A discord bot that randomizes bans, operator selections and more for Rainbow Six: Siege.

The bot has the following commands, some of which can be invoked using a reaction instead of a message:

Commands related to setting up matches and managing players.

Commands to interact with an ongoing match, such as banning operators or playing rounds.

Commands to track additional statistics during an ongoing match.

Commands to view statistics for players and past matches.

Commands that allow you to manage the bot itself.

Install the dependencies with the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, create a Discord bot. You can follow the discord.py documentation to learn how to do so. The bot needs the Server Members and Messages intents to work properly, and the following permissions (to be configured under OAuth2 -> URL Generator -> bot):

• Read Messages/View Channels
• Read Message History
• Send Messages
• Manage Messages (to remove messages that contain commands for the bot, and declutter the chat)
• Create Public Threads
• Send Messages in Threads

After selecting the given intents and permissions, an invite link is generated that you can use to add the bot to your server.

Create a .env file and add your bot's token (which you can generate on the Bot page):

DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=your_token_here
IS_DEBUG=1

You can now run the Discord bot with the following command, which will log it in and allow you to use the commands to interact with it:

python bot.py

If you want to host the bot on a VM, follow the instructions below.

This section details how to set up the bot to run on Google Cloud Compute, using Docker.

First, create a new project on the Google Cloud Console and follow the steps to create a billing account. Then, on your machine, install the gcloud CLI, authenticate with your account and configure Docker to use the gcloud credentials with the following commands:

gcloud auth login
gcloud auth configure-docker

You can then build the Docker image with the following command, make sure to replace <TOKEN> with your bot's token and <projectId> with your project's ID:

docker build --build-arg DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=<TOKEN> --build-arg IS_DEBUG=0 -t gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot .
docker push gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot

This first section will detail the settings to use when creating the VM on Google Cloud Compute, using the always free tier for all components.

Name: rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot - If you choose a different name, make sure to replace it in all of the commands below.

Region: Choose one of the following to stay within always free usage limits:

• Oregon: us-west1
• Iowa: us-central1
• South Carolina: us-east1

Machine type: e2-micro

VM provisioning model: Standard

Boot disk: Standard persistent disk with 10GB storage.

Firewall: Enable Allow HTTPS traffic

Network interfaces: Set Network Service Tier to Standard

Management: Under Automation, set the following as the startup script for the VM:

docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
gcloud auth configure-docker
docker pull gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot
docker image prune -f
docker run -d -p 80:80 -v rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot-database:/app/data gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot

This script will stop and remove all running Docker containers, pull the latest version of the image, and run it.

Then, hit Create to create the VM.

Once you have a VM set up, SSH into it, either directly through the Google Cloud Console or using the following command:

gcloud compute ssh rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot

First, use the following commands to set up Docker and authenticate with gcloud:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker.io
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli
gcloud auth login
gcloud auth configure-docker

Docker has now been set up, and you should be authenticated with your GCP account. Before running the next commands, make sure to first copy the database file (rainbowDiscordBot.db) to the VM. You can create a new database file by shortly starting the bot locally and then copying it out from the data folder.

Then, set up a new Docker volume and copy the database file into it:

docker volume create rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot-database
docker run -d --name temp-container -v rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot-database:/data busybox sleep infinity
docker cp ./rainbowDiscordBot.db temp-container:/data/rainbowDiscordBot.db
docker stop temp-container
docker rm temp-container
docker rmi busybox
rm ./rainbowDiscordBot.db

Now, pull and run the image you previously built:

docker pull gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot
docker run -d -p 80:80 -v rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot-database:/app/data gcr.io/<projectId>/rainbow-six-siege-discord-bot

If you've followed all steps correctly, the bot should now be logged in and respond to commands.

Whenever you update the bot, you should rebuild the image and push it to the container registry, then simply restart the VM to have it run the startup script and pull and run the new image.

If you enjoy the app and want to say thanks, consider buying me a coffee or sponsoring this project.