This bot joins guilds and takes all of their forum channels and converts them into static html. What you do with these html pages is up to you at this point.

1. Clone the repo and install dependencies:

git clone [email protected]:nwpulverizer/discord_to_html.git
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a bot account and get your bot token. See discord.py docs for details.

3. Write your bot token into a .env file in the src/ directory in the repo under the variable BOT_KEY.

4. Invite the bot to your server. Refer to the documentation linked above. It will need the bot scope and Read Message History and Read Messages/View Channels permissions.

5. Run the bot:

python main.py -d ../public/ -t ../templates

6. Once the bot connects, it will generate html files for each server it has joined. This will be output into the -d directory supplied under public-{guildid}/. A simple server is supplied in the base directory of the repo if you would like to view your generated files you can do so with:

python server.py -d ./public/public-{guild_id}/

The point of this bot is to allow the content of help forums to be searchable on the internet. Discord is great for quick responses and fostering community, but there is no way to search all the help being given behind discord's walls. This project aims to fix this.

In no particular order, here are some things that I should improve.

• Add reaction count to posts
• Show image attatchments
• Add sort by date or reaction count
• Improve styling for posts
• Add ability to update forum instead of just fully rewriting everytime.
• Instead of running based on whenever the bot is turned on, create bot commands