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to make the bot yourself.. use the mise

it;s purely sveltekit so you can selfhost it on any serverless platform like netlify, vercel, cf pages or deno deploy etc, also you can read about how to deploy a vite app also you can selfhost with nodejs too .. please read about that in nitro docs

First required variables

BETTER_AUTH_SECRET="" # generate this with `openssl rand -hex 32`
BETTER_AUTH_URL='https://lightcms.pratyay.qzz.io'
CDN_API_KEY='5386e05a3562c7a8f984e73401540836' # this is publically available for all https://imgcdn.dev/page/api
DATABASE_URL='postgresql://db:pass@example.com/db?sslmode=require&channel_binding=require'
GITHUB_APP_ID='appid'
GITHUB_APP_NAME='yet another bot'
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID='yet another bot's client id '
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=''
GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY='-----
BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
xrdzeszsdsazdfytfytfyt-----
END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----'
##  if not working due to formatting related issues
GITHUB_WEBHOOK # generate from smee.io/
GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET #generate using `openssl rand -hex 32`
#
MAIL_FROM='some_randommail@example.com'
MAIL_HOST='smtp.example.com'
MAIL_PASS=`email's passs`
MAIL_PORT=465 ## port is provided by your email provider
MAIL_SECURE=1 # 1/0  true(1) /false(0)
MAIL_USER='spooky user'
OPEN_AI_ENDPOINT =  #  https
OPEN_AI_APIKEY = # this is for copilot option so
OPEN_AI_MODEL = #

If you have any domain using and setting up resend felt more easy resend or if you don’t have any domain don’t be heavy hearted, there are multiple email providers which allows you sending mail programically read about this

if you are finding one then, I can suggest you setting up with zohomail.

setting up BETTER_AUTH_SECRET

openssl rand -hex 64

if openssl is not available on your system. you can use some online tools like

[betterauth;s official site](https://better-auth.com/docs/installation)

also there is a python script for this too.

python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))"

also some node js based script

node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('hex'))"

BETTER_AUTH_URL the endpoint of  your website for dev env it should be ”http://localhost:5173”

setting up the bot ??

run

npm run bot:start

if everything is done correctly then you should be having a .env in your cwd.

setting up db.. there are multiple free postgre providers available you can refer to this repo postgre

make sure you trust the db provider. that’s it suggested services:

neon nile supabase

npx  drizzle-kit generate

npx  drizzle-kit migrate

npx  drizzle-kit push

If encountered any error while doing this run


npx  drizzle-kit introspect

To format the Rsa private key properly you can use

GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY

use this site

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