A Discord bot to display party parrots on command. It also will insert party parrots where appropriate. Party or die. Uses the discord.py library to implement the bot. Invite link is here.

Party parrots retrieved from the Cult of the Party Parrot. The bot scrapes the site for the name and url of the party parrot on start and embeds the GIF's in the message.

Command prefix is set as "%"

• %parrot parrotname: Displays a parrot on command containing the name "parrotname"
• %list: Lists parrots

First, install all the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt. Run the server with python run.py. Simple steps to deploy on Ubuntu in the background:

1. Pull the source code git pull origin master
2. Kill the current process running (it's the shell process running runbot.sh)
3. Restart the process in the background nohup ./scripts/runbot.sh &
4. Ensure the process is running with ps ax | grep runbot.sh

A better alternative to the above is to run the bot as a service. Go to /etc/systemd/system and create a unit file named party-parrot-bot.service that contains the contents:

[Unit]
Description=party parrot bot

[Service]
User=<your user name>
WorkingDirectory=<absolute_path_to_wherever_the_source_code_is>
ExecStart=<absolute_wherever_source_code_is>/<virtual_env_name>/bin/python <absolute_wherever_source_code_is>/run.py
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the service with

sudo systemctl enable party-parrot-bot

And start the service with

sudo systemctl start party-parrot-bot

Monitor the logs with

sudo journalctl party-parrot-bot