Jerbot version 4 ("Reheated")

About

Jerbot is a generic, extensible, modular multi-purpose Discord bot. It primarily caters to the needs of the Binding of Isaac Discord server, but is used sparingly in Nuclear Throne, Linux Gaming and a few other servers.

Jerbot's flexible configuration system allows for hot-toggling of features (or subfeatures, barring some edge cases!) for every server it's deployed on. There are no global commands- everything is done on a server by server basis.

Running

[FOLLOW FIRST] Initial setup

git clone the repository, then

• Copy config.sample.yaml to config.yaml.
• Tweak the config.yaml to your liking. Make sure your bot's token is correct, and that, if you plan to use any submodules like Book of Secrets, make sure the folder is added to plugin_folders.
• In server_configs, copy server_config.sample.yaml to (guild id).yaml, where (guild id) is the ID of a guild you are going to deploy the bot in. Every guild the bot is in will need its own config.
• Tweak every planned server config to your liking.

Docker Compose (Highly Recommended)

If you haven't used Docker or Docker Compose before, you'll need to install it. I highly recommend checking it out- it makes running this stuff much easier!

• Optionally, uncomment the commented out plugins line in docker-compose.yml. This means that if the only changes in a commit are to plugins instead of the main bot, the plugins can simply be reloaded in place instead of requiring a container restart.
• Initialize the bot with docker compose up.

Docker

• Build the bot with docker build --tag jerbot.
• Then, run the bot. There's a few bind mounts you'll need to make.

docker run \
    -v "/full/path/to/your/config.yaml":/jerbot/config/yaml \
    -v "/full/path/to/your/server_configs":/jerbot/server_configs \
    -v "/full/path/to/your/db_folder":/jerbot/db \
    jerbot

Manually (Not recommended, unsupported)

A minimum of Python 3.10 is required. I have not tested the bot on any later versions.

These instructions are for Linux, but should work for macOS as well. I have not tested Windows, but the only difference should be the activating the virtualenv.

git clone the repository, then:

• (Optional, highly recommended) Create a virtualenv:

python3 -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

• Run the bot: python3 main.py