Discord Echobot

The purpose of this bot is to allow you to copy messages from one Discord channel to another Discord channel, even if you don't have permission to add a bot account to the guild you are copying from.

This is done by turning your own Discord account into a bot -- copied messages are sent by you, not a real bot.

DISCLAIMER: Using this (or any) self-bot is against Discord's Terms of Service — use at your own risk! You may get your account banned and I am NOT RESPONSIBLE for it. You chose to use this. Your responsibility.

Deployment

Manual (Your laptop, a server, etc.)

To setup and run this bot, you must first install Node.js.

1. Download the latest release source code.

2. Extract the source code to a folder of your choosing.

3. Configure the bot by either:

   • Creating a file called config.json in the extracted directory and filling it out. You can see config.example.json for an example. Scroll down to see what each option means.
   • OR Pasting the entire config JSON (what would normally be in your file) into the environment variable ECHOBOT_CONFIG_JSON. (You can do both but the config file will always take precedence).

4. Open a command prompt or terminal in the extracted directory, and run npm install.

5. Run npm run build

6. Each time you want to start the bot, run npm start.

Heroku

This bot is compatible with Heroku. You can use the button above to deploy it quickly.

Use the ECHOBOT_CONFIG_JSON environment variable to create your config. Simply put everything that would normally be in the config.json file into this variable. Formatting does not matter.

If the PORT environment variable is set (which may happen by default), then this bot will start a web server on that port and will reply pong to requests at /ping. This is useful because you can use a service like UptimeRobot to automatically send a request to the /ping endpoint to keep your app from sleeping on the Heroku free tier.

Configuration

All options are ... well.. optional. Defaults are listed for if you don't include them.

• title: Displayed at the top of each message.

  • e.g. "title": "New Copied Message"
  • (Default empty)

• richEmbed: Whether or not to use rich embedding. Basically it just looks nicer.

  • e.g. "richEmbed": true
  • (Default false)

• richEmbedColor: The color for the border of the rich embed if richEmbed is true. To choose the color, get the hex value (like #0078ff) and then go to google and type "0x0078ff to decimal" -> the number you get is what you want.

  • e.g. "richEmbedColor": 30975
  • (Default 30975)

• includeSource: Whether to include a line at the top showing the nickname, guild, and channel of the author who sent the message.

  • e.g. "includeSource": true
  • (Default false)

• removeEveryone: Whether to remove all instances of @everyone in the messages. This prevents accidental mentioning.

  • e.g. "removeEveryone": true
  • (Default false)

• removeHere: Same as removeEveryone except for @here.

  • e.g. "removeHere": true
  • (Default false)

• copyRichEmbed: Sometimes a source message may include a rich embed of its own, with or without a normal, non-embed message. This includes gifs. To copy to the rich embed message as well as the normal message contents, this option must be true. If that made no sense, just keep this true.

  • e.g. "copyRichEmbed": true
  • (Default false)

• copyAttachments: When true, the attached files of a message (pdf, image (not gifs! see above), etc.) will be copied into the new message.

  • e.g. "copyAttachments": true
  • (Default false)

• minLength: The minimum number of characters required in a message body for it to be copied. Messages with embeds will always be copied if copyRichEmbed is true. Attachments (including pictures) will not be sent if message is too short and has no embeds. Set to 0 to disable.

  • e.g. "minLength": 10
  • (Default 0)

• allowList: An array that contains the allowed author(s)' Discord IDs, from which the messages will be copied. Use this to filter whose messages will be copied from the channels. Set to an empty array to disable. The IDs must be in quotation marks.

  • e.g. "allowList": ["37450973459793455", "94730497535793434"]
  • (Default [])

Finding your Token

This Discord bot is called a "self-bot," meaning it runs as your personal Discord account rather than a separate bot account.

In order for this to work, you need to provide your Discord token in the config.json file. To find this token, follow these steps:

1. Open the Discord client on your computer.
2. Push Ctrl + Shift + I to open the dev tools (may be different on non-windows operating systems).
3. Go to the Network tab.
4. Go to any channel in any guild.
5. Click through the network requests that appear and search for the header authorization.
   • You can usually ignore image requests.
6. Copy the value of the authorization header.
   • It will look something like mfa.aasdkf--SDsdkfjhsdf_ewrh-msufeusefsbeouhue_W-34FsedFwEsr_SDFsufserF4_slhSDF432f

The token will now be on your clipboard and can be pasted into the config. Make sure there is only one set of quotation marks.

Finding Channel IDs

Redirect sources and destinations use Channel IDs, which look like large numbers. To find these, follow these steps:

1. Open the Discord client.
2. Go to User Settings.
3. Go to Appearance.
4. Scroll to the bottom and enable Developer Mode.
5. Close User Settings.
6. Right click on any channel (only text channels are supported, not voice) and select Copy ID.

The ID will now be on your clipboard and can be pasted into the config.