You see, I had a dream... That I could stop abandoning projects as soon as I started them...
While this dream is most certainly still a wild fever dream, I wanted to practice my Java by applying it to a bot. The problem with a previous bot I tried to make (PeaScript) was that I, at least at the time, was fairly new and inexperienced to JavaScript. Made it very hard to develop anything past a bot that enjoyed responding to messages.
By using the Java Discord API, I can build a slightly more complex bot that I'd like to use on my actual Discord server without the navigation, syntax, and just general confusion that comes from being too unfamiliar with a language.
Oh also, the name "Jared Virtual Machine" is a play on Java Virtual Machine so yeah!
Warning
This bot exists for personal use! If you take it and use it, use at your own risk.
!ping
- Pong!
/vc-invite <user>
- Used for people who have permission to join a voice channel, but their friends don't have the required permission.
- Both users must be connected to a Voice Channel and then the person with permission can invite the other to the channel.
- Uses fancy buttons for interactions and handling the invite requests.
/abby
- We have a friend with a cute dog.
- The command gives us easy access to Abby pictures.
- The pictures are saved and pulled from this repository!
- Supports
.mp4
videos, albeit not the way I want it.- Sent as a normal message, not as an embed.
/valorant profile <valorantName>
- Fetches some data about the Valorant account.
- valorantName should look like
Peashooter101#7016
. - Special Thanks to Henrik for their Valorant API.
Pin Message
- This was a Feature Request.
- Accessed through the Context Menu (right-click Message).
- Works only for individuals with the Administrator Permission.
- Sends to the top most text channel with a "๐" in its name.
/vc <invite/request> <user>
- Change the format of the command to have two subcommands.
/vc request
should be the same as/vc invite
but they are requesting permission to join.- Make it look fancy using Embeds cause Embeds are cooler.
/abby <search/gallery>
- Need commands to do other additional stuff.
/valorant <profile/rank/history/skins>
- For the account level, draw the level onto the border rather than using their "Level Tier" for the border.
- Pull detailed ranked data for the given episode in
/valorant rank
.- Provide an optional argument for Episode / Act.
- Pull and generate match history data for
/valorant history
. - Consider caching the data locally somehow... ๐ค
- Pull and display weapon skin stuff with
/valorant skins <skinName>
- Might need to use a database for this one chief... There are a lot of skins...
- Consider using Valorant-API for in-game content for this command.
/<game>
- Similar to the
/valorant
command, pull game information depending on the game. - Not a priority since most related practice will be done on the
/valorant
command.
/meme <memeID> <topText> <bottomText>
- Create a meme format!
<Some text you sent>
- The bot responds to messages you send sometimes, with somewhat related responses.
- The Easy Route: Use the Sentiment Analysis or other Microsoft AI services.
- The Hard Route: Decide to figure out what's "related" on your own.
Pin Message
- Add functionality to request or vote pin if you do not have permission.
- Edit so the permissions extend to people who have the ability to pin messages too (duh... but it's late at night right now).
- Figure out if there is a way to embed videos to these pinned embeds.
- Allow links that direct to an image to put the image into the Embed Image (Feature Request).
/defenestrate <content>
- Throw them out a window.
I created a little playground to keep track of some experiments I am conducting in relation to this project. Think of it as a place for me to store my practice runs without having to force the bot to run. Some of the early experimentation may not be present in the Experimentation Package since I made this a few weeks after initially starting the project.
You can find the Experimentation Package here.
Note
This is meant to be a playground and will not be updated for any reason outside of me doing random tests.
It is under the
test
directory, but it is located withinexperimentation
because I am not trying to test the application.
Some experiments I have conducted...
- Using HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and HttpClient for GET/POST requests.
- Using Jackson API to map JSON into Objects.
- Merging, scaling, and modifying images using BufferedImage and Graphics (OverlayImagesExp.java).
- Converting a BufferedImage into a Base64 String and sending that info up to Imgur (ImgurUploadTest.java).
- Pull apart a GIF and overlay text onto it (TextOnGifTest.java).
Some ideas I have...
- Use Graphics to draw text onto a BufferedImage (StackOverflow Reference).
- Pull each frame out of a GIF (StackOverflow Reference).
- Saving GIF with ImageIO (StackOverflow Reference).
- Use a database that gets routinely updated by the bot because I have too much data and too much object mapping going on.
- Host a small web server to send HTML to force Discord to put videos into Embeds.
- All Discord embeds sent by bots are
EmbedType.RICH
and Rich Embeds cannot have a video in it.
- All Discord embeds sent by bots are
Wanna see some of the stuff without using the bot? ๐
/abby
/vc-invite <@user>
/valorant profile <user>
Pin Message