initial discord bot setup

autowl/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+from sys import stderr
 import discord
 
 
@@ -6,14 +7,12 @@ import discord
 def init():
     # make sure this prints the discord token
     # set this up as a runtime environment variable, DO NOT HARDCODE THE TOKEN
-    try:
+    distoken = os.environ.get("DISCORD_TOKEN")
-        disToken = os.environ[
+    if not distoken:
-            'DISCORD_TOKEN']  # grabs the discord token from the environment variable, if not there, exit
+        print("Unable to find discord token in environment!", file=stderr)
-    except:
-        print("ERROR: unable to find discord token in environment variables!")
         exit(1)
 
-    print("discord Token:"+disToken)
+    print(f"discord token:{distoken}")
 
 
 init()

autowl/__main__.py

@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ from os import environ
 from sys import stderr
 
 
+class WhiteLister(discord.Client):
+    async def on_ready(self):
+        print(f"Logged on as {self.user}")
+
+    async def on_message(self, message):
+        print(f"Message from {message.author}: {message.content}")
+
+
 # main runtime function
 def main():
     if disToken := environ.get('DISCORD_TOKEN'):
@@ -12,5 +20,14 @@ def main():
         print("Unable to access DISCORD_TOKEN in environment!", file=stderr)
         exit(1)
 
+    intents = discord.Intents.default()
+    intents.message_content = True
+
+    client = WhiteLister(intents=intents)
+    try:
+        client.run(disToken)
+    except:
+        print("Invalid discord token!", file=stderr)
+
 
 main()