🤖 ElihuBot

This is a simple bot that listens to the RSS feed of your choice and posts an update into a selected discord channel.

📝 Prerequisites

Install Node.js and npm.

• Please find the installation instructions for your respective environment here.

🚀 Getting Started

Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

📋 Step 1

• Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.

📋 Step 2

• Open a terminal and run the following git command:

git clone "url you just copied"

• where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project).

📋 Step 3

• Run the following commands in the terminal to install all the required dependencies.

cd ElihuBot
npm install

📋 Step 4

• Create a new file called .env in the root of the project.
• Add the following environment variables to the .env file.

DISCORD_TOKEN=YOUR_DISCORD_TOKEN
GUILD_ID=YOUR_GUILD_ID
GUILD_CHANNEL_ID=YOUR_GUILD_CHANNEL_ID

Setup Discord Bot

• Create a new application in the Discord Developer Portal.
• Go to the bot tab and create a new bot. Also select all the privileged gateway intents for the bot.
• Copy the bot token and paste it in the .env file in the DISCORD_TOKEN field.
• Go to the OAuth2 tab and select bot in the scopes section.
• Select the permissions you want to give to the bot. Here we have selected Send Messages and Manage Messages.
• Copy the generated link and paste it in your browser to add the bot to your server.
• Then enable the Developer Mode in the Discord settings to be able to copy ids, by going to User Settings > Appearance > Advanced > Developer Mode.
• Right click on the server icon and select Copy ID to copy the GUILD_ID and right click on the channel you want to post the updates in and select Copy ID to copy the GUILD_CHANNEL_ID and paste them in the .env file.

📦 Running the bot

• Run the following command in the terminal to start the bot.

npm start

• You should see the following message in the terminal.

Logged into Discord as Elihu's RSS Bot
Listening for RSS Updates!

📖 Contributing

We love contributions from everyone. Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📃 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.