Digital Ocean Deploy

DigitalOcean is best for this project when you want either:

• an App Platform deployment from the repository
• a VM where you control Docker, storage, and updates yourself

Recommended Approach

Use Docker with the repository root.

1. Fork or clone the repository.
2. Add the required environment variables.
3. Build the Docker image from the root Dockerfile.
4. Run the container with a mounted volume if you want persistent downloads or thumbnails.

Notes

• use Python 3.11
• keep DOWNLOAD_LOCATION writable inside the container
• if you use a VM, uv run python bot.py is still the simplest manual start command