In this post we call for help with a custom "Upgoats" project for creating a Discord bot, using the Autocode platform.
The idea for our bot.
While the F.R.I.D.A.Y. is great for getting notifications about new blog posts containing certain keywords, via DM message; it is insufficient to the task when it comes to sending such notification messages in a channel in a Discord server. This is something that we intend to remedy in the HDPS server, with the help of a custom Discord bot. There is already something similar working in the @stemsocial server, and I'm sure that many other Tribes and Communities in the HIVE ecosystem have solved this particular problem for themselves, too.
As a new Community on the HIVE social blockchain, HDPS wants to avoid the re-inventing of wheels. While innovation is a fine thing, and plagiarism is commonly frowned upon in our ecosystem, even for bots, there is no point struggling to solve a problem that others have already solved. Therefore, we would like to get some input and advice, and maybe even a bit of coding how-to skill, for creating our bot for bringing posts tagged with #diabetes into our Discord server automatically. If we can also get such a bot to automatically add a reaction to each one, so that others can easily "upgoat" the message if they choose to, then that would be even better!
Currently, we use a feature of Dyno Premium to count the number of "upgoats" on each post, and if they meet a minimum threshold (currently three) then that post will get automatically hoisted to another channel nearer the top of our server, so that more people will see it, and hopefully upvote it for real on the HIVE social blockchain! We would, ideally, like to integrate this facility into our own custom Discord bot, to replace Dyno Premium and other third-party bots, especially any commercial / "paid-for" bots which will cause us to spend fiat currency to maintain.
We have selected Autocode as the platform / IDE of choice for developing our custom Discord bots for the HDPS Community. Autocode says of themselves, ...
Autocode is a toolkit for building amazing bots, apps and websites with APIs. Connect to Discord, Twitch, Slack and more of your favorite games and apps in minutes.
The Autocode Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supports coding in Node.js v14, Javascript. They have built up an entire collection of open-source code snippets that you can copy/paste for some ready-made functionality to add to your bot. They have connectors for a wide range of services, including Slack, Stripe, and Discord. At present there isn't one for HIVE or the Condenser API, but I have requested it to be added. Also, there is the facility for adding user contributed API's to their standard library. This would take considerably more skill than I possess alone!
They do use a referral system, whereby if you use my referral link to sign up with, then I get some extra Autocode Points, which will help me to keep our bot running for longer without having to pay fiat cash to buy a subscription. Eventually, it would be great if we could get a subscription for the bot though, once the HDPS Community matures a bit. This will allow for growth, as more people post about our tagged topics on the social blockchain.
Moving forward.
We are hoping to gather a team of Node.js / Javascript developers who can work collaboratively on this project, towards the goal of having a fully functional custom Discord bot that can bring posts tagged with #diabetes, (and posts / replies containing the keyword diabetes), into our Discord server automatically, and to automatically add a reaction to each one, so that others can easily "upgoat" the message. Being able to automatically hoist the posts with the most "upgoats" would also be a great feature of such a bot. To achieve this, such developers would need...
Once there, the actual Upgoats code can be found here. We will post updates about the bot development progress on the social blockchain, and in this thread on Autocode.
Image Credits
post-head.png – Remix created by @frittro, using elements by autocode.com, used with permission; a post payout icon, as a remix by @frittro, as documented in this post; and the hdps-divider.png (see below).
Various "fair use" organisation and company logos, including Hive, Autocode, Slack, Stripe, Discord, and various Community and Tribe logos.
hdps-divider.png – Remix created by @frittro, using File:Blue circle for diabetes.svg. (2021, November 22). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 02:46, March 7, 2022 from Wikimedia Commons, and a generic heart shape.
post-footer.png – Remix created by @frittro, using the HDPS title image, a remix by @frittro; a background from rawpixel.com; and File:Flickr - moses namkung - The Crowd For DMB 1.jpg. (2020, September 9). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 10:14, March 25, 2022 from Wikimedia Commons.
Because I use some display fonts as graphical elements in my remix images, I list their use separately here and credit the fontographer(s) who created them. I prefer to use fonts that are freely licensed for both personal and commercial use.
Tahu!.ttf – Created by Syafrizal (a.k.a. Khurasan) and published on DaFont.com under a permissive license.
This @Diabetes-Support account is not just used for making official announcements from the
Hive Diabetes Peer Support (HDPS) Community (@hive-141197). It is also used by our curation team to upvote quality content that relates in any way to diabetes, including diagnosis; getting support (including mental health); treatments; alternative therapies; equipment; food; exercise; lifestyle; and comorbidities. If you would like to support this effort, please consider delegating to the @Diabetes-Support account. There are some icons below that you can click on to make this process easier.
JOIN US! You are invited to join the Hive Diabetes Peer Support (HDPS) Community's server on Discord. Here you will find our curation team; our library of diabetes-related, curated posts; our events stage for livestream sessions; and a wide variety of activities, including bot games; competitions; giveaways; polls; quizzes; and surveys. Come join the fun! Click on the invite image here to join the server.
@frittro, using elements by autocode.com, used with permission; a post payout icon, as a remix by 
@bidesign.
@hive-141197