ModBot for Discord

ModBot is a Discord bot for mod.io using modio-rs and serenity.

Example

Setup

You can invite the officially hosted ModBot to join your Discord server using the following URL https://discordbot.mod.io, or you can build and install your own version of ModBot by following the instructions below.

1. Invite the ModBot https://discordbot.mod.io/
2. View the games list ~games and set the default game ~game ID
3. In the channel(s) you want the bot to post updates (mod added / edited), run the command ~subscribe ID
4. Ensure the bot has Read Messages, Send Messages and Embed Links permissions in the channel(s) it is in to be able to function correctly

Commands

By default ~ is the prefix used to issue commands to ModBot. Once you have invited ModBot to your server, you can set the default game using the command ~game ID. Now when a user issues the command ~mods, all of the mods for the game you specified will be returned. You can change the default game at any time.

We recommend you also ~subscribe ID to games you are interested in receiving push notifications from. For example in our #bot channel, we have subscribed to a bunch of games and whenever a mod is updated, the channel is notified.

Popular commands include:

• ~help show these commands
• ~prefix CHARACTER change the default prefix from ~ to something else
• ~game ID|Name set the default game
• ~game return information about the default game
• ~games return a list of all games
• ~mod ID|Name return information about the mod(s) requested
• ~mods return a list of all mods belonging to the default game
• ~popular return a list of mods ordered by popularity
• ~subscribe ID|Name subscribe to a game for updates (mods added/edited)
• ~subscriptions see all games subscribed too
• ~unsubscribe ID|Name unsubscribe from a game

Building

MODBOT is written in Rust, so you'll need to grab a Rust installation in order to compile it. Building is easy:

$ git clone https://github.com/nickelc/modio-bot
$ cd modio-bot
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/modbot

Building with bundled sqlite3

Use the feature sqlite-bundled to compile sqlite3 from source and link against that.

$ cargo build --features sqlite-bundled

Installation

Cargo

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/nickelc/modio-bot
$ $HOME/.cargo/bin/modbot

Usage

Set up the environment variables with export or by creating a .env file.

• DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
• MODIO_API_KEY or MODIO_TOKEN
• MODIO_HOST (optional)

A .env sample is provided as .env.sample.

Running the bot

DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN="your token" \
MODIO_API_KEY="your api key" \
./path/to/modbot

Logging

Logging can be configured via environment variables.

RUST_LOG=modio=debug,modbot=debug

See the env_logger crate for more information.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.