heroku-guide.md

Deploying slam-mirrorbot on Heroku with Github Workflows.

Pre-requisites

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

Deployment

1. Give stars 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 didn't upload token.pickle uploading will not work). How to generate token.pickle? Read here

2. Go to Repository Settings -> Secrets

   

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

   HEROKU_EMAIL
   HEROKU_API_KEY
   HEROKU_APP_NAME
   CONFIG_FILE_URL
   

   Description of the above Required Variables

   • HEROKU_EMAIL Heroku Account email Id in which the above app will be deployed
   • HEROKU_API_KEY Go to your Heroku account and go to Account Settings. Scroll to the bottom until you see API Key. Copy this key and add it
   • HEROKU_APP_NAME Your Heroku app name, Name Must be unique
   • CONFIG_FILE_URL Fill This in any text editor. Remove the REMOVE_THIS_LINE=True line and fill the variables. For details about config you can see Here. Go to https://gist.github.com and paste your config data. Rename the file to config.env then create secret gist. Click on Raw, copy the link. This will be your CONFIG_FILE_URL.

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 Github Secrets
• If you want to set optional variables, go to your Heroku app settings and add the variables

Credits

• arghyac35 for Tutorial