deathvenom54 / discord-terminal

Use your linux terminal from Discord via a bot

Discord Terminal

💻 A Discord bot to conveniently use Discord as your remote terminal

😉 Why use SSH clients when you can use your favourite chat app as one?

Installation

1. Clone the repo and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/DeathVenom54/discord-terminal.git
cd discord-terminal

# with yarn:
yarn

# with npm:
npm install --save

2. Edit src/config.json with your bot token and allowed users

3. Run the bot using npm run start or yarn start

Configuration

src/confiig.json holds the needed information to get the bot running

token The token for your Discord bot. Obtain it from the Discord developer portal

How do I create a bot?

allowed This is an array containing the Discord ID's of the users who can run commands. The bot will ignore messages from others.

How do I find my Discord ID?

Why did I make this?

I make bots. A lot of them. A lot of times I need to quickly open up my SSH client to check on a bot using pm2. It's easy enough, but could be done faster...

Enter exec, the node.js package which lets you run shell commands from javascript. This idea struck me randomly and I had to make it real.

So well, here we are. Managing bots from Discord itself, how good is that!

discord-terminal's Issues

issue

its starts ins the /discord-terminal/ directory and i cant change it with "cd $home" without it crashing
i dont know many code languages but heres the terminal error.

home/learninglinux69420/discord-terminal/node_modules/discord.js/src/rest/RequestHandler.js:154
throw new DiscordAPIError(request.path, data, request.method, res.status);
^

DiscordAPIError: Cannot send an empty message
at RequestHandler.execute (/home/learninglinux69420/discord-terminal/node_modules/discord.js/src/rest/RequestHandler.js:154:13)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async RequestHandler.push (/home/learninglinux69420/discord-terminal/node_modules/discord.js/src/rest/RequestHandler.js:39:14) {
method: 'post',
path: '/channels/1105250700780392580/messages',
code: 50006,
httpStatus: 400
}

Node.js v18.12.1
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

How exactly does connection to linux ssh work?

Sorry, but I can't figure out where to place the ssh key for the bot to send commands to the right machine.