Practical alterself Selfbot Examples and Code Recipes

The examples below cover the patterns that come up most often when building a selfbot with alterself. Each one is self-contained and ready to drop into your project — swap in your token, adjust the constants, and run. Click any accordion to expand the full code.

Basic ping/pong bot

The simplest possible alterself bot. It connects to the gateway, prints your username when ready, and responds to .ping with your current latency.

import alterself

bot = alterself.Client(token="TOKEN", prefix=".")

@bot.on_event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"Ready: {bot.me.username}")

@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.reply(f"pong | {bot.latency * 1000:.1f} ms")

bot.run()

Echo + delete original

Deletes your trigger message and re-sends its content as a clean message in the same channel. The aliases=["say"] parameter means both .echo and .say work.

@bot.command(aliases=["say"])
async def echo(ctx, *args):
    await ctx.delete()
    await bot.http.send_message(
        ctx.channel_id,
        content=" ".join(args)
    )

ctx.delete() removes the original command invocation message. If you lack permission to delete messages in that channel, an HTTPError with code 50013 is raised. Consider wrapping this in a try/except.

Auto-react to a specific user's messages

Watches every incoming message and adds a heart reaction whenever a specific user posts. Replace TARGET_USER with the user’s numeric ID.

TARGET_USER = 123456789012345678
EMOJI       = "❤️"

@bot.on_event
async def on_message_create(message: alterself.Message):
    if message.author and int(message.author.id) == TARGET_USER:
        await bot.http.add_reaction(
            int(message.channel_id),
            int(message.id),
            EMOJI,
        )

You can extend EMOJI to a list and pick one at random with random.choice(EMOJIS) for more variety.

DM logger

Prints every incoming direct message to your console with a timestamp. Guild messages are ignored so your logs stay clean.

import alterself, datetime

bot = alterself.Client(token="TOKEN", prefix=";")

@bot.on_event
async def on_message_create(message: alterself.Message):
    if message.guild_id:
        return   # only log DMs
    ts   = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
    who  = message.author.username if message.author else "?"
    print(f"[{ts}] DM from {who}: {message.content}")

bot.run()

Admin Cog with purge command

Groups admin commands inside a Cog class to keep your project organised. The purge command deletes the last n messages in the current channel (default: 10).

import alterself

bot = alterself.Client(token="TOKEN", prefix=".")

class AdminCog(alterself.Cog):

    @alterself.cmd()
    async def purge(self, ctx, amount: int = 10):
        """Delete the last <amount> messages in this channel."""
        deleted = 0
        async for message in bot.http.fetch_messages(ctx.channel_id, limit=amount):
            try:
                await bot.http.delete_message(
                    int(message["channel_id"]),
                    int(message["id"]),
                )
                deleted += 1
            except alterself.HTTPError:
                pass   # skip messages we can't delete

        await ctx.reply(f"🗑️ Deleted {deleted} message(s).", delete_after=5)

bot.add_cog(AdminCog())
bot.run()

Bulk-deleting messages at high speed can trigger rate limits. Add a short asyncio.sleep between deletions if you plan to purge large numbers of messages.

Guild joiner via invite codes

Joins a list of Discord servers from their invite codes, with a 1.5-second delay between each join to stay under rate limits. Runs without a persistent gateway connection.

import alterself, asyncio

async def join_many(token, codes):
    bot  = alterself.Client(token=token, prefix="!")
    http = bot.http

    for code in codes:
        try:
            data = await http.join_guild(code)
            print(f"[+] Joined {data.get('guild', {}).get('name', code)}")
        except alterself.HTTPError as e:
            print(f"[-] Failed {code}: {e}")
        await asyncio.sleep(1.5)

    await http.close()

asyncio.run(join_many("TOKEN", ["invite1", "invite2"]))

CaptchaChallenge can be raised by http.join_guild() if Discord requires verification. See the Error Handling guide for details on how to handle it.

Presence cycling

Rotates through a list of activities every 60 seconds using a background asyncio task. The task starts automatically once the gateway is ready.

import alterself, asyncio

bot = alterself.Client(token="TOKEN", prefix=".")

ACTIVITIES = [
    alterself.playing("Chess"),
    alterself.listening("Lo-fi beats"),
    alterself.watching("YouTube"),
    alterself.custom_status("Busy 🔧"),
]

async def cycle_presence():
    index = 0
    while True:
        activity = ACTIVITIES[index % len(ACTIVITIES)]
        await bot.change_presence(status="online", activities=[activity])
        index += 1
        await asyncio.sleep(60)

@bot.on_event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"Ready: {bot.me.username}")
    asyncio.create_task(cycle_presence())

bot.run()

Swap the 60-second interval for any value you like. Avoid going below 30 seconds. Updating presence too frequently can cause Discord to silently drop updates.

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