swiftspiracy

A playful Discord bot that sends random praises and (occasionally) a conspiracy theory — and cleans up after itself.

Setup

Configuration

Create a .env file in the root of your project with the following keys:

• DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN: Your bot token from the Discord developer portal.

• DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID: The ID of the channel where the bot should send messages.

• SEND_MESSAGE_INTERVAL_MIN: Minimum interval between messages (as an integer).

• SEND_MESSAGE_INTERVAL_MAX: Maximum interval between messages (as an integer).

• SEND_MESSAGE_UNIT: Time unit for the interval. Acceptable values: "second", "seconds", "minute", "minutes", "millisecond", "milliseconds".

• DELETE_CONSPIRACY_DELAY: Time to wait before deleting a conspiracy message. Use Go duration format (eg "3s", "500ms", "1m").

• CONSPIRACY_PROBABILITY: Probability (from 0.0 to 1.0) that a conspiracy message is sent after a praise. Eg, 0.4 = 40% chance.

You can view the .env-sample as an example.

Notes

• The bot gracefully shuts down on CTRL+C.

If using nix

and if you are NOT using direnv At the project root directory, run: nix develop and you'll have a development shell with the go.mod specified version of Golang (1.23.4 as of writing) And if you're a chad, using direnv, you'll automatically load the environment when you cd into the project.

The flake also comes with pre commit hooks that will be run automatically when running nix flake check, it can also be extended to run arbitrary tests.