diff --git a/.env.template b/.env.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..978ac4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.template
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+BOT_TOKEN=
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5ceb386..0330071 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 venv
+.env
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ba767a9..db3ff52 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ multidict==5.1.0
 pycodestyle==2.7.0
 pycparser==2.20
 PyNaCl==1.4.0
+python-dotenv==0.19.0
 six==1.16.0
 toml==0.10.2
 typing-extensions==3.10.0.2
diff --git a/src/bot.py b/src/bot.py
index e791a0f..5dcf21a 100644
--- a/src/bot.py
+++ b/src/bot.py
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 import asyncio
+import os
 
 import discord
 import youtube_dl
 
 from discord.ext import commands
 
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+load_dotenv()
+
 # Suppress noise about console usage from errors
 youtube_dl.utils.bug_reports_message = lambda: ''
 
@@ -134,4 +139,10 @@ async def on_ready():
   print('------')
 
 bot.add_cog(Music(bot))
-bot.run('token')
+
+token = os.environ.get("BOT_TOKEN", None)
+if not token:
+  print("No token fouund in BOT_TOKEN")
+  exit(1)
+
+bot.run(os.environ["BOT_TOKEN"])