QOTD Bot

Question of the Day Discord Bot. Free to use, but credit to kevmuri would be nice. Simply selects a question randomly and posts it at a scheduled time.

Create a bot in the Discord Developer Portal with message content intent toggled ON.

Using your favorite text editor, create CONFIG.py in the repo directory with the following content.

DISCORD_TOKEN = <bot token>
TARGET_CHANNEL = <ID of desired channel>
SCHEDULED_POST_HOUR = <Hour QOTD is to be posted in UTC>
SCHEDULED_POST_MINUTE = <Minute QOTD is to be posted>

And assuming pip is installed, run pip install -r requirements.txt in the repository.

Run qotd-bot with python3 mika.py.

To add a question simply send a discord message beginning with mika add <QUESTION> in any channel the bot resides in. It will randomly select a question and post it at the scheduled time.

To force a question, someone with guild kick permissions simply needs to send a discord message with the content of mika test.

QOTD Bot can also send a message of any kind of content. With guild kick permissions, begin a message with mika say and it will be posted in the target channel.

QOTD Bot includes a few CLI utilities.

• python3 mika.py --reset will clear all questions and reinitialize the database.
• python3 mika.py --import <questions_to_import.txt> Will import questions to the application database line by line.
• python3 mika.py --export <questions_to_export.txt> Will export questions from the database to a specified file. If argument 2 is not included, will print to console instead.

To prepopulate the questions database with sample questions, simply run python3 mika.py --reset to create the database, and then run python3 mika.py --import questions.txt. NOTE: The database will initialize the first time python3 mika.py runs if it has not been initialized yet.