summary

This is a discord bot that's a thin wrapper around dice. It can be addressed in a discord channel with a string that dice-notation can parse as dice and will reply with a result.

functionality

user: $roll 3d6
dicebot: [1, 5, 1]
user: $roll 3d6t
dicebot: 10
user: $roll 1d6e3 # 1d6 > 3 ?
dicebot: 1
user: $roll 1d6e3 # 1d6 > 3 ?
dicebot: 0

For a full list of functionality refer to the dice readme

configuration

dicebot depends on the environment variable DISCORD_API_KEY being properly set. For guidance on how to get an API key for a discord bot, see here.

usage

first, set the environment variable in some shell

$ export DISCORD_API_KEY={your-key-here}
# of course you can put this in your .bashrc (or equivalent) for persistence

then do one of

# in the root of the repository:
$ pip install -e ./
# then, system-wide:
$ dicebot

or

# in the root of the repository:
$ python3 src/dicebot/daemon.py

or

# in the root of the repository
$ docker image build -t dicebot ./
$ docker run dicebot