Flare

An easy-to-use, dead-simple cog to add a tiny, simple, fast webpage to your bot in order to enable uptime monitoring with something like UptimeRobot.

Heavily inspired (read: mostly taken) from this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62481294/5623598. Thanks random internet person!!

Usage

Simply install the cog with pip install flare and then import it: from Flare import Flare. Finally, load the cog with bot.add_cog(Flare(bot)) and you're off to the races!!

Take a look at http://localhost:5000/ to see the bot's status page.

Example

For an example implementation, take a look at example_bot/bot.py, where there is a minimum viable bot implementing this page.

Configuration

The cog has three env vars, but the defaults work fine for a plug and play setup. If you want to change them, here's what you need to know:

• FLARE_PORT is the port the webserver is exposed on, and it defaults to 5000. Set it to any number to change the port to your heart's desire.
• FLARE_PATH is the path to the page. This defaults to /, but you can change it with this var to whatever you choose.
• FLARE_HOST is the host to listen on, defaults to None which in this case means all interfaces. You can set it to a specific IP if you would like to change this configuration.