Velma bot is a discord bot to automatically post the number of sites that need to be matched in Velma to the discord channel twice a day to let people know.
The bot is currently set up only for operation in a single channel and requires the environment variables in the docker command below in order to run.
$velma status - prints the status of velma sites to be scraped as of the last check
$velma graph - generates and sends a graph of the velma number ofer the past 24 hours
$velma help - display a help message with a link to this lost of commands
To build the docker image:
docker build -t velma-bot .
The image can also be pulled from the GitHub Package Registry using the command docker pull ghcr.io/moralcode/velmabot:main.
The bot can be hosted with docker
docker run \
-e DISCORD_TOKEN=YOUR_DISCORD_TOKEN \
-e CHANNEL=CHANNEL_ID \
-e API_KEY=YOUR_VIAL_API_KEY \
-e TZ=America/Los_Angeles \
--mount type=bind,source=/etc/localtime,target=/etc/localtime,readonly \
--mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/data \
velma-bot
By adding lines to the lines.txt file, you can change what lines are randomly pulled from when velma posts the status.
These lines can be anything as long as the whole message is on one line. There are also the following substitution patterns that will be replaced with real data:
{count}will be replaced with the current number of velma sites in need of matching{last_updates}will be replaced with a relative time reperesenting when the count was last updated. Some examples of this value are "just now", "5 seconds ago", and "2 minutes ago"
for the time to be correct, you need to mount /etc/localtime from the host into the docker container as read only AND set the TZ environment variable. both of these are done in the docker command above