Remind

A discord bot that sends reminders for future contests using clist API.

Installation

Use Python 3.7 or later.

(upd : the current code will break on with version >= 3.10 due to usage of recordtype)

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/prabh1601/Remind-Me

Dependencies

Now all dependencies need to be installed.

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Final steps

To start remind, fill up the variables in env_file_variables.txt and rename it to .env.

You will need to setup a bot on your server before continuing. Follow the directions here. Following this, you should have your bot appearing in your server and you should have the Discord bot token.

You will need clist.by api key for updation of contest list. You can find it here after creating an account.

You can also setup a logger channel that logs warnings by assigning the enviornment variable LOGGING_COG_CHANNEL_ID. But this is optional.

After following above procedure, fire up the bot with this command in directory

./run.sh

Deployment

As a systemd Service

Using Systemd Service is very easy method to deploy.

Please note that you need admin access to the system on which you are going deploy the bot. Also this options requires managing services, please only consider this option if you know what you are doing.

1. Complete the Above procedure till Final steps and then cd to etc/systemd/service
2. Create a file name remind.service and paste the below content in it

[Unit]
Description=Remind Bot

[Service]
ExecStart=<absolute-path-to-your-bot-directory>/run.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target                          

3. Save the file and run following commands

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now remind

4. Upon Success, check the status of bot with sudo systemctl status remind.
5. If everything went well, you should be seeing running status of bot.

With Docker

If you want to just host bot using docker, then you can skip installing dependencies and just follow Final steps and just install Docker Dockerfile will take care of rest.

Credits

Shoutout to TLE developers for the inspirations. The former used to give updates only for codeforces contest which was expanded to much more sites in this bot.