ASX Announcements Discord Bot

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Description

Lightweight discord webhook intended to be run on schedule to post webhooks to a specific Discord channel alerting new ASX announcements for a set watchlist.

Installation

1. Download or clone the repo.
2. pip install the dependancies/requirements listed below.
3. Add the tickers of the companies you wish to watch to the example.config.ini file as show below.
4. Create a webhook in the Discord channel you wish to post announcements to. Follow this guide on how to create a webhook.
5. Using the newly created webhook URL, set the id and token in the example.config.ini file. Your ID and token are taken from the webhook URL as follows: https://discord.com/api/webhooks/id/token.
6. Save your changes to the example.config.ini file and rename the newly saved example.config.ini file to config.ini.
7. Run the main.py script.

NB: If you wish to schedule the script to run, I would suggest following a tutorial like this.

Dependencies/Requirements

• requests
• json
• sqlite3
• discord
• configparser
• datetime

To-Do

• Clean up code.
• Add details of installation and setup to README
• Tool to get company's Xids, https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/search/price?itemsPerPage=1&page=0&searchText=eml, check that symbol item is equal to code, then add it in.
• Add config file.
• Parse date.
• Spice up embed.
• Customise pfp and other elements of bot through code.
• Add database and store unqiue.
• Create new table if that company does not already exist.
• Discord bot.
• Fix dynamic embed colour.
• Add ticker/company identify to message for stacked continuous messages.

Suggested Features

• On first run, populate database without posting Discord messages for every past announcement.
• Seperate announcements for different stocks into different channels.

Personal Project Learnings

• Management of multiple Python installations on personal device and addressing installation conflicts with Homebrew.
• python-discord-webhook module is not async, thus unsuitable for large amounts of Discord webhooks as rate limited.
• Can utilise discord.py to send webhooks without having associated authentication with a bot.
• Using the configparser module.
• Formatting usable READMEs.

Contact Me

@niallgillmor