QuestCompanion

Inspiration

As we've all been experiencing lately, finding motivation and community in a pandemic, when many of our lives have moved online, can be difficult. We wanted to create a place for users working towards a common goal to encourage each other and share their progress. For example, users who want to:

eat healthy for one month
workout 3 times every week
learn a new language
sleep early

can join a quest, similar to joining a party in a video game, and be challenged to make it through the adventure.

What it does

QuestCompanion bot manages creating challenges text-channels and users can navigate through the list and choose which challenge they want to join. Each challenge is created to encourage users to improve their life in a specific area in a safe virtual community for a period of time. In each challenge the bot will send an inspirational quote everyday.

QuestCompanion has many functionalities/commands :

!create [quest name] available in the create-quests channel, it allows anyone to create an active quest channel
!delete quest channel accessible for the creator of the quest and admins
Set a reminder !remindat [YYYY-MM-DD, HH:MM the task] Example: !remindat 2021-02-21,14:34 make awesome discord bot
Reacting with a thumbs up will create a welcome message in the Quest you chose to join
!image post a random image (limited for now)
!inspire me post a random inspirational quote with a random color line
!archive quest and !unarchive quest accessible for the creator of the quest and admins
!who to receive a list of people who have joined a quest
!help post a help message with the list of commands

How we built it

With love and Python! We used the Discord.py API to program the bot and also we used web scraping to source inspirational quotes.

Challenges we ran into

It was hard to coordinate who was working on which part of the code. Additionally, because we were in different time-zones we had different moments where we were inactive.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The look of the bot with the embedded messages throughout creates a coherent feeling.

What we learned

We have learned how to use the Discord.py API and use sqlite3 to manage a database that connects to the Discord bot.

What's next for QuestCompanion

We are planning to build it as a mobile-app with more features like:

creating user profile
tracking the user progress for every challenge
collecting points

Built With

api
discord
discord.py
python

Submitted to

Pearl Hacks 2021

Created by

I have worked on the features of bot like adding images, reacting to users message and adding reminders. I have created the dataset of inspiring quotes using web scraping.

Private user
I brainstormed features for the bot, helped people debug problems, and wrote code for the !create [channelname], !archive, !unarchive, !delete, !inspire me, !who functions, and the reaction-function to add people to a quest, and I created the database and database manager functions using sqlite3

Emma Raat
I came up with the general idea but the discord idea was Emma's. It was my first time in creating a discord bot and using Python and discord.py library.
I worked on the basics of creating and deleting a text-channel by the bot.

Bayan Alsalem
I brainstormed features for the bot, researched about the Discord.py API, contributed code for the help message and welcome message, and wrote descriptions about the features in Devpost.

Aparna Arul
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