mabi-ah-discord

Mabinogi Auction House Watcher using Discord Bot + MongoDB Atlas

This Discord Bot query items from MabiBase and alert to the Discord channel if new item was added that matches the alert criteria. This has the same function as MabiBase built-in alert bot. However, MabiBase bot has a 5 minutes alert interval and send alerts to everyone who subscribes to its alerting function. Thus, the popular items are hotly contested and very difficult to buy at a good price.

This bot alert faster than the MabiBase built-in alerting function as this will constantly watching the database and checking items from the alert list. This will give an advantage edge in the game when buying items at a good price.

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When an item is posted on Auction House and matches our criteria:

How to use

Creating and Inviting a Private Discord Bot

1. Navigate to https://discord.com/developers/applications to create a new bot
2. Click on New Application on top right
3. Enter name for your Discord bot, accept ToS and click Create
4. Go to OAuth2 tab on the left and perform the following:

• Under Client Information:
  • Click on Reset Secret
• Under OAuth2 URL Generator:
  • Check Bot
• Under Bot Permissions:
  • Check Administrator
• Under Integration Type:
  • Select Guild Install

5. This will generate an invite link. Copy this and paste to your browser. Select the server you want to add this bot to and click Continue and then Authorize
6. Go back to the Developer Portal. Go to Installation on the left and select None in the dropdown under Install Link
7. Go to Bot tab on the left and perform the following:

• Under Authorization Flow:
  • Disable Public Bot
  • Enable Requires OAUTH2 Code Grant
• Under Priviledged Gateway Intents:
  • Enable Presence Intent
  • Enable Server Members Intent
  • Enable Message Content Intent
• Under Bot Permissions:
  • Check Administrator

8. Generate a Token by going to Bot tab and click on Reset Token under Token. Save this token to use for the app.

Creating a free MongoDB Atlas instance

1. Sign up an account for a free shared resource pool MongoDB Atlas database: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register

2. Once you've created an account and login to https://cloud.mongodb.com/, click on Create button under Create a cluster

3. Select the M0 free cluster, name the cluster and pick your favorite provider. Then click Create Deployment

   

4. Click on Quick Start under Security on the left hand bars

5. Create an username and password for your database. Then scroll down and click on Add My Current IP Address to the IP Address List. You can add 0.0.0.0/0 if you want to expose the database to everyone or if your ISP IP is not static.

   

6. On the Clusters menu, click on Connect on your new cluster

   

7. Select Drivers under Connect to your application

8. On the next page, select Python under Driver and use the latest Stable API

9. Save the connection string to use for the app. Modify it with the password as instructed.

   

Usage - Local

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/dqle/mabi-ah-discord.git

2. Create a .env file containing the following:

DISCORD_API_TOKEN         = ""
DISCORD_SERVER_ID         = ""
DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID        = ""
MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING = ""

• DISCORD_API_TOKEN is generated from step 8 of Creating and Inviting a Private Discord Bot Section
• DISCORD_SERVER_ID can be found by right click your server where you add the bot and click Copy Server ID
• DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID is the channel where you want the alert to go to. This can be found by right click your channel and click Copy Channel ID
• MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING is generated from step 8 of Creating a free MongoDB Atlas instance Section

3. Install requirements and run the program:

 pip install -r .\requirements.txt
 python.exe .\main.py #Windows

Usage - Docker Compose

1. Copy the docker-compose.yaml file

2. In the same directory as the docker-compose.yaml. Create a .env file containing the following:

DISCORD_API_TOKEN         = ""
DISCORD_SERVER_ID         = ""
DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID        = ""
MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING = ""

• DISCORD_API_TOKEN is generated from step 8 of Creating and Inviting a Private Discord Bot Section
• DISCORD_SERVER_ID can be found by right click your server where you add the bot and click Copy Server ID
• DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID is the channel where you want the alert to go to. This can be found by right click your channel and click Copy Channel ID
• MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING is generated from step 8 of Creating a free MongoDB Atlas instance Section

3. Run docker compose:

docker compose up -d

Usage - Helm Chart

1. Create a values.yaml file containing the following:

env:
  DISCORD_API_TOKEN         = ""
  DISCORD_SERVER_ID         = ""
  DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID        = ""
  MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING = ""

• DISCORD_API_TOKEN is generated from step 8 of Creating and Inviting a Private Discord Bot Section
• DISCORD_SERVER_ID can be found by right click your server where you add the bot and click Copy Server ID
• DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID is the channel where you want the alert to go to. This can be found by right click your channel and click Copy Channel ID
• MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING is generated from step 8 of Creating a free MongoDB Atlas instance Section

2. Add helm chart:

helm repo add dqle https://dqle.github.io/helm-charts/
helm repo update

3. Install helm chart:

helm install mabi-ah-discord dqle/mabi-ah-discord -f values.yaml -n mabi-ah-discord --create-namespace