Author

This was created by Benjamin Thaw.

About

This bot can send messages to a user or in a channel whenever a command is executed.

Installation and Running the Bot

1. Make sure you have NodeJS installed.
2. Download this repository into a folder on your computer or VM.
3. Open terminal or command prompt, and change directories to the location of the folder (with cd).
4. Configure the bot under Initial Configuration
5. Start the bot with node bot.js.

Initial Configuration

1. Rename config-ex.json to `config.json.
2. Go to https://discordapp.com/developers/applications
3. Sign in, click "New Application", and enter a name.
4. Click "BOT" on the left menu, hit "Add Bot", and click "Yes, do it!".
5. Under "Token", click "Copy".
6. Replace TOKEN_GOES_HERE in config.json with the token that you copied.
7. Enter the ID of the channel to send the message in (see here to learn how to obtain channel IDs). Check out the Customize section to change what the bot does.

Customize

You can choose whether to send a message in a specified channel, send a DM to another user, or send a message in a channel AND send a DM whenever a command is used.

By default, the bot will only send a message in the channel specified by "channelId".

You can have none, one, or both options enabled. To enable/disable one or more options, see below.

Sending a message in a channel

To enable:

1. Open config.json.
2. Change the value of "sendToChannel" to true.
3. Change the value of "channelIId" to the channel ID (Note: not the channel name).

To disable:

1. Open config.json.
2. Change the value of "sendToChannel" to false.

Sending a DM to a user

To enable:

1. Open config.json.
2. Change the value of "dmToUser" to true.
3. Change the value of "userId" to the User ID (Note: not the user's name/tag).

To disable:

1. Open config.json.
2. Change the value of "dmToUser" to false.