Automatically send groups of messages at certain times on Discord.
- Python 3.10+
- pm2 optional
- Node.js
- Discord
- Bot (or user) account
- Any channel that the account can message
Before doing anything you will need to create a configuration file using the
following format. By default this file should be called config.json, but you
may specify a different file name in the program's arguments.
[
{
"id": "my-daily-messages",
"channel": "1234567890",
"authorization": "Bot super-secret-login-token",
"prefix": "(This message is automated) ",
"delay": 5.0,
"timing": [
"12:00",
"16:00"
],
"actions": [
{
"repeat": 1,
"messages": [
"Hello there! This message will send once..."
]
},
{
"repeat": 5,
"messages": [
"But this message will be sent 5 times!"
]
},
{
"repeat": 1,
"messages": [
"Message 1...",
"Message 2...",
"Message 3...",
"Message 4...",
"Message 5!"
]
}
]
}
]Using this configuration the account will message the given channel each message
in the actions key in order, repeating them by the amount specified in the
repeat key. This process will start at a random time between 12:00 (12pm) and
16:00 (4pm).
The console will show something similar to the following.
C:\Autocord>py -m autocord config-test.json
[2022-02-25 12:16:04] [__main__] INFO: Started running instance 'my-daily-messages'...
[2022-02-25 12:18:27] [__main__] INFO: Waiting 1244.5 minutes before running the next instance.
If you are using the standard config.json file you may type the following.
py -m autocord
To use a different file, simply add the name of the file after the command like so:
py -m autocord another-config-file.json
pm2 is a process manager built with Node that can run Javascript and Python scripts among other applications. To install it and start the application you may run the following commands.
npm install pm2 -g
pm2 start pm2.yml- If you are using a Discord bot account you will need to prefix your account token with Bot for it to work, such as in the example.