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# Discord cardiParty webhook
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This is a simple webhook to push new cardiParties into the cardiParty channel.
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## install
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1. Create and activate [virtual env](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html)
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2. Install requirements: `pip install -r requirements.txt`
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3. Set up a cronjob
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1. set the env values (see below)
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2. set a time to run e.g. every 30 mins
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3. set the command listed below under "Cron job command"
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4. Test cronjob works
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5. Relax
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## How it works
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We run this on the newcardigan wordpress server.
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1. With a cron job we call the civiCRM API use `cv` to grab the details of the latest cardiParty
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2. We pipe that string into a python script
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3. The script checks a custom RSS feed for new parties
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4. If no new party, end
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5. If new party,
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1. save the guid to `latest_post.txt` for the next round of checking
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2. use the image and title from the RSS feed and the details from the cv API call
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3. publish via a webhook to Discord
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## env values
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We need to include some secrets via environment values:
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**channel** is the channel ID (`DISCORD_CHANNEL`)
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**token** is the secret token for the webhook (`DISCORD_TOKEN`)
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**cardiparty_ping** is the ID of the `@cardiParty ping` role (`DISCORD_CARDIPARTY_PING`)
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## Cron job command
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```sh
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cv api4 Event.get '{"select":["title","address.city","start_date","summary"],"join":[["Address AS address","LEFT",["loc_block_id.address_id","=","address.id"]]],"orderBy":{"start_date":"DESC"},"limit":1}' | ./webhook.py
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```
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This should pipe a string like this into the script:
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```
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[{"id":108,"title":"Melbourne Art Library","address.city":"Melbourne","start_date":"2024-04-06 16:30:00","summary":"Melbourne Art Library (MAL) is a not-for-profit lending library that collects specialised art and design texts. They are proudly independent and are curious about what being a 'library' means."}]
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```
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## RSS feed
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The rss feed is `https://newcardigan.org/category/cardiparties/?feed=cardipartyfeed`.
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This special `cardipartyfeed` is a slightly modified RSS2 feed. The only thing it does differently is include the featured image in an `enclosure` so that we can pick it up directly from the feed. See the newcardigan WordPress theme for how this works. |