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
Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/​
Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/​
Download and install git for your OS: https://git-scm.com/download​
Open your terminal (cmd.exe, Terminal.app, etc) and run this command to download Member Counter
git clone https://github.com/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
from the .env.example
copy .env.example .env
cp .env.example .env
A new .env
file will appear in the folder, open it with your favorite text editor
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
, after the equal character (=
) paste here the bot token, and save the file
In order to use counters like {youtubeSubscribers}
or {twitterFollowers}
you must set the following variables:
YOUTUBE_API_KEY
Paste here your YouTube API key, you can get it here​
TWITCH_CLIENT_ID
and TWITCH_CLIENT_SECRET
Paste here your Twitch app credentials, you can get them here​
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
Paste here your Twitter API credentials, you can get them here​
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 readyMember-Counter-App | Bot readyMember-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 mc!help
, mc!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 ./storage
docker-compose rm -s -f
Download the latest version
git pull
And start the bot again, but rebuilding the bot
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build