allenli873 / tle

🤖 Discord Bot for Competitive Programming

TLE (+ Heroku)

This repository helps to run tle directly in the heroku. For more information about TLE, check the main repository.

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Steps for hosting a bot for your own server using Heroku.

1. Download the heroku CLI from here
2. Now after installing the CLI, open up the CLI if you are on windows or open up a terminal if you are on linux.
3. Now enter the command heroku login and it will open up a link in the browser for login. Login using your credentials.
4. Now clone this repository from the terminal using the command git clone https://github.com/fishy15/TLE.git.
5. After cloning move into the TLE directory using cd TLE.
6. Now enter heroku create command in the terminal and hit enter. It will create a new app for you. Remember the name.
7. Now you need to add two buildpacks to deploy. The APT buildpack to install essential APT files and Python buildpack to install essential packages.
8. To add APT buildpack type the following command heroku buildpacks:add heroku-community/apt.
9. To add Python buldpack type the following command heroku buildpacks:add heroku/python.

   Note: the order of adding the buildpacks is important.

10. Now go to the personal dashboard page of heroku on your browser.
11. Next click on the app you created in step 6.
12. Now, go to resources and click on Find more add-ons and find Heroku Postgres.
13. Click to install the database on the Hobby Dev plan and set the app to the one that hosts the bot.
14. Go to settings tab and you will see a section called Config Vars. Click on the reveal config vars button.
15. Now you need to create a config var called BOT_TOKEN and paste your bot token created using discord and hit add.
16. Make sure that the name of the config var that contains the database url is named DATABASE_URL.
17. Now you are almost done. Type the following command git push heroku master and press enter.
18. It will take few minutes to build and deploy
19. After successful build open the heroku app in your browser. The same step as 10.
20. Go to Resources tab and turn on the worker. You are not charged for doing this its completely free.
21. That's it Enjoy!