hyena / book-of-stars

A discord bot for saving and replaying funny messages from users.

Book of Stars (WIP)

A discord bot to save quotes from your favorite servers and play them back.

Usage

1. cargo install diesel
2. diesel migrations run to make an empty sqlite database
3. Copy sample.env to .env
4. Fill in your discord token and guild id in .env
5. Compile and run the bot
6. Use the star emoji reaction to tag messages as quoths in your server
7. Use !quoth in discord to get a random quoth and !quoth <username> to get one from a particular user (checks discord id then nicknames)

The star emoji is a constant in the src file and can be changed.

Known Issues

• Currently the bot only works with one server at a time. The data model needs tweaking to support more.

TODO

• Write a basic data model
• Write code to add quoths and query them
• Write bot to record quoths using reactions
• Add bot functionality to query and return quoths
• Write utility to load legacy quoths from slack
• Write utility to retrieve pinned messages as quoths (Do them via message id) (do this via message snowflake ids instead)
• Functionality to pick your own emojis via .env
• Functionality to save quoth via message id
• Functionality to delete bad or buggy quoths

History

This bot is a re-implementation of my original quoth bot for slack. That was implemented in Go and used Mongo (ick) for storage. Now we use Rust, a relational database, and connect to Discord. The world is better.