CRBot is a Discord bot that you can teach to respond to user-defined
commands. CRBot is short for "Call and Response Bot". Commands are taught using
?learn <call> <response>, and can retrieve the response with ?call.
It works really well for media retrieval; the Discord unfurler will inline images, videos, etc.
This was initially a weekend project to see if my friends would like it. Now that they haven't banned the bot (or me), I'm in the process of turning this into something that's maintainable.
Jake: ?help
crbot: Type ?help for this message, ?list to list all commands, or
?help <command> to get help for a particular command.
Jake: ?learn bearshrug ʅʕ•ᴥ•ʔʃ
crbot: Learned about bearshrug
One of my friends: What's the weather tomorrow?
Jake: ?bearshrug
crbot: ʅʕ•ᴥ•ʔʃ
- Redis instance, standard port, no password, DB 0
- A bazel build, running at least 0.5.3
- Add
secret.jsonwith single key,bot_token
go run *.go
or
bazel run :crbot
You have to run this with a bot account. You can register a bot account for free at the Discord site. Take the bot ID that you are given, and visit https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id={$bot_id} in your browser, where {$bot_id} is replaced with the bot ID that you are given from the Discord developers site.
./update.sh will do some basic maintenance of the go modules and Bazel dependencies.
bazel run :go_default_test from working directory.
If your PR adds features, please add tests in system_test.go that cover your new use cases.
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