How To Deploy a Steem Discord Bot
Discord, although currently a centralized corporation, is an excellent way to connect with people in the Steem ecosystem. If you would like a discord bot to curate Steemit links for your server, this guide is for you. The cost per month is around $2.50 us to $4.50 us for a VPS with 2GB ram.
First, log into a VPS or linux shell, in this case I will be using Ubuntu 16.04. You also need to create a bot within discord. A full guide how to do this, is here.
Start with cloning into the bot's software.
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/Jestemkioskiem/steem-sockobot.git
Next, you need to install python correctly. This is working for me on Ubuntu 16.04
cd steem-sockobot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev
Add your environmental variables by typing
sudo nano ~/.bashrc
Then enter the details to the bottom of the file
export SB_NAME="steem name
export SB_KEY="steem key"
export SB_TOKEN="discord token"
Run this command
source ~/.bashrc
Edit bot.py to how you want it to be. Making sure to change the following settings.
SERVER_ID = '413394798255407114' # Discord server's ID
ROLE_NAME = 'VIP' # Discord server's granted role name
Add your bot's username and fill out the details / password
sudo adduser discordbot
Change users over to discordbot with
su discordbot
Type
pip3 install discord coinmarketcap steem
Now you can run the bot with the command,
python3 bot.py
You can also run the bot in the background with,
python3 bot.py&
If you would like your bot to start with the server, try reading some solutions in this thread.
Don't forget to show the developer of this application some appreciation, if you liked this bot. @jestemkioskiem is the creator.
Good Work, glad you were able to figure this out for our community bot. Nice simple walkthrough I could probably do that even, thank you for this I am certain someone will find it useful.
Thank you D00k13. It takes a bit to learn but it is well worth the investment of time. That was my goal, I'm happy if this saves someone, somewhere a few minutes of research if they need to deploy a bot.
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