How to create PDF Chat discord bot without coding skills

Are you interested in creating a PDF chat Discord bot but lack coding knowledge? Don’t worry, it’s easier than you think! In this article, we will guide you through the process of creating a PDF Discord bot without coding skills.

Step1: Understanding the Discord Bot Structure

Let’s first understand the structure of our PDF Chat discord bot.

Discord-with-flowise: Until recently, there wasn’t a reliable no-code solution available for building a real-time Discord bot. Therefore, I’ve made an application that you can simply need to run (don’t worry, you can refer to my previous articles to understand the bare minimum knowledge required before running the code).

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Flowise AI: This open-source software helps you build your own LLM apps. It enables you to connect multiple services like OpenAI and Pinecone via drag-and-drop functionality. In this instance, we’ll use it to store the PDF, embed it, convert it into a vector database, and retrieve related information from the PDF. If you’re unfamiliar with terms like Pinecone, text embedding, and vector databases, you can refer to my popular article which explains these concepts for beginners.

How AI Reads Big Text Data — Langchain and Pinecone

The core logic here is controlled by Discord-with-flowise. When a user inputs data using the /command “flowise” along with their input text, Discord-with-flowise sends it to the Flowise AI application to fetch related information for the PDF bot.

Step 2: Choose a Platform and register accounts

Firstly, you need to set up a Discord application and get a token (think of it as a secret number). For instructions on how to do this, refer to the following article.

How to get a token for discord bot application

Next, decide on a platform to host your PDF Discord bot. This will determine which cloud hosting services you use for main.py and flowise AI. I use Replit, and I’ll show you how to set that up here. Please register if you don’t already have an account (not sponsored).

Replit: the collaborative browser based IDE

Other cloud platforms you could consider include AWS, Azure, and Vercel.

To use the Flowise AI application, you’ll also need to sign up for OpenAI and acquire an API key. For instructions on how to do this, check below article.

How to get your own API Key for using OpenAI ChatGPT

Additionally, you’ll need a Pinecone account and create an index within Pinecone. Here are articles on how to create an index and how to get an API key.

How to set up Pinecone and get api key (Mainly for Flowise project)

Step 3: Create a Discord-with-flowise on a Cloud Host

The next step is to create a new bot script on a hosting service. On Replit, you can build an application on top of a template. I’ve created an application template for Flowise, so you can simply go to the template below and start forking it to your account.

If you are using different platform, you can copy the code from here.

GitHub - herodevcode/Discord-with-flowise

You’re now going to set variables for your project. Navigate to “Secret” tools and click ‘edit as Json’. Paste the following code. You will change the values later.

{
  "URL": "Paste URL here",
  "DISCORD_BOT_SECRET": "Secret token here",
  "API_KEY": "Bearer API key here"
}

You should now see a setting like this. You’ll come back here later to update the values.

Step 4: Set up flowise AI

Create a new project in Replit with flowise AI and follow the instructions here:

FlowiseDocs/deployment/replit.md at main · FlowiseAI/FlowiseDocs

You should now see your Flowise application running (recommended to open in a new browser tab). Click ‘add new’.

Go to settings.

Click ‘Load chatflow’

You’ll be prompted to upload a file. Download the Json file from the following GitHub page and upload it. You need to sign in to download the files.

Discord-with-flowise/pdf-search-bot Chatflow.json at main · herodevcode/Discord-with-flowise

Now, all you need to do is customize the following inputs.

1. Chunk size & chunk overlap: Leave these as they are for now. We’ll return to this section later to enhance the bot’s quality.
2. PDF file: Upload the file you want to search. For example, a Bitcoin paper.
3. OpenAI key: Enter your OpenAI API key obtained in previous steps.
4. Model name and temperature: Leave these as they are for now. We’ll return to this section later to enhance the bot’s quality.

Pinecone-related input (API key, Pinecone environment, Pinecone namespace): Consult the previously linked articles to find these pinecone values. For example:

API key → abcdefgPinecone
Environment → us-west4-gcp-free
Pinecone index → test
namespace: name it in a way that you can identify later

Once you’ve filled in all the inputs, save your project with the bottom on the top.

Step5: Get URL address and API key

Navigate to the API endpoint section.

Switch to the Python tab and choose the ‘Default key’.

You’ve now generated your application’s URL and API key. Copy the values.

Step6: Apply secret value to the Discord-with-flowise

Return to the Discord-with-flowise project on Replit and input the secret values we generated earlier. The Discord bot token was created in Step 2, while the URL and API key were generated in Step 5.

Step7: Test your bot

Finally, click ‘run’ on Discord-with-flowise and look for the following message in the console. This indicates that your bot is running.

To test your bot, go to the Discord server where you invited your bot in Step 2. Ask it a question about the PDF using the command /flowise. If all is well, it should be able to understand the context within the PDF.

Step 8: Customize Your Bot

If you’re not satisfied with your bot’s performance, you can make a few modifications.

• Change the chunk sizes and overlap. You can refer to our popular articles to learn about this concept.

Understanding Text Chunking and Overlapping with an Example

• Change the OpenAI model or the temperature. Consult OpenAI’s documentation for more on these settings.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations! You have successfully created a PDF Discord bot without any coding skills! With your new bot, you can easily share PDFs with your friends and colleagues on Discord.

We hope this guide was helpful, and if it was, please give it a clap and leave your feedback in the comments below.

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