Xenon

A simple discord bot dased on Discord.js v14

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To Get Up And Running

1. Fork the repo

Working from a fork of the repo will allow to make changes to the repo under your own without disturbing anything in the real repo. Make changes like crazy.

Fork the repo

2. Clone the repo locally

3. Install Dependencies

$ npm i

4. Set up your environment

Get your own Environment variables for the services and APIs used.

Copy .env.sample to .env and replace the required values

$ cp .env.sample .env

• Add your Discord Bot Token Go to Settings > Bot under a new application and get the TOKEN from the page.

• Add Client ID Go to Settings under a new application and get the CLIENT_ID from the page.

• Add WebHook Data This guide shows you how to create a webhook for a specific channel, the bot listens for the welcome messages in the #welcome channel and #suggestions channel for instance. https://discordjs.guide/popular-topics/webhooks.html#creating-webhooks-through-server-settings

  For Example - If your webhook url looks like this -
  https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1234567891011121314/smTYeBU3JWkp4TTTODtEcJDCS2oTfvseAEKezTYvniassEkeMLBg9aKZX1igmxec7RDsES, the first part is the WEBHOOK_ID, and the second is the WEBHOOK_TOKEN.

  The current webhooks used are for -

  1. welcome messages - WEBHOOK_ID, WEBHOOK_TOKEN.
  2. suggestions - SUGGESTION_WEBHOOK_ID, SUGGESTION_WEBHOOK_TOKEN

• Mongo Connection URI MONGODB_URI - The URI for the local Mongo DB to connect to.

• Brainshop AI for the chatBot AI_KEY and B_ID from Brainshop

• News API NEWS_API_KEY from NewsAPI

5. Invite the bot to a local server

Generate an invite URL under OAuth2 > URL Generator on the Discord Development portal and invite the bot to your respective server.

6. Start the development server

Start a auto refresing dev server -

$ npm run dev

Start the bot -

$ npm start

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