MemeBot

This is a basic Discord meme bot that scrapes memes from a website and sends them to a Discord channel based on a user's tag input. The bot is implemented using the Discord.py library and Selenium for web scraping.
This bot runs Locally in your system
The selenium webdriver (Chrome) runs headlessly

Setup

To set up and run the bot, follow these steps:

Install the required dependencies:
- discord.py
- selenium
Install the necessary modules and libraries:

pip install selenium
pip install discord

Usage

To use the bot, follow these steps:

Goto https://discord.com/developers and setup a bot and make sure it has the necessary permissions
Invite the bot to your Discord server using the auth section in developer portal.
In a Discord channel, type the command >meme followed by a tag. For example, >meme cat will fetch a random meme with the "cat" tag.

The bot will then scrape the website for a meme based on the provided tag and send it as a message in the Discord channel.

Optional

If you are familiar with selenium and discord in python , feel free to change the source of website from which the bot is scraping and also specify the right xPath for the html element
You can use https://github.com/trembacz/xpath-finder to find the xpath of an element.
xPath Finder - Chrome web store

Note

Make sure to replace env.DEFAULT, env.ERROR, env.SOURCE, and env.TOKEN with the appropriate values for your environment.
Currently this bot uses Memedroid as source for memes