Bizarro

A discord bot that mimics users using markov chains.

Features

• Whenever a user is @ mentioned the bot creates a webhook with the same display name and profile picture and sends 1-5 messages generated from a markov chain.
• Mentioning a role acts like mentioning each individual member with that role.
• Chains are continuously added to as more messages are sent.
• Regenerate and save chains on the fly with |regen and |save.
• Configurable through Bizarro.toml. (See Bizarro.example.toml).

Note: I have not tested this bot on very large servers. It may have problems with too many members or messages.

Setting up

Configuring the bot on discord

On the discord developer portal, create an application with a bot user and add it to your server. I just gave mine administrator permissions, but I think it only needs Manage Webhooks, View Channels, Send Messages, Manage Messages, Read Message History, and Mention Everyone (if you wnat it to be able to do that).

Running the bot

1. Clone this repository.
2. Make sure you have rust and cargo installed. If you don't, they can be installed from here.
3. In the newly cloned directory, create a Bizarro.toml file. Advanced settings are detailed in Bizzaro.example.toml, but all that is required to be in this file is the following:

discord_token = "your discord bot token"
chain_storage_dir = "/the/directory/where/chains/should/be/stored"

4. Simply execute cargo run in the cloned directory to build and run the bot (This will take a while the first time).
   • This may fail, in which case you likely need to install openssl.
5. Once the bot is online, type |regen followed by |save to generate and save initial markov chains.

Things I plan to add:

• Excluding messages from chain generation with regex specified in Bizarro.toml.
• More configurable control over the bot mentioning people.
• Precompiled binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
• Possibly support for resending old attachments.