A simple bot that can be used to welcome new users to a discord server, sending them a custom private message, send a welcome message to a specific channel, and adding them to a role.

A video explaining how to set up everything except adding the user to a role can be found here.

Update November 2019 - Now set up as a docker container to ensure full compatibility as I will not be maintaining this. Specific versions of Python and Discord.py are required for this script to work.

Update November 2020 - Added basic install instructions for home computers and generic Linux distros, and how to enable Intents. (by isigebengu-mikey)

Update August 2021 - The discord.py project is no longer under development. If you're looking at this project and are interested in making your own Discord bots then take a look at MupBot - a Node.js discord bot implementation to get you started. This repo will never be updated again so is being put into read-only mode.

Go to the Discord Developer Portal and select your bot. Now move to the bot tab and scroll down. There you should see Priveledged Gateway Intents. Enable the Members intent.

Make sure that you've installed Python 3.6 or higher before beginning this.

First, we want to clone the repository using git clone:

git clone https://github.com/jcreek/discord.py-welcome-bot.git

cd discord.py-welcome-bot

Secondly, we want to make sure we've updated our package list:

sudo apt update -y

We now want to install the python3 package:

sudo apt install python3

Our final thing to do is run the script:

python3 welcome-bot.py

You can download the latest python release from here. We now want to download and extract this repository: After extracting, you can navigate into the folder and just double-click the file.

Copy the folder containing the Dockerfile onto the server. Go to the directory that has the Dockerfile and run the following command to build the Docker image from the source code:

docker build -t welcome-bot .

The image will now be listed by Docker. You can confirm this by running:

docker images

docker create --name welcome-bot welcome-bot

docker start welcome-bot

Run the command below to edit the cronjobs:

crontab -e

Then add the below line to it:

*/10 * * * * docker stop welcome-bot && docker start welcome-bot

This will run the service every ten minutes. To change this use Crontab Guru

Run the below command to see the output of the bot.

docker container logs -f welcome-bot

MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHANGE THE TOKEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FILE!!!