site-update-bot

Discord bot to check for updates to static HTML pages

What you'll need

The code

Clone the repository, or just download main.py

Libraries

You'll need to install the requests, dotenv, and discord libraries. You might want to make a virtual environment first. Then do "pip install requests", "pip install python-dotenv", and "pip install discord".

Discord account

If you don't already have one, you can get an account here

Discord developer tools

Go here and make a new application. Write down the client ID and secret.Then make a bot within the application, write down the token

Env File

Make a file called ".env" in the same folder as main.py, and paste in "DISCORD_TOKEN=[your token here]"

Running the Bot

Run main.py - you might be able to double click, if that doesn't work open a terminal and type "python3 main.py"

Using the Bot

!ping

Make sure the bot is online

!addsite [url here]

This will add the url to your list of tracked websites

!rmvsite [url here]

Stop tracking the website

!siteupdate

Check your list of sites for updates