Moggie-bot is a webhook service serving as a connection between the Discord API & XIVAPI resources. In a Discord channel, a user querys a command such as '?whoami', the command is sent to a server hosting this service, and responds with an automated player card.
Firstly, if a user has not told the server who their player name is, they use '?iam < server-name > < player-name >', and moggie-bot with save the Discord user name, and in-game player name. Next, Moggie-bot querys XIVAPI for an in-game player id, and caches the id to increase throughput.
Next, Moggie-bot queirys XIVAPI for a player image, and player profile information. The image is saved locally (temporarily), and an info object is added to memory. Using the assets, card_background.png, full-border.png, text_boxes4.png, and stored character image, a card template is formed and character info is overlayed on top. Since the player image resolution is quite small, I added a background extending the resolution which seemlessly connects with player image. The extended background (card_background.png) was created using GIMP image maniplulate software using a portion of the player image background, and gradients using colers from player image.
Moggie-bot can be added to discord channel with this link: Moggie-bot. Only a user with admin privileges to a discord server can add the bot.
Moggie-bot is hosted using Linux supervisorctl service on a Raspberry Pi, and implemented as follows:
Create a conf file such as bot.conf under /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ Create a 2 log files such under /var/log/ called: '< service-name >'.err.log and '< service-name >'.out.log
conf file has these contents:
[program:<service-name>]
directory=/home/<py file location>
command=/usr/bin/python3 /home/<py file location>/<py file name>
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/var/log/moggy.err.log
stdout_logfile=/var/log/moggy.out.log
The service can only access files in the directory folder
supervisorctl reread to load conf file
supervisorctl update to activate bot service
supervisorctl restart <service-name> when changes to .py file is made
supervisorctl tail <service-name> to see console logs
supervisorctl tail <service-name> stderr to see error messages