PositivityBot

Set timers and schedule tasks to keep yourself organized.
Get access to help hotlines.
Record your mood and track it on your profile.
See photos of the cutest dogs and cats available on the Internet.
Look at good news that makes you smile.

Inspiration

During the pandemic, we noticed that uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 had a negative effect on people's mental health. We wanted to create a project that could help people restore their lives to how they were before the pandemic. Inspired by the capabilities of other Discord bots, we looked to Discord, a virtual platform that many school clubs and classes had been using to adjust to online learning. This technology would be able to achieve our goals and reach the audience that needs it the most.

What it does

Our Discord bot keeps server members organized and in check with their mental health. Commands allows users to:

Quickly access a list of helplines
Set timers and add new ones
Check your personal schedule and add new events
Log your mood
Monitor your Discord usage and average recent mood
See a motivational quote
See cute pet photos
Read jokes
Read some good news
See food pictures
See memes

How we built it

The bot was coded in Python. We used the following libraries:

os
discord
dotenv
random
requests
json
BeautifulSoup
time
datetime

As well, we used the following APIs:

Reddit API (https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-use-the-reddit-api-in-python-5e05ddfd1e5c)
Dog API (https://dog.ceo/dog-api/)
Cat API (https://thecatapi.com/)
ZenQuotes Premium (https://premium.zenquotes.io/zenquotes-documentation/)

We also used the following source for the list of hotlines:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/opp/if-you-want-to-talk-to-someone-here-s-a-list-of-resources-that-might-help-1.4603730

Challenges we ran into

The Discord and Reddit APIs were very challenging to use at first because none of us had experience with them before. We had to spend hours reading the documentation and experimenting with it before we could use them effectively in our project. As well, we had issues using time in functions like timer and schedule. This also took a while for us to get used to.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud that we were able to create a functional Discord bot with various features in just over a day. We’re also glad we were able to divide tasks and communicate well to efficiently complete our project.

What we learned

We learned the basics of creating a Discord bot and working with APIs.

What's next for Positivity Bot

We hope to implement more commands and improve the functionality and user-friendliness of our current ones, as well as improve the structure of our code.