Barista-bot 🤖

Barista-bot is a Discord bot for the Code and Coffee Discord community. It guides new recruits through the onboarding process and makes it easy for them to join city-specific channels. For admins, Barista-bot automates the process of creating new city channels and sends notifications and reminders.

Features

• Onboarding process for new recruits
• City-specific channels
• Automated creation of new city channels for admins
• Notifications and reminders

Technologies Used

This project is written in Python using the discord.py framework.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• A Discord account and server
• Python 3.5.3 or higher
• discord.py

Installation

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the directory:

git clone https://github.com/CodeandCoffeeCommunity/Barista-bot.git
cd Barista-bot

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up the bot by following the Discord Developer Portal guide.

Copy the bot's token and paste it in a file called .env in the root directory of the project.

Run the bot:

python main.py

Deployment

You can deploy this project for free on Railway.app.

1. Create a new project and select Deploy from GitHub repo. Give Railway.app access to your newly created GitHub repo.
2. Go to the Variables tab and add the above mentioned variable.
3. Set the Start Command to python main.py.

Barista bot will now be running all the time.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project! If you have an idea for a new feature or have found a bug, please open an issue. If you'd like to contribute code, please create a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License see the LICENSE file for details.