A simple discord bot dased on Discord.js v14

Working from a fork of the repo will allow to make changes to the repo under your own without disturbing anything in the real repo. Make changes like crazy.

Fork the repo

$ npm i

Get your own Environment variables for the services and APIs used.

Copy .env.sample to .env and replace the required values

$ cp .env.sample .env

• Add your Discord Bot Token Go to Settings > Bot under a new application and get the TOKEN from the page.

• Add Client ID Go to Settings under a new application and get the CLIENT_ID from the page.

• Add WebHook Data This guide shows you how to create a webhook for a specific channel, the bot listens for the welcome messages in the #welcome channel and #suggestions channel for instance. https://discordjs.guide/popular-topics/webhooks.html#creating-webhooks-through-server-settings

  For Example - If your webhook url looks like this -
  https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1234567891011121314/smTYeBU3JWkp4TTTODtEcJDCS2oTfvseAEKezTYvniassEkeMLBg9aKZX1igmxec7RDsES, the first part is the WEBHOOK_ID, and the second is the WEBHOOK_TOKEN.

  The current webhooks used are for -

  1. welcome messages - WEBHOOK_ID, WEBHOOK_TOKEN.
  2. suggestions - SUGGESTION_WEBHOOK_ID, SUGGESTION_WEBHOOK_TOKEN

• Mongo Connection URI MONGODB_URI - The URI for the local Mongo DB to connect to.

• Brainshop AI for the chatBot AI_KEY and B_ID from Brainshop

• News API NEWS_API_KEY from NewsAPI

Generate an invite URL under OAuth2 > URL Generator on the Discord Development portal and invite the bot to your respective server.

Start a auto refresing dev server -

$ npm run dev

Start the bot -

$ npm start