Open Class Discord

A Discord bot to help University of Waterloo students find open classrooms.

Installation

While available to the public as a discord bot, to run on Cloudflare Workers follow the steps below.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/manasbir/open-class-discord.git
cd open-class-discord

2. Create the .env and populate the environment variables

echo UWATERLOO_API_KEY="<INSERT_API_KEY>" >> .env
echo DISCORD_APPLICATION_ID="<INSERT_APPLICATION_ID>" >> .env
echo DISCORD_PUBLIC_KEY="<INSERT_PUBLIC_KEY>" >> .env
echo DISCORD_TOKEN="<INSERT_BOT_TOKEN>" >> .env
echo ADMIN_DISCORD_ID="<INSERT_YOUR_DISCORD_ID>" >> .env

cat .env > workers/.dev.vars

3. Register the commands with Discord

cd register-commands
cargo run

4. Deploy!

cd ../workers
wrangler publish

About the code

Architecture

• Command-based Discord bot using custom bindings
• Fully built on cloudflare workers
• DB using Cloudflare D1 SQL
• Periodic updates from UW Open Data API using cron scheduling

Technology Stack

• Rust
• SQL (Cloudflare D1)