Disinfo

A Discord bot for storing and retrieving pre-defined messages.

User Guide / Quick Reference

Overview

Discord has a feature where bots are able to send a special kind of message not available to normal users. These are called "embeds".

Disinfo allows users to store and retrieve embed messages by keyword. This is handy for sharing often referenced information between users.

Building

Disinfo is built with Dotnet Core 2.2 and Paket is used for dependency management.

Installing dependencies

Paket is included in the repo at .paket/paket.exe. Run it to install the dependencies:

$ .paket\paket.exe install

On Linux:

$ mono .paket\paket.exe install

Building the project

Once the dependencies have been restored, use the dotnet command to build or run the project:

$  dotnet build Disunity.Disinfo/Disunity.Disinfo.csproj

Or

$  dotnet run --project Disunity.Disinfo/Disunity.Disinfo.csproj

Using Docker and Docker-compose

If you have Docker and Docker Compose installed, then building and running is very simple:

First copy the .env.template to .env and edit it with your desired settings:

$ cp .env.template .env
$ emacs .env

Then simply run:

$ docker-compose up

Environment Variables

Disinfo has a number of environment variables which control its behavior:

Environment Variable	Description
Discord__Token	Your Discord bot token
Db__Path	The filename of your Disinfo database