dc-flutter-bot

An automation tool, bot, that can display latest stable version of Flutter and Dart SDK on Discord.

Purpose

There is a massive amount of computer engineering students taking a mobile programming course in which Flutter framework is used. It is a very big deal in Flutter to stay updated. Therefore, the students must update their installed version of Flutter and Dart SDK. However, there are some issues:

• It is boring to check latest SDK versions on Android Studio.
• You can check it on local terminal but it will not show all sorts of information like platforms.
• Sometimes Android Studio will not tell you whether something needs to be updated.

Luckily, they managed to stay online with a Discord Server so that a student can easily check the latest updates of Flutter and Dart SDKs with a single line of command !flutter

• To sum up, this project addresses the sophisticated process of displaying Flutter and Dart SDK versions by Python automation.

Software Components

Data

• Scraped data from Flutter SDK and Dart SDK with Selenium, Beautiful Soup, ChromeDriver modules.

Deployment

• Python app is running on Heroku

What I learned

• Scrape data from the internet by Python.
• Fetch data from dynamic web sites, by using Python's Selenium, Chrome Driver Manager modules
• Connect Discord API to create Discord automation bots
• Deploy a Python bot on Heroku and configure server for CI/CD