How to self-host Member Counter
(With screenshots!)
- Have patience and read carefully this guide
- Be familiarized with the CLI (cmd.exe, bash, zsh)
- If you need help, feel free to ask in this discord server in #support , but READ THE WHOLE GUIDE FIRST!
Go to the Discord Developer Portal, and click "New Application", type a name and click the "Create" button
Now go to the bot tab, and click "Add Bot", and confirm by clicking "Yes, do it!"
Now enable all the privileged gateway intents, change the bot icon if you wish and click "Save Changes", and copy the bot token by clicking "Copy" under the "Token" section, save it in a safe place for future steps
Download and install Docker and Docker Compose for your OS
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After installing
docker and docker-compose, you should run the following command:docker-compose disable-v2
Open your terminal (cmd.exe, Terminal.app, etc) and run this command to download Member Counter
HTTPS
SSH
git clone -b master https://github.com/eduardozgz/member-counter-bot.git
git clone -b master [email protected]:eduardozgz/member-counter-bot.git
Now open the downloaded directory
cd member-counter-bot
Open the bot folder in your terminal and create a
.env file from the .env.example fileWindows
Linux / macOS
copy .env.example .env
cp .env.example .env
A new
.envfile will appear in the folder, open it with your favorite text editor (like notepad.exe, vim, vscode, etc)You might have to toggle the hidden files visibility in your file explorer
You will see a bunch of variables to set, but at least, you only need to set one:
DISCORD_CLIENT_TOKEN (in the second line), after the equal character (=) paste here the bot token, and save the file.env
# Minimal config:
DISCORD_CLIENT_TOKEN=PASTE HERE THE TOKEN
# General discord related configuration
# Don't set DISCORD_CLIENT_ID manually, this will be automatically set at runtime
# DISCORD_CLIENT_ID=
DISCORD_DEFAULT_LANG=en_US
# and more variables...
In order to use counters like
{youtubeSubscribers} or {twitterFollowers} you must set the following variables:Open again your terminal and use this command
docker-compose up
This step will take a long time, be patient
If you see a message like this, that means you successfully installed Member Counter, else, it will give you errors that you must fix (stop the bot with Ctrl+C and check the previous steps)
Member-Counter-App | Database connection ready
Member-Counter-App | Bot ready
Member-Counter-App | Invite link: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=787989722009174066&permissions=269864023&scope=bot
Invite the bot to your discord server using the provided link, and check commands like
@Member Counter help, @Member Counter status
If the bot is working well, let's make the bot auto start when your PC or server boots up, focus your terminal window and hit Ctrl+C to stop the bot and then run it again in the background with this:
docker-compose up -d
The bot will run in background, to stop it you can use
docker-compose down
Open the bot's folder in a terminal, and stop and destroy the bot
Don't worry, all the DB data is stored in
./storagedocker-compose rm -s -f
Download the latest version
git pull
Rebuild and start everything again except the bot
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build --scale member-counter-bot=0
Run the bot image, but running the update scripts, not the actual bot
docker-compose run --rm --name bot_update --entrypoint sh member-counter-bot -c 'for file in /app/res/updateScripts/*; do $file; done'
Finally, start the bot
docker-compose up -d --scale member-counter-bot=1