Running the bot

Now that you've created the bot application on Discord, you need to run the bot.

Docker Container

Docker

Instantly deploy on a server using Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/ethorbit/discord_sticky-message-bot

mkdir ./sticky-bot

chown 6969 ./sticky-bot

6969 is the default UID the bot will run as, you can change it by rebuilding the image and passing --build-arg PUID=#

docker run -dit -e BOT_TOKEN="Your bot token" -e STICKY_COOLDOWN="20000" -v "$PWD/sticky-bot/:/botdb" --name sticky-bot ethorbit/discord_sticky-message-bot:latest

Manually

• Install node.js and git

• Run command:

  git clone "https://github.com/Ethorbit/Discord_Sticky-Message-Bot.git"

• Go into the directory Discord_Sticky-Message-Bot/

• Install the packages by running this command:

  npm install

• Create a file called .env, and add this to it:

  BOT_TOKEN="Your bot's token here"
  DB_PATH="Where you want the sqlite database to be saved"
  STICKY_COOLDOWN=20000
  

• Run command to start bot:

  node ./src/bot.js

  Wait a little and the bot should come online.

  If this is a server, you need to configure it so that this command runs when the system starts up.