Faculty bot (Discord)

Introduction

This project features a Discord bot, with the intend to reduce the administration overhead for faculty related tasks. The bot takes care of verifying new server members.

Setting up the bot

• To run the code itself, first you need Node.js. Install this JavaScript runtime.
• You need to download the project and execute
  npm install inside the primary folder using Powershell (on Windows). This will install the neccesary dependencies.
• Then you need to create a json file inside the directiory named: config.json. Inside you need to fill in the values needed to launch the bot: the prefix used for every command:

{
	"prefix": "..",
}

• Additionally, you'll have to create a .env file with the following content: TOKEN -> Your Bots Token, MAILUSER -> the e-mail address used for the verify command and MAILPW -> the password associated with the mail account

TOKEN=
MAILUSER=
MAILPW=

• To register the bot, a developer account at Discord needs to be created. The key can be filled in the .env under TOKEN.
• To finally launch the bot, use npm run build, then cd dist and finally node src/index.js in Powershell to launch the bot. Press CTRL + c to end the execution. The console will give useful log.
• For quick updates, stop the bot and use git pull. Start the bot again.

Bot Settings

In order for the bot to communicate with channels, you need to edit the general-settings.json and paste in the names of the channels and roles. Those need to be created before launching the bot. Case sensitive!

Roles

• staffrole: this is the management role, which may edit the bot via commands.
• verified: after a playeer verified with his account. Use this role as you please, maybe to show and hide some channels.
• mealplannotify: role id which will get pinged if new mealplan has been posted

Channels

• logs : where log files are beeing posted to. Useful for staff.
• greetings : where new players get welcomed
• news : where useful information for everyone gets posted by the bot
• xp : where level ups get posted
• rules : where your server rules are located
• ads: where external members may post ads which automatically get deleted after a specified amout of time in the settings
• createChannel: when creating a voice channel with this name, it will be a dynamic voice channel to prevent unnecessary voice channels
• mealPlan: channel to which the mealplan updates get posted

Colors

Speficy the color codes which gets used by the bot when sending embedded mssages etc.

Settings

Here you may speficy other adjustable settings of the bot.

• adstimeout: the time in milliseconds before an ad in the ads-channel gets deleted
• CharsForLevel: how many characters in a message should equal to 1 Point of Experience
• postMealplan: (bool) activates the mealplan posting functionality
  • mealplan : (url) place to download mealplan i.e. http://www.meal/one.pdf
  • mealplanpdfpath": (path) local path to save and load mealplan
  • mealplan-check": (int) minutes between the mealplan update check
  • mealplandaycheck": (int) weekday on which the check and post occurs (0 - 6) (Sun - Sat)
  • mealplanhourscheck: (int) time at what the check occurs. i.e. 8 for 8am
  • mealplansettings": (list) default settings for the converter. change if applicable
    • density": 400,
    • quality": 100,
    • saveFilename": "mensaplan",
    • savePath": "./",
    • format": "png",
    • width": 768,
    • height": 512 }

Other

In the config.js, the mail server and aithentication in verify.js needs to be filled in.

Commands

In general, a command can be used without any arguments to get additional information about it.

• help: displays general information
• rulesupdate <"new rules">: updates the server rules. Only usable by staffrole.
• sendmessage <"message">: useful to let the bot send the a the server rules to a channel intitally, which can later be updated with rulesupdate-command. only staffrole.
• verify : The bot checks the mail inbox and assigns the student the verificated role
• xp: displays current xp and level

Thanks

Feedback is appreciated.