Scam Alert!

Discord moderation bot that scans urls for potential security risk such as phishing.

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Inspiration

The inspiration for this project has been the chaos caused in Discord over the last few months. For context, as most of you would be aware, in recent times, Discord was floaded with hackers that were spamming scam nitro links using the account of the person that clicked on the link, into the servers they were in, along with their DMs. As a result, people had to either delete their account, or change their password etc, which was just sad to watch. Therefore, I was determined to help the community by this project!

What it does

This bot once called in a server, scans every link that any member posts in a channel and checks whether it is safe to open. If, there is a potentially security risk, then the bot deletes all instants of that url and issues a warning via DM to the user that they have posted a forbidden link. If the user rejoins and repeats the same activity, then the bot bans the user indefinitely.

How we built it

This bot is built using the discord.js and Node.js frameworks with Visual Studio Code being the IDE. The bot was created and set up using the Discord deveoper portal.

Challenges we ran into

As this was my first time coding a Discord bot, I had lot's of issues with the set-up such as having a lower version of Node.js which didn't fulfil the requirement resulting in no output for quite sometime. I had issues with setting up a connection between the bot and server. I was also working for the first time with JavaScript, so it took me a while to get a hang of the syntax. Pretty much everything thing I did over the hackathon was completely new so I enjoyed and learned a lot. Amazing experience!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Given that this was my first time creating a bot using a completely new language, I am really happy that I was able to pull it off.

What we learned

I learned how to program a discord and learn a new language all together in a matter of two days which I am really happy and thrilled about.

What's next for Scam Alert!

I would love to create my own website for the bot, and add more security features to it. Also, deploying it onto a domain would be absolutely fantastic!

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