Meeting Attendance Discord Bot

This is a simple discord bot that automates an operational process for the SourceCred community. It may be useful for other communities.

It posts a meeting summary message that auto-updates a list of participants as people join a designated voice channel in discord.

Usage

!meeting --duration 60 [optional parameters]
[content]

Required Parameter:

• --duration 60 is for choosing how many minutes the bot should watch for participants. Any integer between 1 and 120 is accepted.
  • While the meeting is being watched by the bot, the original command-user can edit the duration by simply editing the parameter in the original command that they sent.

Optional Parameters:

• --channel voice-channel-name is for selecting which voice channel to watch. A partial name will be matched to the first channel that matches. Defaults to the one you are already in.
• --outputchannel meeting-notes-channel is for selecting which channel the bot should send the output to. A partial name will be matched to the first channel that matches. Defaults to the channel where the command is used.

Parameters are case-insensitive and must be included in the first line.

Content:

• All lines after the first line will be included as is in the output, including mentions and styling.
  • While the meeting is being watched by the bot and for 30 minutes after, the original command-user can edit the content by simply editing it in the original command that they sent.

Example

!meeting --duration 59 --channel general --outputchannel notes
Hosts: @Garnet @everyone Amethyst
Fancypants: also @Garnet
Notes: https://www.github.com

will first output something like:

Hosts: @Garnet @everyone Amethyst
Fancypants: also @Garnet
Notes: https://www.github.com
Participants: (watching) @Pearl

In this example, @Pearl was already in the General-Voice channel, which matched to the partial name general. When another user joins the channel, the bot will update the last line:

Participants: (watching) @Pearl @Garnet

When 59 minutes pass, the code thread will finish and the output message will finalize as:

Hosts: @Garnet @everyone Amethyst
Fancypants: also @Garnet
Notes: https://www.github.com
Participants: @Pearl @Garnet

Admin Edit/Append Feature

Sometimes the bot crashes. Sometimes you forgot to add a piece of info and the edits expiration has passed. Users with the configured admin role can use the edit/append commands as a last resort. Using the edit command, new content will overwrite the old content. The append command will simply add content to the end of the existing content.

!edit botMessageLink
[content]

!append botMessageLink
[content]

botMessageLink refers to the message link for the bot's message, not the original command. Example:

!edit https://discord.com/channels/798975165342023700/798975167971196981/913132937086664745
my new content :)
yay

Note: If the original command user is also making edits by editing their original command, your edits overwrite each other.

Installation

I used the infrastructure described in this tutorial: https://www.codementor.io/@garethdwyer/building-a-discord-bot-with-node-js-and-repl-it-mm46r1u8y

If you want to self-host, add dotenv as a dependency and add require('dotenv').config() to the top of index.js

You will need to fork this repo to set your own configs.

I gave the bot these permissions, but it may not need all of them. (permissions=84992)

• View Channels
• Send Messages
• Embed Links
• Read Message History

Then set the admin role in the config.js file.