This is based on MrRelliks bot, in fact most of the code is his. I have expanded upon this slightly to make it work generically with docker and different servers.
This bot fetches every 5 minutes (300 seconds) from the NWDB then updates the names of a category and voice channels so you can use this as a status indicator on your discord server. It uses voice channels so everyone can see them but nobody can write into them. It's a good idea to lock them too.
You can run it locally or as this version is meant to, as a docker container.
You will need the following env variables set for it to work:
AGENT is the Bearer token you get from the API. You can request one here.
WORLD_ID needs to be one returned in this data: https://nwdb.info/server-status/servers.json
BOT_SECRET is the secret your bot has on Discord. When you register an app, you get this from Discord.
CATEGORY_ID is the id of the category you put the voice channels into. It maybe be a bit tricky to find it, but you can inspect the code if you load Discord in browser and copy the number out there.
PLAYERS_CHANNEL is the voice channel that should display the numbers of players (1234 / 2000 for example).
QUEUE_CHANNEL is the voice channel to show the number of people in queue.
LOG_CHANNEL is a text channel you might want to only have visible to you, so the bot can log messages into it if there is an issue.
Your bot needs to have admin permissions as well as intent privileges.
An example on how to run this (replacing each XYZ with actual values) would be this command:
docker run --env AGENT=XYZ --env WORLD_ID=XYZ --env BOT_SECRET=XYZ --env CATEGORY_ID=XYZ --env PLAYERS_CHANNEL=XYZ --env QUEUE_CHANNEL=XYZ --env LOG_CHANNEL=XYZ christianriesen/new-world-server-status-discord-bot
To make it slightly easier, you can copy the env_file.dist to env_file and edit the file to add the values there. Then you can launch it with just this:
docker run --env-file env_file christianriesen/new-world-server-status-discord-bot
If you made sure that all works well, you can add -d to run it in the background.
If you like this, you can send a thanks to the original author here: https://ko-fi.com/mrrelliks
This is for my own sanity, you can ignore it.
For local builds run
docker build -t christianriesen/new-world-server-status-discord-bot .
Once build is working, push with
docker push christianriesen/new-world-server-status-discord-bot:latest