Autoclear

Quick start

So you have your beautiful server and this wonderful bot you just found, what now? Set up channels of course.

/about - About me, beep boop
/autoclear <enable|disable> <#channel> <minutes?> - Enables or disables autoclearing on the specified channel every n minutes (minimum 30)
/channels - Displays all channels with autoclearing enabled
/clear <amount> <#channel?> - Clears amount messages from #channel (or the current channel if none specified, max 100 per command)
/debug - Displays some goodies that may or may not have a use
/help - Finds information for the given command
/ping - Pong
/resetstatus** - Resets status of all shards
/setglobalstatus <activity> <activitytype?>** - Sets the status message globally (across all shards), activitytype requires an integer.

** Owner only

“I still see messages in a channel even though I set it to clear” - Run /clear on the channel to catch the remainders, any new messages should be picked up. This occurs when the bot has recently restarted.
~~“The bot isn’t responding” - Make sure the bot has permission to send messages in the channel you are running commands.~~ Autoclear now uses slash commands, you may need to reinvite the bot if you don’t see them.
“Messages aren’t being deleted” - Make sure the bot has the manage messages permission so that it can delete messages.
“Is there a premium version” - Not at the moment, although you can support me on Ko-Fi.

~~Here be dragons, make sure you know what you are doing!~~ Autoclear is now dockerized, which should make self-hosting much easier.

Head to the releases section of the Docker Compose repository.
Download the correct binary for your system - this will probably be x86_64 but you can always check with uname -m.
Move the binary to one of the directories listed here - MAKE SURE THE DIRECTORY EXISTS BEFORE MOVING THE FILE!
Allow execution of the binary sudo chmod +x name_of_binary.
Reload shell if docker compose does not work.

Only the bot token is required when running in Docker.

DBH - Database host, if on the same machine localhost will suffice
DBPASS - Database password, UNIX sockets have not been tested with this bot
DBU - Database username
DBN - Database name, this will need to be the same as the database you create later
BTKN - Bot token (required)

Now create a file named .env and add all of the values

In the project root, start the bot with docker compose up -d (take note of the missing hypen).
That’s it.

There is no dedicated server for autoclear, but I am usually available