Welcome to PBot’s documentation!

What is PBot?

PBot is a minimal, dockerized framework for building chatbots on top of Discord.

It’s meant to serve as a base for your own business logic, abstracting away everything that isn’t the fun parts of building a chatbot. PBot revolves around the idea of middleware. You can write a middleware layer to do anything. Just drop your code in place and run the bot.

Who is this project meant for?

Anyone who wants to get a private bot up and running quickly.

PBot optimizes for ease of use and experimentation. You can run it anywhere you can run Docker and only requires a little Python knowledge to modify. Run a fleet of them on a spare Raspberry Pi?

Is/Was this related to AI?

PBot’s original intent was to incite automated, amusing chaos in my friend’s Discord servers. Earlier incarnations relied on OpenAI’s Chat GPT to provide scathing insults in response to their conversations.

Today, PBot includes optional middleware for integrating with Chat GPT. Use, extend, or disregard this middleware. Midjourney image middleware is also currently being ported over to this updated version of the project.

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• PBot Overview
  • Services
  • Chatbot Middleware
  • Project Structure
  • Project To Do
• Getting Started
  • Registering a bot with Discord
  • Install Docker
  • Download the code
  • Minimally Configure your bot
  • Run your bot
  • Where to go from here?
• Writing Middleware
  • Creating your own custom middleware
• PBot APIs
  • Bot Service
  • Transceiver Service
  • Shared Configuration
  • Development Tasks
• A Note on Privacy
  • Middleware
  • Data Collection and Retention
  • Dependencies
• Get the Code