This bot is indented to be used as a newsletter for certain channels. You can subscribe to channels and when a new message is sent to the channel you will be notified with a DM from the bot. For that, you have to enable private DMs from strainers.
/subscribe [channel]Subscribes you to a newsletter of a channel and notifies you when a new message appears in a given channel with a DM/unsubscribe [channel]Unsubscribes you from a newsletter for a given channel/listLists all your subscribed newsletters
For the bot to function you have to enable DMs from strangers, as the bot will try to send you the newsletter per DM.
To do that you have to open the server privacy settings and then turn on Direct Messages.
You can also enable Allow direct messages from server members in the account settings.
But this is not encouraged, as this would allow anyone on every server to DM you.
If you don't want others to send you messages you could also add the bot to a "private" server, where only you and the bot are located.
Then you can enable Direct Messages in the server privacy settings for that server.
- xmake
To compile the project make sure you have xmake installed.
Then clone the repository, cd into the repository, and execute xmake build.
Make sure you have a token for your bot.
Add the Token as the environment variable BOT_TOKEN.
You can compile and install the bot in a container. The image automatically pulls all needed dependencies and compiles the project for you in the container, no need to install dependencies and compiling. It is as simple as cloning the repository, building the image and then running the image.
git clone https://github.com/mobergmann/pingme.git
podman build -t pingme_b .
podman run -e BOT_TOKEN="<token>" -d --name pingme pingme_b
git clone https://github.com/mobergmann/pingme.git
docker build -t pingme_b .
docker run -e BOT_TOKEN="<token>" -d --name pingme pingme_b
You need to have the new docker build tool docker-buildx installed.
Make sure to replace <token> with your bot token.