Discord Image Posting Bot (DIP-Bot)

DIP-Bot is a Discord bot takes a directory of images and posts to a channel on an interval

Installation

Prerequisites

Generate a new Discord bot token, only needs permission to send messages. Requires Python3

Install

Clone this repository to your server

git clone https://github.com/lagliam/DIP-bot.git

Run

setup.sh

• Put your images in the /images folder

• Place token in .env file

• Update the variables in .env file with values to be used by the database

• Update the 'sqlalchemy.url' in alembic.ini with your database username and password

Running Service

docker-compose up -d

Running Migrations

In order to update the database to the correct state run the following

docker exec -it bot alembic upgrade head

Usage

/start

In the channel you want DIP-bot to post to call the command to start posting.

/stop

Stops posting for the channel that it was called from

/get_one_image

You can also get one image by calling this command

/reset_viewed

Delete the stored seen images file to allow previously seen images to be posted again

/post_amount [1-5]

How many images to post at a time.

/post_frequency [1-5]

How many times per day split evenly to post.

/health_check

Checks on the bot status by returning a message of "I'm Alive"

Current Issues

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

GNU GPLv3