How to install NBABot
Have any issues or want to ask any questions? Either use the comment section below, or DM me on Discord at chig#4519. Links and commands in order of use: 1. Download NBABot's source code: https://github.com/NBABot-Development-Team/NBABot 2. Install NodeJS: nvm: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm Follow the commands from the GitHub page to install nvm Once nvm is installed, use nvm install 16.17.0 (or whatever the current recommended NodeJS version is) 3. Install required packages: npm install If node-canvas does not install initially, Install homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" (remember to use the initialisation commands) then install packages listed at: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg pixman then run again npm install 4. Create a Discord bot: http://discord.com/developers 5. Copy config.json.example 6. Rename the copy to config.json 7. Insert the essential details 8. Create a cache folder in the /src directory 9. Insert the today.json file into /src/cache: wget http://data.nba.net/10s/prod/v2/today.json Note: if wget is not installed, you can install it with: brew install wget 10. Run the bot node bot.js 11. Install pm2 to keep it running in the background npm install pm2 -g Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:29 - Downloading the source code 00:02:00 - Installing NodeJS 00:04:20 - Installing required packages 00:07:20 - Creating a Discord bot 00:08:39 - Inviting your Discord bot 00:09:40 - Adding details to config.json 00:11:40 - Adding cache folder and today.json 00:12:45 - Running NBABot 00:14:40 - Installing pm2 00:16:36 - Contact
Have any issues or want to ask any questions? Either use the comment section below, or DM me on Discord at chig#4519. Links and commands in order of use: 1. Download NBABot's source code: https://github.com/NBABot-Development-Team/NBABot 2. Install NodeJS: nvm: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm Follow the commands from the GitHub page to install nvm Once nvm is installed, use nvm install 16.17.0 (or whatever the current recommended NodeJS version is) 3. Install required packages: npm install If node-canvas does not install initially, Install homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" (remember to use the initialisation commands) then install packages listed at: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg pixman then run again npm install 4. Create a Discord bot: http://discord.com/developers 5. Copy config.json.example 6. Rename the copy to config.json 7. Insert the essential details 8. Create a cache folder in the /src directory 9. Insert the today.json file into /src/cache: wget http://data.nba.net/10s/prod/v2/today.json Note: if wget is not installed, you can install it with: brew install wget 10. Run the bot node bot.js 11. Install pm2 to keep it running in the background npm install pm2 -g Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:29 - Downloading the source code 00:02:00 - Installing NodeJS 00:04:20 - Installing required packages 00:07:20 - Creating a Discord bot 00:08:39 - Inviting your Discord bot 00:09:40 - Adding details to config.json 00:11:40 - Adding cache folder and today.json 00:12:45 - Running NBABot 00:14:40 - Installing pm2 00:16:36 - Contact