Plio Usage Statistics Discord Bot

This repository contains the code for a discord bot which periodically generates usage statistics for plio and sends them to a discord channel.

Setup

1. Create a new file named config.ini by copying the config.example.ini file and fill the respective values. The meaning of the sections and parameters can be found in docs/ENV.md.

2. Set up a virtual environment and install the dependencies

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the script

   python lambda_function.py

Deployment

To make this script run periodically, there are two options.

1. Set up a cron job on an EC2 instance
2. Set up an AWS Lambda function which is trigged to run periodically

Since we already had an EC2 instance for running other cron jobs and the fact that it is a bit painful to make pandas/numpy work with Lambda, we have currently gone ahead with option 1.