RUHacks 2021 entry. This is a bot for teams to schedule their events so they will not miss out on anything!
Having been through countless group projects and hackathons together, our team members realized that it was hard to keep track of a good schedule that everyone can commit to with merely our human brains.
This where we come up with the idea to build a discord bot that lives within a server where everyone can share one schedule together!
- Customizable settings (Timezone, Text Channel for reminders. Daylight savings, Reminder time (eg. 15 minutes before event ) )
- Creates event & adds to the agenda
- Alerts group members when an event approaches (Customizable)
- List of events available for all members at all times (One command away!)
- Automatically saves the settings & agenda for the server within Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore)
- With the help of Python and discord.py, we were able to write multiple commands available for the users to either create, edit or customize the agenda & settings.
- In terms of storing the data for agenda & settings, we connected our codebase to Google Firebase. We stored all servers' settings and agendas in two different collections. (JSON format)
- Each guild/server has its own document in each collection (settings or agenda). The data for each server is differentiated by their guild ID.
- Timezone: We tried using the region property that each guild has, but we ended up realizing that the information is not helpful. (Region was not specific enough. Ex. Brazil region has 3 different timezones)
- Database: The database was pretty challenging to set up, but we managed to read through the API documentation more thoroughly and successfully established the connection!
- Embed Formation: It was quite difficult for us to format the Embed content, so they appear to be in the format of rows and columns.
- For some of us, it was our first time working with discord.py or Google Firebase. We are proud that we worked through our project pretty smoothly.
- Learning how to deal with date and time such that we are able to send out reminders at an accurate time. And of course, dealing with timezones and daylight savings.
- Direct Message the Agenda Bot
- Optimize Google Firebase read & write to manage larger traffic
- Add more functionalities/commands
- Host our discord bot
