Reynard is a multi-purpose discord bot, made out of frustration with the state of the discord bot ecosystem. Almost all bots nowadays lock critical features behind paid premium subscriptions, require you to vote on top.gg to unlock others, and/or get bought out (by botlabs/bluestacks, for example) and start doing shady things. So, I started working on my own bot, with the purpose of being the opposite of all that.
- Reynard is free and open source. No subscriptions, no required voting, and an open GPLv3 license.
- Reynard is developed by me, in my free time. Its features are based on what I, personally need. If you have a feature request, open an issue and tag it as such- or feel free to add it yourself and submit a PR.
- Reynard is not a pre-hosted bot. You won't find a discord bot link here- you need to host your own instance somewhere. I don't have the money to host a big instance, so if you want to use the bot you'll need to figure out that part yourself.
- Reynard is not an income stream for me. In fact by design there's no way for me to monetize it. It is a personal project that will be developed at my own lesiure, so don't expect it to be a massive kitchen-sink bot that covers all use cases. I also will not make any promises about support, use at your own risk etc.
This bot is made in Typescript using Nodejs, so you'll need nodejs and either npm or yarn or something similar. Clone the repo, run npm i or yarn or similar to install dependencies, then compile it with npx tsc and run with node dist/index.js. You'll also need to deploy the commands with node dist/deploycommands.js before the commands will work. The bot expects a data directory in the environment (DATA_DIR); it's set up to use a .env file for this, so putting that in the project root directory will work fine. On first run, it'll create 2 files (data.json and config.json) in that folder and then gracelessly crash (or you can create data.json manually; a template is in this repo). Put your discord bot token and application id in config.json as token and appid, then run the bot and it should work fine.
Currently, the only feature the bot has is a poll command, since adding features takes a lot of work. I'm adding more features, but it's nowhere near finished in its current state.
I plan to add reaction roles and an autoresponder (intended for use in forum channels), plus probably a logger if I get around to it. This isn't an exhaustive list, and I'll be adding to it as I need things. Work on reaction roles is underway, but needed a data handler before I could even think about implementing it.
No, it's unrelated. I had no idea it existed until after I'd chosen the name, and as of right now I don't have a better name to switch to. If that changes, I'll rename this to avoid the confusion. I named the bot 'Reynard' because the Reynard the Fox stories, in a somewhat roundabout way, contributed to my name.