I’m looking for a solution to develop a Discord bot that automatically activates when a new message appears in a specific channel. The idea is for the bot to capture the text of each message and then store it in an external database or another form of storage. I’ve been exploring different ways to implement this functionality and would appreciate any sample code or suggestions on how to set up such a system. Does anyone have a working example or guidance that might help with this task?
Drawing on experience with discord.py, one effective method is to implement an on_message event listener that first checks whether the channel ID matches your specified channel. Once confirmed, the message’s content can be forwarded to an external database. In a recent project, I used SQLite for logging messages, writing a simple function to insert data into the database on every new message event. Although the example was basic, this design can be expanded to work with more robust external storage solutions such as PostgreSQL or cloud-based services by modifying the database connection parameters and handling potential exceptions.