Github-Releases-Discord-Alerts

Linux JS Script for getting notifications on Discord when a specific github repository drops a new release

⚙️ Install Dependencies

🔧 NodeJS / npm

mkdir -p /home/discord-bots
cd /home/discord-bots

sudo apt install nodejs npm

🔧 PM2

sudo npm install -g pm2

🔧 Node-fetch module

npm install node-fetch@2

⚙️ Create and edit the script

cd /home/discord-bots

nano github.js

Paste the script from here:
https://github.com/seeuinhell95/Github-Releases-Discord-Alerts/blob/main/github.js

Add your discord webhook here:

// Webhook URL
const WEBHOOK_URL = "YOUR-DISCROD-WEBHOOK-URL";

Add Github repositories you want to get notifications when a new release has been dropped:

// GitHub repositories to monitor
const REPOS = [
  "YOUR-REPO1", // No url needed, just author/reponame
  "YOUR-REPO2"
];

⚙️ Start the Bot with pm2

cd /home/discord-bots
pm2 start github.js --name github-release-bot

# Check if its online:
pm2 list

# You should see something like this:
┌─────┬─────────────────────┬────┬──────┬────────┬──────┬────────┐
│ id  │ name                │... │status│ cpu    │ mem  │ ...    │
├─────┼─────────────────────┼────┼──────┼────────┼──────┼────────┤
│ 0   │ github-release-bot  │... │online│ 0%     │ 30MB │ ...    │
└─────┴─────────────────────┴────┴──────┴────────┴──────┴────────┘