knniff/redditbot repository overview

⁠reddit-bot

A bot that sends new post from a specified subreddit into a channel that can be choosen in Discord.

⁠Installation and Usage

⁠Installation

• start the bot with the docker-compose.yml⁠

• set the environment variables

⁠The needed environment variables are

• TOKEN: this is the bot-token that you copy from the discord developer-portal
• CLIENTID: the id of the created bot, right-click on the bot in discord with developer mode enabled and then press "Copy ID"
• GUILDID: if you want your commands to only be valid on a specific server then copy the put the id here, right-click on the server in discord with developer mode enabled and then press "Copy ID", if not present then the commands will work everywhere
• DBCONNECT: the connection string for your mongodb instance

After that execute the deploy-commands.js⁠ script with node directly inside of the docker-container with "docker exec -it mycontainer node /usr/src/app/src/deploy-commands.js".

⁠Usage

• /subscribe subreddit: "" category: ""

  subscribes to the specified subreddit either with the category hot or new in this channel

• /unsubscribe subreddit: ""

  unsubscribes from the specified subreddit in this channel

• /list

  lists all subscriptions in this channel

⁠Requirements

• a standard mongodb instance
• run deploy-commands.js once
• a registered discord application