R-chan

Cool bots running on OpenAI

Install

Firstly, install NPM and Node-16 LTS. Install Yarn using:

npm install -g yarn

Now install the dependencies:

yarn install

You also need a Mongo DB server: https://www.mongodb.com/

You also need to install curl if it is not in your $PATH. If you're on Linux, you most certantly have curl. If you're using Windows 10 1803 or later, you already have curl. The easiest way to install curl is through downloading Git for Windows: https://git-scm.com/

Secrets

You need:

• your own Discord bot token, so make a test bot for your account: https://discord.com/developers/applications.
• your own OpenAI API key which you can get from here: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.
• to add your Mongo DB connection string to the env file: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/connection-string/
• a database name (rchan is good enough if you don't know what to name it)
• Azure AI token. You can get it with this tutorial (check prerequisites): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-text-to-speech

Create a .env file in the root dir of the project Example .env file:

TOKEN=Discord bot token goes here
API_KEY=OpenAI api key goes here
DB_CONNECTION_STRING=MongoDB connection string here
DB_NAME=rchan
SPEECH_KEY=Azure resource token goes here
SPEECH_REGION=uksouth or other

Running the bot

Run the bot:

yarn start

If you're using VSCode, I wrote a debug utility within the .vscode folder. You can run the debugger with F5. You can stop the debugger with Shift+F5. You can restart the debugger with Ctrl+Shift+F5.