the-godfather

Just another general-purpose Discord bot developed with the goal to remove all other bots from the guild and create one that will do everything as efficiently as possible while keeping simplicity in mind when it comes to usage. Written in C# using DSharpPlus.

Discord bots have grown very rapidly over the past few years and due to that growth it usually becomes hard to use them because of the unintuitive command system or due to performance issues. I have had a scenario where we had ten bots in the guild, because every bot did a unique job. Managing many bots and permissions for those bots quickly became overwhelming. Apart from that, only a handful of bots provided a customizable protection system against common destructive actions on Discord, yet it was still not enough - either the performance was poor due to it being a public bot instance, or the system was not customizable enough - that is if the system worked well to begin with. So, I have decided to create TheGodfather - one bot that will oversee and be in charge of everything.

TheGodfather became a side project for me, and it developed quite quickly. I have always intended it to be a private bot, however I realised over time that there are surely people like myself frustrated of public bot instances and dozens of narrow-purpose bots with web-based management interfaces. So, after a long time, even though this project was open sourced from the start, I decided to "open" the bot to the public - make it easier to setup and use for people who do not have programming background.

TheGodfather is powered by the community that uses it - I do not have any financial gain from it. For that reason, the bot is meant to be self-hosted, but that might change in future if there are enough contributions from the community.

Features:

• Categorized and intuitive command group system with over 500 commands.
• Complete administration of guilds, channels, users, emojis, roles, integrations etc. via categorized commands.
• Automatic guild administration: spam protection, raid protection, mass-mention protection, ratelimit, instant join-leave protection, forbidden names and many more! All of them are customizable to suit your needs.
• Eases your pain with auto-assignable roles, self-assignable roles, roles granted upon reaching a certain level or reacting with certain emojis.
• A detailed history of all actions performed on users within the guild - warnings, mutes, kicks, bans. The history is queryable and editable on a per-guild basis.
• Real-time guild backup with exemptions of specified channels.
• Activity logs for any changes made to the guild, channels, members etc. It is possible to exempt entities (channels, users) that you do not want to be logged.
• Message filtering either by raw string matching or regular expression matching, automatic gore websites filter, IP logging websites filter, invite filter, etc.
• Customizable textual or emoji reactions which can be triggered by raw text or regular expression matching.
• Customizable guild content: memes (along with meme generator), ranks, birthdays, currency, currency items and many more!
• Searches of online services: YouTube, Wikipedia, Imgur, reddit, Steam, IMDb, OpenWeather etc.
• RSS feed subscriptions (includes YouTube, reddit and many more) - automatic notifications when new content is released.
• Ranking/Experience system with guild-specific rank names.
• Many singleplayer and multiplayer games to pass your time: Quiz, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman, Connect4, Othello, Caro and more with stat tracking!
• Currency management and multiplayer gambling games: Poker, BlackJack, Slots etc.
• Speaking of games, adventurers may wish to train their own chickens, upgrade them using guild currency, make them fight other chickens and even start ambushes or wars!
• Todo list which can be private (via DM) or public (guild channels). Reminders can be scheduled using absolute or relative time and can be listed in various ways.
• Music playback and queue management commands supporting YouTube, Twitch, Soundcloud and many more.
• Starboard with customizable star emoji and reaction threshold.
• Interactive text or reaction poll system.
• Guild-specific culture setting (e.g. language, timezone). Currently supported languages/cultures: en-UK (default), en-US.

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TheGodfather listens for commands inside guilds and in DM. However, some commands cannot be invoked in DM and vice versa.

Commands are invoked by sending a message starting with the bot "prefix" or by mentioning the bot at the start of the message. The default prefix for the bot is !, however it can be configured separately for each guild.

For example, valid command calls are:

!ping
@TheGodfather ping

Command list

Command list is available at the Documentation directory.

Note: It is advised to read the explanation below in order to use TheGodfather in his full potential.

Command naming system

Commands are divided into command groups for easier navigation and due to large amount of commands.

For example, command group user contains commands which are used for administrative tasks on Discord users. Some subcommands of this group are kick , ban etc. For example, in order to call the kick command, one should always provide the "parent" group name first and then the actual command name, in this case:

!user kick @Someone

The same applies if the command has multiple parent groups, such as:

!config antispam exempt @Someone

Aliases are synonyms for a command. Aliases are usually shorter than regular names and are meant for faster invocation of the commands. Some people like it short and some people like it descriptive - with this, everyone is covered. Here is an example, for the commands above:

!u k @Someone
!cfg as ex @Someone

Command arguments

Almost all commands require additional information apart from their names, that information is from here on called command arguments.

For example, the kick command requires a Discord member as an argument, so the bot can know who to kick from the guild. Command arguments are strictly typed - meaning that you cannot pass anything other than a valid Discord member to a kick command.

A command argument can have exactly one of the following types (only the the most common types have been listed):

• int : A single integer in range [-2147483648, 2147483647]. Valid examples: 25 , -64 , 123456789.
• long : A single long integer with greater range (approx. 18 digits). Valid examples: 25 , -64 , 123456789123.
• double : A floating point number, can also be an integer. Valid examples: 5.64 , -3.2 , 5 , 123456.5646.
• string : Unicode character sequence without spaces. If you wish to include spaces, then surround the sequence with quotation marks ("). Valid examples: testtest , T3S7, "quotes" , "I need quotes for spaces!"
• string... : Unicode characrer sequence which includes spaces. Since this is a very general argument type, it will always come last in argument queue. Valid examples: This is a text so I do not need quotes.
• boolean : A truth value, either true or false (can also be converted from yes or no in various forms, see: CustomBoolConverter). Valid examples: true , yes , no , 0.
• user : Discord user - given by mention, username or UID (User ID). Valid examples: @Someone , Someone , 123456789123456.
• member : Discord guild member - given by mention, username or UID (User ID). Valid examples: @Someone , Someone , 123456789123456.
• channel : Discord channel - given by mention, channel name or CID (Channel ID). Valid examples: #channel , MyChannel , 123456789123456.
• role : Discord role - given by mention, role name or RID (Role ID). Valid examples: @Admins , Admins , 123456789123456.
• emoji : Discord emoji, either in Unicode or Discord representation (using :). Valid examples: 😂 , :joy:.
• message : Discord message ID. Valid examples: 123456789123456.
• Uri : A sequence of characters representing a URL. The protocol for most commands must be either HTTP or HTTPS. Valid examples: http://google.com.
• TimeSpan : A time span in form DDdHHhMMmSSs Valid examples: 3d5m30s, 1d, 10s etc.

Note: Discord entity IDs can only be seen in the Discord client by enabling the Developer appearance option in Discord settings.

Arguments can be marked as (optional) in the documentation. If this is the case, you can omit that argument in your command call.

For example, the user kick command described above also accepts a string... argument after the user , which corresponds to a reason for the action. However, since it is marked as optional, both of the following invocation attempts will succeed:

!user kick @Someone
!user kick @Someone I have kicked him because I can!

Command overloads

Each command can be invoked in various ways, each of those ways being called an overload in the documentation.

For example, let's consider the bank transfer command. The logic of this command is to transfer currency from your account to another user's account. One way to use it is to provide a user to pass the currency to and an int which corresponds to the amount of currency to transfer. The ordering of these arguments can sometimes be hard to remember, especially if there are more than two arguments. The purpose of an overload is to give alternate ways of invoking the same command. In this example, another way to use the bank transfer command is to pass the amount first and the user second. This way, the ordering of the arguments does not matter and therefore does not need to be remembered - both invocation attempts will succeed. This works as long as there is a clear distinction between the argument types (e.g. if a command has two arguments of the same type, overloading is not possible).

Note: string... argument always comes last in queue because it captures raw text until the end of the message. Therefore it cannot come before any other argument.

Note: It is always preferred to surround arguments of type string with quotes, although not nececary. This prevents the accidental misinterpretation of the second word in a given string as a different argument. Also note that, in case of string... type, the quotes will also be captured.