MarkBot for Discord

A Markov chain bot using markov-strings.

Setup

First, create a Discord bot application.

Windows

Requirements

• Node.js 8.0+ (Current)

Setup

1. Install Node.js 8.0 or newer.
2. Download this repository using git in a command prompt

   git clone https://github.com/charlocharlie/markov-discord.git
   

   or by just downloading and extracting the project zip from GitHub.
3. Open a command prompt in the markov-discord folder.

   # Install Windows build tools
   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
   # NPM install non-development packages
   npm install --production
   

4. Create a file called config.json in the project directory with the contents:

   {
     "prefix":"!mark",
     "game":"\"!mark help\" for help",
     "token":"k5NzE2NDg1MTIwMjc0ODQ0Nj.DSnXwg.ttNotARealToken5p3WfDoUxhiH"
   }
   

   Feel free to change the command prefix, game display. Add your bot token.
5. Run the bot:

   npm start
   

Debian Linux

Requirements

• Node.js 8.0+
• Python 2.7 (for erlpack)
• C++ build tools (for erlpack)

Download

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/charlocharlie/markov-discord.git
cd markov-discord

Configure

Create a file called config.json in the project directory with the contents:

{
  "prefix":"!mark",
  "game":"\"!mark help\" for help",
  "token":"k5NzE2NDg1MTIwMjc0ODQ0Nj.DSnXwg.ttNotARealToken5p3WfDoUxhiH"
}

Feel free to change the command prefix, game display. Add your bot token.

Install and Run

# Install Node.js if you haven't already
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash
nvm install node

# NPM install non-development packages
npm install --production

# If you run into build errors, install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install python -y
sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

# Start the program
npm start

Docker

Setup with source

1. Install Docker for your OS.
2. Download this repository using git in a command prompt

   git clone https://github.com/charlocharlie/markov-discord.git
   

   or by just downloading and extracting the project zip from GitHub.
3. Open a command prompt in the markov-discord folder and run this one-liner:

   docker run --rm -e TOKEN=YOUR.BOT.TOKEN -v config:/usr/src/markbot/config -it $(docker build -q .)
   # Be patient as the build output is suppressed
   

Setup with Docker Hub image

1. Install Docker for your OS.
2. Open a command prompts and run this one-liner:

   docker build https://github.com/charlocharlie/markov-discord.git 
   

Changelog

0.6.1

• Fix bot crashing on scheduled regen

0.6.0

• Added Docker deploy functionality.
• Moved config and database to ./config directory. Existing configs will be migrated.
• Config-less support via bot token located in an environment variable.
• Update dependencies.
• Change corpus regen time to 4 AM.

0.5.0

• Fixed bug where !mark help didn't work.
• Only admins can train.
• The bot responds when mentioned.
• The bot cannot mention @everyone.
• Added version number to help.
• Added !mark tts for a quieter TTS response.
• Readme overhaul.
• Simpler config loading.

0.4.0

• Huge refactor.
• Added !mark debug which sends debug info alongside the message.
• Converted the fetchMessages function to async/await (updating the requirement to Node.js 8).
• Updated module versions.
• Added faster unique-array-by-property function
• Added linting and linted the project.

0.3.0

• Added TTS support and random message attachments.
• Deleted messages no longer persist in the database longer than 24 hours.

0.2.0

• Updated training algorithm and data structure.

Thanks

Thanks to BotMaker-for-Discord which I used as a reference when during development.