By Erty

Keeps track of "points" in a discord server. What do the points do? Nothing! But this keeps track of them.

You can give points to users, send points between users, and take points away.

You can send the !help command in any server where Pointsbot is hanging out (or a DM) to get an up-to-date list of commands.

Download pointsbot using Git.

Run python3 create_db.py to create a new database file.

If you want, you can run python3 create_db.py --drop to optionally drop any existing database. (Don't run this in prod!)

You'll also need to create a file called token and put your Discord OAuth token in there as the only content (instructions for getting this token).

You'll also need to pip3 install discord if it's not already installed.

Run the program with python3 pointsbot.py

If you want to run this as a non-containerized daemon.

Put the files in /opt/pointsbot (or update the following accordingly!).

sys

Write:

[Unit]
Description=Pointsbot
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/pointsbot/pointsbot.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then sudo vim /etc/rsyslog.d/pointsbot.conf

Write:

if $programname == 'pointsbot' then /var/log/pointsbot.log
& stop

Then sudo touch /var/log/pointsbot.log

Then sudo chown syslog /var/log/pointsbot.log

Then sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Then sudo systemctl start pointsbot.service

You can then see logs with tail -f /var/log/pointsbot.log (or... maybe not? Not sure where the logs are going).

Future feature ideas:

• Allow a pointsbot instance to serve more than one server
• Allow fine-grained permissions (e.g. only certain users can grant points)
• Containerize