stollenaar / copypastabot

simple bot that takes high upvoted post on copy pasta subreddits and posts them in discord

CopyPastaBot

This discord bot allows to browse reddit, post reddit posts and play a text-to-speach stream from a reddit post.

Requirements

• Docker should be installed.
  1. If not Download and install Docker. The Community Edition should work just fine.
• At this moment a Google Service Account is required for the text-to-speach functionality.
  1. Follow the steps here for the quickstart only.
  2. Once you have downloaded the access keys of the service account rename it to discordtts.json and place it in the src folder.
• A reddit account and app project is needed
  1. To register to reddit.
  2. To create an app project.

Installation

1. Once all the requirements are met run docker create -v /var/lib/mysql --name copypasta mysql.
2. Navigate to where you want to keep this repo and clone it.
3. Run ./startCopy.sh.
   • The first time running will create an error since the bot isn't configured yet.
4. Future running can be done with docker container start copypastabot or ./startCopy.sh. Starting it the latter way will try and use the latest version

Configuration

At this moment this is a very tedious process and will be improved. There are two ways to do it, trough attaching to the docker container or running commands inside it. Both ways need the container to be running.

Attaching to the container

1. In the terminal run docker attach copypastabot.
2. The config can be edited/viewed by typing config set/view <field> <value> where the value field is only needed when you are setting the value of a field.
3. Exit the container by using cmd+P + cmd+Q or Ctrl+P + Ctrl+Q.

Running commands inside the container

1. In the terminal run docker exec -it copypastabot sh
2. Type mysql
3. Type connect COPY_DB
4. To edit the config values you now have to use SQL update statements like UPDATE config SET <field>=<value>, <field2>=<value2>, .... ;
5. Exit the container by using cmd+P + Q or Ctr+P + Q.

Fields

• AuthThkn Auth token for the discord bot. (String)
• Debug Boolean value if you need to test something in a private server. (Boolean)
• DebugServer private server ID for testing. (Integer)
• IntervalTimeInSeconds amount of time for when the bot checks the top posts of /r/copypasta. (Integer)
• User_agent name of the bot in the reddit api. (String)
• Client_Id ID of the bot in the reddit api. (String)
• Client_Secret secret of the bot in the reddit api. (String)
• Username username of a reddit account. (String)
• Password password of a reddit account. (String)
• MinUpvotes minimum upvotes a post needs to be seen in the interval time. (Integer)
• PostLimit amount of posts it posts every interval. (Integer)
• MessageLimit character limit for discord. (Integer)
• PageSize page size for the list command. (Integer)
• LogOffMessages logg off messages for when the bot stops working (not working at the moment) (Array of strings)