Price alerts

How do I get a Discord alert when Bitcoin hits my price?

Watching a price by hand only works while you're watching. Have a small job check the price on a schedule and post to your own Discord channel only when it crosses your number.

What you're seeing

You're waiting for a price. You keep opening the chart, and the moment it finally gets there is the moment you weren't looking.

Why it happens

How to fix it

  1. Have a small job check the price on a schedule and post to your own Discord channel only when it crosses your number.
  2. Create a webhook on a Discord channel and paste its address into the recipe.
  3. Set your high and low numbers, then schedule the recipe to run every few minutes.
The recipe that does it

Get pinged on Discord when Bitcoin crosses your line

A message in your own Discord channel, on your phone and your computer, only when the price goes above or below the numbers you set.

Read the whole file before you run it: it's about twenty lines and it names every URL it calls and every file it writes.

See the recipe →

The short version

Discord is already on your phone and your computer, and a channel webhook costs nothing. The check itself runs on your own machine, with your numbers written in a file you can read.

Related questions

Do I need a Discord bot?

No. A channel webhook is enough, and Discord creates one for you in the channel's Integrations settings.

Will it message me every time it runs?

No. It posts only when the condition is true, and stays silent otherwise.

Can I use this for something other than Bitcoin?

Yes, as long as there's an address that returns the number. Change the first step and the two conditions.

Vibe Engine (Vibra-Ingenn) runs these recipes on your own machine. Get the engine, browse the recipe library, or watch three recipes run.

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