wordy

This is the new and improved word cloud Discord bot!

As opposed to the previous Python version, Wordy starts processing the messages as soon as it joins a server and is much faster at doing so! It also automatically continues to process new messages as they are sent.

Related blog article: https://teo-orthlieb.github.io/blog/user-word-cloud/

Self-hosting guide

The Discord Application creation step is usually the same for all bots that you self-host.

Create a Discord Application

• Go to https://discord.com/developers/applications/ and create your app
• Add a bot to it and copy its token. You will need it later!
• Enable PRESENCE INTENT, SERVER MEMBERS INTENT and MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT in the bot tab
• Invite the bot with https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=CLIENT_ID&permissions=101376&integration_type=0&scope=bot+applications.commands and replace CLIENT_ID with the Client ID of your app (which you may find under the OAuth2 tab)

Note: The OAuth2 link includes following permissions: View Channels, Send Messages, Read Message History (to load messages sent before the bot joined), Attach Files (to send the word cloud image)

Run it

• Clone the project wherever you want
• Add the token.txt file at the root of the project (the root of the project is not inside the src folder, instead the folder with the Cargo files which includes the assets and src folder) and paste the token you copied before into this file (without anything else)
• Install the necessary tools to compile Rust programs by visiting https://rustup.rs/ and copypasting the command into your terminal and following its steps. A standard installation works to build this project.
• With a terminal positioned at the root of the project, run cargo build --release to build the project.
  Note: This will take a while because it's the first build you do, subsequent builds will be much faster.
• Run the project with cargo run --release

Generate your word cloud

• The bot will load existing messages from the channels it is able to read from.
• Once the messages are loaded (it also works beforehand, which will however not give an extensive result), you can run the bot's slash command /cloud to display your word cloud!

This is how a word cloud might look like: