Citation Station

A Discord bot that will send a quote to your server every morning

In its current form Citation Station will send a random quote to the channel specified in the env variable. It is a task that runs every 60 minutes and only fires when the current hour matches the HOUR_TO_SEND variable.

Roadmap

• Add database
  • Support choosing channel
  • Set timezone and time to send
• /quote command to send a random quote
• Add more quote sources

Getting started

• Make sure python is installed
• Install poetry
• Run poetry install
• Create an application through the Discord developer portal and get yourself a token
  • Add this application (the bot) to your server. You need to make sure it has the Send messages permission
• Create an .env file based off .env.example and fill out the values
• Install the depenencies with your package manager of choice
• Run either python -m citation_station or poetry run python -m citation_station