Celestial Alert

This is a discord bot developed for Gagan Vedhi Club server, the Astronomy club of Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati. The bot checks the current location of the International Space Station periodically every 5 seconds and ping the server memebers when the ISS is in close promixity of the city.

Folder Structure:

.
├── assets
│   └── logo.png
│   └── permissions.png
│── .env
│    ├── TOKEN=Your Discord Bot Token
│    ├── CHANNEL_ID=Channel id in which you want the bot to prompt
├── .gitignore
├── main.py
├── app.py 
├── bot.py
├── build.sh
├── Procfile
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt

Installation and Running:

1. Clone the repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/astroclubiitt/CelestialAlert.git

2. Install the required dependencies using the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Either you can run locally or deploy it in a virtual private server, or you can configure an Arduino zero to do it, since the bot is not heavy.

4. Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following variables:

TOKEN=YOUT_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
CHANNEL_ID=Channel id in which you want the bot to prompt

5. In Testing/debugging phase :

python bot.py

Deployment:

1. You can deploy the bot in a virtual private server or in a cloud platform like Heroku, AWS, etc.
2. This bot is deployed on render and cron-jobs is used to monitor the uptime.
3. To deployt in render:
   • build command:

     • ./build.sh

   • run command:

     • python main.py

Features:

1. The bot checks the current location of the International Space Station periodically every 5 seconds.
2. The bot pings the server memebers when the ISS is in close promixity of the city.

Contributors:

1. Ikshitha - Mentee
2. Manas - Mentor

API Used:

1. Open Notify API

Citties Available:

• Tirupati, Gorakhpur, Delhi, Kanpur, Kaharjpur, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Paris, Singapore.

Note:

• The bot is not optimized and configures, so we advise you to create your own bot and configure it according to your needs by utilizing the code. use $help to get bot commands.

• Enable the intents so that it can read message events.

License:

This project is licensed under the MIT License