A discord bot providing a mini, easy to use control panel for your server hosted on Aternos. The control panel provides the ability to start, stop and restart your minecraft server, all from your discord server. Easy.
This bot will NOT circumvent Aternos' queue/waiting list system, and it will NOT fake player activity to keep your server on 24/7. It does not hog resources and won't make it unfair for other users. That said, Aternos' terms of service does mention Automatically accessing our website or automating actions on our website. If Aternos does somehow detect automation (unlikely), they do have the power to suspend your account, and might decide to do so. Use this bot at your own risk.
Create a bot, copy the client ID, paste it into the following URL then use the URL to add the bot to your discord server.
https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&permissions=2147552256&scope=bot%20applications.commands
Once the bot is in your server, give it any necessary roles to allow it to send messages.
Then install dependencies. You will need to include the dev-dependencies initially to register the slash command.
Create a new empty file called config.json and paste in the content from config-TEMPLATE.json. Fill in all of the blank fields:
TOKEN- Your bot token, can be found on the discord developer portal.CLIENT_ID- Your bot client ID, can also be found on the discord developer portal.GUILD_ID- The ID of the discord server you will be using the bot in. Currently the bot only supports one server per instance. Can be found by turning on discord developer mode, then right click on the server icon and select 'Copy ID'.DEV_ID- Your discord user ID. Can be found by right clicking on your user, then selecting 'Copy ID' (after developer mode has been turned on).ATERNOS_USERNAME- The username for your aternos account.ATERNOS_PASSWORD- The password for your aternos account.MINECRAFT_SERVER_NAME- The name of your server. This can be whatever you want, its only purpose is to serve as the title for the control panel.
Run registerSlashCommand.js. This will add the /sendmessage command to your discord server. You only need to run it once after inviting the bot, but if you kick and then re-invite, you will need to run it again.
Run index.js, and wait until Ready! appears in the console.
Use the /sendmessage slash command in a channel to make the bot create a server control panel in that channel. You can use the command multiple times to create multiple messages (either in the same channel or different channels), but I don't recommend creating more than 2 or 3 because it starts taking too long to update all of them.
That's it! The server status will be displayed on the control panel, along with the IP + port and the number of online players.