Jeffbot

A discord bot that uses the Marvel Comic API to notify upon upcoming releases of comic books.

Setup

Create an application in the Discord Developer Portal. Add a bot to the server that you wish to run this in. The permissions I gave it are the following:

scopes:

• applications.commands
• bot

permissions:

• Read message history
• Send messages
• Send messages in Threads
• Use Slash Commands
• View Channels

Create a .env file and add the following fields

• JEFFBOT_DISCORD_TOKEN: Get a discord bot token from the Discord developer portal
• MARVEL_PUB_KEY: Public key from Marvel API dashboard
• MARVEL_PRIV_KEY: Private key from Marvel API dashboard
• GUILD_ID: ID of discord server you are running this on
• CHANNEL_ID: ID of the channel that will post automatic notifications of new releases

Also, create a file at data/series.json file that will list the IDs for each series. If you go to a series from this page: https://www.marvel.com/comics/series, the series ID will be in the URL.

For example:

[
  { "id": 38806, "name": "Ultimate Black Panther (2024)" },
  { "id": 38809, "name": "Ultimate Spider-Man (2024)" },
  { "id": 38865, "name": "Ultimates (2024)" }
]

Finally run npm install, and node index.js

Features

• at 7:00am et it will post a message in a provided channel using the CHANNEL_ID env variable of if there are any new releases on that given day.
• the /comics_this_week slash command will post if any of the series you track have releases in the upcoming week
• /next_issue will take a series ID and output when the next issue is released
• /add_series: will take in a series ID and save the fields to the series.json file
• /remove_series does the opposite and removes a series
• /print_series will list all of the series being tracked