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