get-a-watch-bot

A bot designed to get around pesky timezones and timestamps for Discord.

As Discord denied this bot, there is the option to self host it.

I recommend pm2 if you're self hosting it, but be sure to set the system clock as UTC on your host machine. To get started:

Run npm i in the main directory
cp .env.example .env
Create a developer application on discord
Go to the OAuth2 section > General. Set Default authorization to in-app. Give it the scopes of Bot and applications.commands, and the permissions of Send Messages, Embed Files, Embed Links, and Use Slash Commands
Copy the Client ID on the same page to the .env file
Go to the bot section and add a bot with any username and icon
Press "reset token", copy it, and add it to the .env file.
Run npx tsc to compile into JS
node dist/deploy-commands.js will add the commands to the bot
pm2 start node/index.js will start the bot.

/timezone - Sets your timezone in the database for others to view & for default timezones when creating a timestamp
- timezone - Sets your timezone based on the autofill options
/time - View other users’ times (one parameter required)
- time - View your own time
- @user - View another user’s time (if they have set it)
/timestamp - Create a timestamp for a message (time, date, and format are required)
- time: The time of the message (in 24-hour or 12-hour format)
- date: The date of the message (01-31)
- format: The format of the timestamp (see below)
- month: The month (default is current month)
- year: The year (default is current year)
- timezone: A specified timezone you would like the timestamp converted in (default is your set timezone)
- public: Ephemeral or not, useful for creating timestamps without others seeing it