PDBot is the official Discord bot for the Programmer's Den server. It provides many utilities for the management, moderation, and members of this server

• 1. ~$ PDBot
  • 1.1. Table of contents
  • 1.2. Dependencies and install instructions
  • 1.3. Bot config file
  • 1.4. Compiling and running bot
  • 1.5. Commands
  • 1.6. Latest major change
  • 1.7. Latest minor change
  • 1.8. To-do

Requirements (Debian)

apt install -y git build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev cmake libsqlite3-dev

concord

git clone "https://github.com/Cogmasters/concord.git"

cd concord/
make purge
make -j$(nproc) # or number of threads
make install

json-c

git clone "https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git"

cd json-c/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ../
make -j$(nproc) # or number of threads
make test
make install

Windows PDBot supports Microsoft Windows through compilation by Cygwin or Mingw64. Cygwin is recommended, and Mingw64 is currently untested.

Create a bot.config file in the root directory of the bot with the following contents:

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{
  "logging": {
    "level": "trace",
    "filename": "bot.log",
    "quiet": false, // change to true to disable logs in console
    "overwrite": false,
    "use_color": true,
    "http_dump": {
      "enable": true,
      "filename": "dump.json"
    }
  },
  "discord": {
    "token": "TOKEN", // place bot token here
    "default_prefix": {
      "enable": true,
      "prefix": "./" // bot prefix
    }
  }
}

git clone "https://github.com/programmers-den/PDBot.git"

cd PDBot/
# You must create bot.config and paste in your token as defined in section 1.2 before running.

make -j$(nproc) # or number of threads
./main

The prefix is ./

Slash command support

SQL database is now loaded at all times and is much more performant

• Add no-mic roles to users when they join a VC to access a hidden channel
• Implement blacklist words filter
• Add more information to stat command embed
• Add logs for channel events
• Add logs for role events
• Add logs for emoji events
• Add logs for moderation events