russellelliott / QOTD-Manager

Manages all the "Question of the Day" questions for the Headstarter Discord server

QOTD-Manager

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArlLAq56Mo

Intended Purpose

This program was intended to serve as a means of managing the questions on Headstarters QOTD Bot in these ways:

1. Maintain a list of questions in questions.txt, with the question number cooresponding to the line number in the file.
2. Add a list of questions from input.txt to the questions list.
3. Using the requests library, post the questions to the server

.env

This program contains an .env file which contains the following

• ID: Channel ID of a given Discord server. This can be found by right-clicking a channel in Discord and slecting "copy ID" (note that you must have "Developer Mode" enabled to do so. This can be found in Discord settings.)
  • Put in the .env file (hidden via the .gitignore file) for the sake of privacy.
• AUTHORITY: Authorization tag. Go to discord on desktop, click f12, go to request headers -> authorization. This appears to work for any channel from what I can tell.
  • Also put in the .env file, although this varaible works for all servers.

Why It Doesn't Work As Intended

This program doesn't suit its intended purpose, as it posts the commands as a message, rather than it being sent to the bot itself. The program doesn't connect to the bot directly, and I thought that simply posting the command as a message would be interpreted as a command. It does not.

Code from Tutorial Video (with aforementioned .env varaibles added): https://github.com/russellelliott/QOTD-Manager/tree/45458d5f91f740a98ccde660f7bdd27cfe52bee4