#Ycombinator DevNewsAndJobsBot9000

get_a_dev_job_discordbot is a bot for discord that pulls job postings from from ycombinator and sends them to your server.

Installation

requirements

• Python 3
• Requests
• Discord Py
• Create a bot and invite it to your Discord server

Clone the repository

In your terminal

cd get_a_dev_job_discordbot
touch discord_bot_constants.py
echo 'BOT_CONSTANTS = { "auth_token": "#insert_discord_auth_token_here#"}' >> discord_bot_constants.py

Make sure the prequisites are installed and then run

python3 discord_bot.py

You should see a message saying

We have logged in as #bot_name_here#

If you did everything correctly, you will see that your bot is now active on your server

Commands

• $hello -> bot will respond with "Hello"
• $help -> bot will respond with the available list of commands
• $findjob -> bot will respond with most recent job posting from ycombinator
• $findjobs -> bot will respond with a list of jobs from ycombinator
• $autopostjobs -> bot will check for new job posting every hour from ycombinator. If there is a new post, the bot will post it to the server
• $autopoststories => a background process will post top Hackernews stories every 45 min
• $stopjobs => end the auto post loop for jobs
• $stopstories => end the autopost loop for stories