dump-mirrorbot/heroku-guide.md

Deploying slam-mirrorbot on Heroku with Github Workflows.

Pre-requisites

• Token Pickle
• Heroku accounts. NOTE: Recommended to use 1 App in 1 Heroku account and Don't use bin/fake credits card, because your Heroku account will get banned.

Deployment

1. Give a star and Fork this repo then upload token.pickle to your forks, or you can upload your token.pickle to your Index and put your token.pickle link to TOKEN_PICKLE_URL (NOTE: If you don't upload token.pickle uploading will not work).

2. Go to Repository Settings -> Secrets

   

3. Add the below Required Variables one by one by clicking New Repository Secret everytime.

   • HEROKU_EMAIL Heroku Account Email Id in which the above app will be deployed
   • HEROKU_API_KEY Your Heroku API key, get it from https://dashboard.heroku.com/account
   • HEROKU_APP_NAME Your Heroku app name, Name Must be unique
   • CONFIG_FILE_URL Fill This in any text editor. Remove the _____REMOVE_THIS_LINE_____=True line and fill the variables. For details about config you can see Here. Go to https://gist.github.com and paste your config data. Rename the file to config.env then create secret gist. Click on Raw, copy the link. This will be your CONFIG_FILE_URL. Refer to below images for clarity.

   

   

   

   • NOTE: Remove commit id from raw link to be able to change variables without updating the CONFIG_FILE_URL in secrets. should be in this form: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/username/gist-id/raw/config.env
   • Before: 19ba5ab5eb/config.env
   • After: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anasty17/8cce4a4b4e7f4ea47e948b2d058e52ac/raw/config.env
   • You only need to restart your bot after editing config.env gist secret.

4. After adding all the above Required Variables go to Github Actions tab in your repo

5. Select Manually Deploy to Heroku workflow as shown below:

   

6. Then click on Run workflow

   

7. Done! your bot will be deployed now.

NOTE

• Don't change/edit variables from Heroku if you want to change/edit do it in config.env from your gist.

Credits

• arghyac35 for Tutorial
• AkhileshNS for Github Workflow method to deploy Heroku app