devdanf / study-bot

Study Bot

Study Bot is a Discord bot that will help students find partners to study with. Students will be able to find other students looking for people to work with, then have a Discord channel created for them to work together.

Setup instructions

1. Create the Discord bot

First, we'll need to create a Discord bot and get a token for it. For this, we can follow the Discord.js guide found here.

2. Invite the bot to your server

Next, we'll need to invite the bot to our server. For this, we can follow the guide on the Discord.js website found here

3. Set up the config.json file

Next, we'll need to set up the config.json file. In the terminal, run the following commands:

cp example.config.json config.json

This created a copy of the example.config.json file. Now, we can open config.json in VS Code and replace the fields there with our values.

{
    "token": "",
    "clientId": "",
    "guildId": ""
}

There are three fields in the config.json file.

• The token field is the token from the Discord bot.
• The clientId field is the client ID from the Discord bot. This can be found by right-clicking on the bot, and clicking "Copy ID".
• The guildId field is the ID of the server that the bot is in. This can be found by right-clicking on the server, and clicking "Copy ID".

4. Run the bot

Now, we can run the bot. In the terminal, run the following command:

npm install

This will install all of the dependencies for the bot. Next, we'll need to deploy the slash commands to the server. In the terminal, run the following:

node deploy-commands.js

Now, we can run the bot:

node index.js

5. Stuff to try

Ping command

Try the ping tommand to make sure it works. Then, change the ping command to instead reply "Hello world!".

Learn some more advanced command creation techniques

Read the docs here and try some things out.