What should I read? is a Discord Bot which randomly gives a book from a predefined list.
To add What should I read? to your discord server you have to accept the invite link.
To access the command overview send &help
in the cannel or as a direct message to the bot.
&help
Shows the command overview.&book <list>
Gives a random book from the<list>
. You can see available lists here.
times
The Times top 100 best novels.guardian
The Gurdians 100 best english novels.
- Add more lists
- Add categorys
To run the bot on your computer you first have to make a copy of the source code.
git clone https://github.com/citharus/What-should-I-read.git
For the bot to start you'll need a Discord Token. You get one if you create a Discord Application.
After creating the application navigate to the Bot
tab in the menu to the right an click on the Add Bot
button.
A conformation should pop up, you have to confirme it to proceed. After the conformation you are able to get the Discord Token.
Copy and paste the Discord Token in the TOKEN.txt
file. Make sure to remove the placeholder text.
To finally run the Bot open a console and type
for Windows
python3 pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 main.py
and for Linux
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py