Suicide Helpline Bot

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  example of bot working

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  example of bot working

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  project published on autocode

Inspiration

After watching the MLH livestream I went to the autocode YouTube channel where I came across @Jacklyn's tutorial where she built a bot that would reply with Hey! to messages saying hey I thought about how I could use this concept and apply it to help people and this is what I came up with

What it does

The bot uses RegEx to find certain keywords in a message and if they are alarming the bot replies with country specific suicide prevention helpline numbers.

How we built it

I referenced the YouTube tutorial autocode documentation by autocode on how to customise the bot and documentation by Mozilla to understand RegEx

Challenges we ran into

I am a beginner in javascript so the syntax was a little bit confusing. in my experience its the silly stuff that took most of my time to debug as I was just getting used to autocode for example I spent a few minutes trying to figure out why my prefix commands that I added were not working but it turned out I just hadn't pushed the run button.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Even though the bot isn't very complex I am really proud of the concept behind it and being able to accomplish that in a few hours feels great.

What we learned

I learned a lot about RegEx , using Autocode as a platform , publishing Discord Bots and there's alot more to learn which I am excited to explore more about.

What's next for Suicide Helpline Bot

I want work on adding more features like motivational quotes or adding a prefix command that'll delete the users message and DM the user the hotlines as sometimes people might not want to appear vulnerable in public

Built With

• autocode
• discord
• javascript