Back in 2018, I wrote about Grepbot, a small bot that ran inside Skype for our gaming group. It was a simple but effective tool, letting us quickly search for game-related info with a single command. It had been running quietly ever since—until Skype announced it would be shutting down in May 2025.
That meant our whole team had to migrate to Discord, and Grepbot had to come along for the ride.
Porting Grepbot to Discord
Moving to Discord wasn’t as simple as copying the old bot’s code and pointing it at a new API...
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