How to add ChatGPT to Discord

Critical prerequisites to install

• run pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Rename the file .env.dev to .env
• Recommended python version 3.10

Step 1: Create a Discord bot

1. Go to https://discord.com/developers/applications create an application
2. Build a Discord bot under the application
3. Get the token from bot setting
4. Store the token to .env under the DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
5. Turn MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT ON
6. Invite your bot to your server via OAuth2 URL Generator

Step 2: Official API authentication

Geanerate an OpenAI API key

1. Go to https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys
2. Click Create new secret key
3. Store the SECRET KEY to .env under the OPENAI_API_KEY
4. You're all set for Step 3

Step 2: Website ChatGPT authentication - 2 approaches

• If you are using a Plus account, please modify UNOFFICIAL_PAID to "True" in your .env file

Email/Password authentication (Not supported for Google/Microsoft accounts)

1. Create an account on https://chat.openai.com/chat
2. Save your email into .env under OPENAI_EMAIL
3. Save your password into .env under OPENAI_PASSWORD
4. You're all set for Step 3

Session token authentication

1. Go to https://chat.openai.com/chat log in
2. Open console with F12
3. Open Application tab > Cookies
4. Copy the value for __Secure-next-auth.session-token from cookies and paste it into .env under SESSION_TOKEN
5. You're all set for Step 3

Step 2: Google Bard authentication

1. Go to https://bard.google.com/
2. Open console with F12
3. Open Application tab > Cookies
4. Copy the value for __Secure-1PSID from cookies and paste it into .env under BARD_SESSION_ID
5. You're all set for Step 3

Step 3: Run the bot on the desktop

1. Open a terminal or command prompt
2. Navigate to the directory where you installed the ChatGPT Discord bot
3. Run python3 main.py to start the bot

Step 3: Run the bot with Docker

1. Build the Docker image & Run the Docker container docker compose up -d
2. Inspect whether the bot works well docker logs -t chatgpt-discord-botStop the bot:
   • docker ps to see the list of running services
   • docker stop <BOT CONTAINER ID> to stop the running bot

Have a good chat!

Optional: Disable logging

• Set the value of LOGGING in the .env to False

Optional: Setup starting prompt

• A starting prompt would be invoked when the bot is first started or reset
• You can set it up by modifying the content in starting-prompt.txt
• All the text in the file will be fired as a prompt to the bot
• Get the first message from ChatGPT in your discord channel!
  1. Right-click the channel you want to recieve the message, Copy ID
  2. paste it into .env under DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID