The UCC Netsoc discord bot has the following features:

• Provide events and announcements to the website.

• Provide daily updates on covid stats and vaccines.

• Provide upcoming events via a command.

• Shorten URLs using our internal URL shortener.

• Check if websites are up.

• And much more!

Why make a new Discord Bot?

When we decided to implement the features allowing the posting of events/announcements, we realised that the bot could no longer be server agnostic.

For that reason we decided to reimplement the bot with the ability be configured with servers/channels which require elevated permissions.

Running locally

1. Ensure you have both docker and docker-compose installed.

2. Ensure to clone this repo and the Netsoc dev-env.

3. In the dev-env, run ./start-discord-bot.sh /path/to/this-repo and follow the on screen prompts