LalitNM / STACBot

This is for one of bot I am making for a discord server.

STACBot

A bot for STAC's Discord server. It can do the following :

1. @STACBot help: replies with this help message.
2. @STACBot ping: Measure the delay for the bot to receive messages.
3. @STACBot react [n:int,1+]: Reacts to nth message in history with '🤩', '🔥', '👍', '💯'. Default value of n is 1.
4. @STACBot poll <n:int,1+>: starts a poll by reacting to n last messages with '👍' and '👎'.
5. @STACBot events [month:1..12] [year:2002+]: Get a list of astronomical events happening this month, or in the past
6. @STACBot (image|photo) [k:int,0+] : Display an astronomy-related photo of the day (for today, or k days ago); or;
   @STACBot (image|photo) search <subject> [ show <n:1..10> ] Display upto n (default 1) images of an astronomical object.

This bot automatically reacts with '🤩', '🔥', '👍', '💯' to attached images and if there is a link in a message. It also posts the upcoming events on the first day of each month in the dedicated channel. A limited number of recent messages are also cached in RAM to make it faster and avoid unnecessary network requests.

Steps to start using this

1. Make a discord bot using https://discord.com/developers.
2. Clone this repository.
3. make virtual environment by using python3 -m virtualenv venv in this directory.
4. activate venv using source venv/bin/activate. You are now in your virtual environment.
5. Install requirements using pip3 install -r requierments.txt.
6. Export all the required environment variables or save them to a .env file at the repo root.
7. Run the bot using python3 bot.py.
8. Hurrey! 🥳 Your bot is working. Send a help message to your bot, like @MY_BOT_NAME help.

Sources

• Astronomical event data is sourced from the calendars at skymaps.com/articles.
• Photographs displayed are from Astrobin's API. This bot is not endorsed or certified by AstroBin.
• Details of the exact article/photo are mentioned in the messages.