purgatorial

Remove Discord messages in select channels after a timeout. Fails fast, to be restarted. Handles downtime.

Usage

Create a Discord app with SCOPES bot, PERMISSIONS Manage Messages. In the Bot tab, get a token for it.
Install the contents of this repo into /usr/local/share/purgatorial (or tweak purgatorial.service), where .env contains:

TOKEN=CENSORED.CENSORED.CENSORED
CHANNEL_IDS=1234,5678
MSG_TIMEOUT=3600

Share the install link from the Installation tab with your servers' admins.
Start running with doas useradd -rms /usr/bin/nologin purgatorial && doas ln -sf $PWD/purgatorial.service /etc/systemd/system/ && doas systemctl enable --now purgatorial