S-P500

Discord bot to track the number of Somie Coins in S&P. Could theoretically be extended to track more emojis.

Setup

• You need python 3
• You'll need to install discord.py. I had to do the "potentially breaking" pip3 option on WSL. On a normal ubuntu vm the usual pip3 method (pip3 install discord.py) worked fine.

Environment

The bot uses 2 environment variables:

1. S_P_500_KEY: The bot's API Key. You'll have to reach out to Ada for this if you for some reason need it - I'd recommend doing local testing with your own bot though. Hit up ada if you want help getting a discord bot created.
2. COIN_EMOJI_NAME: Which emoji "counts" as the S&P Coin. We've been using kekw for testing. It's :spcoin: in prod.

Running

python3 coin-tracker.py (note that on the Google Cloud VM it uses python3 coin-tracker.py & so it runs in the background)

The bot creates 2 files to persist the coin counts per user and the last market value of S&P coin. On initial startup, on_ready will throw an error because those files don't exist, but that's fine, everything should work and they'll be created during normal use.

A third file is also used but is a disabled feature currently, slow_mode_hours.txt. This limits queries by the same user to /value to 1 per the number in that file hours. If it's null or 0, it treats that as unlimited queries.

Deployment

The bot is currently deployed on a Google Compute platform VM owned by Ada. She just copy-pastes the current code of coin-tracker.py and runs it, there's no CI/CD.