mcstatus-discordbot

A Discord bot which provides simple information on the current status of a Minecraft server

The bot can currently display the number of online players in the "status" of the bot. It can also show which users are online at any given time.

Development

This project is a WIP, but is meant to be available for anyone to use

Technologies used

• discord.py - Discord API python wrapper
• mcstatus - Requests API for Minecraft server status

How To Set Up

Dependencies

discord.py

mcstatus (See python-mcstatus at bottom of API page)

Setting up the bot

1. Create and configure a Discord bot on the Discord Developer website
2. Add bot token from Discord Developer website to config/bot_token.py
3. Add bot prefix, server address, server port, and any other settings to config/bot_config.py
4. Start bot with run.py
5. Add bot to server and run !ping command to ensure the bot is online

Commands

• !online - Show all online players by their username
• !ping - Ping the bot, should respond with "pong" if working correctly