strava-discord-bot

Listens for new Activities in Strava and sends embedded Discord messages with Activity details.

This project was originally forked from the discord-example-app repo. ChatGPT was used to help write this README.

This repository contains the code for a JavaScript-based bot that listens for new activities in a specified Strava club and sends an embedded message to a specified Discord channel when a club member completes a new activity. This bot is hosted on Heroku and makes use of the following packages:

• discord.js - A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API
• axios - A popular library for making HTTP requests
• luxon - A library for working with dates and times
• express - A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework
• discord-interactions - A library for creating interactive message menus in Discord

Setting up the bot

To set up the bot, you will need to do the following:

1. Create a new application and bot account on the Discord Developer Portal and invite the bot to your server
2. Create a new Strava API application and obtain your API key from the Strava API website
3. Create a new Heroku application and link it to this repository
4. Set the following environment variables on your Heroku application:

• 'DISCORD_TOKEN': The token for your Discord bot
• 'DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID': The ID of the Discord channel where the bot should post messages
• 'STRAVA_CLUB_ID': The ID of the Strava club that the bot should listen to
• 'STRAVA_API_KEY': Your Strava API key

5. Deploy the code to Heroku and start the bot

Using the bot

Once the bot is set up and running, it will automatically listen for new activities in the specified Strava club and post an embedded message to the specified Discord channel when a new activity is completed.

In addition to the above functionality, this bot can be used for other uses based on Strava's API.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please feel free to fork this repository and submit a pull request with your changes. Please make sure that your code follows the existing style and includes appropriate tests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Note

The final version of the ReadMe file can be worked on and improved upon after discussing with the developers working on the project.