Check The Status Of Another Discord Bot - discord

Question

So i need a bot that tracks another bot's status. like if its online it will say in a channel (with an embed) "The Bot Is Online" And The Same if it goes offline and whenever someone does !status {botname} it shows the uptime/downtime of the bot and 'last online' date
if someone can make it happen i will really appricate it!
also i found this github rebo but it dosen't work, it just says the bot is online and whenever i type !setup {channel} it turns off
The Link to the Repo: https://github.com/sujalgoel/discord-bot-status-checker
Also uh it can be any language, i don't really want to add anything else 😅.
Again, Thanks!

Answer 1

First of all, you would need the privileged Presence intent, which you can enable in the Developer Portal.
Tracking the bot's status
In order to have this work, we have to listen to the presenceUpdate event in discord.js. This event emits whenever someone's presence (a.k.a. status) updates.
Add this in your index.js file, or an event handler file:
// put this with your other imports (and esm equivalent if necessary)
const { MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js");
client.on("presenceUpdate", async (oldPresence, newPresence) => {
// check if the member is the bot we're looking for, if not, return
if (newPresence.member !== "your other bot id here") return;
// check if the status (online, idle, dnd, offline) updated, if not, return
if (oldPresence?.status === newPresence.status) return;
// fetch the channel that we're sending a message in
const channel = await client.channels.fetch("your updating channel id here");
// create the embed
const embed = new MessageEmbed()
.setTitle(`${newPresence.member.displayName}'s status updated!`)
.addField("Old status", oldPresence?.status ?? "offline")
.addField("New status", newPresence.status ?? "offline");
channel.send({ embeds: [embed] });
});
Now, whenever we update the targeted bot's status (online, idle, dnd, offline), it should send the embed we created!
!status command
This one will be a bit harder. If you don't have or want to use a database, we will need to store it in a Collection. The important thing about a Collection is that it resets whenever your bot updates, meaning that even if your bot restarts, everything in that Collection is gone. Collections, rather than just a variable, allows you to store more than one bot's value if you need it in the future.
However, because I don't know what you want or what database you're using, we're going to use Collections.
In your index.js file from before:
// put this with your other imports (and esm equivalent if necessary)
const { Collection, MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js");
// create a collection to store our status data
const client.statusCollection = new Collection();
client.statusCollection.set("your other bot id here", Date.now());
client.on("presenceUpdate", async (oldPresence, newPresence) => {
// check if the member is the bot we're looking for, if not, return
if (newPresence.member !== "your other bot id here") return;
// check if the status (online, idle, dnd, offline) updated, if not, return
if (oldPresence?.status === newPresence.status) return;
// fetch the channel that we're sending a message in
const channel = await client.channels.fetch("your updating channel id here");
// create the embed
const embed = new MessageEmbed()
.setTitle(`${newPresence.member.displayName}'s status updated!`)
.addField("Old status", oldPresence?.status ?? "offline")
.addField("New status", newPresence.status ?? "offline");
channel.send({ embeds: [embed] });
// add the changes in our Collection if changed from/to offline
if ((oldPresence?.status === "offline" || !oldPresence) || (newPresence.status === "offline")) {
client.statusCollection.set("your other bot id here", Date.now());
}
});
Assuming that you already have a prefix command handler (not slash commands) and that the message, args (array of arguments separated by spaces), and client exists, put this in a command file, and make sure it's in an async/await context:
// put this at the top of the file
const { MessageEmbed } = require("discord.js");
const bot = await message.guild.members.fetch("your other bot id here");
const embed = new MessageEmbed()
.setTitle(`${bot.displayName}'s status`);
// if bot is currently offline
if ((bot.presence?.status === "offline") || (!bot.presence)) {
const lastOnline = client.statusCollection.get("your other bot id here");
embed.setDescription(`The bot is currently offline, it was last online at <t:${lastOnline / 1000}:F>`);
} else { // if bot is not currently offline
const uptime = client.statusCollection.get("your other bot id here");
embed.setDescription(`The bot is currently online, its uptime is ${uptime / 1000}`);
};
message.reply({ embeds: [embed] });
In no way is this the most perfect code, but, it does the trick and is a great starting point for you to add on. Some suggestions would be to add the tracker in an event handler rather than your index.js file, use a database rather than a local Collection, and of course, prettify the embed messages!