Just started your new crypto server?
A price bot is a good feature to keep your community members' attention within the discord channel instead of focusing their attention on other charting websites.
In this tutorial, we will teach you exactly how you can set up your own Customised Price bot for your project even if it is not listed on Coingecko yet.
This price bot only works on the following blockchains:
If you do not have a computer running 24/7, you will be required to use external hosting, firebase, to run your program which may incur some fees depending on your price update frequency and how many price bots you have.
For moderate usage, the monthly cost should be negligible in the cents or even free as long as you stay under the threshold.
We will be using Firebase for our Bot application which you will need to create an account and input your credit card details later.
We will also be using the Moralis API instead of the free CoinGecko API as your project may not be listed on CoinGecko yet.
Moralis API is free as well as long as you don't go overboard with the frequency that you request the new pricing.
The current setting of 1 minute per interval should be well under the 10million request per month for Moralis.
So to summarise you will need to create these accounts:
If you are new to programming, you will be required to install the following applications:
You will be taught how to create the accounts and install the following software later and there's no need to write actual code as you will be copying and pasting what we have.
This guide is primarily for Mac OS but it should work similarly for windows as well.
It will not be easy for a beginner but if you are ready for the challenge, let's get started!
First things first, you’re going to want to log into the Discord developers portal navigate to “Applications” and click on “New Application” after which you will be given a prompt to put in the name of the application.
Next, you will want to click the add bot button in the bot's tab and create a bot.
At this stage, you can name it anything you want or upload your project's icon.
Next, head over to the OAuth2 tab > URL Generator and click bot, we will generate a link to invite our newly created bot to our server.
You will find the link at the bottom of this page.
Copy the link and invite your bot to the server.
Install Node.js by clicking this link.
Select the recommended version for the Operating System you are using ( Mac or Windows ) and install it.
Install Visual studios Code by clicking this link.
Install the Stable version recommended for you.
Go over to Firebase and create an account.
After creating an account, go to the console page and then click Add project.
Give it the name of the project you want to track so you can easily identify it later.
You can skip the analytics portion.
After creating the app, click on the upgrade button on the bottom left and click on the Blaze Plan as cloud functions will only work on the Blaze Plan.
However, if you view the full plan details, you will see that most of the cost starts only after you have consumed significant resources.
For our use case, the monthly cost should be negligible.
Click select plan and go ahead and fill in your billing details, remember to set a price cap for your billing at the end under $1 so you never go above a certain threshold by accident.
Click the purchase button and fill in your billing details if you haven't set it up for Google Console.
Head over to Moralis and create an account.
After creating an account, you can see the API tab in the dashboard.
Cick Copy API Key and click default and store it somewhere safe, we will be using it to access Moralis later.
This is the most complicated step so please follow it carefully.
Download the following code package and unzip it to your Desktop.
We will need to use the Terminal to access that folder to install the files later.
Please save the folder name without any space or special character as it may affect the installation later.
Since we already have Node.js installed, we can install Firebase using Node.js in the terminal.
Go to your Visual Studio and in the top navigation, click terminal >> new terminal
You should be able to see the terminal box in the bottom of the visual studio application.
We will first need to navigate to the folder using the following terminal commands:
Cheatsheet
cd foldername > Navigate to folder
cd . . > Go back to previous folder
ls > list the folders available to navigate to
Now we will need to navigate to the correct folder to install our files.
Type ls in the terminal and press enter.
You should be able to see the options available that we can navigate to and get a sense of which folder you are currently at.
We now need to navigate to the Desktop folder so type "cd desktop" if it's available in the list, if not double check the file path required to go to your desktop, and traverse using the terminal commands till you find the desktop.
After going to the desktop, you will now need to go the folder you have downloaded.
Type cd "Name of your folder".
If at any point you have entered the wrong folder, remember you can just type "cd . ." and then ls again to list the available folders in your current location.
Once you are in the folder, we can proceed to install Firebase.
Type the following code:
sudo npm install -g firebase-toolsAnd then login to firebase in your terminal by typing:
firebase loginYou will be prompted to login, after logging in, type
firebase initNext, use the down arrow key and select the "Hosting" option below by pressing space and then enter.
Next, select an existing project
And use the navigation to select the project that you have created in your Firebase account.
Select the following settings and Firebase should be linked to the folder you have selected in the desktop. You are now able to easily deploy the files in here to your firebase hosting server.
Next, let's create a functions folder, type the following into the terminal
firebase init functionsAnd then select the following options.
Your folder should now have the following files if you have done it correctly.
Now it's time to copy the code available.
Use Visual Studio Code and open the functions folder as shown above.
You should see the following files in the editor under functions.
We will now need to copy our code and replace the code within these files. Make sure you delete the existing code.
The files we will be need to replace are
Click the add files function to create a .env files if required.
After you have copied over the code, remember to save the code for each file individually by hitting cmd + S or going to the top navigation and clicking file > save.
In the .env file, we are able to set the server that we want this bot to work on and also the which bot to target.
Head over to your Discord Developer Portal and find your Bot Token
If you can't see the Token, click Reset Token to get a new one and then key it into the .env file under DISCORD_TOKEN.
Anytime you reset the token, you must edit the ".env" file and deploy it again to firebase.
Next, copy and paste your Moralis API Token in to the Moralis API token field.
Right-click your server name and copy your Server ID and paste it into the .env file.
If you can't see the Copy ID button, make sure you have developer access turned on in your settings on Discord.
And add it to the SERVER_ID field.
Fill in your Token Name, Contract Address, Ticker Symbol and Blockchain into the .env file and save.
Make sure to use the correct lookup values for the chains, for example for the Binance smart chain it's "bsc", you can find the lookup values in the website provided in the env file.
If you do not find the chain, it means the chain is currently not supported by Moralis so the price bot will not work.
Head back to the terminal and make sure you are in the functions folder.
Tip: You can also type ls to see if "Index.js" or "Package.json" is in the list to make sure you are in the functions folder.
Next, type:
npm installAfter the node modules have been installed, we will next need to deploy this version to Firebase which is the cloud hosting we will use. Type:
firebase deployAfter deployment, you should be able to see the StartBot function in your firebase account under functions.
Hover over the Request URL and copy the hover text and visit the URL in another tab.
Once you visited the URL, the website will write:
{"result":"bot started"}This means that your bot is running fine and you should be able to see your Bot come online and then reflecting the price within the next 5 minutes.
If you face any difficulties during the creation process, feel free to drop by our new Discord Channel and go to the #support section that is specifically for project teams.
