Announcement Bot

Discord bot that announces upcoming sessions on upcoming MLH events!

Inspired by the Hack Quarantine Calendar Bot used to automatically make announcements from their calendar.

Setup

Make sure to set your Google Calendar to the same timezone as the Discord Bot. In this case, it's the timezone of the Compute Engine on Google Cloud.

cp example.env .env

_Make sure to fill the .env file with the required fields and add the credentials.json file.

Run

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose logs -f

Turn off

docker-compose down

Add Calendar events

Title

Event Name in Google Calendar

Event URL

Set the Location field with the URL. This is where Zoom and Google Meet will automatically add their URLs.

Event Description