‘quiz’ feature, allowing for quizzes in various categories.
Additionally, we’ll introduce a ’timeout’ option to adjust the time limit for answering questions.

Recap

In our previous article, we refactored the code using discord.py’s extension, discord.ext.commands.

The code for the ‘quiz’ feature, found in commands/quiz.py, is as follows:

In this article, we’ll leverage the discord.ext.commands extension in discord.py
to refactor our somewhat complex on_message function.

Recap

The code up to our last session is as follows:
We added !omikuji and !quiz commands, which made the on_message function somewhat bloated.

In this post, we’ll introduce a method to wait for user replies and leverage it to add a new ‘Quiz’ feature to our chatbot.

A Recap of What We’ve Covered

Previously, we delved into how to reply to user messages.
We then employed this mechanism to incorporate a ‘fortune-telling’ feature.

In this article, we’ll expand our chatbot by enabling it to respond to user messages.
We’ll also introduce a fun ‘Fortune Telling’ feature to our chatbot.

A Recap of Our Progress

As of our previous session, our chatbot can now receive user messages in a chat.
Here’s what our chatbot.py script currently looks like:

In this article, we’ll finally dive into creating a chatbot in Python.

Firstly, ensure that your working directory, discord-chatbot, contains at least the following two components from our previous sessions:

• .venv directory: This is for a virtual environment.
  
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• .discord_token file: This file contains a Discord token.
  
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1. Activating the Virtual Environment

1. Move to the discord-chatbot directory and activate the virtual environment: