Threaddie - A Discord bot for transferring channels to threads

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Commands

Command	Options	Description
/setup	channel: TextChannel	Setup a channel (channel) as read-only; where users can create new threads.
/channel_to_thread	channel: TextChannel, place: TextChannel, rejoin: bool, remove: bool	Transfer the content of a channel (channel) to a thread in the channel place. rejoin determines whether users who've interacted wtih the original channel should be automatically added to the thread (causes a ping). remove will delete the original channel if set to true.
/remove_all_threads*	N/A	Remove all threads in the current channel

*Currently unavailable due to permission changes

Installation and Running

Without virtualenv

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With virtualenv

• Create a virtual environment with python -m venv ./venv
• Activate the envirnment with:
  • source venv/bin/activate on Unix systems
  • .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1 on Windows (Powershell)

Continuation

• Install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a Discord application and enable bot functionality
• Create an .env file in the same folder at bot.py and place your bot token as TOKEN=your-token-here
• Enable developer mode in Discord to be able to copy IDs (Settings -> Advanced -> Developer Mode)
• Set the guild ID of the server(s) inside the .env file as GUILDS='["ID_HERE"]' (quotation marks required)
• Set the client ID found in the OAuth2 page as CLIENT_ID=ID
• Run bot.py
• Click the generated link to invite the bot to your server

Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't be possible without the work of discord.py and its continuation, pycord