Hosting Discord Bot on github

Question

I am currently developing a discord bot and was planning to host it somewhere but I haven't found an option yet. So, I decided to look around and I encounter this question on StackOverflow which claimed that it is actually possible (Can you host a discord bot with github?) Does anyone knows the detail on this? Like, how to actually host it there, and where I can find the documentation about it? Will it work for any programming languages?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65622990/hosting-discord-bot-on-github

Answer 1

I know this is old, but people still have problems with the host choice, this answer is for these people.

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Github by itself CAN'T host Discord bots! But you can export it to another platforms, here is some of them:

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Heroku

Heroku is used by the most Developers in Discord. You can also export from the command-line Git.

This Medium article is a good introduction to Heroku. But you can also check this.

Repl.it

If you like 'open-source-bots' host, then you can use Repl.it, it hiddens the `.env` file, and you can export from Github.

You can learn how to host in JS and Python in its forum.

PythonAnywhere

This is an less-used tool, with it you can emulate Bashes and Python consoles.

You can run scripts too, but i didn't find any tutorial explaining how-to run Discord bots.

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So, it's all, bye!