Hyli Bot

General purpose discord bot for me and my friends.

• Runs on Python 3
• Using discord.py API wrapper to talk to discord
• pymongo/MongoDB is used for some bot functions that use a database
• The python Pillow library is used for other bot functions that manipulate images
• ffmpeg for some voice related things

Deployment

The bot itself currently lives in a heroku app that clones from github and restarts itself whenever I push to main, so changes are easy to make.

The database is on MongoDB Atlas. Their free plan has a 512MB limit on the database size and I haven't even hit 100KB yet after years of use.

To run the bot yourself just set the environment variables DATABASE_URL and BOT_TOKEN (or put them in a .env file in the root of the project) and run python3 src/main.py

Usage:

• install discord voice deps (linux only): sudo apt install ffmpeg libffi-dev libnacl-dev python3-dev
• create a virtualenv: python -m venv venv
• activate it (linux): source venv/bin/activate
• activate it (windows): venv\Scripts\activate
• install python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
• run it: DATABASE_URL=mongodb://user:pass@host:port BOT_TOKEN=12345 python3 src/main.py