Dave

Dave is a discord bot.

Prerequisites

• yarn
• node

Setup

• Go here to make a bot.

• Give your bot a name, and then click Create Application.

• Scroll down to Create a Bot User and click that.

• Note down the Client ID for later.

• Now you can get your bot token by clicking click to reveal in the bot user section.

• Copy the file src/Config.ts.example to src/Config.ts (cp src/Config.ts.example src/Config.ts)

• Enter your token in Config.ts.

• Don't reveal this token to anyone!

• Next you need to get the Channel ID you want the bot to run in.

• In Discord, follow these steps-

  1. Click on User Settings(small gear icon to right of name in the bottom left)

  2. Click on Appearance

  3. Enable Developer Mode.

• Edit this link, replacing the string of numbers after client_id= with the Client ID you noted down earlier. https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=446154284514541579&scope=bot&permissions=268437568

• Open said link and choose the server you wish to add the bot to. You must have Manage Server permissions.

Configuration

Copy lib/Config.ts.example to lib/Config.ts and fill in the relevant fields.

You can disable functions in lib/CommandDefinitions.ts if you can't be bothered to get the API keys and don't want errors.

• Cat API: https://thecatapi.com/signup
• Exchange rates: https://docs.openexchangerates.org/docs/authentication
• Youtube API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs
• Weather API: https://openweathermap.org/price

Installation

yarn install

Compilation

yarn build

Running

yarn start