Is it possible to run a flask app while running a discord bot?

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is it possible to use a flask app ( to keep alive ) and run a discord bot at the same time? I am having issues with running this, can yall give me an example of how to do this?

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To do this, you will have to resort to the threading module.

background.py

from flask import Flask, request
from threading import Thread


app = Flask('')

@app.route('/')
def home():
  return "I'm alive"

def run():
  app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=80)

def keep_alive():
  t = Thread(target=run)
  t.start()

main.py

from background import keep_alive


# bot commands

if __name__ == "__main__":
    keep_alive()
    # starting the bot

In this way, I ran the Flask application and the telegram bot in parallel.

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It won’t stay alive if the keep alive is in the same Repl.

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How else would it work then? Or do you mean that it can’t be pinged by itself?

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Technically it will ping itself but it’ll just be force shut from replit

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Hi! Thanks for your reply! I use honeybadger.io to ping the flask app and it works perfectly, it’s like a always on repl!