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Dean Carlson edited this page Sep 22, 2017 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the ff_bot wiki!

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"Redeploy" Guide:

Get your Bot ID from https://dev.groupme.com/bots

Heroku

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Click this handy button: Deploy

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Go to your dashboard (https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps) Now you will need to setup your environment variables so that it works for your league. Click Settings at your dashboard. Then click "Reveal Config Vars" button and you will see something like this.

Now we will need to edit these variables (click the pencil to the right of the variable to modify) Note: App will restart when you change any variable so your chat room may be semi-spammed with the init message of "Hai" you can change the INIT_MSG variable to be blank to have no init message. It should also be noted that Heroku seems to restart the app about once a day

  • BOT_ID: This is your Bot ID from the GroupMe developers page (REQUIRED)
  • LEAGUE_ID: This is your ESPN league id (REQUIRED)
  • START_DATE: This is when the bot will start paying attention and sending messages to GroupMe. (2017-09-05 by default)
  • END_DATE: This is when the bot will stop paying attention and stop sending messages to GroupMe. (2017-12-26 by default)
  • LEAGUE_YEAR: ESPN League year to look at (2017 by default)
  • TIMEZONE: The timezone that the messages will look to send in. (America/New_York by default)
  • INIT_MSG: The message that the bot will say when it is started (“Hi” by default, can be blank or delete for no message)

After you have setup your variables you will need to turn it on. Navigate to the "Resources" tab of your Heroku app Dashboard. You should see something like below. Click the pencil on the right and toggle the buton so it is blue like depicted and click "Confirm."

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After setting up this new instance be sure to delete your original (not new) instance or you will run out of free hours

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Heroku Dashboard->your app->Settings->Delete App... (bottom of page)

You're done! You now have a fully featured GroupMe chat bot for ESPN leagues! If you have an INIT_MSG you will see it exclaimed in your GroupMe chat room.

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