What’s CW discord bot?

It’s a support bot to about ~2k Elite: Dangerous players on Discord communication software.

Linked to 3rd party APIs, eddb.io and edsm.net.

CW are initials to “Cobra Wing” our private group in the game Elite: Dangerous.

What’s your features and commands?

Commands to Show:

System that CW there’s placed and your reputations;
Chart by all systems and compare that CW there’s placed and your reputations day by day;
System minor groups to compare your influences;
Help command to show available commands;
Players statistics online and what’s games who playing.

Custom Commands:

Admin manager custom commands to returns a specific and static message response;
List all custom commands by group type.

Scheduled Execution:

Monitor and advertise newsletter by game developer site;
Monitor and advertise game server status (online, offline);
Extraction 3rd party sites infos to show chart statistics.

Technologies used:

Made using Node.js with discord.js dependency to connect the Discord server;
Many npm dependencies to read local files, request/response APIs, text format, data base access and others;
Jobs execution using node.js;
Plot.ly javascript API to generate charts;
Mongo database to store informations;
Heroku cloud application platform to run.

Steps to Run:

1) configure environment variables in your system or create .env file with:

ENVIRONMENT => set to DEV on localhost
BASE_URL => Site base URL (local http://localhost:5000 with default port)
BOT_KEY => DiscordJs bot public key, see more in discordapp.com/developers
MONGO_URL => mongodb://user:pass@host:port/dbaseName
PLOTLY_USER => Plotly API user
PLOTLY_PASS => Plotly API password
NEWSLETTER_CHANNEL => Discord channel name to show newsletter notification
SERVER_STATUS_CHANNEL => Discord channel name to show server status change notification
CUSTOM_COMMANDS_CHANNEL => Discord channel name to execute custom commands (admin commands)
BLOCK_BOT_DIRECT_MESSAGES => (true|false) to bot ignore direct messages.