New-Bot

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

Download to your project directory:

git clone [email protected]:Ashpan/new_bot.git

or if you use HTTPS

git clone https://github.com/Ashpan/new_bot.git

Make sure you have nodejs and npm installed

Then run npm install

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Now to create and invite a bot to a server go through the following steps.

1. Go to the Discord developer portal
2. Select new application and call it whatever you want to
3. Go to the bot tab and hit reset token to get your bot token. You will need this later, so make sure to note this down.
4. Next go to the OAuth2 tab and you should see a Client ID, note this down as well as you will need it too.
5. Now to invite the bot to a server go to URL Generator and select application.commands and bot, then in the second set of checkboxes, select the permissions you want to give to the bot.
6. Finally copy the generated URL and open it to invite the bot to your desired server.

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Now in the project root create a file called config.json with the following contents

{
  "TOKEN": "TOKEN",
  "CLIENT_ID": "CLIENT_ID",
  "GUILD_IDS": ["SERVER_IDS"],
  "DB_USERNAME": "MONGO_USERNAME",
  "DB_PASSWORD": "MONGO_PASSWORD",
  "DB_CLUSTER": "MONGO_CLUSTER"
}

Make sure to replace TOKEN with your bot token, CLIENT_ID with the bot application client id, and the SERVER_IDS with the ID of the servers the bot will be used in.

If you want to include multiple it should look like ["SERVER_1_ID", "SERVER_2_ID", "SERVER_3_ID"] .

MONGO_USERNAME with the username of the mongoDB database you will be using and MONGO_PASSWORD with the password for the database. You can create it using MongoDB Atlas. MONGO_CLUSTER with the cluster url like cluster0.xyz.mongo.net.

Usage

To run the bot now you need to first sync any and all commands.

You can do this by: npm run sync

Then the bot is ready to be run with: npm run dev

While the bot is running it should auto-refresh when you make changes to *.js files but you can also refresh it by typing rs in the terminal and hitting enter.