Hacks Bot
This is a discord bot for Foothill College's CS Club's Summer 2020 Hackathon 💬. It supports tracking projects, which are called "hacks".
Commands
The following are the commands that all users can use:
hacks list
List all the hacks.
hacks add "a short title" @user1 [@user2]
Ex. hacks add "A very cool project" @cooldude
Add a hack! Make sure to specify a description (quote with " if more than one word) and at least one user with an @mention.
hacks update X "description" [@user1]
Ex. hacks update 4 "A very cool project"
Ex. hacks update 12 "Not sure what this is.." @dude @coder
Update a hack. A new description is required, and an updated list of members is optional.
hacks remove X
Ex. hacks remove 6
Remove a hack. Tip: use hacks list to list all the hacks with their index.
hacks link X URL
Ex. hacks link 6 https://github.com/FoothillCSClub/hackbot
Add a project link to a hack. A URL is required.
hacks unlink X
Ex. hacks unlink 6
Remove a project link from a hack.
Admin
hacks send #channel
Ex. hacks send #announcements
Send the hackathon info message and the list of hacks into the specified channel. The last sent messages by this command are tracked and are automatically updated when someone modifies the list of hacks.
hacks delete #channel
Ex. hacks delete #announcements
Delete the last tracked info messages from a channel (sent by hacks send), if they exist.
Development
Install discord.py and tinydb through pip.
Set an environment variable DISCORD_API_KEY to your Discord bot API key, and then run the following:
python3 bot.pyOn UNIX systems, you can also run:
DISCORD_API_KEY="mykey" python3 bot.pyWarning: if you do this, then your API key will be in your shell command history!