Please note: As Discord has had a native quotation feature for a long time now and this here implementation is no longer compatible with current versions of Python and its Discord library, this project is no longer being developed. Thank you to anyone who used or contributed to ParrotBot!
ParrotBot was a simple Discord bot solving a simple Discord problem: That it didn’t support quotation.
With ParrotBot, you can easily quote other messages, as long as they are in the same channel and weren’t posted too long ago.¹ Just send a message containing a greater-sign (>), followed by an excerpt from the message you want to quote – just like many people do anyways. Message IDs work, as well. ParrotBot will automatically find the most recent occurrence of this quote, display the according message in a box, and delete the text-only quote you sent (if you allow it to):
“But what if there are multiple similar messages from different users and it’s not the last one I want to quote,” I hear you ask? Well, in this case, you can just put the user name, nickname or user ID of the author in front of the greater-sign and clever little ParrotBot will only consider messages from that user.
In both of those cases, the bot will find an display the whole quoted message.
If you prefer it to show just the part of the message you gave to it, use two
greater-signs (>>).
Also see the help and info commands: Just type @ParrotBot info or
@ParrotBot help (replace @ParrotBot whatever other name you gave it).
You can also visit ParrotBot’s support Discord
if you need any help.
¹ To reduce server load, the number of messages searched is limited.
You don’t have to host ParrotBot yourself. There is a public instance of it being hosted for you – just click here and select “Invite”. You can also find the bot on bots.discord.pw.
To run ParrotBot on your own machine, you need Python 3.5 or higher and
discord.py v0.15.0 or higher.
ParrotBot also uses the modules asyncio, datetime, json, re, and
urllib2, but those should normally already be part of your Python
installation. You also need a Discord bot user and its API token
(see https://discordapp.com/developers for further information on that).
If you have all that, just clone this repository. Then you’re ready to go! Insert your bot’s client ID into this URL:
https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=YOUR_ID_HERE&scope=bot&permissions=8192
Open it, choose the server you want to add your bot to and click on “Authorize”.
Then the only thing left to do is to fire up parrotbot.py and quote away!
If you find a bug or want to suggest a new feature, feel free to create a new issue here on GitHub, I will look into it.
If you feel like contributing to the codebase itself, that is also appreciated! Just fork the project, make your changes and file a pull request that describes what you’ve done. Please try to write clean, understandable code and document it as described in Python’s docstring conventions.
Whatever you do: Please stay polite and friendly. We’re all doing this for fun. :wink:
Copyright (C) 2018 Martin W.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
LICENSE file or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for details.