Discord Dice Roller

This guide is for those who wish to setup their own bot instance using this repository. If you simply wish to invite and use the already-hosted bot on your discord guild, checkout the Official Page instead.

Summary

• Create a bot on discord
• Get this project
• Contributing
• Run it with docker

Create a bot on discord

To run your own bot, you'll first need to create an account for said bot. To do so, follow this guide made by the discord.py team. It will basically walk you through:

• Creating an app
• Creating a bot within that app
• Creating an invite link for that bot

In our case, the required permissions are 76800. Which translates into:

• View Channels: To view available channels
• Send Messages: To answer our user's commands
• Manage Messages: To delete command calls and our bot's messages when using the clear command
• Read Message History: Same as Manage Messages

Get this project

If we ignore the venv/docker part, there are only 2 parts required for the project to work:

• fork or clone this repository
• Create an .env file and put your bot's authentication token in it (which can be found in your discord app settings)

Here's a quick example:

cd /where/you/want/to/go
git clone git@github.com:Jordan-Kowal/discord-dice-roller.git
cd discord-dice-roller
cp .env.sample .env
nano .env
# Add your actual token value into the file

Contributing

If you want to contribute, you'll need:

• A virtual environment
• Install the pre-commit hooks
• (Optional) Setup your code editor with flake8/isort/black so that they format your files automatically

Once you've made and activated your virtual env, you can run the following commands. It will install all the necessary dependencies and setup the pre-commit hooks:

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.dev.txt
pre-commit install

To run the bot, simply run the main.py file from within your venv. That's it.

Run it with docker

If you wish to run the bot for real, I've provided a Dockerfile and docker-compose. Make sure you've updated your .env file and simply run docker-compose up. It should work.