better-giveaways

A modern, feature-rich Discord giveaway manager with TypeScript support, flexible storage adapters, and comprehensive event system. Built as an improved alternative to existing Discord giveaway packages.

✨ Features

• 🎯 TypeScript Support - Full type safety and IntelliSense
• 🔧 Flexible Storage - Multiple storage adapters (JSON, Sequelize, custom)
• 📡 Event-Driven - Comprehensive event system for custom handling
• 🌍 Internationalization - Multi-language support (English, Czech)
• 🛡️ Advanced Requirements - Role, account age, server join date, and custom checks
• ⚡ Performance Focused - Efficient memory usage and response times
• 🔄 Automatic Recovery - Restores giveaways after bot restarts
• 🎲 Reroll Support - Easy winner rerolling functionality

📦 Installation

# Stable version (latest)
npm install better-giveaways@latest
# Unstable version with beta features (dev)
npm install better-giveaways@dev
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🤖 Example bot

Beepo's source code

🚀 Quick Start

import { Client } from "discord.js";
import { GiveawayManager, JSONAdapter } from "better-giveaways";

const client = new Client({
  intents: ["Guilds", "GuildMessages", "GuildMessageReactions"],
});

// Initialize with JSON storage
const adapter = new JSONAdapter("./giveaways.json");
const giveawayManager = new GiveawayManager(client, adapter, {
  reaction: "🎉",
  botsCanWin: false,
  language: "en",
});

// Start a giveaway
await giveawayManager.start({
  channelId: "123456789012345678",
  prize: "Discord Nitro",
  winnerCount: 1,
  duration: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // 24 hours
  requirements: {
    requiredRoles: ["roleIdHere"],
    accountAgeMin: Date.now() - 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // 7 days old account
  },
});
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📚 API Reference

GiveawayManager

Constructor

new GiveawayManager(client: Client, adapter: BaseAdapter, options: GiveawayManagerOptions)
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Methods

• start(options: GiveawayOptions): Promise<GiveawayData> - Start a new giveaway
• end(giveawayId: string): Promise<void> - End a giveaway manually
• reroll(giveawayId: string): Promise<void> - Reroll giveaway winners
• getGiveaway(giveawayId: string): Promise<GiveawayData | null> - Get giveaway data
• getAllGiveaways(): Promise<GiveawayData[]> - Get all giveaways
• deleteGiveaway(giveawayId: string): Promise<void> - Delete a giveaway

Storage Adapters

JSONAdapter

import { JSONAdapter } from "better-giveaways";
const adapter = new JSONAdapter("./data/giveaways.json");
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SequelizeAdapter

import { SequelizeAdapter } from "better-giveaways";
import { Sequelize } from "sequelize";

const sequelize = new Sequelize("database", "username", "password", {
  host: "localhost",
  dialect: "mysql",
});
const adapter = new SequelizeAdapter(sequelize);
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Custom Adapter

import { BaseAdapter } from "better-giveaways";

class CustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
  async save(data: GiveawayData[]): Promise<void> {
    // Your custom save logic
  }

  async load(): Promise<GiveawayData[]> {
    // Your custom load logic
  }
}
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Requirements System

const requirements = {
  requiredRoles: ["Member", "Active"], // Role names or IDs
  accountAgeMin: Date.now() - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // 30 days
  joinedServerBefore: Date.now() - 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, // 7 days
  custom: async (userId: string) => {
    // Your custom logic here
    const user = await client.users.fetch(userId);
    const hasNitro = user.premiumType !== null;

    return {
      passed: hasNitro,
      reason: hasNitro ? "User has Nitro" : "User must have Discord Nitro",
    };
  },
};
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Event Handling

// Listen to giveaway events
giveawayManager.events.on("giveawayStarted", (giveaway) => {
  console.log(`Giveaway started: ${giveaway.prize}`);
});

giveawayManager.events.on("giveawayEnded", (giveaway, winners) => {
  console.log(
    `Giveaway ended: ${giveaway.prize}, Winners: ${winners.join(", ")}`
  );
});

giveawayManager.events.on("requirementsFailed", (giveaway, user, reason) => {
  console.log(`User ${user.tag} failed requirements: ${reason}`);
});
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🌍 Internationalization

Supported languages:

• en - English (default)
• cs - Czech

const giveawayManager = new GiveawayManager(client, adapter, {
  reaction: "🎉",
  botsCanWin: false,
  language: "cs", // Use Czech language
});
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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository
• npm Package
• Issue Tracker

📞 Support

If you have any questions or need help, please open an issue on GitHub.