The corest of Discord bots

• !quotes: To get a dump of all available quotes, in JSON format.
• !quotes add <text>: To add a new quote to the bot. You can enclose the input in double quotes if you prefer, but it is not necessary. This command will return the quote ID.
• !quotes remove <id>: To remove an existing quote from the bot.

• !triggers: To get a dump of all current trigger words, in JSON format.
• !triggers add <text>: To add a new trigger word to the bot. You can enclose the input in double quotes if you prefer, but it is not necessary. This command will return the trigger ID.
• !triggers remove <id>: To remove an existing trigger from the bot.

• NodeJS
• Active Discord application with bot user capability, go here to register one
• Either an Azure Cosmos DB account, or the Azure Cosmos DB emulator
• Active Google Cloud account (for natural language APIs)
• Any Discord server to invite the bot to, for testing purposes

The bot uses Cosmos DB to manage its trigger words and messages. On startup, it creates a corebot database (if not created already) with two containers, quotes and triggers.

To debug the bot locally, you must set these environment variables:

• BOT_TOKEN (you can grab it from the Discord developer portal, in the Bot section of your application)
• COSMOS_ENDPOINT
• COSMOS_KEY
• NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED (only when using Azure Cosmos DB emulator; set to 0 if you have issues with the self-signed certificate from the emulator)
• GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (must point to a local JSON file containing your service account key, more info here https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/setup#auth)

Once configured, run:

$ npm i
$ npm start

You can invite the bot to your server with this link https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=<BOT_ID>. The bot ID can be retrieved from the Discord developer portal, in the Application section (it's called Application ID).