Movie Club Discord Bot

The movie club bot acts as a sort of raffle or roulette system for picking movie titles out of a user-made database for ease of random selections within movie clubs.

Features

• /suggest_movie <title>: Suggest a film using TMDB API.
• /draw_movie: Randomly select a film from the suggestions.
• Prevents duplicate movie suggestions.
• Logs who suggested which film.

Setup

This bot will help you pick a random movie out of a 'hat' in Discord and allows users to add their own suggestions to the database.

1. Open the Discord Developer Portal
2. Create a new application
3. Click on the "Bot" tab on the left.
4. Copy your bot's token and save it for later.
5. Make sure you enable Message Content Intent
6. In the "OAuth2" tab on the left, go to the URL Generator, add the "bot" and "applications.commands" scopes, and invite the bot to your server.
7. Create a TMDB account and get your API key

Setting up the bot

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/zevinal/movie-club-bot.git
cd movie-club-bot

2. Install dependancies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file from the example

cp .env.example .env

4. Fill in your .env file with your Discord bot token and TMDB API key.
5. Run the bot

python bot.py

Notes

• Uses SQLite for simple storage.
• You can expand this bot to include tracking past movie draws.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT