🎉 Good First Issue Pulse - Discord Bot 🎉

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🚀 Overview

Good First Issue Pulse (GFIP) is a Discord bot designed to help developers find and contribute to open-source projects. It automatically alerts you about open issues that need help fixing by sending messages directly to your Discord channel. Whether you're a beginner looking to start your open-source journey or an experienced developer wanting to give back, this bot makes it easy to find good first issues and stay active.

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📸 Demo

Screenshot of the GFIP bot sending an automated discord message to a designated channel.

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⚙️ Features

• Automated-timed Alerts: Get notifications for new open issues that need attention every 24 hours.
• Customizable: Configure the bot to monitor specific repositories and labels, specific languages and more.
• User-Friendly: Simple setup and easy-to-use commands.
• Community-Driven: Contribute to your favorite open-source projects and help others do the same!
• Data-Optimized: We used Redis to store and shift which Github issues you've already looked at.

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Setting up

• Make sure you have access to CLI Redis, if you don't run brew install redis
• You can check if you have CLI Redis by writing redis-cli ping you should get PONG back as a response in CLI
• You'll need to setup a DB via https://cloud.redis.io/#/.
• Hold onto the following values and set them up in your github secrets or a local .env file:
  • REDIS_HOST
  • REDIS_PORT
  • REDIS_PASSWORD
• Once all three are in your .env or Github Secrets, you should be able to run npm run start and it should populate your redis DB with a list of IDs linked to GitHub Issues

Debugging

• Setup local access to Redis via CLI and run SMEMBERS fetched_issues to make sure you're seeing a list of fetched issues
• You can run SCARD fetched_issues to view the size of the set of fetched issues