The future of UltraBot #2: It's python time!

 Alright, so my friend Damien as you guys may know at this point as a discord bot of his own, AlphaGameBot. His bot is entirely written in Python. But you guys probably know that I make my bot with BDScript on the Bot Designer for Discord platform. However, I have recently become fed up with their ad based hosting and how locked away they are. So I decided to learn the basics of Python and POOP (Python Object Oriented Programming, great acronym I know) to use pycord and make my own Python bot, UltraBot.py!

Now as of now UltraBot.py is very experimental and I still don't know a lot about Python. Don't expect this bot to feature advanced commands any time soon.

Hopefully I can stop using BDScript and start using Python!

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The future of UltraBot #1: JSON parsing

 While procrastinating on my Sonic 3 & Knuckles review, I would like to introduce multiple new commands using APIs and JSON parsing!

I recently discovered that BDScript has the ability to parse JSON and then extract the key values into a message, which means APIs!

This uses BDScript 2 only. After performing a GET command on a URL (in the form of $httpGet[]) you can recieve text from there and since that text is usually JSON, you use $jsonParse to parse that code, which gives you access to the JSON keys which you can extract data from to use in a bot response. This is how most public APIs work and I'm constantly making new commands in UltraBot thanks to them. I always take that data and wrap it up in a neat functional little embed.

So, I'm starting something new. If there is a specific API you want (that does not require any API keys and is free and public) tell me and I'll do my best to implement it into UltraBot X!

The new commands for UltraBot X is:

/meme (use -meme if the slash command doesn't appear)

/dog (random dog image)

/jojostands (random jojo stand)

/jojocharacters (random jojo character)

I am definetely going to use way too many of these in the future, so get excited!

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