discord-role-bot

A really simple bot to manage roles on Discord based on reactions to messages.

Dependencies

The only dependency is Go. This has only been tested on Go 1.18.

Building

Clone the repository and build the project.

make

This should give you an executable in the top level folder called discord-role-bot.

Installing

The bot is by default installed to /usr/local/bin.

make install

Configuration

Copy configs/config.json.example to configs/config.json. If you plan on running this on a server as a service, it will look for configs in /etc/discord-role-bot/config.json as well, if it fails to find it in the configs folder.

cp configs/config.json.example configs/config.json

Go into Discord settings -> Advanced and turn on Developer Mode.

Then create a discord bot in the Discord Developer Portal. If you are unsure of how to do this, there are plenty of tutorials on how to create a bot with Discord.

You need to invite the bot to your server. It needs two permissions:

• Manage Roles
• Read Messages/View Channels

The permission integer should be 268436480.

Copy the token for your bot and paste it into discordToken in config.json.

{
  "discordToken": "your-token",
  ...
}

Then right click on your server in Discord and copy its ID, paste it into guildID in config.json.

{
  ...
  "guildID": "your-guild-id",
  ...
}

Next up write a message in a channel on your Discord server to use for reactions, then copy its ID and paste it into config.json.

{
  ...
  "roleConfig": {
    "your-message-id": {
  ...
}

Create a role on your Discord server that you want to be added when a user reacts to your message. Once you have created the role, copy its ID and paste it into config.json.

{
  ...
  "roleConfig": {
    "your-message-id": {
      "your-emoji": "your-role-id"
  ...
}

Finally, pick an emoji and paste it into config.json. This should be the actual emoji you want to use, for example 📢.

Running

Make sure you've built the bot and configured it, then run the executable.

./discord-role-bot

The bot doesn't fork into the background, it just runs and logs in the foreground and needs to be backgrounded if desired.

Logging

Logs get written to stdout. If you have issues, check the logs first.

Uninstalling

Use make to uninstall the bot.

make uninstall

FAQ

The bot has all the permissions but still can't add my role, how come? Make sure the bot's role is higher up in the role list than the users it will be modifying.

Reporting issues

I don't have a public issue tracker. My email is in the commit history, feel free to drop me an email if you have problems, I'm happy to help.

Thanks

Loosely based on Distortions81/M45-ReactBot.