This Discord bot is designed to enhance your Discord server's engagement by tracking popular messages based on reactions. It features functionality for highlighting trending messages.

• Trending Messages Highlighter: Monitors reactions on messages in specified channels to identify and promote trending content. Automatically updates or forwards these messages to a designated trending channel.
• Channel Purge for Testing: Automates the deletion of all messages in specified channels during test mode, useful for maintaining a clean environment.
• Reaction-Based Message Promotion: Tracks specific reactions and promotes messages based on reaction counts, ensuring popular content gets highlighted.
• Configurable Settings: Allows customization of tracked reactions, reaction thresholds, and target channels through environment variables and configuration files.

• Python 3.10 or newer
• discord-py library
• pandas library
• Poetry for dependency management

1. Clone the Repository: git clone <repository-url> Replace <repository-url> with the URL of the repository.

2. Install Dependencies: Ensure you have Poetry installed. If not, you can install it following the instructions on Poetry's documentation. Install the project dependencies with:

   poetry install
   

3. Setup Environment Variables: Create a .env file in the project root with the following entries:

   BOT_TOKEN=<Your_Bot_Token>
   TEST_CHANNEL_ID=<Your_Test_Channel_ID>
   TRENDING_CHANNEL_ID=<Your_Trending_Channel_ID>
   

   Replace placeholders with the actual values for your setup.

4. Configure Channels: Define the channels the bot should listen to by editing channel_whitelist.json in the project root directory:

   {
     "ChannelName": "ChannelID"
   }

   Add your specific channel names and IDs accordingly.

5. Run the Bot: Start the bot using Poetry:

   poetry run python main.py
   

• In test mode, the bot will automatically delete messages in specified channels if the TEST_MODE_DELETE environment variable is enabled.
• The bot will monitor messages in whitelisted channels for specific reactions to determine trending messages.
• Trending messages will be forwarded or updated in the designated trending channel.
• The bot can be configured to track different reactions and set thresholds for what constitutes a trending message.
• It is designed to run continuously and can be scheduled as a CRON job for regular execution.