dontuserepl 0.1.5

Simple tools to deploy a script 24/7 on repl.it using an aiohttp server and automated uptimerobot monitors

dontuserepl

Let's face it, repl.it is one of the best places to develop, test and run code. As such, it's been popular for small discord bots for a couple of years now. Many people dislike the platform for various reasons, mainly, low resources, public code, etc, and they'll tell you to stop using it, however it remains a good place to start out and try new code easily.

The most popular way to run a discord bot on repl is to create a webserver on a different thread and configure a monitor service like uptimerobot.com to ping the server every five minutes or so.

Even though this is very simple to do, i feel bored by it, that's why i wrote this simple library.

How to use it:

Making your bot 24/7 is extremely easy with dontuserepl.

1. Go to https://uptimerobot.com/, open an account and login.
2. Go to "My settings" and scroll to "API Settings".
3. Create and copy a "Main API Key"
4. Go to your repl and add the key as a secret
5. Add the snippet below to your main.py file.

import os
from dontuserepl import lazy_setup
key = os.getenv('uptimerobot_api_key')  # use the name of the secret from step 4
lazy_setup(key)

6. That's it, lazy_setup runs a minimal aiohttp server on port 8080 and configures a monitor for the script.

Note: The server runs on the main loop since it's fully asynchronous.

Working example

import os
from dontuserepl import lazy_setup
from discord.ext import commands

key = os.getenv('uptimerobot_api_key')
token = os.getenv('discord_token')

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'logged in as "{bot.user.name}"')

@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.send('pong')


lazy_setup(key) # don't forget to call this *before* running the bot
bot.run(token)

todo:

• Upload to pypi
• Documentation
• Better error handling