ExternalIPDiscordBot

Automatically update Discord bot status to display external IP of a server, useful for non-static IPs.
Commands to display connection instructions for each service.

Getting Started

1. Follow the discord documentation
2. git clone this repository
3. Create a new .env file within the downloaded repository based on the .env.default format.
4. Create a new commands.json file within the downloaded repository based on the commands.json.default format.

Running in Docker (Simplified)

5. In a terminal navigate to the repo and run source startdocker.sh (Linux) or bash startdocker.sh (Windows).

Running without Docker

5. Install dependencies with pip pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Run python externalipdiscordbot.py

Supporting Resources

RealPython.com

Future Iteration Points

• docstrings
• custom response message read from json