Native cog support is now here with v4.1.0!

main.py:

• A custom, dynamic cog loader is present. Write a cog following the template.py in /cogs/, place it in the /cogs/ directory, and it will automatically be loaded when the bot boots.
• Utilizes the logging library and implements an easy to use custom logger and formatter. All you need to do is call initLogger("script_name") in a module, and log configuration is taken care of for you.
• Alongside the custom logging utility, exception handling is present and proper debug levels exist. You can configure the level to your liking in config.py.

src/logutil.py:

• Functions here exist to aid the user in simplifying logging configuration. Here, all log messages go to standard output.
• A custom formatter also applies based on what level logging you desire, whereas DEBUG produces verbose output and is tailored to aid in debugging, showing which module the message is originating from and, in most cases, which line number. Loggging levels are categorized by color.

cogs/template.py:

• This example cog is documented extensively. Please be sure to read over it. This cog will not be loaded on boot, so please refrain from writing your code in it.

config.py:

• This module houses the basic DEBUG log configuration

1. Clone this repository. To switch to a different version, cd into this cloned repository and run git checkout [branch name/version here]
2. It's generally advised to work in a Python virtual environment. Here are steps to create one (the discord-py-interactions library requires Python 3.10.0 or later):

• $ python3 -m venv env
• $ source env/bin/activate

3. Create a Discord bot token from here
   Register it for slash commands:

• Under OAuth2 > General, set the Authorization Method to "In-app Authorization"
• Tick bot and applications.commands
• Go to OAuth2 > URL Generator, tick bot and applications.commands
• Copy the generated URL at the bottom of the page to invite it to desired servers

4. Make a new file called .env inside the repo folder and paste the below code block in the file

TOKEN="[paste Discord bot token here]"
DEV_GUILD=[paste your bot testing server ID here]

5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install packages. You'll need Python 3.8.6 or later
6. Once that's done, run the bot by executing python3 main.py in the terminal

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If you aren't sure how to obtain your server ID, check out this article

If you get errors related to missing token environment variables, run source .env