Heroku Deployment Using Workflow

Heroku Deployment

October 04, 2021

1. Upload your token.pickle to your Index or any way to get link of your token.pickle and put your token.pickle link to TOKEN_PICKLE_URL (NOTE: If you don't upload token.pickle uploading to google drive will not work).
2. Go to Repository Settings -> Secrets

Add the below-Required Variables one by one by clicking New Repository Secret every time.

• HEROKU_EMAIL: Heroku Account Email Id in which the above app will be deployed
• HEROKU_API_KEY: Your Heroku API key, get it from https://dashboard.heroku.com/account
• HEROKU_APP_NAME: Your Heroku app name, Name Must be unique
• CONFIG_FILE_URL: (Optional , Follow This Method Or Add Config.env To Repo Directly )Fill This in any text editor. Remove the _____REMOVE_THIS_LINE_____=True line and fill in the variables.
• For details about config, you can see Here. Go to https://gist.github.com and paste your config data. Rename the file to config.env then create secret gist. Click on Raw, copy the link. This will be your CONFIG_FILE_URL. Refer to the below images for clarity.

• NOTE: Remove commit id from raw link to be able to change variables without updating the CONFIG_FILE_URL in secrets. should be in this form: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/username/gist-id/raw/config.env
• Before: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anasty17/8cce4a4b4e7f4ea47e948b2d058e52ac/raw/19ba5ab5eb43016422193319f28bc3c7dfb60f25/config.env
• After: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anasty17/8cce4a4b4e7f4ea47e948b2d058e52ac/raw/config.env
• You only need to restart your bot after editing config.env Gist secret.

After adding all the above Required Variables go to Github Actions tab in your repository.

Select Manually Deploy to Heroku workflow as shown below:

Then click on Run workflow

Done! your bot will be deployed now.

Turn on dyno using website.

NOTE

• Don't change/edit variables from Heroku if you want to change/edit do it in config.env from your gist, after it just restart your Heroku app.