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sends messages to a discord channel using a bot via http POST
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# post a message to discord api via a bot | |
# bot must be added to the server and have write access to the channel | |
# you may need to connect with a websocket the first time you run the bot | |
# use a library like discord.py to do so | |
import requests | |
import json | |
channelID = "your_id_goes_here" # enable dev mode on discord, right-click on the channel, copy ID | |
botToken = "your_token_here" # get from the bot page. must be a bot, not a discord app | |
baseURL = "https://discordapp.com/api/channels/{}/messages".format(channelID) | |
headers = { "Authorization":"Bot {}".format(botToken), | |
"User-Agent":"myBotThing (http://some.url, v0.1)", | |
"Content-Type":"application/json", } | |
message = "hello world" | |
POSTedJSON = json.dumps ( {"content":message} ) | |
r = requests.post(baseURL, headers = headers, data = POSTedJSON) |
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