📊 MC > Discord Updater

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🚀 Introduction

A Discord bot script that updates a channel or Discord activity to fit the amount of players on a MC server. At the moment, it supports channel name updating, channel description updating and bot presence updating.

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🚧 Warning

Discord's API limits on channel renaming and topic updating may be high at the moment (nobody seems to know which they exactly are, but around 2 renames per 10 minutes seems to be a safe guess). At such, don't try setting timeouts to values that are too low or it may not work at all.

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⚙ Configuration

All the configuration is done through the config.json file.

• token - The bot's token on Discord.
• server - The server's data.
  • ip - The server's IP.
  • port - The server's port.
• motd_pfp - Whether the bot will try to fetch and update its profile picture according to the server's icon.
• defPresence - The bot's presence data by default.
  • status - The bot's status. This is the only option that will remain constant whether presence updating is enabled or not. Possible values..
  • activity - The bot's activity (This is only used if presence updating is disabled)
    • type - The bot's activity type. Possible values.
    • name - The string to use as the bot's current activity.
• updates - Options for the bot to update.
  • presence - Options for presence updating.
    • enabled - Whether presence updating is enabled or not.
    • type - The bot's activity type. Possible values.
    • format - The string to use when updating. %p% is used as a placeholder and will be replaced with the playercount.
    • offline - The string to use if the server is offline.
    • timeout - The timeout (in seconds) between each update.
  • channel_name - Options for channel name updating.
    • enabled - Whether channel name updating is enabled or not.
    • channel_id - The ID (not name) of the channel to update.
    • format - The string to use when updating. %p% is used as a placeholder and will be replaced with the playercount.
    • offline - The string to use if the server is offline.
    • timeout - The timeout (in seconds) between each update.
  • channel_description - Options for channel description updating.
    • enabled - Whether channel name description is enabled or not.
    • channel_id - The ID (not name) of the channel to update.
    • format - The string to use when updating. %p% is used as a placeholder and will be replaced with the playercount.
    • offline - The string to use if the server is offline.
    • timeout - The timeout (in seconds) between each update.

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🏃‍♂️ Setting the Bot up

This bot uses Discord.js v13, so Node.js 16.6.0 or newer is required.

1. Change exampleconfig.json according to your needs.
2. Rename exampleconfig.json to config.json.
3. On a command prompt opened on the bot's working folder, use npm i to install the dependencies.
4. On the same command prompt use node .
5. Enjoy!

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💻 Development

The bot uses the minecraft-server-ping to get server data directly from the server by pinging it. If you think you have a better implementation, feel free to leave a PR.

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