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+# Red - A multifunction Discord bot
+#### *Now fully modular*
+
+This is a work in progress. Bugs and missing features are to be expected.
+
+The only requirement for the main part is:
+```
+pip3 install git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@async
+```
+The requirements for the audio module are:
+```
+pip3 install youtube_dl
+pip3 install beautifulsoup4
+Opus/ffmpeg
+```
+Either you install ffmpeg and opus from the original sources or you can download them directly from the [main branch](https://github.com/Twentysix26/Red-DiscordBot).  
+Just click on the 3 .exes and the opus dll, then click on the "raw" button to download them.  
+If you do this, you also need to put them in the main folder, next to red.py