A bot that will train a Markov model from chat messages and generate replies. Originally created because there was no Discord equivalent to the markovsky-irc bot. While other Markov bots do exist for Discord, all that were found at the time this project began used static text sources. None were designed to learn from chat or actively participate.
General:
markovify 0.9.4+
To use the Discord client:
config folder rename derpybot.cfg.example to derpybot.cfg then adjust settings as needed.discord.cfg.example to discord.cfg then adjust settings as needed.discord_commands.cfg.example to discord_commands.cfg to enable custom commands.config folder rename config.cfg.example to config.cfg. Optionally change settings as desired.For reference to what the settings do, check the defaults file for each config.
Due to processing and storage needs it's not practical to have DerpyBot function as a multi-server bot. This means you will need to setup a bot account in the developer portal. You will also need to enable the Privileged Intent for message content.
It is possible to add simple custom commands. Commands are defined in the discord_commands.cfg found in the main config folder.
When beginning a new dictionary it will take some time before replies can be generated. As the number of learned messages grows you can try increasing the state size to improve results. However this will also increase memory usage and processing time so it may take some experimentation to find the right balance.
The Markov dictionaries are stored in derpymarkov/dictionaries. The format used is a plaintext collection of lines which is appended to as the bot learns. While it is less efficient at startup the format is human readable and editable. NOTE: duplicate lines are intentionally stored in the dictionary. This is related to word weight so do not remove duplicate lines unless there's a specific need.
An option to add supplementary dictionaries to the main one is planned for the future.
DerpyBot is released under the MIT License. This can be viewed in LICENSE.md.