Discord bot aimed towards collecting user suggested films to suggest a new movie.

The bot collects IMDB and Letterboxd film suggestions from users and recommends a random film from the database.

• Film collection:

• Movie suggestion:

• Random suggestion:

1. Download Git for your system from the Git website.
2. Run the installer file and follow the instructions.
3. Verify your git install by opening a terminal and typing git --version.
4. Done for now! You can continue to the next section.

1. Download the current Node.js and NPM bundle for your system from the Node.js website.
2. Run the installer file and follow the instructions.
3. Verify your Node.js and NPM install by typing node -v and npm -v, respectively.
4. Done for now! You can continue to the next section.

1. Download the MySQL Community server from the MySQL website.
2. Run the installer file and follow the instructions.
3. Copy the temp password at the last prompt, you will need this.
4. Run the command mysql -u root -p and enter the password you copied from the installer.
5. Once logged in to the root user, run CREATE USER 'your_username' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';

1. Clone the repository to your machine using git clone https://github.com/jnwarner/motd-bot.git
2. Open the directory in a terminal and use the command npm install to install dependencies.
3. Log into the MySQL account made when installing mysql using the command mysql -u your_username -p
4. Run the db.sql file using mysql -u your_username -p < /path/to/db.sql, creating the tables for the bot.
5. Grant permissions to user using the command GRANT PRIVILEGES ON movies.* TO 'your_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
6. Insert the necessary data in a file named tokens.json (reference can be found in tokens.example.json)
7. Done! You can start your bot using node index.js or use a process management service such as PM2 to run the bot!