Weekly Challenge Judge

Introduction

A bot I wrote using discord.py to tally up entries in a Discord competition. The competitions are hosted by the server admins and moderators, and every week/month users submit an image in a specific channel. The entry with the most ❤ reacts at the end of the period wins the competition.

The bot downloads all images in the specified channel, saves them in ./images/dd-mm-YYYY/ and uploads all of those files to Google Drive.

Requirements

This bot was written in python3 using discord.py and numpy. I assume you already have python3 installed.

Installation Instructions

Step 1

Install Python 3:

On MacOS:

brew install python

On Linux:

sudo apt-get install python3.6

Step 2

Install discord.py:

python3 -m pip install -U discord.py

Step 3

Install numpy:

python3 -m pip install numpy -v

I added the -v flag so the installation process will show all steps due to numpy being a very large library (and way too overkill for our application).

Step 4

Install PyDrive and get your Google Drive API credentials.

Step 5

Install gspread, oauth2client, and get your Google Service Account Credentials.

Step 6

Get your discord API key:

Go to the discord developers page
Click on new app
Add an app name
Click create app
On the next page, click create a bot user
Under the Bot section, click click to reveal next to token to get your API key.
Save your API key in a file called discord_key.txt in the root directory of your project.

Step 7

To run your application, type the following in your terminal:

python3 weekly-challenge.py

Step 8

To use the bot in your discord server, change the specified fields in weekly-challenge.py to the channel you'd like. Then, run >count in your channel and the bot will PM the winning user return a nicely formatted list, looking like this:

Feel free to PM me on Discord at iggnore#0001 if you have any issues.

djbotha/weekly-challenge-bot