Red-DiscordBot

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A guide by orels1

Install brew
In Finder or Spotlight, search for and open terminal In the window opened - paste this:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

And press enter.

After the installation, install the required packages by pasting commands below and pressing enter, one-by-one: brew install python3
brew install git
brew install ffmpeg
brew install opus
pip3 install git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@async
pip3 install youtube_dl
pip3 install imgurpython
Enter the folder you want to install Red in through the Terminal: use the command cd (change directory) and ls (list files/dirs) to navigate to the folder. For example, if you want Red to be installed in Applications inside a folder named Discord Stuff, you could type cd "Applications/Discord Stuff" (notice, if you have a space in a folder name, surround the path with quotes) or you could type cd Applications then ls to make sure you're in the right place, then cd "Discord Stuff" or you could type cd then drag the folder from finder into terminal before pressing enter
Paste this command into terminal and press enter:

  git clone -b develop --single-branch https://github.com/Twentysix26/Red-DiscordBot.git Red-DiscordBot

do not close the terminal afterwards

Download this script and place the file inside your Red-DiscordBot folder, the same folder where red.py is.
Run export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/opus/1.1.2/lib/ in the terminal
In Terminal, inside the Red-DiscordBot folder, paste this command and press enter: sh macRedLoop.sh You may need to set it as executable first.
Complete the initial setup as the bot requires (email, password, etc.), remember to sign into the bot's account once and join your main server. This is the only time you will need to sign into the bot's account.
To verify that the bot works, do [your_prefix_here]ping on your server (in any chat Red can read and write messages). It should respond "pong".