cs8898 / discord-standupbot

A generic daily standup bot for Discord

Discord Standup bot

This generic bot will allow you to enable asynchronous configurable standups in Discord. By initializing the bot in a channel participants will be able to enter their daily/weekly tasks in a web form which will be bundled on a public or private website and posted in the channel in a pinned message.

Current status

• Boilerplate bot code
• Basic models
• Creating new Daily Standup Channels
• Creating the Admin interface
• Allowing people to subscribe to the daily of a channel
• Support multiple standup types with different questions (configurable)
• Creating the web form on single use URLs
• Allowing people to submit their report
• Sending daily reminders
• Updating and pinning the aggregated daily
• Historical overview of standups on webpage
• Implementing a basic design
• Private mode (only participants get the standup URL)
• Local timezone support
• Read only participant support
• Support for reporting X hours after initial start of standup
• Support for browsing history in the browser
• Support for snoozing DM's for X days (vacation mode, !mute_until)
• Support for reminders when not filled

How to add the bot to your Discord server

• Create a Discord bot token on https://discordapp.com/developers
• Create a .env file and enter your Discord token: DISCORD_TOKEN=TOKENHERE
• Invite the bot to your server with this URL: https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?permissions=67497024&scope=bot&client_id=YOUR_BOTS_DISCORD_CLIENT_ID

Installation

• Create a .env file with DISCORD_TOKEN=TOKENHERE in it
• Tweak any settings in standup/settings.py to your needs
• Run the Django server (python manage.py runserver for a dev server, production deploy with gunicorn or uwsgi on demand)
• Run the python manage.py run_bot command in a seperate background process (supervisord)
• Run python manage.py createsuperuser to create a admin user
• Run python manage.py collectstatic to gather your static files for the website
• Go to the admin on /admin in your browser, log in and....
  • Update the Site in Sites to match your servers URL
  • Set up the first standup types with questions
• Start using the bot in Discord using the !newstandup and !addparticipant commands
• See all available commands by executing !standup, the bot will DM a overview