🚀 Rocket Bot (v2.3.1 Stable)

Check out all the different commands, and maybe make some more. With version 2.3 of Rocket Bot, you can do a lot.

Introduction

This is a bot built for the CosmoQuest server on Discord, it is a replacement for the CosmoQuest One which was an outdated version of the robot.

History

The original Rocket Bot was created by CosmoQuest community member Kaio Duarte. The current version is being maintained primarily by TheRealFakeAdmin and KeeperOfMaps.

Application Programming Interface (APIs)

🌑 NASA's APOD: We use the NASA API to access the full history of Astronomy Picture of The Day

🌒 Flickr API: Get images from the latest JWST posts.

🌓 OpenWeatherMap: OpenWeatherMap is an API for obtaining weather information

🌔 AviationWeather.gov: Source for the METAR and TAF data

🌕 Discord API: For everything basically

Docker Instructions

Docker - First install

Starting in the Rocket-Bot directory

1. cd CosmoQuestBot-master

2. Edit .example-env using your preferred IDE or text-editor. Fill out all necessary details (DISCORD_TOKEN, NASA_API_KEY, & WEATHER_API_KEY)

   Try nano .example-env

3. After making your changes, save the file as .env.

4. Run docker build . -t rocket-bot:v2.3.1

Docker - Usage instructions

• Run docker run --name rocket-bot-231 -d rocket-bot:v2.3.1 from anywhere on the system to start the bot

  • To auto-restart after a server reboot, add the tag --restart always

  After the first install, there is no need to run the build command until the next update. All the necessary packages have already been installed.

Docker - Stopping the container

Eventually you might want to stop the container, run the following commands to accomplish this:

1. docker ps displays all running process; locate rocket-bot:v2.3.1 & note the Container ID

   • if it returns no process, you need to change your context by running docker context list then docker context use <context_not_marked_with_*>
     • run step 1 again

2. docker stop rocket-bot

   After a short time, it should return the Container Name you just entered, this means it stopped successfully.

3. docker rm <container_id> (optional)

   • Use this before updating to a new version

Configuration

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