DiscordBot-FloridaMan

TechNewsBot is a Discord bot created for the BCIT Dev Hub by Lasekx95, which is a registered club at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

The purpose of the TechNewsBot is to scrape various websites to pull both the title and link and then post( a varying number ) of posts within a server.

DiscordBot-FloridaMan is a fork of the original repository to post florida man articles shared on r/FloridaMan. FloridaMan is a personal customization to suite my niche interest in Florida men.

These posts currently include:

• The title of the article
• A link to the article/page
• Articles from r/FloridaMan

Commands:

• "/floridaman": random article from the hot category
• "/floridaman help": to display options
• "/floridaman new": random article from the new category
• "/floridaman hottest/newest": hottest or newest article
• "/floridaman auto on/off": set auto posting of a new article in the channel (30 min. interval by default)

The technologies used are:

• JavaScript
• NodeJS
• Snoowrap
• DiscordJS
• Nodemon
• Dotenv
• ChatGPT

Minimum Permissions:

• Send Messages
• Embed Links

Minimum Scopes:

• bot
• applications.commands.permissions.update