Scripts that shouts in discord when paper releases a new build (via webhook)

.env

#. env file
MINECRAFT_VERSION="1.19.2"
WEBHOOK_URL="put your webhook's url in these quotation marks"

paperdrop.py

#Run this for everytime you want to check if paper released a new build. If it did this will post a discord messsage via webhook. The build number is cached in a file so MAKE SURE TO HAVE WRITE ACCESS TO WHERE YOU RUN IT. IT WIL CREATE A FILE. Provide a .env file with The webhooks url and the minecraft version you want to check.
#I just run this in a cron job every 5 mins :)
#https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 (I guess)
#Disclaimer: I am not a coder. Feel free to impove this, or rip it to shreds, it works for me :) HF
import os
import requests
import json
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
VERSION = os.getenv('MINECRAFT_VERSION')
webhook_url = os.getenv('WEBHOOK_URL')

current_build = 0

#create file if not exist
try:
    file = open("latest_build", 'r')
except IOError:
    file = open("latest_build", 'w')
#get cached build number
with open('latest_build', 'r') as file:
    current_build = int(file.read())
print("Last known build", current_build)

paper_url = "https://api.papermc.io/v2/projects/paper/versions/" + VERSION


try:
    response = requests.get(paper_url)
    json_data = json.loads(response.text)
    latest_build = json_data['builds'][-1]    
except:
    print("Invalid URL or some error occured while making the GET request to the specified URL")

if latest_build > current_build:
    print("New paper build found:", latest_build)
    dl_link = "https://api.papermc.io/v2/projects/paper/versions/%s/builds/%s/downloads/paper-%s-%s.jar"%(json_data['version'],latest_build,json_data['version'],latest_build)
    print(dl_link)
    current_build = latest_build
    with open('latest_build', 'w') as file:
        file.write(str(current_build))
        #for all params, see https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhook
        data = {
            "content" : "",
        }
        #leave this out if you dont want an embed
        #for all params, see https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#embed-object
        data["embeds"] = [
            {
                "description" : dl_link,
                "title" : "Honey wake up new paper build just dropped"
            }
        ]
        result = requests.post(webhook_url, json = data)