civ-bot-go

This a multipurpose Discord bot for various operations related to Civilization 5, written in Go.

Running Locally

Bot Setup

• make a discord application in the discord developer portal
• create a bot for you application and set permissions
• add the bot to your discord server
  • go to the "OAuth2" tab, select scope "bot", navigate to the URL that gets generated
• copy the bot token from the "Bot" tab and set the CIV_BOT_TOKEN environment variable

Application Setup

• make sure you have go installed by running go version, you should see some output like /usr/local/bin/go
• clone the repository
• cd into the root directory
• install dependencies with go get github.com/ecshreve/civ-bot-go
• run the application with make run
• now you can go to whatever channel you added the bot to in the previous section and interact with the bot, enter /civ help in the channel to see information about how to use the bot

References

Here's some links that I used as reference throughout the project:

repositories:

• discordgo
• discord-checkers

helpful golang links

• using go modules
• golang slice tricks

helpful tooling links

• hosting a discord bot on heroku
• automate deploys to heroku from github
• basic makefiles