Plant ID Discord Bot

A plant identification bot for your Discord server.

Plant ID Bot identifies plants from photos of their organs, passing to the Plantnet API for identification. This bot was written for Sustainable Living Hub

If you wish to invite this bot to your server, use this link. However, your server will be limited to a maximum of 10 identifications every 24h. It is strongly preferred that you host a version of this bot yourself and register for your own PlantNet API key. Details for this are later in this readme file.

Features

• Takes the message picture attachments and attempts to identify them
• Returns a suggested plant name and up to 2 alternatives, with a percentage confidence rating
• Plant names are given in latin with a list of possible common names
• Provides links to GBIF, PFAF, and POWO for the identified plant

Dependencies

This application has been built and tested with Elixir 1.18 / OTP 28.

# mix.exs

defp deps do
    [
      {:credo, "~> 1.7", only: [:dev, :test], runtime: false},
      {:dialyxir, "~> 1.4", only: [:dev, :test], runtime: false},
      {:nostrum, "~> 0.10"},
      {:httpoison, "~> 2.2"},
      {:image, "~> 0.55"},
      {:jason, "~> 1.4"},
      {:logger_webhook_backend, "~> 0.0.4"},
      {:plug, "~> 1.12"},
      {:plug_cowboy, "~> 2.7"},
      {:quantum, "~> 3.5"}
    ]
  end

Environment Variables

Below are the environment variables that you need to set for the program to function:

# needed in development and production
PLANTID_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=           client secret from the bot's application
PLANTID_LOGS_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=    webhook url for the log channel
PLANTNET_API_KEY=                    API key for the PlantNet service

# needed in development
DISCORD_DEV_GUILD_ID=                Your guild ID to populate application commands immediately

# needed in production
PLANTID_FILESERVER_URL               URL and port(if needed) for the http file server

Installation

Prerequisites

• Have a VPS ready to host this application on
• Visit PlantNet Api and create your own API key
• Visit Discord Developer Portal and create a new application as a bot. Give it permissions to read and send messages, use application commands, and to create embeds. Enable Message Content Intent. Keep note of the Bot Token.

then...

• Clone this GitHub repository locally
• Add the above environment variables to you GitHub actions secrets, as well as SSH keys for your VPS, username, host, and port
• Change the target OS version if required.
• Force the GitHub action to run, allowing it to deploy on your server
• Start the application on your VPS with your_folder_name/current_release/bin/plantid_discord_bot daemon

Development

Want to contribute? Simply fork, edit and then create a pull request. Details of how to do this can be found here.

License

MIT