wwselleck/it-could-be-trivia

A Discord (and possibly others) trivia bot

It Could Be Trivia

A chat trivia bot

Get Started

Right now, the only option for using this bot is by cloning it and hosting it yourself.

Dependencies

• Node >=8.0.0
• Yarn
• MongoDB (not necessarily on your own machine, but you'll need one somewhere)

Install

1. Go to https://discordapp.com/ and register an application
2. Note your bot application's client id, and copy into this URL: https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id=[YOUR_CLIENT_ID]&scope=bot to add the bot user into whatever server you want.
3. Go to the "bot" tab on your Discord application and copy the token.
4. git clone https://github.com/wwselleck/it-could-be-trivia.git - Clone this repo
5. yarn - Install dependencies
6. DISCORD_TOKEN=[YOUR_TOKEN] DB_URI=[YOUR_MONGO_URI] yarn start - Start the bot

Config

All config is passed into the program via environment variables. You can use a .env file to pass these variable in if you want.

DISCORD_TOKEN - The token for the discord bot user you want to connect the trivia bot to

DB_URI - URI to the MongoDB instance you want to connect to

LOG_LEVEL - info|debug|trace The log level you want for the logs

Usage

!t or !trivia - Ask for a trivia question

!t [c|cancel] - Cancel the currently active question

!t caq - Cancel the active question and reveal the answer

[any] - Any message received while there is an active question will be interpreted as an answer attempt

Development

todo