Discord Bot Recipes

Feature-by-feature bot building: moderation, welcomes, roles, levels, tickets, giveaways — with verified code.

Kick, ban, and timeout commands

Give your bot /kick, /ban, and /timeout — with permission gates, role-hierarchy checks, and reasons that show up in the audit log — in one discord.js file.

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Bulk-delete messages with /purge

A /purge command that clears a set number of recent messages — optionally only from one member — with the 14-day limit handled and the reply kept private.

Welcome new members (discord.js)

Greet everyone who joins with an embed in your welcome channel — and turn on the one privileged intent that makes join events reach your bot at all.

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Welcome new members (discord.py)

The Python version of the welcome bot — greet joiners with an embed, and enable the Server Members intent both in code and in the Developer Portal.

Self-assign roles with buttons (discord.js)

Let members give themselves roles by clicking buttons — the modern replacement for emoji reaction roles — with a customId trick that survives restarts.

Self-assign roles with buttons (discord.py)

The discord.py version of button roles, built on persistent Views — the pattern that keeps old buttons working after your bot restarts.

Give every new member a role

Automatically hand a role to everyone who joins — the two-line join handler, the privileged intent it needs, and the role-order rule that trips people up.

Embeds deep dive

Every part of a Discord embed in one place — author, fields, images, footer — with the exact character limits that cause "Invalid Form Body" when you cross them.

Modals: collect structured input

Pop up a form when someone runs a command, read the answers back, and turn them into an embed — the discord.js modal pattern, with the one timing rule that catches everyone.

Select menus for choices

When a command needs one pick from a list of ten, buttons get silly. Select menus are the dropdown answer — string, user, role, channel and mentionable — with the discord.js v14 code to build and read them.

Right-click commands (context menus)

The commands that live in the right-click menu, not the slash list — "User Info" on a member, "Report" on a message. Build both kinds in discord.js and read the target the user clicked.

Autocomplete for command options

The live suggestions that pop up as someone types a slash option — perfect for long or changing lists a fixed choice list can't hold. Build it in discord.js and filter results as they type.

Collectors and paginated embeds

Long lists don't fit one embed. Build Previous/Next pagination with a message component collector — scoped to the right user, with a timeout — plus when to reach for a collector instead of a global handler.

Per-user command cooldowns

Stop one person spamming an expensive command. Build cooldowns two ways — an in-memory Map that's three lines, and a Redis version that survives restarts and spans multiple processes — with the code for both.

Scheduled announcements and reminders

A bot that posts a daily good-morning, a weekly reminder, or clears a channel on a timer — built with node-cron inside your bot, and where the panel's own Schedules page fits instead.

Scheduled tasks with discord.ext.tasks

discord.py has a scheduler built in — no extra package. Loop every N minutes or run daily at a set time with @tasks.loop, started safely after the bot is ready.

A leveling system with SQLite

XP for chatting, levels that get harder, /rank and a /leaderboard — stored in SQLite so it survives restarts. The full data layer and bot, with the Mee6-style curve explained.

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A bot economy with SQLite

Coins, a daily reward on a 24-hour timer, a shop, and player-to-player payments — built on better-sqlite3 with real transactions so coins are never lost or duplicated.

Build a ticket support system

A button that opens a private ticket channel for each user, a close button that cleans it up, and one-ticket-per-person built in — no database needed, because Discord itself holds the state.

Build a logging bot

Mirror deleted and edited messages, plus member joins and leaves, into a moderation log channel — with the two privileged intents it needs and an honest note about what survives a restart.

Build a giveaway bot

Timed giveaways with an Enter button and a random winner — saved to SQLite so a restart mid-giveaway doesn't lose the timer or the entries.

Build a poll bot

A /poll command with button voting and a live bar-chart embed that updates on every click — one vote per person, and an honest note about why active polls reset on restart.

Build a reminder bot

A /remindme command that pings you later — saved to SQLite so reminders survive a restart, and re-armed automatically when the bot boots back up.

Build a starboard

When a message gets enough ⭐ reactions, repost it to a highlights channel and keep the star count updated — with the intents it needs and an honest note about avoiding duplicates after a restart.

Build an AI chatbot with the Claude API

Give your bot a brain — mention it and it replies using the Claude API — with the key kept safely in .env, honest cost and safety callouts, and a note on using OpenAI-compatible providers instead.

Build an image bot with sharp (rank cards)

Generate a rank-card image on the fly with sharp — which installs cleanly on the Node.js application — composite text and a progress bar over a background, and reply with the PNG.

Music bot architecture: queues, playlists, and filters

The first /play was the easy part. This is the architecture of everything after it — the per-guild queue, loop and shuffle, playlists, audio filters, and the lifecycle that keeps your bot from misbehaving — explained library-agnostically so your library's docs slot right in.

Play audio in a voice channel with @discordjs/voice

Join a voice channel and play a local audio file straight from your bot — no Lavalink — using @discordjs/voice. Everything it needs (the opus, encryption, and ffmpeg pieces) is already on Falix's Node image.

Post to a Discord webhook from any code

A webhook is a URL that drops a message into one channel — no bot, no token, no gateway. Post to it from Node, Python, or curl. Includes the exact success and failure responses Discord returns, verified against the real API.

Slash commands vs prefix commands (honestly)

The !command style and the /command style aren't just taste — one of them depends on a privileged intent that caps how far your bot can grow. Here's the honest comparison and why new bots should start with slash commands.

Speak your users' language: bot localization

A small, honest i18n pattern for a discord.js bot — JSON locale files, a tiny t() helper with fallbacks, and a stored per-server language choice. Verified end to end, storage included.

Build a safe place to test your bot

Stop debugging in production. Set up a second bot application, a private test server, and the guild-scoped registration trick that makes command changes appear instantly — then run it on Falix as a second instance or a second server.

Evolve your bot's database without losing data

Your SQLite schema will change — a new column, a new table. The safe way to do that is versioned migrations driven by SQLite's user_version pragma, so each change runs exactly once and old data survives. Verified end to end with better-sqlite3.

Growing your bot past your first servers

When people start adding your bot everywhere, three things come due — Discord's verification gate, getting listed, and behaving under rate limits. A conservative checklist of the parts that are stable, with the numbers you can actually rely on.