Toram News Discord Bot

This Discord bot regularly fetches news from https://tw.toram.jp/information and sends it to the Discord channel.

Setup Discord Bot

Follow Setting up a bot application | discord.js Guide (discordjs.guide) to create your Discord bot.

Change Default Install Settings

Go to Discord Developer Portal — My Applications.

Click on your bot application and open the Installation page.

Select Guild Install.

Select the bot scope.

Select Embed Links, Send Messages permissions.

Invite Bot to Server

Invite bot to the server by visiting the install link.

Change Interactions Endpoint URL

Go to Discord Developer Portal — My Applications.

Click on your bot application and open the General Information page.

Configure your own interaction endpoint URL.

How to Run

Environment Variables

Rename .env.example to .env and fill in your own.

DB_PATH=./data/toram-news.db
DENO_SQLITE_PATH=./lib/libsqlite3.so
# DENO_SQLITE_PATH=./lib/sqlite3.dll
APPLICATION_ID=
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=
DISCORD_PUBLIC_KEY=

Start the Bot

Here we are using Caddy as the reverse proxy, you can also configure your own.

DOMAIN=<YOUR_DOMAIN> docker compose up -d

Subscribe to Toram News

Use /subscribe command in the channel.

References

• Deno Docs
• Discord API Reference
• Discord REST API
• Croner - Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript
• Deno SQLite3
• Welcome to Cheerio! | cheerio
• discord-interactions
• html-to-text
• image-size