https://github.com/kennethnym/programming-news-bot

A discord bot that aggregates programming news articles and blogs found on Reddit and Hacker News
https://github.com/kennethnym/programming-news-bot

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A discord bot that aggregates programming news articles and blogs found on Reddit and Hacker News

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kennethnym/programming-news-bot
• Owner: kennethnym
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-09-24T21:52:18.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-09-25T10:13:41.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T18:41:11.209Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: discord, discord-bot, discord-js, discordjs, nodejs, typescript
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 34.2 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# programming-news-bot

A discord bot that aggregates programming articles from Reddit

and hackernews, and post them on Discord.

### Adding this bot to your own server

0. Clone this repo and then run `yarn`

1. Create an application in [Discord application portal](https://discord.com/developers/applications).

2. Add a bot to your application

3. Create an environment variables DISCORD_API_SECRET and set the value

to the secret of the bot you just created

4. Give appropriate permissions to your bot

5. Invite your bot to your server by going to the link generated

6. In `src/constants.ts`, change `CHANNEL_ID` to the ID of the text channel

you want this bot to send links to. There are plenty of tutorials

on how to get the ID of a text channel.

7. To start locally, run `yarn start:dev`.