Go to www.groupme.com and sign up or login

If you don't have one for your league already, create a new "Group Chat"

Next we will setup the bot for GroupMe

Go to https://dev.groupme.com/session/new and login

Click "Create Bot"

Create your bot. GroupMe does a good job explaining what each thing is.

After you have created your bot you will see something similar to this. Click "Edit"

This page is important as you will need the "Bot ID" on this page.You can also send a test message with the text box to be sure it is connected to your chat room. Side note: If you use the bot id depicted in the page you will spam an empty chat room so not worth the effort

Go to https://slack.com/signin and sign in to the workspace the bot will be in

If you don't have one for your league already, create a new League Channel

Next we will setup the bot for Slack

Go to https://api.slack.com/apps/new

Name the app, and choose the intended workspace from the dropdown.

Select the Incoming Webhooks section on the side.

Change the toggle from Off to On.

Select Add New Webhook to Workspace

In the Post to dropdown, select the channel you want to send messages to, then select Authorize.

This page is important as you will need the "Webhook URL" on this page.

Log into or create a discord account

Go to or create a discord server to receive messages in

Open the server settings

Go to Webhooks

Create a webhook, give it a name and pick which channel to receive messages in

Save the "Webhook URL" on this page

Go to https://id.heroku.com/login and sign up or login

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Go to your dashboard (https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps) Now you will need to setup your environment variables so that it works for your league. Click Settings at your dashboard. Then click "Reveal Config Vars" button and you will see something like this.

Now we will need to edit these variables (click the pencil to the right of the variable to modify) Note: App will restart when you change any variable so your chat room may be semi-spammed with the init message of "Hi" you can change the INIT_MSG variable to be blank to have no init message. It should also be noted that Heroku seems to restart the app about once a day

See Environment Variables Section for documentation

After you have setup your variables you will need to turn it on. Navigate to the "Resources" tab of your Heroku app Dashboard. You should see something like below. Click the pencil on the right and toggle the buton so it is blue like depicted and click "Confirm."

You're done! You now have a fully featured GroupMe/Slack/Discord chat bot for ESPN leagues! If you have an INIT_MSG you will see it exclaimed in your GroupMe, Discord, or Slack chat room.

Unfortunately to do auto deploys of the latest version you need admin access to the repository on git. You can check for updates on the github page (https://github.com/dtcarls/fantasy_football_chat_bot/commits/master) and click the deploy button again; however, this will deploy a new instance and the variables will need to be edited again.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Installing for development

With Docker:

git clone https://github.com/dtcarls/fantasy_football_chat_bot

cd fantasy_football_chat_bot

docker build -t fantasy_football_chat_bot .

Without Docker:

git clone https://github.com/dtcarls/fantasy_football_chat_bot

cd fantasy_football_chat_bot

pip install -r requirements.txt
# or
#python3 setup.py install

Environment Variables

Running with Docker

Use BOT_ID if using Groupme, DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL if using Discord, and SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL if using Slack (or multiple to get messages in multiple places)

>>> export BOT_ID=[enter your GroupMe Bot ID]
>>> export WEBHOOK_URL=[enter your Webhook URL]
>>> export LEAGUE_ID=[enter ESPN league ID]
>>> export LEAGUE_YEAR=[enter league year]
>>> cd fantasy_football_chat_bot
>>> docker run --rm=True \
-e BOT_ID=$BOT_ID \
-e LEAGUE_ID=$LEAGUE_ID \
-e LEAGUE_YEAR=$LEAGUE_YEAR \
fantasy_football_chat_bot

Running without Docker

Use BOT_ID if using Groupme, DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL if using Discord, and SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL if using Slack (or multiple to get messages in multiple places)

>>> export BOT_ID=[enter your GroupMe Bot ID]
>>> export WEBHOOK_URL=[enter your Webhook URL]
>>> export LEAGUE_ID=[enter ESPN league ID]
>>> export LEAGUE_YEAR=[enter league year]
>>> python3 gamedaybot/espn/espn_bot.py

Running the tests

Automated tests for this package are included in the tests directory. After installation, you can run these tests by changing the directory to the gamedaybot directory and running the following:

pip install -r requirements-test.txt
pytest