/archive-scraper-discord-bot

Discord bot that scrapes chan archive sites for Discord invites and reposts them in your channel

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Ever wanted to take all the discord.gg invites posted on your favorite chan-like imageboard and dump them in a discord channel for easy viewing? Well now you caaaaaan (as long as it has an archive site)!

Installation

  • Get Node.js which can be downloaded from the Node.js website.
  • Create a Discord bot token at the Discord developers website.
  • Create a mongoDB database. Free 512MB databases are available at the MongoDB cloud website and are more than enough space.
  • Run in a cli npm_install
  • Copy or rename .env.defaults to .env
  • Fill in the variables for DISCORD_TOKEN, DISCORD_ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL_NAME, DISCORD_BOT_OWNER, DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, and DB_COLLECTION
    • Optionally, replace what archive site and board names you want the bot to look at.

Usage

Run npm start