$ daily pixel art palette posts from Lospec to your Discord server
A Discord bot that posts the daily pixel art palette from Lospec.com to any subscribed server channel every morning at 8 AM EST. It's designed for pixel art communities that want a daily creative prompt delivered automatically. No manual checking, no copy-pasting links. Not affiliated with Lospec.
Originally built for personal use and made public once it felt polished enough that others might find it useful.
A background loop polls once per minute and compares the current time (in EST) against the 8 AM
delivery window. When the window opens, the bot fetches the Lospec dailies page and uses
BeautifulSoup4 to locate the div.daily.tag and div.daily.palette elements,
extracting the palette slug and display metadata from the page HTML. The palette image is
constructed from the CDN URL pattern
https://cdn.lospec.com/thumbnails/palette-list/{slug}-social.png.
Per-server configuration is stored in individual JSON files under
data/servers/{serverID}.json. Each file records the subscribed channel ID, the bot's
enabled/disabled state for that server, and delivery preferences. The bot exposes 6 slash commands
for server admins to configure the channel, toggle posting, and check current settings.
A small project, but it shipped and runs. The main value was building the full cycle: scraping, state management, slash commands, and deployment. Some key takeaways:
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