This project has been halted in favour of MathBot. I will still look at and accept pull requests, however it is not under active development.
Discord LaTeX Bot
This is a bot for Discord that automatically renders LaTeX formulas.
Invocation
By default, the bot can be invoked with !tex [latex code]. Using !help or !help tex will private message the help.
Example: !tex \sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c
Running
To run the bot, you need Python3 and discord.py.
Running the bot for the first time will produce the settings.json file. You should edit this.
Settings
Login
You need either an email and passsword to login or a bot token. You can read more about that here
If you're using an email and password, under "login_method", change "token" to "account"
Under "login", if you're using the account login method, change "email" and "password" to their respective value . If you're using a bot token, set "token" to be the token that discord auto generated for you.
Channels
The list of servers and channels that the bot may access. The rules are as follows:
- If the whitelist is empty, the bot may access all channels on all servers.
- If the whitelist is not empty, the bot may access only the servers on the whitelist.
- The bot may not access any server on the blacklist.
- The bot may access any channel on the whitelist.
- The bot may not access any channel on the blacklist.
Rules with larger numbers overrule the smaller ones.
Renderer
remote will use an external server to render the LaTeX. I do not own or maintain this server.
Consider finding a different server. If too many people abuse it, it will be shut down.
local will attempt to use the programs latex and dvipng to render the LaTeX locally.