BlogShot

A bot that automatically polls the newest blogpost from Hytale News Tab and posts a message into servers if there is a new one.

Add to your server

Click this link to invite the bot to your server. Please note that only people with Administrator permission will be able to configure it.

You can type %!info to get an overview over all available commands.

Self Hosting

Okay, this isn't really meant for you to setup, but if you really want to set it up yourself, fine.

• first go to the release tab, download the jar, and put it in a folder
• Add two files in the root of the repo, an admin.json and a servers.json. Add your Discord ID (not name), Bot token, and update frequency to the admin.json:

{
  "adminId": 12345678910,
  "token": "AOGH@(AKnjsfjiJijaig3ijgG92jaij",
  "updateMs":30000
}

• add your servers to servers.json

[
  {
    "id": 15050067772322222,
    "mentionedRole": "everyone",
    "autoPublish":true
  },
  {
    "id": 74050067772325222,
    "mentionedRole": null,
    "autoPublish":false
  },
  {
    "id": 74050067772325222,
    "mentionedRole": "74036067771625222",
    "autoPublish":false
  }
]

• add a test.json with the same schema as the server.json. When you enable test mode, the servers from there will be used instead allowing you to test if it works.

Compiling yourself

I developed it under Windows, and had some trouble compiling it on Linux. You mileage may vary.

Admin commands

Start the server with java -jar [server-file-name] If you put in everything correctly, the bot should message you on Discord.

Adding Servers

Please edit the JSON file. You can force an update by calling

%!refreshList

Testing

Switching between test and production files

%!testMode
%!fakeUpdate

%!productionMode

WARNING: Initiating a fake update is not being cancelled by switching to production.

Stop the server from within Discord

%!stop

Show servers, channels and roles

%!info

These commands will work in every channel, but will be ignored if they don't come from you, however the bot will always respond in a private message. It will also print errors directly in a Discord private message.

TODO

Mainly reaction roles for convenience, self setup on invite to server, Twitter integration.

Other

Thanks to Forcellrus for discovering a way to auto publish messages in news channels