Informed-Citizen-Bot

A Discord bot that fetches the most recent top article from AP News' politics section on request and makes a neat summary of the article and key terms.

Tech Stack

• Redis Cloud for caching article data.
• Groq for natural language processing.
• Playwright for web scraping.
• BeautifulSoup4 (BS4) for parsing HTML content

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/aleguy02/Informed-Citizen-Bot.git
   cd Informed-Citizen-Bot

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows, use `venv\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

1. Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following configuration variables:

   DISCORD_TOKEN=your_discord_token
   REDIS_URL=your_redis_url
   GROQ_API_KEY=your_groq_api_key

2. Ensure you have the required API keys and tokens for Discord, Redis Cloud, and Groq.

Usage

1. Start the bot:

   python bot.py

2. Invite the bot to your Discord server using the OAuth2 URL with the bot scope and necessary permissions.

3. Use the bot commands in your Discord server to fetch the latest top article from AP News' politics section.