akordo

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Akordo

A Discord chat bot written by the members of the Technonauts chat group.

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Using the Bot:

1. Setup your Discord application
2. Invite your bot to your server
3. Download the source code git pull git.sr.ht/~jrswab/akordo
4. Build the binary: go build
5. Run the binary: ./akordo -t <your bot token here>

• You may omit -t if using the BOT_TOKEN environment variable

Currently required environment variables:

• BOT_OWNER
• BOT_ID
• GIPHY_KEY (only if using the gif command)

Running Akordo as a Service with Systemd

1. Make sure the binary and data directory is in /user/local/bin/akordo
2. Create the service shown below in /etc/systemd/system named akordo.service
3. Enable startup on boot systemctl enable akordo.service
4. Start the bot: systemctl start akordo.service

[Unit]
Description=Akordo Service
ConditionPathExists=/usr/local/bin/akordo/akordo
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple

Environment="BOT_TOKEN=xxxxx"
Environment="BOT_ID=xxxxx"
Environment="BOT_OWNER=xxxxx"
Environment="GIPHY_KEY=xxxxx"

WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/bin/akordo/
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/akordo/akordo

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

StandardOutput=syslog

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