Skylight

A free, open source Discord bot that makes the moderation job much easier.

Includes:

• uhhh

TODO/What's coming

• Logging of moderation action based on the setting
• Configure every setting
• Button collectors (handling of button presses)
• Parsing moderation commands reason/duration
• Every moderation command (ban, kick, modlogs, etc)

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Developer mode enabled on Discord (Settings --> Advanced --> Toggle on Developer Mode)

Setup

1. Verify you have Node.js installed. You can test this by doing node -v in your terminal.
2. Create an app in Discord's Developer Portal. Save the APPLICATION ID, you will need it for later.
3. Go to the side, and click on Bot. Configure the username, profile picture, and banner to your liking. Make sure you grab the token. You may have to reset it to see it.
4. Go back to the side, and click on OAuth2. Scroll down, and click the bot checkbox. Configure the permissions you want the bot to have, and click Copy next to the link box. Put the link in your browser to invite the bot to a server of yours.
5. Once the bot is invited to a server of yours, click on the server icon and click Copy Server ID, and save it. You will need it for later.
6. Download the bot's source. Navigate it to it in your terminal. Make sure you have dotenv installed from Prerequisities. Run npm i to grab the packages.
7. If your on Linux, run cp .env.example src/.env and nano .env. If you are on Windows, go to the folder physically in File Explorer and Copy and Paste the .env.example file. Rename that copy to .env. Input the APPLICATION ID, Server ID, and TOKEN you have saved earlier. (GUILD_ID is Server ID)
8. If your on Linux, run cp src/settings.json.example src/settings.json and configure your settigns. If you are on Windows, go to the folder physically in File Explorer and copy the file named settings.json.example and name it settings.json and configure your files in a text editor.
9. Run npm start in your terminal. Voila! Your bot is now ready.

Contributing

Contributing is very welcome, as currently, I am the only contributor/maintainer of this project. Just shoot me a PR or message me on Telegram if you want to discuss any core changes.