EllieBot-docs/content/Ellie/Guides/windows-guide.md

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{{% notice style="note" title="Notice on windows installer" %}}
~~There is an easier way in the works but this will take time to make, sorry about that. - Toastie~~

This way of installing and using Ellie is nearly ready so keep and eye out for that part of the guide. - Toastie
{{% /notice %}}

## Creating your own Discord bot

This guide will show you how to create your own discord bot, invite it to your server, and obtain the credentials needed to run it.

1. Go to [the Discord developer application page][Discord].
2. Log in with your Discord account.
3. Click **New Application**.
4. Fill out the `Name` field however you like, accept the terms, and confirm.
5. Go to the **Bot** tab on the left sidebar.
6. Click on the `Add a Bot` button and confirm that you do want to add a bot to this app.
7. **Optional:** Add bot's avatar and description.
8. Copy your Token to `creds.yml` as shown above.
9. Scroll down to the **`Privileged Gateway Intents`** section
    - You MUST enable the following:
        - **PRESENCE INTENT**
        - **SERVER MEMBERS INTENT**
        - **MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT**

### Inviting your bot to your server

![Invite the bot to your server](https://cdn.elliebot.net/bot-invite-guide.gif)

- On the **General Information** tab, copy your `Application ID` from your [applications page][Discord].
- Replace the `YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE` in this link:
  `https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE&scope=bot&permissions=66186303` with your `Client ID`
- The link should now look something like this:
  `https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=123123123123&scope=bot&permissions=66186303`
- Access that newly created link, pick your Discord server, click `Authorize` and confirm with the captcha at the end
- The bot should now be in your server


[Discord]: https://discord.com/developers/applications/me

### Windows From Source

##### Prerequisites

**Install these before proceeding or your bot will not work!**
- [.net 8](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download)  - needed to compile and run the bot
- [git](https://git-scm.com/downloads) - needed to clone the repository (you can also download the zip manually and extract it, but this guide assumes you're using git)
- [Redis] (OPTIONAL)- to cache things needed by some features and persist through restarts

##### Installation Instructions

Open PowerShell (press windows button on your keyboard and type powershell, it should show up; alternatively, right click the start menu and select Windows PowerShell), and navigate to the location where you want to install the bot (for example `cd ~/Desktop/`)

1. `git clone https://toastielab.dev/EllieBotDevs/elliebot -b v6 --depth 1`
2. `cd EllieBot`
3. `dotnet publish -c Release -o output/ src/EllieBot/`
4. `cd output`
5. `cp creds_example.yml creds.yml`
6. Open `creds.yml` with your favorite text editor (Please don't use Notepad or WordPad. You can use Notepad++, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, or something similar)
7. [Enter your bot's token](../Features/creds-guide)
8. Run the bot `dotnet EllieBot.dll`
9. 🎉

##### Update Instructions

Open PowerShell as described above and run the following commands:

1. Stop the bot
  - ⚠️ Make sure you don't have your database, credentials or any other EllieBot folder open in some application, this might prevent some of the steps from executing succesfully
2. Navigate to your bot's folder, example:
    - `cd ~/Desktop/EllieBot`
3. Pull the new version, and make sure you're on the v6 branch
    - *⚠️ the first 3 lines can be omitted if you're already on v6. If you're updating from v5, you must run them*
        - `git remote set-branches origin '*'`
        - `git fetch -v --depth=1`
        - `git checkout v6`
    - `git pull`
    - ⚠️ If this fails, you may want to stash or remove your code changes if you don't know how to resolve merge conflicts
4. **Backup** old output in case your data is overwritten
    - `cp -r -fo output/ output-old`
5. Build the bot again
    - `dotnet publish -c Release -o output/ src/EllieBot/`
6. Remove old strings and aliases to avoid overwriting the updated versions of those files
    - ⚠ If you've modified said files, back them up instead
    - `rm output-old/data/aliases.yml`
    - `rm -r output-old/data/strings`
7. Copy old data
    - `cp -Recurse .\output-old\data\ .\output\ -Force`
8. Copy creds.yml
    - `cp output-old/creds.yml output/`
9. Run the bot
    - `cd output`
    - `dotnet EllieBot.dll`

🎉 Enjoy

#### Music prerequisites
In order to use music commands, you need ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed.
- [ffmpeg-32bit] | [ffmpeg-64bit] - Download the **appropriate version** for your system (32 bit if you're running a 32 bit OS, or 64 if you're running a 64bit OS). Unzip it, and move `ffmpeg.exe` to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, just move the `ffmpeg.exe` file to `EllieBot/output`.
- [youtube-dlp] - Click to download the `yt-dlp.exe` file, then move `yt-dlp.exe` to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, just move the `yt-dlp.exe` file to `EllieBot/system`.

[Notepad++]: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
[.net]: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/8.0
[Redis]: https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis/releases/download/win-3.0.504/Redis-x64-3.0.504.msi
[Visual C++ 2010 (x86)]: https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe
[Visual C++ 2017 (x64)]: https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
[ffmpeg-32bit]: https://ellie.gcoms.xyz/dl/ffmpeg-32.zip
[ffmpeg-64bit]: https://ellie.gcoms.xyz/dl/ffmpeg-64.zip
[youtube-dlp]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases