Pterodactyl Server Status Discord Bot v2.7

This project automatically updates post(s) with a Pterodactyl server's status in Discord.

Still very much in development!

Feel free to leave a comment in discussions if you need help or are interested in helping with this project.

Requirements

• Node.js & NPM
• Docker(optional)

First, you'll need to create a .env file and a server-configs folder in the root of the project. You can run

touch .env && mkdir server-configs

from inside the root folder to accomplish this

Then, go to Discord's developer portal and create an application, create a bot, and get a token. Keep this secure! Don't upload it or post it anywhere! You have been warned. Next, in the developer portal, copy the client ID from the OAuth2 page and paste in the .env file as botId=YOUR-APP-ID

.env should look like

token=<super_secret_bot_token>
botId=<app/bot_id>

https://discord.com/developers/applications

🚨 YOU MUST (for now) create a text channel in your server titled bot-commands for this to work.

Chat-GPT Functionality

If you'd like to use this too, you'll need to perform a couple steps. First, add OPENAI_API_KEY= to your .env file. Second, go to https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys and create an API key which you'll put right behind that equal sign. Lastly, create a text channel called ask-gpt. For now, I've hard-coded where the responses end up just to get it working.

Get the bot in your server

In the Discord developer portal, navigate to your_application > OAuth2 > URL Generator, select bot, then Admin (or pick and choose), copy the generated link at the bottom and paste it in a browser, then select your server.

Running the Bot

Navigate to the root folder (server-status-discord-bot if you cloned this repo)

run npm i to install the required packages

run npm start to get er goin

Config Setup

You're going to need:

• A game/file name

• Your Pterodactyl FQDN

• Your Pterodactyl API key

• Your Pterodactyl server ID

• The ID of the Discord channel you want this to post in

The current file setup won't work with more than one word for the filename ex. The Forest will cause an error. You can put a dash or underscore like The-Forest or The_Forest to get around this until I fix it. This now works!

Make sure you've got developer mode enabled for Discord. You're going to need to right click on the channel to get the channel ID (for now).

The bot will create a post in your Discord server's "bot-commands" channel and give you the command to input all the above info. The info will be saved locally in a <file-name_serverId>.json file in the server-configs folder.

The bot will restart several times automatically during setup.

That's it! The bot should do the rest.

Docker

Using the docker-compose.yml file inside your projects root directory, you can pull my latest image and use this as-is once you get the initial setup completed. Otherwise, feel free to modify and change it up, add your own functionality, and build your own image.

  

### Future Features

- ~~Dockerization~~ \- completed, see guide

- ~~multiple server tracking~~ \- completed

- More Pterodactyl functions

    - server starts, stops, restarts

    - ~~resource utilization~~ \- completed

    - user info