Birthday Bot

An automated way to recognize birthdays in your community!

Documentation, help, resources

• Main website, user documentation
• Official server

Running your own instance

You need:

• .NET 10 (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/)
• PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org/)
• A Discord bot token (https://discord.com/developers/applications)

Cloning

Be sure to pull this repo's submodules, or else the build will fail. Either clone with:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://...

Or, if already cloned:

$ git submodule update --recursive

Configuration

Get your bot token and set up your database user and schema, then create a JSON file containing the following:

{
    "BotToken": "your bot token here",
    "Database": {
        "Host": "localhost", // optional
        "Database": "birthdaybot", // optional
        "Username": "birthdaybot", // required
        "Password": "birthdaybot" // required; no other authentication methods are currently supported
    }
}

Usage

To run the bot:

$ dotnet run -p src/BirthdayBot -c Release -- -c path/to/config.json