Trigger Bot

Trigger bot was originally conceived from my frustration with other bot options out there for sending notifications about the weekly free games released on the Epic Games store automatically. After trying many that didn’t seem to be consistent enough to be reliable, I decided to make my own using some third-party API for the EGS. It went well for a while, till that API started flaking out too, eventually, however, I found a more direct way of accessing the current free games and it’s been chugging along each week ever since.

Not only does Trigger bot post free games automatically, but, it also has the ability to replace any user's link to a social media site with one that embeds better within Discord. This was another pet peeve of mine with sites like Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc, that would have barely functional embeds in Discord by default and usually, you would end up having to visit the site anyway. Now with Trigger bot, I don’t have to care anymore as it will look for valid links that correspond to the supported sites (currently the bot supports swapping Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and YT Shorts) and swap them out with a site that provides a better embed, while also using a Discord webhook to still look like the user to keep the conversation going. (This feature also includes the ability to per-user & server set preferences on what types of links are replaced.)

There are loads of more features that I would like to add to Trigger bot but a lot of them are pretty ambitious and need a good amount of spare dev time to dedicate towards. I also have been thinking about hosting the bot for public use but it requires a full rework of how the data is stored before that would be viable. However the source code for the bot is fully available on GitHub if you wish to host it yourself, I’ll keep updating it as time goes on so it should hopefully only get better!

LINKS

• GitHub Repository