A modular Discord bot for international news with country/language preferences, daily news, onboarding, and Render deployment support.

• Get top headlines from NewsAPI in your preferred language.
• Set country and preferred languages.
• Daily news, onboarding, and more.
• Interactive paginator for browsing news.
• Admin channel setup for daily news.
• Search, trending, flash/breaking news.
• Runs as a web service for Render deployment (Flask for health checks).

1. Copy .env.example to .env and fill out credentials.
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. python bot.py

Python version:
Tested on Python 3.10+

Main dependencies:

• discord.py ≥ 2.3
• pymongo ≥ 4.5
• requests ≥ 2.31
• flask ≥ 2.2

See requirements.txt for details.

• /news — Top headlines
• /setcountry <country> — Set country
• /setlang <codes> — Set preferred language codes (comma-separated)
• /dailynews <true|false> — Enable/disable daily news DM
• /category <cat> — Category news
• /trending — Trending news
• /flashnews — Breaking news
• /search <keyword> — Search news
• /setchannel <channel> — Set server channel for daily news (admin)
• /help — Show all bot commands (also triggers onboarding once per user)

• MongoDB: Used for all user data and preferences.
• Flask: For web server/health check on Render.
• Render: Deploy with render.yaml in root.

• Removed translation, bookmarks, summarize, and local news features for a simpler codebase.
• Help and onboarding updated.
• Logging shortened by default.

• Full modular rewrite, onboarding, autocomplete, paginator, admin-only /setchannel, trending, flash, category, and search commands.

• Logs are printed to stdout (console) for each command executed, user, and relevant arguments.
• For persistent logs, run with e.g. python bot.py > logs.txt 2>&1
• For advanced logging, you can add Python logging (see below for a starter snippet):

import logging

logging.basicConfig(
    level=logging.INFO,
    filename="newsbot.log",
    format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s"
)
logging.info("Bot started.")