sidcraftscode / rowing-bot

A discord bot built for the r/Rowing discord community that automatically sends the workout of the week in the #workout-of-the-week channel from a list of 52 workouts.

Rowing Bot

A discord bot built for the r/Rowing discord community that automatically sends the workout of the week in the #workout-of-the-week channel from a list of 52 workouts. It uses Python 3 and discord.py. It runs on GitHub actions weekly using a cron job.

Running the project locally

Prerequisites

python3

Installation

1. Install dependencies

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a .env file and add the discord token for your bot to it In the shell run:

touch .env

To .env add:

export DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN="your token here"

Then run in the shell

source .env

3. Open bot.py and change the name of the channel to the channel you want to send the messages to

channel_name = 'workout-of-the-week'

4. Run the python file

python main.py

Built with

• Python 3
• discord.py

Features

• Sends a workout each week to the workout-of-the-week channel
• Runs automatically on GitHub actions

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details