README.md

SeedBot for Rust

Generate Rust maps and post photos of them to a Discord channel via webhook.

About

SeedBot for Rust is an experiment with Discord Webhooks and BeautifulSoup. The script generates a Rust map with beancan.io, then sends a message to a Discord text channel using Discord's webhook functionality.

Theoretically (and once the project is finished), one could use a tool like cron to run the script on an interval (i.e. hourly).

Setup

1. Clone repository.
2. Clone dependencies with git submodule init.
3. Copy cfg/config-example.json to config.json and enter your info (see below for help).
4. Run seedbot.py using a scheduler (e.g. cron) or by hand.

Configuration

The configuration file is pretty self-explanatory. Here's an explanation anyway:

• webhook_url: Webhook for a Discord text channel.
  • See this article for more info about creating a webhook.
• beancan_email and beancan_password: Login information for a beancan.io account.
• map_size: How large of a map you'd like to generate.
  • Min. 1000, max 6000.
• timeout: How long to wait before HTTP requests are terminated.

Roadmap

Completed	Feature
✅	Basic webhook functionality
✅	Read beancan.io login info and map size from config.json
✅	Generate map on beancan.io
✅	Retrieve and parse map data with BeautifulSoup
✅	Format map data as a rich embed and post via webhook
❌	Implement basic error handling
❌	Implement retry backoff in case of an error
❌	Add ability to filter by monuments (Airport, Harbor, Launch Site, etc.)
❌	Test and finalize error handling
❌	Finalize documentation