Advent of Code Private Leaderboard Discord Bot

A self-hosted discord bot to show your private Advent of Code leaderboards on your discord servers

Setup

1. Clone

git clone https://github.com/kavinvalli/aoc-private-lb-discord-bot.git

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Setup environment variables

   1. App Name could be anything (optional)
   2. Get your DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN and DISCORD_CLIENT_ID from here. More details here.
   3. For SESSION, follow the following steps.
      1. Go to the Private Leaderboards Page on adventofcode.com.
      2. Click on View on the leaderboard you want the discord bot to run for.
      3. Click on API, then click on JSON.
      4. Now, right click on the page and click on Inspect.
      5. Go to the Network tab.
      6. Refresh the page.
      7. On the table, click on the one which has a name ending in .json and type as document.
      8. Scroll down, and in the Request Headers section, you will find a field that says cookie. Copy everything after session= and that is your SESSION.
   4. PRIVATE_LEADERBOARD_ID: In step 3, after clicking on JSON, you visit a page. The URL would look something like this: https://adventofcode.com/2022/leaderboard/private/view/1234567.json. Here 1234567 is the PRIVATE_LEADERBOARD_ID.

4. Run the App

   1. Development mode

   npm run dev

   2. Normal Start

   npm start

   3. Build the application. The build files will be in the dist/ folder.

   npm run build

Deployment

To deploy the app on an EC2, GCP Instance, etc. use pm2.

1. Build the app using npm run build.
2. Start the pm2 process.

pm2 start dist/index.js --name aoc-private-lb-discord-bot # Replace aoc-private-lb-discord-bot with whatever you want to name the process (this is only for reference)