Question
Using the App platform to host a Discord Bot
- Posted on February 14, 2023
- DigitalOcean App PlatformPython
Asked by jcrza
I’ve set up a basic Discord PyCord bot using a github repo that contains a requirements.txt, my bot.py, and one single cog called admin.py which is loaded when the bot starts.
Using the App platform, this code is deployed with the Run Command “python3 bot.py”. When the platform attempts to actually run this code the logs show that the bot successfully connects and all seems well, but then I am informed the Deployment Failed and am left without an error message or any idea of what went wrong.
Anyone have any clue how to get this to work? I assume this has something to do with health checks but have no leads.
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Hi there,
It sounds like that the App Platform Health check is failing. What you could do is to use a worker component rather than a web component so that the App Platform would not look for a HTTP health check endpoint.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-workers/
Let me know how it goes!
Best,
Bobby
It turns out you have to select a service instance of type “Worker” and not “Web”, then it will work as you expect.