Aayush2492 / Cal-Hob-bot

A discord bot that serves you Calvin and Hobbes comic strip from https://www.gocomics.com made as a task for Lambda's selection process.

Cal-Hob-bot

Description

A discord bot that serves you Calvin and Hobbes comic strip from Go Comics website.

Purpose of the project

1. Get an understanding of how discord bot works using discord API.
2. Understanding web-scraping and parsing a response HTML web page using python libraries like requests and BeautifulSoup.

Add the bot to your discord server

Use this link to add the bot to your server.

Running the bot on your device as server

Step 1

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Aayush-2492/Cal-Hob-bot.git

Step 2

Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

OR

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

depending upon the version of python you use.

Step 3

Add a .env file which contains the token to your bot stored under TOKEN key.

Run the main.py file and the bot is now active :)

Bot Commands

1. $help - Displays all the commands.
2. $calhob - Returns a strip from a random date.
3. $calhob_on <day> <month> <year> - Returns strip on that date if it exists(18/11/1985 - 31/12/1995).

LICENSE

The project is licensed under MIT LICENSE