apod-bot

README

apod-bot

A discord bot written in go that fetches and posts NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Features

• Scheduled posting with /schedule and /stop
• Manually posting today's picture with /today
• Post a random picture with /random
• Relive a previous APOD picture with /specific <date>
• Get more information with /explanation
• Astronomy Picture of the Day API calls are cached
• Today's picture is saved in memory for a faster roundtrip

Usage

1. Invite the bot to your server. https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=952282891910512663&permissions=18432&scope=applications.commands%20bot

2. Go to the channel you want APOD messages posted.

3. Call /schedule <hour UTC> with the hour you want APOD messages to be sent.

I do keep some metrics of the bot usage. Including but not limited to server names, channel ids, and command usage. Feel free to self-host it instead!

Development

APOD_TOKEN and DISCORD_TOKEN are required as environment variables. These are set in a .env file like so:

APOD_TOKEN=<token>
DISCORD_TOKEN=<token>

# Optionally include an owner id to send certain events to.
OWNER_ID=<id>

To learn more about discord bot development, visit discord developers docs. To create a NASA API token visit api.nasa.gov.