Netsoc Discord Bot

The UCC Netsoc discord bot has the following features:

• Allows UCC students to automatically register as a member for the public Discord Server

• Allows committee members to publish events and announcements to multiple mediums using one command. This includes:

  • The public discord server
  • The website (coming soon)

• Recall events/announcements from these platforms after being sent

Why make a new Discord Bot

When we decided to implement the features allowing the posting of events/announcements, we realised that the bot could no longer be server agnostic.

For that reason we decided to reimplement the bot with the ability to watch/read our consul K/V store to allow for real time configuration of what servers/channels require elevated permissions.

Running locally

1. Ensure you have both docker and docker-compose installed.

2. Ensure to clone this repo and the Netsoc dev-env.

3. cd into dev-env/discord-bot and make a file called docker-compose.override.yml. Ensure it contains the following:

version: "3.7"
services:
  discord-bot:
    environment:
      - DISCORD_TOKEN=Put discord token here
    volumes:
      - /path/to/discord-bot/repo:/bot

4. cd into the dev-env and run ./dev-env up discord-bot consul.
5. Go to consul at http://localhost:8500 and set the following K/Vs in discordbot/:
   • channels: {"public_announcements": "id", "private_events": "id"}
   • servers: {"public": "id", "committee": "id"}
   • welcome_messages: ["Hi %s, whats up?", "Yo %s"]