zpalmtree / the-professor

Applies opt in roles on a discord server

the-professor

Simple as hell bot which simply applies any roles specified in the config with the chosen prefix.

Ensure your bot user has higher perms than the roles you are trying to apply.

Prerequisites

• yarn

Setup

• Go here to make a bot.

• Give your bot a name, and then click Create Application.

• Scroll down to Create a Bot User and click that.

• Note down the Client ID for later.

• Now you can get your bot token by clicking click to reveal in the bot user section.

• Copy the file src/config.ts.example to src/config.ts (cp src/config.ts.example src/config.ts)

• Enter your token in config.ts.

• Don't reveal this token to anyone!

• Next you need to get the Channel ID you want the bot to run in.

• In Discord, follow these steps-

  1. Click on User Settings(small gear icon to right of name in the bottom left)

  2. Click on Appearance

  3. Enable Developer Mode.

• Edit this link, replacing the string of numbers after client_id= with the Client ID you noted down earlier. https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=498258111572738048&scope=bot&permissions=268437568

• Open said link and choose the server you wish to add the bot to. You must have Manage Server permissions.

Configuration

Copy src/config.ts.example to src/config.tx and modify.

Installation

yarn install

Running

node -r ts-node/register -r tsconfig-paths/register src/index.ts