Jackson

Jackson is a pretty simple discord bot made by Crenshaw#1312

By no means should this bot be regarded as stable

Why the name "Jackson"?

Jackson is the name of the kid in my profile picture. Jackson like facts and information, and this works with the bot rather well since it primarily job get information off the web

The big imaginary cat's name is Crenshaw. Crenshaw is always there for Jackson as he goes through homlessness

Their favourite candies are purple jelly beans, so I made a simple jelly bean system to give other people jelly beans

Credits

You'll see there's a lot, and I like giveing credit to those who help me since it means a lot to me when someone spends their time helping you or makin your day better

• WaterNinja101#2093
  • Teaching me
  • Letting me on the Truth or Dare Bot team
  • The api used for the truth, dare, and wyr commands
• Devnote#0745 and Radeon team
  • Teaching me js
  • Setting up my bot
  • Using Github
• Specky#6281 and Joe_#001
  • Helping me with git
  • Teaching me about caches
  • Waifu npm (Specky)
• WickedWizard
  • Showing me how to prep cooldown system
• mangowhite#0001
  • Jackson's profile picture

Features

You can go into the commands file for a complete list of the commands

Almost all commands can be run in DMs, and are easy to configure if you want to change the cooldown

Jelly Beans

Just a a basic reputation system where you can give, take, set, and view other people's jelly bean count

Fun

There are tons of animals commands like koalafact and fox, then there are also music commands like lyrics.

Moderartion (more soon)

There's only kick and ban as of now, but in the future look out for mute, unban and some more

Other

There are commands that only the owner of the bot can run, Crenshaw#1312, and then some information commands like about and help

Hosting Jackson Yourself

1. Create a discord bot application
2. Clone, or download, this repo
3. Make and enter data into config folder and file (more below)
4. Install all dependancies npm i
5. run node .

Making the Config

1. Make a folder called config
2. In that folder, make a file called config.js
3. paste the code below into config.js

module.exports = {
    token: "",
    prefix: "",
    youtubeToken: "",
    geniusToken: "",
    omdbToken: "",
    jellybeans: {
        maxGive: 3,
        maxTake: 1,
        delayGive: 30,
        delayTake: 30,
    },
    mongoPath: "mongodb://localhost:27017/Jackson-Bot"
}

4. Insert your tokens

The youtubeToken, geniusToken, omdbToken are not required, but allow more commands to run.

Everything in jellybeans are the defaults, the can be edited with jbsets (per guild)

prefix is required, but you can change the prefix with the prefix command (perguild)

Adding commands

Example Command object

{
  name: 'animu',
  description: 'Gives a random truth',
  usage: 'animu [hug|pat|wink|face-palm]',
  groups: [ 'fun' ],
  DM: false,
  cooldown: { type: 'map', time: 3 },
  aliases: [ 't' ],
  run: [AsyncFunction: run]
}

• name: The command name, no spaces allowed
• description: Description of the command
• usage: how to use the command
  • Must start with the command name
  • Put the argument in [] if optional
  • Put the arguement in <> if required
• DM: If the command can be ran in DMs
  • false = cannot run in DMs
  • true = can run in DMs
• cooldown: the type and cooldown time for a command
  • type: either "db" or "map"
    • db: cooldown will not be lost on bot reset
    • map: cooldown will be lost on reset

  Only map is supported for now, and is preffered to try and limit db usage and to keep the bot quick

  • time: time in seconds of cooldown duration
• aliases: an array of strings that can also trigger the command
• run: in brackets, the code that will run when called upon

Example command

const { MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js");
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const { choose } = require('../../config/funcs.js');


module.exports = {
    name: "animu",
    description: "Gives a random truth",
    usage: "animu [hug|pat|wink|face-palm]",
    groups: ["fun"],
    DM: false,
    cooldown: {type: "map", time: 3},
    aliases: ["ani"],
    run: async (client, message, args) => {

        // setting rating
        let animu = await choose(args, ["hug", "pat", "wink", "face-palm"], null);

        let gif = (await fetch(`https://some-random-api.ml/animu/${animu}`).then(response => response.json())).link;

        if (!gif)return client.err(message, "Animu", "No animu was returned, try again or get support");

        const embed = new MessageEmbed()
        .setTitle(`Animu - ${animu}`)
        .setColor(0x4B0082)
        .setImage(gif);
        return message.reply(embed);
    }
}

As you'll see all the responses are in an embed with the hex code 0x4B0082 (indigo), please keep this in your command

Making an error message

return client.err(message, "Command name titled", "Reason for error, no period");

Dumb Jackson thing of the day: While making the embed command, I got a JS error, so I hosted it and the command still crashed the bot

Custom functions

As you may have noticed, I require the funcs.js (in config folder) file which is just a collection of functions. Although you may realise my flag parser, is it's own file because it's a bigger function. if you're going to make a function, please try to keep it the same format as the other ones.