Zeppelin

Zeppelin is a moderation bot for Discord, designed with large servers and reliability in mind.

Main features include:

• Extensive automoderator features (automod)
  • Word filters, spam detection, etc.
• Detailed moderator action tracking and notes (cases)
• Customizable server logs
• Tags/custom commands
• Reaction roles
• Tons of utility commands, including a granular member search
• Full configuration via a web dashboard
  • Override specific settings and permissions on e.g. a per-user, per-channel, or per-permission-level basis
• Bot-managed slowmodes
  • Automatically switches between native slowmodes (for 6h or less) and bot-enforced (for longer slowmodes)
• Starboard
• And more!

See https://zeppelin.gg/ for more details.

Development

These instructions are intended for bot development only, they are not recommended for self-hosting.

👉 No support is offered for self-hosting the bot! 👈

Running the backend

1. Go into the backend directory: cd backend

2. Install dependencies: npm ci

3. Make a copy of bot.env.example and api.env.example (removing the .example suffix), fill in the values. There are defaults for your convenience, feel free to replace these.

4. Setup the database: npm run migrate-dev

5. To start the backend, there are two alternatives:

   • It is recommended to use npm run watch for development. This will automatically restart on save
   • Run npm run build followed by the desired start script:
     • npm run start-bot-dev to start the bot.
     • start-api-dev to start the api server.

6. On the first run the bot will attempt to add all IDs from STAFF in api.env into the database

Running the dashboard

1. Go into the dashboard directory: cd dashboard

2. Install dependencies for the dashboard: npm ci

3. Make a copy of .env.example called .env, fill in the values.

4. Run the desired start script:

   • npm run watch runs webpack's dev server that automatically reloads on save
   • npm run build compiles the dashboard's static files to dist/ which can then be served with any web server

Adding configs

There are commands to add new servers and dashboard users, by default the bot has the ! prefix when first starting the bot (see step 6). Mentioning the bot in a @Bot should also work.

The commands do not work in DMs, see the following for how to use them:

• !add_server followed by a server ID, and the first user to add as a dashboard user. For example !add_server 473085256233123841 106391128718245888

• !add_dashboard_user followed by a server ID and any amount of users to be added. For example !add_dashboard_user 473085256233123841 347727875266576395 108552944961454080

• Finally there is !remove_dashboard_user, the inverse of !add_dashboard_user

Notes

• Since we now use shared paths in tsconfig.json, the compiled files in backend/dist/ have longer paths, e.g. backend/dist/backend/src/index.js instead of backend/dist/index.js. This is because the compiled shared files are placed in backend/dist/shared.

• The backend/register-tsconfig-paths.js module takes care of registering shared paths from tsconfig.json for ava and compiled .js files

• To run the tests for the files in the shared/ directory, you also need to run npm ci there

Config format example

Configuration is stored in the database in the configs table.

prefix: '!'

# role id: level
levels:
  "12345678": 100 # Example admin
  "98765432": 50 # Example mod

plugins:
  mod_plugin:
    config:
      kick_message: 'You have been kicked'
      can_kick: false
    overrides:
      - level: '>=50'
        config:
          can_kick: true
      - level: '>=100'
        config:
          kick_message: 'You have been kicked by an admin'

  other_plugin:
    config:
      categories:
        mycategory:
          opt: "something"
        othercategory:
          enabled: false
          opt: "hello"
    overrides:
      - level: '>=50'
        config:
          categories:
            mycategory:
              enabled: false
      - channel: '1234'
        config:
          categories:
            othercategory:
              enabled: true