From d91292052e73a1167af3ee7fde4e7611681f2ee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Marriner <bruce@sqls.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:55:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Added basic example using the low level API functions.

---
 example/api_basic.go | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 example/api_basic.go

diff --git a/example/api_basic.go b/example/api_basic.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70b6f93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/api_basic.go
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// This file provides a basic "quick start" example of using the Discordgo
+// package to connect to Discord using the low level API functions.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo"
+)
+
+func main() {
+
+	var err error
+
+	// Check for Username and Password CLI arguments.
+	if len(os.Args) != 3 {
+		fmt.Println("You must provide username and password as arguments. See below example.")
+		fmt.Println(os.Args[0], " [username] [password]")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Create a new Discord Session interface and set a handler for the
+	// OnMessageCreate event that happens for every new message on any channel
+	dg := discordgo.Session{
+		OnMessageCreate: messageCreate,
+	}
+
+	// Login to the Discord server and store the authentication token
+	dg.Token, err = dg.Login(os.Args[1], os.Args[2])
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Open websocket connection
+	err = dg.Open()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+
+	// Do websocket handshake.
+	err = dg.Handshake()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+
+	// Listen for events.
+	go dg.Listen()
+
+	// Simple way to keep program running until any key press.
+	var input string
+	fmt.Scanln(&input)
+	return
+}
+
+// This function will be called (due to above assignment) every time a new
+// message is created on any channel that the autenticated user has access to.
+func messageCreate(s *discordgo.Session, m discordgo.Message) {
+
+	// Print message to stdout.
+	fmt.Printf("%20s %20s %20s > %s\n", m.ChannelID, time.Now().Format(time.Stamp), m.Author.Username, m.Content)
+}