🤖 tcb-opus

tcb-opus is a Discord bot you can use to get the latest manga chapters from TCBScans as soon as they come out!

To work properly, you first need to configure one of the channels in your Discord server to follow updates from the #releases text channel on the official TCB Discord server. This will cause any message posted by the original TCB bot in the #releases channel to be forwarded to your own channel on your Discord server.

Once a message is forwarded to your Discord channel, tcb-opus will analyse it and determine to what manga it corresponds. Once a valid manga has been recognized, tcb-opus will attempt to fetch the URL of the latest chapter for that manga from TCBScans. It will then send a message containing the chapter URL to whatever channel you like on your Discord server.

🧰 Requirements

Please make sure you have both npm and Node.js v16.6+ installed otherwise this bot will not work. Once you have cloned the repository, simply run npm i to install the required dependencies on your system.

⚙️ Setup

Bot token and prefix

First, you need to create a Discord application and bot on Discord Developer Portal. Then, create a file named config.json with the following content:

{
  "token": "YOUR_BOT_TOKEN",
  "prefix": "!"
}

Replace YOUR_BOT_TOKEN with the token of your bot.

OPUS configuration

Now that config.json has been created, you need to configure the bot to listen for specific manga releases and notify users. To do that, open the file opus-config.json. It should have the following content by default:

{
  "scanSite": "https://tcbscans.com/",
  "fetchMode": 2,
  "mangas": [
    {
      "name": "One Piece",
      "active": true,
      "notifyRole": "DISCORD_ROLE_ID",
      "fromChannel": "TCB_LISTEN_CHANNEL_ID",
      "toChannel": "OPUS_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID",
      "autoCreateThread": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Black Clover",
      "active": true,
      "notifyRole": "DISCORD_ROLE_ID",
      "fromChannel": "TCB_LISTEN_CHANNEL_ID",
      "toChannel": "OPUS_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID",
      "autoCreateThread": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Hunter X Hunter",
      "regex": "H(unter)?(.?)X(.?)H(unter)?",
      "active": true,
      "notifyRole": "DISCORD_ROLE_ID",
      "fromChannel": "TCB_LISTEN_CHANNEL_ID",
      "toChannel": "OPUS_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID",
      "autoCreateThread": true
    }
  ]
}

You do not need to change scanSite as only TCB can be used right now. fetchMode will control how chapter data is fetched. Two modes are available:

• 1: The chapter number and direct URL will be fetched from TCB's Discord message
• 2: It is possible that TCB decides to stop posting direct links to the chapter for security reasons. In that case, you can setup tcb-opus to scrape the website and find the direct link and chapter number itself

The default configuration registers listen events for two mangas: One Piece and Black Clover. You can register as many mangas as you want as long as the scans exist on the TCB website.

Manga attributes:

• The name attribute of a manga is the most important as it is used to identify a manga on TCB. Make sure to get it right.
• The regex attribute is optional and may be used when TCB uses other denominations for the manga in their Discord messages.
• The active attribute can be used to disable notification for a specific manga without removing its configuration.
• The notifyRole attribute will be used in the notification message to notify a specific Discord role. The value must be a valid Discord role ID on your Discord server. This attribute is optional. If omitted, the notification message will not ping any role.
• The fromChannel attribute is the Discord channel ID in which you receive TCB releases notifications.
• The toChannel attribute is the Discord channel ID of the channel where you want OPUS notifications to be sent.
• The autoCreateThread attribute is used to automatically create a thread to talk about a new chapter release. The thread will be attached to the toChannel channel. This attribute is optional. If omitted, no thread will be created.

🚀 Launching the bot

Once, you have installed the required packages and configured config.json, you can launch the bot simply by typing:

npm start