How to get token from token.env with Discord.py

Question

So I am trying to get my bot token from token.env but I get a compiler error. client.run(os.getenv("TOKEN")) and then my token.env is this TOKEN["insert token here"] I'm not 100% sure how to format that. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

.env files are a deprecated method from replit, If you go to your sidebar and click on the lock icon (middle of the list), you'll see a tab called secrets, then all you need to do is make the key whatever, and put your token as the value, click "add new secret", then use

import os
token = os.environ['DISCORD_TOKEN']

Replace DISCORD_TOKEN with whatever you decide to name it, then to run it's just

client.run(token)

which is much more readable

Answer 2

Make a.env file in the current directory, your file content should look like this

TOKEN_KEY=TOKEN_VALUE

Install python-dotenv module

pip install python-dotenv

Add these two line in you Discord.py file

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

This is work fine.

Answer 3

You can use a libary/module called python-dotenv , install the library with

pip install python-dotenv

To use it in your code, you have to import the os module as well as the freshly installed dotenv package

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

At the beginning of your code after the imports you should have load_dotenv() to load the.env file. Then you can use os.getenv("DOTENV variablename here") to get the content of the file.

Instruction List:

pip install python-dotenv.

Create a file named.env in the root of your project. Write one line: DISCORD_TOKEN = your token (no quotes needed) you should have import os and from dotenv import load_dotenv in your code. Call load_dotenv() at the beginning of your program to load the file. To get your token, you just have to do

os.getenv("DISCORD_TOKEN").

Example code:

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

TOKEN = os.getenv("DISCORD_TOKEN")
Example dotenv file:

DISCORD_TOKEN=this.is.my.token.blah.blah.blah

Answer taken from here: How would I go about creating an.env file for my discord bot token?

Answer 4

Try making the file name .env instead of token.env

Edit: If that doesn't work, you could try this to make a new.env;
How would I go about creating an.env file for my discord bot token?