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The Gradio Discord Bot^BETA

The Gradio Discord Bot is a way to use any Hugging Face Space as a Bot from within your Discord server -- all without writing any code.

Below, we show examples how to use the Bot in your server to:

• 🌎 Translate between languages
• 🗣️ Convert text to speech
• 🔢 Do math calculations
• 🖼️ Generate images

All for free and without having to code anything! Installation instructions are below, or you can try it out right now in the #gradio-bot-playground channel in the Hugging Face Discord.

How did Nick088 make so it stays alive 24/7 for free?

When you make an Hugging Face Space run on Free CPU, if in 48 hours there's no user input, so not being used, it goes to 'sleep'.

BUT to not have that problem, I basically added at the bottom an 'thank you for your support' function where I have to put any input name once every 1/2 days and click submit so it resets the 48 hours countdown to 'sleep'.

Installing in your own Discord Server

Installing the Gradio Discord Bot is very simple:

1. Copy and paste the following link in your browser: https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=1040198143695933501&permissions=294406716480&scope=bot

2. Choose which Discord server you'd like to add it to (you must have permissions to add Bots to that server of course)

3. Accept the permissions for the Gradio Bot

• You can confirm that the Gradio Discord Bot has been successfully installed in your server by going to the server and seeing if there is an account with the name @GradioBot in your server:

4. (Optional) If you would like to use @GradioBot in a private channel, then you must add @GradioBot to that channel. In Discord, you can do this by right-clicking on the channel name, and then selecting ‘Edit Channel’. Then, go to ‘Permissions’ and select ‘Add a Role’ and find @GradioBot

Usage

Now that the Gradio Discord bot is installed, here's how to use it in any any channel in your Discord server:

1. From the channel, tag @GradioBot followed by the name of a Space you'd like to try, such as abidlabs/en2fr (a Space that translates from English to French) or abidlabs/speak (a Space that converts text to spoken speech), or any of the more than 5,000 Gradio demos on Hugging Face Spaces.

2. Once you press enter, you'll notice that the name of @GradioBot will change to reflect the name of the Space that it has loaded:

3. Now type in the input you'd like to pass into the Space. In this example, we'll pass in an English phrase: "Hello, friends." The input must be enclosed in double-quotes. Otherwise, it will be interpreted as the name of a new Space that you are trying to load. Once you

4. If you'd like to load a new Space, just type in the name of a new Space (without any quotation marks) and @GradioBot will load the new Space instead. If you'd like to reset to the initial state of the @GradioBot, you can type in @GradioBot exit.

We'll show how to use @GradioBot with a few more complex Spaces below:

More examples

🗣️ Convert text to speech (abidlabs/speak)

The @GradioBot can handle media as well as text. For example, this Space converts text to speech recordings. Here's how to use it:

1. In a channel, type @GradioBot abidlabs/speak

2. Then, type in some text in quotation marks that you'd like to convert to speech, such as @GradioBot "Look at this cool demo!". You should see an audio file returned by @GradioBot:

Note: generation can take a minute or even longer, depending on the length of the input and how many other people are using this Space

🔢 Do math calculations (abidlabs/calc)

The @GradioBot can handle Spaces that take multiple inputs. Each input must be in quotes and separated by a space. For example, this Space takes in two numbers and a mathematical operation. Here's how to use it:

1. In a channel, type @GradioBot abidlabs/calc

2. Then, type in @GradioBot , followed by the inputs, separated by Spaces. For example: @GradioBot "4" "divide" "3" Here's how it looks:

🖼️ Generate images (abidlabs/images)

Here's another example that shows that @GradioBot can handle media. Using this Space converts text to images. Here's how to use it:

1. In a channel, type @GradioBot abidlabs/images

2. Then, type in some text in quotation marks that you'd like to convert into an image, such as @GradioBot "a cartoon astronaut riding a horse". You should see an image file returned by @GradioBot:

Note: generation can take a minute or even longer, depending on how many other people are using this Space

About

The first version of the Gradio Discord Bot was built by the Gradio team at a hackathon in Paris in Nov. 2022. We hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

Contributing

The Gradio Discord Bot is completely open-source. Feel free to open issues or pull requests in this repo to make it better!