1. Create a Discord App

• Login to https://discordapp.com/developers/
• "Create an application"
• Give it a name

2. Create a bot account

• Navigate Settings > Bot
• Click Add Bot > Yes, do it!
• Turn off PUBLIC BOT (recommended)

3. Collect token

• Click Copy token, save it for later configuration

4. Create invite link

• Navigate OAuth2
• Select bot scope
• Select permissions (alternatively, manually set to 59456)
• Copy inivite link
  • eg https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=CLIENT_ID&permissions=59456&scope=bot

5. Setup Discord

• Follow the link, add to your server
• Select a bot channel and type \#botchannel
• Copy the channel ID, save it for later configuration

A. Setup server

• Install Node.js

apt-get update
apt-get -y install npm
npm install -g npm
npm install -g n
n lts
node -v

• Ensure that the output of node -v exceeds v8.xx.x

B. Download source code

• Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/lukepighetti/ether-1-bot
cd ether-1-bot
npm install
cp config.example.json config.json

C. Configure the bot

• Edit config.json
  • to reflect your Discord bot token
  • the Discord ID of the bot channel

D. Setup Process

• Setup PM2

PM2 is a production-grade daemon for keeping Node.js processes alive

npm install -g pm2
pm2 start index.js
pm2 startup
pm2 save