A simplistic Discord bot in Golang to read links and generate PDFs.

• Read https:// links and check whether it exists
• Get PDF of that link and reply to the message containing that link with that PDF
• Activate or deactivate the bot if the person is having role of Administrator in a channel
• Print GitHub links in console and do not generate its PDF

• Update the config.json file to provide Discord Bot Token, Administrator usernames and Backend URL (By default it is http://0.0.0.0:3000)
• Generate build of the project using command

> go get
> go build -o reader_bot

• Initialize the Gotenberg backend which is Docker-based API to generate PDFs by running (It starts backend on port 3000 of local machine, which provides the URL for Backend URL in configuration file)

> docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 thecodingmachine/gotenberg:6

[ NOTE ] : Other ways of running the image on a host can be used as well.

• Start the application by executing the file.
  • For windows, start the executable file reader_bot.exe
  • For linux, start the exeutable file ./reader_bot
• If administrator, use commands
  • !activate to activate the bot in a channel
  • !deactivate to deactivate the bot in a channel