infrequent/coa-replybot

#coa-replybot

This is a chatbot example based on the DiscordGo, PingPong Example Bot. This Bot will respond to

Hello

with

:wave: Welcome to the Government Service! How can I help you today?

and

I'd like to find information about paying rates, please!

with

Sure, here is the link you're after: http://govt.org.au/rates

## Build

This assumes you already have a working Go environment setup and that DiscordGo is correctly installed on your system.

go build

####Help with installing Go environment setup and DiscordGo

• Installing DiscordGO - https://github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo#installing
• Installing GoLang - https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu#install-package-golang
• Setting GOPATH example in "~/go": echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> ~/.bashrc

Usage

This example uses bot tokens for authentication only. While user/password is supported by DiscordGo, it is not recommended.

./coa-replybot --help
Usage of ./coa-replybot:
  -t string
        Bot Token

The below example shows how to start the bot

./coa-replybot -t YOUR_BOT_TOKEN

Creating a discord bot account and retrieving a token - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/wiki/Creating-a-discord-bot-&-getting-a-token

Attributions

• Airhorn - https://github.com/hammerandchisel/airhornbot
• DiscordGo - https://github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo
• DiscordGo Examples - https://github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo/tree/master/examples

Copyright and License

DiscordGo License - https://github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo/blob/master/LICENSE