How to Automatically Restart Your Bot After Pushing Changes to GitHub

This guide will show you how to automatically restart your bot server after changes are made in GitHub. This is helpful as it will force all of the updates to automatically apply to your bot server.

This guide assumes you have already set up your bot to pull from GitHub. If you haven’t, a short guide can be found here: https://cybrancee.com/learn/knowledge-base/how-to-use-git-in-pterodactyl/.

1. Log in to Your Cybrancee Panel

Navigate to the ‘Account’ Tab.

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2. Create an API Key

Click on the “Api Key” tab, located at the bottom of the page. This will show you your API keys.

After this, give your new API key a description and select ‘Create’.

Once created, copy your API key, as you will not be able to access it later.

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3. Create a GitHub Action Secret

Go to your GitHub repository and access the repository settings.

After accessing the settings, select ‘Secrets and variables’ and then select ‘Actions’ to view your GitHub actions Secrets.

Click ‘New repository secret’ to create a new secret, this will store your panel API key.

Now, give your secret the name of ‘PTERODACTYL_API_KEY’ and input your panel API key as the secret. Then you can select ‘Add secret’ to save.

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4. Create a GitHub Action Variable

Now select ‘Variables’ to add your server ID to the action variables.

Once on the variables tab, select ‘New repository variable’ to add a new variable.

Now Give your variable the name of ‘SERVER_ID’ and Input your server ID as the variable. Then you can select ‘Add variable’ to save. Your server ID can be found from the ‘Dashboard’ page of the panel.

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5. Create a New GitHub Action

Select the ‘Actions’ tab to view repository actions.

Then select ‘set up workflow yourself’ to set up a custom action.

Next, copy the code from the Cybrancee Bot-Restart-Action repository into your new action and select ‘Commit Changes’. The repository can be found here: https://github.com/Cybrancee/Bot-Restart-Action.

Then select ‘Commit changes’ again to commit your changes.

After committing, your bot should automatically restart due to the new commit.

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