Mishnabot

Mishnabot is a Discord bot that posts a random mishnah sugye once per day (except on Shabbos). The bilingual Mishnah text was scraped from Sefaria.

Covenant

This software uses the MIT license, which you can read here.

This software was originally made for Shel Maala in order to enable the creation of the Queer Talmud. Alternative use cases, such as the study of the non-queer Talmud, are theoretically possible but not actively supported by the developers. Usage of this software to suppress the Queer Talmud is prohibited.

The user of this software may not be an individual or entity, or a representative, agent, affiliate, successor, attorney, or assign of an individual or entity, identified by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions ("BDS") movement on its website (https://bdsmovement.net/ and https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott) as a target for boycott. Source: The Hippocratic License

Requirements

A remote server
On your computer, git and Python 3.6 or newer
On the server, Python 3.6 or newer
Admin privileges on the target Discord server

Setup

1. Discord

Create a Discord bot.
Get the ID of the channel you want the bot to post to.
Get the OAuth2 client ID of the bot (you'll need this in order to add it to the channel).
Add the bot to the channel. (Replace the client ID with your bot's client ID)

2. Your remote server

Get Python running on your server. How to do this will vary depending on the webhost.
Make sure you can ftp and ssh into the server.

3. Your local computer

Clone this repo. The rest of this documentation assumes that you've cloned the repo to ~/mishnabot where ~ is your home directory.
Create a file named secrets.txt in the same directory as this file, formatted like this:

ssh_username=USERNAME
ssh_password=PASSWORD
ftp_username=USERNAME
ftp_password=PASSWORD
ftp=ftp.URL
hostname=URL
ssh_cwd=URL/PATH

USERNAME and PASSWORD are your login credentials.
URL is the server url, for example my_server.com
URL/PATH is the path to the directory where the Discord bot should be uploaded. The .htaccess file will be uploaded here and everything else will be uploaded to URL/PATH/public/.

Create a file named bot_secrets.txt in the same directory as this file, formatted like this:

token=BOT_TOKEN
channel=CHANNEL_ID

In a terminal:

cd ~/mishnabot
python3 ftp.py This will upload mishnabot to your server. On Windows, run py -3 ftp.py instead.
ssh USERNAME@SERVER
cd path/to/mishnabot
python3 -m pip install -e .
timedatectl to get the timezone of your server.
crontab -e
Add this line to the crontab file:

0 15 * * 0-5 python3 ~/PATH/run.py > ~/path/to/log.txt

Replace 15 (3:00 PM) with the correct time.

Replace PATH with the actual path on the server, for example ~/my_server.com/public/run.py

To exit nano, ctrl+x and y and enter
exit

Changelog

1.1.0

Removed launch.py
Removed get_log.py
Removed get_process.py
Removed ssh.py
Removed spur requirement
Refactored most of run.py so that it works via crontab

1.0.2

Fixed: run.py args --shomer and --logging aren't actually used.
Added arg --shabbos to run.py and Bot to set which day is Shabbos.

1.0.1

Minor changes

1.0.0

Added parameter shomer to Bot and run.py. If True, don't post on Shabbos
Added parameter logging to Bot and run.py If True, log messages
- Added logging to Bot
Moved ssh code to mishnabot.ssh.py
- Added get_log.py and get_process.py to check on the bot's status
Renamed ssh.py to launch.py
Explicitly set which files get uploaded via ftp.py

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