This is a rewrite in Go of my old Discord bot, which was written in Java. I wrote the old version in 11th grade together with @Yurifag based on a series of Youtube tutorials by @zekroTJA. After some time it turned into an unmaintainable mess and I took it offline. This time I try to avoid that.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Bendodroid/BendoBot.git && cd BendoBot
# Compile
go build
# Run
./BendoBot

To work, the bot needs a config.json in your current working directory. An example is provided in this repo. You need your own Discord API token which you can get via the Discord Developer Portal.

Currently there's no Docker image available via Docker Hub or the like, so you need to build one yourself:

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Bendodroid/BendoBot.git && cd BendoBot
# Build the Docker image and name it bendobot
docker image build -t bendobot .

In this step you create a Docker volume with a configuration file inside it. This volume will then be mounted inside the Docker container. This way we can easily use a configuration file inside a Docker container.

First create the Docker volume:

# Create a Docker volume named BendoBotData.
docker volume create BendoBotData

Get the mountpoint of the Docker volume:

docker volume inspect BendoBotData | grep Mountpoint

This command should give you the path of the mountpoint.

Now create a config.json as described above and move it into the Docker volume using the mountpoint you just obtained.

Here's an example of how that can be done:

# Copy the example config.json (config.example.json) to config.json
cp config.example.json config.json
# Edit the config.json to replace the placeholder values
vim config.json
# Move the config.json into the Docker volume
mv config.json /path/of/Docker/volume/mountpoint

Now you can easily run the Bot by using the following command:

docker run -d --rm --name BendoBot --mount source=BendoBotData,target=/app/config_volume bendobot

You can get BendoBots output using this command:

docker container logs BendoBot

And you can stop the container and bot using this command:

docker container stop BendoBot

Will be chosen when version 0.1 is released.