pointinator

discord bot that accepts commands from chat and tallies points and calculates reward tiers

hi helm

so basically you git clone https://github.com/AisiYidingbai/pointinator.git this repo, install python, and then pip install -r requirements.txt, discord.py, numpy, and pandas, and run it.

(to update requirements.txt use pipreqs (pip install pipreqs) inside project folder)

cd pointinator and then copy-paste the secret key into secret.py, bai'll tell you my secrets if you ask nicely

to stop secret.py from updating when you update the repo with git pull origin, add it to your gitignore: echo secret.py >> gitignore

the syntax is python pointinator.py -o /path/to/files/ and you'll see the dev instance go up in the discord test server automatically

you need to specify a path where the sheets will live with -o, if the sheets aren't there already then pointinator will make them

instructions if you're not helm

same as above but you need to also create a bot user, invite it to your server, and generate a secret key for it so that it can log in

• go to discord developer portal https://discord.com/developers/applications/ and log in with a user that has manage server permissions in the server you want to use pointinator in
• in applications, create a new application, give it a name, and agree to the tos
• in the settings for your app, go to oauth2, give it the "bot" scope, and give it the "manage roles", "read messages/view channels", "send messages", and "manage messages" permissions
• allow the same permissions in the bot tab and also enable the "message content" privileged gateway intent
• go to the bottom and copy-paste the generated url into your browser. log in again and choose the server you want to use pointinator in
• you'll see pointinator joined. back in bot settings, scroll back up and generate a token with "reset token", note it down. copy-paste it into the key variable in secret.py in this repo. this is how it logs in
• go to general information and mess around with the settings in there to personalise your pointinator
• start up an instance of pointinator with python pointinator.py -o /path/to/files. it'll log in to your server
• np enjoy

tl;dr

git clone https://github.com/AisiYidingbai/pointinator.git

cd pointinator

pip install -r requirements.txt

make an app https://discord.com/developers/applications/

give it bot scope; manage roles, read messages/view channels, send messages, and manage messages permissions; and message content privileged gateway intent, and then invite it to your server

put the bot token in secret.py

echo secret.py >> gitignore

python pointinator.py -o /path/to/files/

to update pointinator: git pull origin

daemonise

diy but you can google crontab and/or systemd unit files. idk about windows prob task scheduler. gl