keepalive

Discord Bot to keep threads from expiring

Installation

Create a new Discord Bot in the Discord developer console. Remember to select "Bot" and "applications.commands" in OAuth2->URL Generator else your Bot will not work.

Usage

The bot exports three (slash) commands:

• /addthread <thread ID>|all to either keep the given thread ID alive or all threads alive.
• /rmthread <thread ID> to stop keeping the given thread ID alive
• /lsthread to list all thread IDs being kept alive

The way any given thread is kept alive is by sending a message to it and then deleting it.

Configuration

Create a .env file in the bot directory with two variables:

KEEPALIVE_BOT_SECRET="your bot token"
KEEPALIVE_CRONTAB="your bot crontab for keeping threads alive"

One good schedule to keep threads alive, IMHO is

KEEPALIVE_CRONTAB="0 1 * * *"

Meaning send a keep-alive message to all monitored threads every day at 1 AM.