Free Games Notifier Bot¶

Installing Requirements¶

The free games notifier bot that we're going to use requires Node.js, for this we will install it:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

After executing these two commands, we will have access to the npm and node commands.

Installation¶

To install the free games notifier bot, we will first clone the project from its repo from the discord user:

sudo -iu discord
git clone https://github.com/moonstar-x/discord-free-games-notifier.git

This will create a folder called discord-free-games-notifier which will have everything we need to install our bot.

We can now access the folder and install the dependencies:

cd discord-free-games-notifier
npm install

Configuration¶

Inside the config folder there is a settings.json.example file, we'll rename it and then we'll edit it:

mv settings.json.example settings.json
nano settings.json

In here, change the settings to your own liking.

After everything has been set up, you can start the bot by inputting:

npm start

Auto-starting¶

Just like for the previous bots, we want this one to auto-start on system boot. We'll make a systemd service. For this, create the following file using a sudoer user account:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/discord_free_games_notifier.service

Inside the editor, paste the following text:

[Unit]
Description=Discord Free Games Notifier
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=discord
WorkingDirectory=/home/discord/discord-free-games-notifier/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now, we refresh, start and enable the service.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start discord_free_games_notifier.service
sudo systemctl enable discord_free_games_notifier.service