VoxelBotUtils (VBU) is an extension for Novus to speed up Discord bot development. It includes a whole slew of features that are commonly used in a lot of bots so you don't need to keep writing them every time. Many features are available to you by default:
- Built-in error handling for all of Novus's errors.
- Built-in database connector.
- Logging using Python's
logging.Loggerclasses. - Webhook sends on different events.
- Bot stats posting via StatsD and DataDog.
- A help command that doesn't look like trash.
- Owner-only commands.
- Presence auto-updating based on Twitch streamers.
- Website utilities.
- And more...
- Install VBU via pip -
pip install voxelbotutils. - Create your config file via CMD -
vbu create-config bot. - Update your auto-generated config file in
config/config.toml. - (Optional) Add/change any cogs you wish inside of the
cogs/folder. - Run your bot -
vbu run-bot.
Documentation for the package and its usage can be found here.
The package is available via PyPi - pip install voxelbotutils. The tags on this repo can be used to keep up-to-date with different releases. The master branch is not guaranteed to be fully working, whereas PyPi releases are.