Help Post Mirror Bot [WIP]

A bot for mirroring all help posts in the Datapack Hub Discord server to the Datapack Hub website.

Use the -auto argument to automatically start an update and push process, then exit the program. After starting the program, you can use help in the console to get a list possible commands.

Development

For Highlighting and debugging, download the C# Dev Kit extension pack. No further setup of the environment is required.
Providing the bot token can be done in any of the following 3 ways:

• Create a file called bot_token in the secrets folder with the token inside.
• Provide the token or path to the token file as commandline argument directly. Only used if there is no bot_token file.
• If none of the above is done the bot will ask to input a token or path to the token file manually.

After the bot connects to the discord api, it will try to find a github auth token in a file called github_auth which also have to be in the secrets folder. If it doesn't find one, it asks to input the token manually. The github token is optional and only needed if generated data should be uploaded to a specific repository.

Testing:

For quick tests in between run

dotnet run [<token> | <path/to/token.txt>] [-auto]

Config:

A default bot.cfg is provided. All possible fields can be looked up in the AppConfig class.

Syntax:

• Field names have to match the AppConfig classes variable names to be recognised.
• Assigning a single value (=).
  • Needs to be on the same line.
• Assigning a list of values (:)
  • List entries need be listed below the variable name.
  • List entries need to start with at least 1 whitespace character.
  • If the entry is NOT the last entry, add , to the end
• Lines with with # as the first non-whitespace character are comments.

Building

To build an executable, .NET 8.0 has to be installed and run

dotnet publish

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.