nadekobot/docs/guides/windows-guide.md

Setting Up NadekoBot on Windows With the Updater

Table of Contents
Prerequisites
Setup
Starting the Bot
Updating Nadeko
Manually Installing the Prerequisites from the Updater

Note: If you want to make changes to Nadeko's source code, please follow the From Source guide instead.

Prerequisites

• Windows 10 or later (64-bit)

Optional

• Visual Studio Code (Highly suggested if you plan on editing files)
• Visual C++ 2010 (x86) and Visual C++ 2017 (x64) (both are required if you want Nadeko to play music - restart Windows after installation)

Setup

• Download and run the NadekoBot v3 Updater.
• Click on the + at the top left to create a new bot.
• Give your bot a name and then click Go to setup at the lower right.
• Click on DOWNLOAD at the lower right
• If you want to use the music module, click on Install next to FFMPEG and Youtube-DLP.
• If any dependencies fail to install, you can temporarily disable your Windows Defender/AV until you install them. If you don't want to, then read the last section of this guide.
• When installation is finished, click on CREDS to the left of RUN at the lower right.
• Follow the guide on how to Set up the creds.yml file.

Starting the bot

• Either click on RUN button in the updater or run the bot via its desktop shortcut.

Updating Nadeko

• Make sure Nadeko is closed and not running (Run .die in a connected server to ensure it's not running).
• Open NadekoBot Updater
• Click on your bot at the upper left (looks like a spy).
• Click on Check for updates.
• If updates are available, you will be able to click on the Update button.
• Launch the bot
• You've updated and are running again, easy as that!

Music prerequisites

In order to use music commands, you need ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed.

• ffmpeg-32bit | ffmpeg-64bit - Download the appropriate version for your system (32 bit if you're running a 32 bit OS, or 64 if you're running a 64bit OS). Unzip it, and move ffmpeg.exe to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, just move the ffmpeg.exe file to NadekoBot/output.
• youtube-dlp - Click to download the yt-dlp.exe file, then move yt-dlp.exe to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, just move the yt-dlp.exe file to NadekoBot/system.