dump-mirrorbot/heroku-guide.md

Deploying slam-mirrorbot on Heroku with Github Workflows.

Pre-requisites

• token.pickle
• Heroku accounts
• Recommended to use 1 App in 1 Heroku account
• Don't use bin/fake credits card, because your Heroku account will get banned.

Deployment

1. Give a star and Fork this repo then upload token.pickle to your forks, or you can upload your token.pickle to your Index and put your token.pickle link to TOKEN_PICKLE_URL (NOTE: If you don't upload token.pickle uploading will not work).

2. Go to Repository Settings -> Secrets

   

3. Add the below Required Variables one by one by clicking New Repository Secret everytime.

   • HEROKU_EMAIL Heroku Account Email Id in which the above app will be deployed
   • HEROKU_API_KEY Your Heroku API key, get it from https://dashboard.heroku.com/account
   • HEROKU_APP_NAME Your Heroku app name, Name Must be unique
   • CONFIG_FILE_URL Fill This in any text editor, and remove the second line. Go to https://gist.github.com and paste your config data from the previous step. Rename the file to config.env and upload it. Click on Raw, copy the link and that's your CONFIG_FILE_URL. Refer to below images for clarity.

   

   

   

4. After adding all the above Required Variables go to Github Actions tab in your repo

5. Select Manually Deploy to Heroku workflow as shown below:

   

6. Then click on Run workflow

   

7. Done! your bot will be deployed now.

NOTE

• Don't change/edit variables from Heroku if you want to change/edit do it from config.env

Credits

• arghyac35 for Tutorial