This bot is a simple discord bot designed to take images from any channel on your discord server and publish them to a specified channel.
The bot was designed for the particular use case that you want to share content with a wider range of people on your discord server with a simple reply to the image in question.
This bot is designed to be run locally on your machine. There is no public service available.
- NodeJS
You may the latest version of Nodejs from the link here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
- Discord Application and Bot
Please refer to the latest information regarding building and deploying Discord bots from the discord developer portal: https://discord.com/developers/docs/getting-started
download the project files and install the dependencies using npm install
once all of the dependencies are installed, run npm start
Next nagivate to the config.js file and change the targetChannel variable name to the channel ID of the channel you would like to have the images posted to. channelIDs can be found by putting discord into developer mode and right clicking on any channel in the sidebar
In order to use the bot, select a message that contains an image and reply to the message with text starting with "post".
This text prompt can be configured using the config.js file by modifying the startKeyword variable. Any text supplied to the reply text after "post" will be included as text in the reposted message along with the image from the original post.