CountryBot

A Discord bot written in Python to manage Nation RP servers, where users can claim and play as their own custom countries.

Features

The following section outlines CountryBot's client-side and dev-side features.

Client-side

• Sets RP date
• Keeps track of in-RP time
• Posts date reminders in a specified channel every 24 hours
• Allows users to claim a country by sending a command to fill out a dialog
• Allows admins to keep track of claims with the click of a button

Dev-side

• Data storage with sqlite3
• Command line interface with Fire for easy interaction with the database
• (WIP) Feature testing with unittest

Installation

Ensure that you have Python >=3.10.x before setting up your virtual environment.

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/swmorrow/CountryBot.git
2. Set up your virtual environment
   1. Navigate into the CountryBot directory and create a virtual environment
      • On Linux/Mac: $ python3.10 -m venv .venv
      • On Windows: C:> py -m venv .venv
   2. Activate the virtual environment on your system
      • On Linux/Mac: $ source .venv/bin/activate
      • On Windows: C:> .\env\Scripts\activate
3. Install the required dependencies with pip
   • On Linux/Mac: $ pip install -r requirements.txt
     • if you do not have pip, do $ python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade
   • On Windows: C:> py -m pip install -r requirements.txt
     • if you do not have pip, do C:> py -m ensurepip --upgrade
4. Run the main.py file
   • On Windows: C:> py main.py
   • On Linux/Mac: $ python3 main.py

Roadmap

The following section is a rough outline for features to be added and a progress checker of current updates.

v0.2.x Updates

• "Flagify" command to convert user uploaded images to discord-style flag emojis
• Removed needs for member intents
• Fix CLI
• Help command
• Fix rpdate reposting when the bot turns off and on again bug
• Autorole users when approved
• Switch database to asyncio sqlite3
• Settings command
• Undo button for approvals/denials
• Add installation instructions to readme

V0.3.X Plans:

• Support expansion tracking
• Support map queue tracking

V0.4.X Plans:

• Country registration and tracking

Long Term

• Warfare