get-a-watch-bot

A bot designed to get around pesky timezones and timestamps for Discord.

As Discord denied this bot, there is the option to self host it.

I recommend pm2 if you're self hosting it, but be sure to set the system clock as UTC on your host machine. To get started:

• Run npm i in the main directory
• cp .env.example .env
• Create a developer application on discord
• Go to the OAuth2 section > General. Set Default authorization to in-app. Give it the scopes of Bot and applications.commands, and the permissions of Send Messages, Embed Files, Embed Links, and Use Slash Commands
• Copy the Client ID on the same page to the .env file
• Go to the bot section and add a bot with any username and icon
• Press "reset token", copy it, and add it to the .env file.
• Run npx tsc to compile into JS
• node dist/deploy-commands.js will add the commands to the bot
• pm2 start node/index.js will start the bot.

Commands

• /timezone - Sets your timezone in the database for others to view & for default timezones when creating a timestamp
  • timezone - Sets your timezone based on the autofill options
• /time - View other users’ times (one parameter required)
  • time - View your own time
  • @user - View another user’s time (if they have set it)
• /timestamp - Create a timestamp for a message (time, date, and format are required)
  • time: The time of the message (in 24-hour or 12-hour format)
  • date: The date of the message (01-31)
  • format: The format of the timestamp (see below)
  • month: The month (default is current month)
  • year: The year (default is current year)
  • timezone: A specified timezone you would like the timestamp converted in (default is your set timezone)
  • public: Ephemeral or not, useful for creating timestamps without others seeing it