roythearsonist / discord-bot-client

Use your Bot User as a Normal User

Discord Bot Client

Discord's client is great, but doesn't allow you to control a Bot User account.

About

What this will let you do

With this application, you will be able to fully control your Bot User account, like sending people a DM.

Disclaimer

This application is very Bare-Bones, and is not close to being complete, It is currently more of a "Proof of Concept". I will keep working on this with more improvements and features to try to let this application run as close to the native Discord client as I can get.

Recent Changes

• Converted everything from Discordie to Discord.JS

Long-Term Plans

My end goal with this project is to create a client very similar to the native Discord client as I can. There are a few minor things I can not currently add to the app, such as the Audit Log. This app runs with Discordie as a base, and that framework does not yet support the Audit Log. I would also like to allow this app to have plugins so it can run bot commands as a Self-Bot would, but, because it is built into the program, it will run much quicker.

Current Feature List

• Get a direct message list^1,2
• Send and receive direct messages
• Notifications on a new message
• Add a user by ID or tag

¹Discord itself does not store a direct message list for Bot Users, and so it will not show up

²In Kio's push, the bot automatically loads the DMs of the owners of servers.

Immediate To-Do List

• Ability to/to show Edit/Delete messages
• Ability to show/send Images
• Ability to show/send Attachments
• Ability to infinitely scroll up to see past messages

Known Issues

• You have to click on a certain part of the Direct Message in the list to mark it as read.
• There are no real error messages to let you know what is going on
• The visual design is bad * Past messages will not load, I'm not sure what is causing this and whether it's a limitation with Discord.JS or a mistake I'm making Fixed!

What I Will Never Add

• Video Calling
  • Video calling requires the ability to call in a Direct Message, and bots can't call in a direct message

Installation

Currently there is no compiled version of this app, and so you need Node.JS to be installed in order to run this.

1. Download this Git and extract it into a folder
2. Create a text file called token.txt and type your Bot User's token in the file
3. Open your Terminal/Command Prompt then use cd to open the directory of your folder
4. Type npm install to install the required Node Modules for this application
5. Type npm start to start up the Application

Usage

To open a new DM Get the recipient's Discord ID or Username (a discriminator would help to make sure you select the correct person, but is not required) and enter it in the text box at the top left, then click "add"

To Send a message Click on the recipient's name in the list to the left, type your message in the text box at the bottom, then click your "enter"/"return" key