anujsreedharan / random_image_sender

Choose a random image in a folder and send it

RIS (Random Image Sender)

Choose a random image in a folder and send it.

You can get you own bot for differents reasons. For exemple, if you want to have your own image folder. However, you can use the already existing services.

The bot can be use for many services.

• Discord
• e-mail
• Twitter
• Messenger
• Web site
• Irc
• ...

Get our own bot

To get your own bot, follow these steps:

• download or clone this repository.
• copy the env.json.tpl file to env.json
• edit the env.json file
• replace <your_images_folder> by the relative folder path where your images are. Here I use the ./images/ folder
• put all your images that can be send in the images/ folder.
• follow steps for the service you want (see below)

Discord bot

• copy the secrets.json.tpl file to secrets.json
• edit the secrets.json file
• replace <your_discord_token> by your discord token
• save the file and quit
• start the bot with the command python3 discord_client.py

e-mail

• edit the env.json file
• in the email section, replace:
  • <your_smtp_server_address> by the address of your smtp server.
  • <port_of_smtp_server> by the port of your smtp server.
  • <sender_email_address> by the e-mail address of your sender client
  • <password_of_email_client> by the password of the client
• save the file and quit
• start the server with the commant python3 email_client.py

Web site

Bottle

• edit the env.json file
• in the bottle section, replace <host_the_server_run> by the hostname your server run
• replace <port_the_server_run> by rhe port your server use to run
• save the file and quit
• start the server with the commant python3 bottle_client.py