Birthday Bot

This script fetches an ICS (Calendar) file, and sends a Discord message listing today's events.

If no events are found for the current day, the bot will message a "random" motivational quote. Thanks type.fit for the list!

This project was originally developed using Google Calendar. The values of the ICS format may vary between calendar services.

Python Virtualenv

virtualenv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

dotenv file

The .env file requires 6 params:

ICAL_URL is the HTTPS URL to the ICS file containing the calendar data

DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID is the channel ID where to make announcements

DISCORD_GUILD_ID is the guild ID where to make announcements

DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN is the discord bot token

ENV is the environment you're running in. Set to live when running in a live context.

TARGET_TIMEZONE is the target timezone you want to display messages in, eg America/Chicago

Running locally

A simple python3 birthday-bot.py should get you off the ground, after you've defined the required parameters in the .env file.

Build & Deploy (to lambda)

This project is no longer deployed via Lambda. I now use a kubernetes cluster for all my deployments.

bash build.sh && bash deploy.sh

Build & Deploy (to kubernetes)

See .github/workflows/test.yml for an idea of what it takes to build & deploy to Kubernetes.

Sample secret definition

kubectl create secret generic -n birthday-bot-test birthday-bot \
  --from-literal=discord_token=XX \
  --from-literal=discord_guild_id=XX \
  --from-literal=discord_channel_id=XX \
  --from-literal=ical_url=XX \
  --from-literal=timezone=XX