Github Workflow discord bot

This project contain node server code interacting with my Github Worflow bot. Enable your Discord server to receive messages in a channel on events triggered by your GitHub workflow.

Demo

Pre-requisites

• Create a discord Bot with following permissions and install it to your server

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to set the following environment variables. You have to customize this value.

💡 You can retrieve application Ids and bot token in your Discord developer portal.

PORT=5000
DISCORD_TOKEN=<Bot Token>
APP_ID=<Application ID>
PUBLIC_KEY=<Application public key>

Run Locally

Clone repo from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/MatthiasWanner/discord_bot-github_workflow.git
cd discord_bot-github_workflow

Install node dependencies

yarn

Launch local development node server (watch mode with nodemon)

yarn dev

Build project and start server

yarn start

Test with Discord locally

If you want to test slash commands interactons with a local server, you can create a ngrok tunnel and set the public url according to the documentation.

Features

1️⃣ Launch /project slash command into the channel where you want to receive GitHub events informations

2️⃣ Setup Github repo environment variables according to bot response
3️⃣ Create GitHub Actions enable to send messages to Discord channel like this example

name: Pull Request on master branch

# only trigger on pull request open events
on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - master
    types:
      - 'opened'

jobs:
  master_pr:
    name: 'PR on Master'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 'Checkout the code'
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: 'Tag team users on Discord'
        env:
          DISCORD_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          DISCORD_USERNAME: GitHub Actions
        uses: Ilshidur/action-discord@master
        with:
          args: '<@&${{ secrets.DISCORD_ROLE }}>'

      - name: 'Create embed informations to Discord Channel'
        uses: sarisia/actions-status-discord@v1
        with:
          webhook: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          title: '${{ github.event.pull_request.user.login }} opened a PR on ${{ github.base_ref }} ✨'
          description: |
            Branch `${{ github.head_ref }}`
            **Click [here](https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/pull/${{ github.event.number }} "GitHub PR link") to review!**
          username: GitHub Actions
          noprefix: true

4️⃣ With this jobs, you will receive messages each time a pull request is opened