MoistBot overview

MoistBot is a Discord Bot run on a discord server called Shaymin's Meadow. The bot was inspired by SysBot.NET and its capabilities, and the popularity of Pokémon giveaways and "seed checks."

This bot was ran between April 2020 - August 2020. Here are some interesting statistics.

• 52,727 Trade Searches were abandoned (no match after 2 minutes), 24,919 Successful, 1,396 matches were abandoned (no offered poke), 464 matches violated the rules
• SwShLegendary was the most popular Community category (298 wins), Battle the most popular Items category (597 wins), 0Atk0SpeQuiet the most popular Ditto category (107 wins)
• Served 1091 unique users
• 4 most offered Pokemon: Wooloo (2308), Ditto (2234), Eevee (987), Scorbunny (979)
• Most frequent users: 🥇Coote (1107), 🥈Dylan(1088), 🥉Zack(979), NukeDoctor (964) (next highest had only 607!!)
• Most trades per day, per user: 🥇Dylan(170 trades, 2020-05-18), 🥈Coote(166 trades, 2020-06-29), 🥉Dylan(135 trades, 2020-05-19)

Technical details

• Run on an Amazon EC2 instance, with three instances of GiveawayClient targeting three CFW Nintendo Switch consoles in my house
• Written in Python, with linux commands to aid deployment
• Web-app written in Express (not released), hosted on the same EC2 instance (LINK)
• Firebase realtime database was used snapshot at 08-14-2020 3:36PM PST
• Scalable design, DiscordClient handles giveaway voting and all Discord activites, GiveawayClient handles the delivering of Pokémon and Seed Checks to the end user

Getting Started

• A firebase realtime database is required, and arguments required to connect it must be supplied via environment variables.
• To run a "giveaway client" (a Nintendo Switch): python GiveawayClient.py <Alias (anything> <IP Address> <port>
• To run a "discord client" (a Discord Bot): python DiscordClient.py (various elements are hardcoded, needs to be modified)

Credits

• ShinySylveon04 and Abyzab for helping me with basically everything
• fishguy6564 for helping me decipher lanturn bot, and for providing permission to "borrow" his NumpadInterpreter.py and PK8.py, which were copied verbatim, with minor modifications to PK8.py.
• olliz0r for providing the community with sys-botbase
• kwsch for providing the community with PKHeX and SysBot.NET, from which I took some inspiration for PK8 data structure and answering some of my qustions
• The team at MoreBreedingDittos for being amazing people