Luabot for Discord

Helpful chat minion build with Lua.

Luabot uses the Discordia Discord library on top of Luvit. See their wiki for help getting the environment set up. Luabot uses the coro-fs replacement for Luvit's builtin fs lib.

Luabot uses LPEG for the text parsing. It's baked in with Luvit and not an additional dependency.

Notable features include:

• Can match multiple commands in 1 message
• Commands can take variable amount of user mentions or queries
• Handy utilities to dynamically load comamnds and create new patterns

Install Instructions

1. Set up your bot on Discord

See Discordia Wiki for instructions

2. Get Luvit/Lit

See Luvit's Instructions

3. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/ryanford-frontend/luabot-discord.git

4. Install Discordia

cd into the project root and run lit install SinisterRectus/discordia

5. Install dependencies

lit install creationix/coro-fs

6. Create a config.lua with your bot token

local config = {
   token = 'Bot YOUR_TOKEN_HERE',
}
   
return config

7. Start the bot

luvit bot.lua

8. You're done! 🎉