Discord Bot to monitor websites status

This bot is a simple discord bot that monitors websites status and sends a message to a discord channel when a website is down.

Prerequisites

• Docker & Docker Compose
• Discord Bot created and added to your server in your channel
  • You can follow this instructions to create your bot and add it to your server: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/discord.html
  • Permissions needed:
    • Send Messages
    • Read Messages/Voice Channels
  • In https://discord.com/developers/applications/ choose your bot which you've just created and then go to Bot -> MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT and enable it

How to use

1. Clone this repository
2. Create a .env file in the root of the project with the following variables:

   DISCORD_TOKEN = 
   DISCORD_SERVER_ID = 
   DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID = 
   URLS = 
   INTERVAL = 
   

   • env variables explanation:
     • DISCORD_TOKEN: Discord bot token (you can get it under Bot -> TOKEN)
     • DISCORD_SERVER_ID: Server ID where the bot will be running (you can get it by right clicking on the server icon and clicking on Copy ID)
     • DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID: Discord Channel ID where the messages will be sent (you can get it by right clicking on the channel and clicking on Copy ID)
     • URLS: comma separated list of urls to monitor
     • INTERVAL: interval in seconds to check the urls
3. Run docker-compose up -d to start the bot
4. Done! The bot will send a message to the channel when a website returns a status code different than 200

Commands

• stop <time>: stop the bot for the specified time in minutes
• check: Fires a check of the urls and sends a message to the channel

Example:

Troubleshooting

• If you have any problem with the bot, you can check the logs with docker logs <container_name>