Iroha

A discord bot that searches for anime.

Made using the discord.py framework, and the AniList API

About

I use Discord often and occasionally I like to pull up information about an anime to display, I wrote this bot to make finding and displaying info on anime accessible right from Discord.

The bot uses the AniList API as the other APIs I found didn't give me the query results I was looking for. I would have use the MyAnimeList API however because firstly it required an Oauth2.0 flow that I felt was uncessary, and secondly because the API is in Beta I decided against using it.

Commands

This bot is currently under development but here are a few of the commands:

• search

Searches for anime given a query string, optionally you can specify what type of media you are looking for.

• seasonal

Sends the top seasonal anime for a given season and year. It defaults to the current season and year and 3 results displayed.

• info

Sends the info for an anime specified with the MAL id.

In the works:

• Random messages to spice things up!

Deployment

Docker

The project can be deployed by navigating to the root folder of the project and running the ./src/setup.py file to generate the .env file.

It can also be generated manually using the following format:

TOKEN="token"
DUMP_CHANNEL=123456
COMMAND_PREFIX="command_prefix"
ABOUT_ME="about_me"

From there the Docker Image can be created and run by running:

./scripts/dockerstart.sh iroha

Alternatively you can run the two following commands manually:

cd ./Iroha
sudo docker build -t iroha -f ./scripts/Dockerfile .
docker run -d \
  -it \
  --name iroha \
  --mount type=bind,source=$(pwd)/src/data,target=/home/bot/src/data,readonly \
  iroha