librarian-bot

A simple Discord bot for book club.

Setup

1. If you haven't already, install git, Node.js, npm, and g++ (GCC with C++ support) using your preferred package and/or version manager(s)
2. Follow a tutorial ilke this one to create a Discord "application" and a corresponding bot, generate a secret token for it (used below), and add it to your server
3. git clone https://github.com/Brinsky/librarian-bot
4. cd librarian-bot
5. cp data/config-sample.json data/config.json
6. Edit data/config.json and set the token property to your bot's token
7. npm install
8. npx tsc (compile the TypeScript source code)
9. Start the server: node build/index.js
   • You may prefer to run this in a detached session using e.g. screen or tmux