The purpose of this bot is to tag users on their birthday. I couldn't find any bot where you give yourself the birthday date so I developed this one. If you need a bot where users add their own birthday using commands, there are already plenty of bots available.
First, you have to fill out the birthdays.json file with the user's ID and their birthday.
An example is provided in the repository.
Then, you have to run init.py to create the database from the json data.
Also, you have to create a .env file next to main.py with the following content:
DISCORD_CHANNEL="channel_to_post_in"
DISCORD_TOKEN="your_discord_token"To add the cronjob, run crontab -e and add the following line:
# Run every day at 10:00
0 10 * * * cd /path/where/you/cloned/discord-birthday-bot && /usr/bin/python3 /path/where/you/cloned/discord-birthday-bot/main.pyYou can check the list of existing cron jobs by running crontab -l on the terminal.
To update the database with birthdays, either you can edit with software such as SQLiteStudio or you can edit birthdays.json file and run init.py again.
Ensure that the date in birthdays.json are in format YYYY-MM-DD.