Logo representing the initials T B Tristan Bony

Anniminder (Discord Bot)

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This project is a reminder of birthdays for Discord servers.

I started this project when I found people were missing other people’s birthday because they were storing it in plain text in a dedicated channel and often people were missing it.

I used Python for the base of the project (with discord.py API wrapper) and SQL to store data in a SQLite database.

The usage of the bot is very basic since it uses Discord slash commands, as explained below.

When the bot is added in a new server, an ephemeral message is sent which explains how the bot works.

Moreover, when a new user joins a server with Anniminder in it, he receives a private message to be informed of the functioning of the bot.

Commands

  • /help shows the help command with every information
  • /set_channel [channel] is used to define a specific channel to send birthday messages in (available only to administrator)
  • /add_birthday [year] [month] [day] is used by the users to add or modify their birthday. A confirmation is sent afterward as an ephemeral message
  • /remove_birthday can be used by a user who no longer wants to be stored
  • /get_birthday [user] is used by anyone who wants to know the birthday of someone else

Finally, when a bot is deleted from a server or when a user leaves a server, every information related to them is removed.

Planned functionalities

Before discontinuing the bot, I planned to make the bot being able to remember any events the users want, and remind about it ther same way as birthdays. Moreover, I wanted to add the possibility to planned a weekly or monthly message using Open AI API to summarize everything, but also to create a website to facilitate the addition of dates and administration of the settings of the bot.