ReminderBot

Sends Discord messages as reminders for Google Calendar events.

Getting Started

1. Copy config.template.js to config.js.
2. Follow the Create Web application credentials guide.
   • Add the following string as an Authorized Redirect URI: https://authconnect-djs.web.app/redir.html.
3. Enable the Google Calendar API in the Google Cloud Console.
4. Make a bot in the Discord developers portal, and add it to your guild.
5. Fill in the following values in config.js:
   • GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: The client ID from your web app credential in the Google Cloud Console.
   • GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: The client secret from your web app credential in the Google Cloud Console.
   • DISCORD_TOKEN: The token of your bot from the Discord developers page.
   • GUILD_ID: The ID of the guild you want the bot to be in.
   • LOGGING_CHANNEL: The ID of the channel you want messages to be sent to. Logging channel should be a text channel inside the guild specified above.
   • CRON_SCHEDULE: The time(s) the bot will check for trigger events. Use cron syntax; you can have it run multiple times a day, but for now, all events from tomorrow at 12:00:00 AM to tomorrow at 11:59:59 PM will be checked, so it is recommended that this is set to once a day.
   • CALENDAR_IDS: The IDs of all of the Google Calendars you want to check for trigger events.
   • REMINDERS: A map of triggering event names to their reminder message text: { "Event Name": "Reminder message" }.

Using PM2

You need to make sure to set the TZ environment variable to your correct timezone. If you're using PM2 to manage your process, you can add the following config file, replacing the timezone with yours:

pm2.config.cjs

module.exports = {
	apps: [{
		name: "reminderbot",
		script: "index.js",
		env: {
			TZ: "America/Los_Angeles"
		}
	}]
}

Then, to start, do pm2 start pm2.config.cjs.