DiscordFunAndGiveawayBot

This is a Discord Bot, written in ASP.NET Core and C#. The bot has different features, the main features is to organize giveaway-raffles in specific channels.

The difference to other Discord Bots is, that you can run a giveaway for a longer time - e.g. for some days. People can participate by entering a predefined keyword while the raffle is running.

You can add the Bot to your Discord server using this URL:
https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=569931884495110144&permissions=68608&scope=bot

Features

The bot supports following features at the moment:

General features

• Multi language support: The bot supports one admin language and multiple outgoing languages for bot posts in the channel. At the moment two languages are completely integrated: English and German

Giveaways

• Init new giveaways with a lot of settings:
  • Set the time of the current day OR set a specific datetime
  • Define the languages for the announcement
  • Set the codeword, that users must enter to participate
  • Set the name of the prize in all languages you want to support

Fun actions

• Let the bot post an user defined message in a specific channel
• Post messages that mention a specific person

Commands

%initgiveaway #channel - Inits a new giveaway. All further steps are explained by the giveaway workflow
%cancel - Cancel the giveaway initiation
%start - Start the initiated giveaway
%announcewinner - Announce the winner at once, without waiting for the giveaway end time

%sendmessage #channel - Bot sends a message to that channel
%sendmessage #channel @person - Bot sends a message tot that channel and mentions the person

Dev information

Change configs

To run the bot, you must enter your discord application bot token and define the UI languages. Therefore open the appsettings.json file in the solution:

"DiscordToken": "{Enter token here}",
"OutputCultures": [ "de-DE", "en-US" ],
"AdminCulture": "en-US"

At the moment, german and english languages are implemented. If you want to add further resources, you must a resouce-file at scr/DiscordFunAndGiveawayBot/BotClient/Resources.

Deployment

As this designed as an ASP.NET Core app you can deploy it like a webpage - e.g. as AppService on Azure or simply in a docker container. Dockerfile is added, tested on Heroku: Works fine!