Discord Bot

Initially started as an HTB Role management bot. Now it have many other features.

How to run it locally or host it yourself?

Let's get started

• create a discord token, You can create an application on https://discordapp.com/developers/applications and get the token from bot menu

• (Optional) You might need an youtube api key if you want to use youtube feature i.e ippsec command which search youtube for ippsec video

• (Optional) Redis setup a redis-server for the remind feature and caching other things like ippsec video link.

• Create an .env file to run locally or set ENV variables if running on any VPS

  • You need Procfile only if you want to run on heroku

Environment variables

Here is the list of Environment Variables

• DISCORD_TOKEN: Set this as the discord token which you got from the discord developers page

• BOT_TRIGGER_COMMAND: The trigger command you want to use you can also keep prefix here

• BOT_TRIGGER_PREFIX_LIST: Additional Prefix you want the bot to response with (Optional)

• LOG_LEVEL: To set the logging level default is verbose you can set it to info in production environment

• PROFILE_CHANNEL: set this to the channel where you want the verified HTB users profile link has to be sent

• ASSIGN_ROLE: The Role you want to give when the verification is successful. You can also have Roles named as the HTB Rank to give those roles too.

• GUILD_ID: Needed for working from bot Direct message and giving the role on your server. Get it from Server widget -> Server ID

• REDIS_URL: Redis URL for Caching (Optional) might make some functions not to work properly

• REMIND_IGNORE_LIST: List of user whom you don't want to send reminder when running remind command

• GRACE_PERIOD: To only remind someone when if not remined for these many days

• NODE_ENV: Node Environment Version prod/uat

• YOUTUBE_KEY: Youtube API key

There are more you will update it later you can find it in the code

How to Start ?

If you have set the environment variables you can run install the dependencies via

npm i

when you are in the current directory.

and running it locally via

npm run dev

and

npm start

in production environment

NOTE: You need to have .env in the project root directory.

If you get a message like

time host info: discordbot is Ready.

Then your bot is running.

Inviting the bot to your server

Go back to https://discordapp.com/developers/applications page and go to oauth page and click the scope as bot and bot permissions as Administrator and copy and open that link and Authorize it.

You should have the bot invited to your server and you can try running any command like bottigger usage.

Have any issue or any feature request?

Create a Github issue with your issue or feature request.

You can also create a PR for any feature you want to be included here.

License

MIT License

Contact

Still having issue?

contact me on discord at f3v3r#1168

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