Building a Golang Discord Bot- Part 2: Sticky Message Bot

Learn Golang with a real-world project

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In the previous part of this series, we discussed the following:

• Setting up Golang on your machine,

• Setting up your project

• Installing required libraries (including Discord Bot wrapper DiscordGo)

• Setting up our new bot session, and finally

• Reading and respond to simple messages through our bot

If you haven’t yet read it, then do so from here:

Building a Golang Discord Bot- Part 1: Setup

Here in this tutorial, we will learn and implement the following concepts:

• How to send a message to a particular channel, and check if a message was sent in a particular channel

• Retrieve and save messages in a text file through the os library and handle errors appropriately

• Send and delete specific messages upon specific events, and finally,

• Combine all of the above features to build a Sticky bot for a channel in our server

Hyped enough? Let’s get started! :)