Need help with a Python script

[BLLDoesTech]

I have no clue what to do for this script

I need to create a module, that gives random images from URL's and prints them

 

This is for a discord bot if that info helps

[minibois]

I don't know Python, but I am just thinking the easiest way to achieve this is simply to make a list full of URL, roll a random number and then just print out the image with said URL.

[wasab]

You need to first choose a GUI framework.

You are not going to display an image with a command line interface are you?

 

Next you need to use the urllib  library to pull these images from the URL. 

 

Finally just use some random generator to randomly pick from the list. 

[reniat]

6 hours ago, wasab said:

You need to first choose a GUI framework.

You are not going to display an image with a command line interface are you?

If they are making a discord bot, then discord is the interface.

 

@BLLDoesTech are you using a library like discord.py?

[BLLDoesTech]

5 minutes ago, reniat said:

If they are making a discord bot, then discord is the interface.

 

@BLLDoesTech are you using a library like discord.py?

yes, I'm using discord.py

[reniat]

18 minutes ago, BLLDoesTech said:

yes, I'm using discord.py

I've never used discord.py, but it seems like the simplest way to do this is pick a command word (like "!random") and then in your on_message function for the bot, check to see if the message is that command and if so, do a message.channel.send(<random image url here>).

 

If you are not sure where on_message comes into it, there is a nice example here https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py in the readme

 

as for getting the random numbers, if you are stuck on that, this is pretty much the most basic approach:

On 3/11/2019 at 1:18 PM, Minibois said:

I don't know Python, but I am just thinking the easiest way to achieve this is simply to make a list full of URL, roll a random number and then just print out the image with said URL.

 

[wasab]

7 hours ago, reniat said:

If they are making a discord bot, then discord is the interface.

 

@BLLDoesTech are you using a library like discord.py?

what is discord?

 

[reniat]

8 hours ago, wasab said:

what is discord?

https://discordapp.com/
 

It's a popular chat interface. Think of it like the modern day equivalent of IRC communities. It's got a well made bot API https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/intro and a lot of solid community driven libraries (https://discord.js.org/#/, https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py, etc.).

[Spev]

Before worrying about your Discord implementation, I would work on testing out web scraping in Python with images. A module like BeautifulSoup might be helpful, although there are others as well. Personally that would be the approach I would take. After figuring out how to get the images I want with Python successfully, then You could move on to your discord implementation.

[infamoustrey]

If you are just looking for rando image links try here

https://picsum.photos/

 

Discord uses oEmbed for slapping images in messages on their servers so that ref is here:

https://oembed.com/

 

Discord Docs:

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#message

 

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