Discord Message

lemoussel/discord-message

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This actor sends a message to Discord automatically. It can be used separately, or as a notification tool at the end of other actors.

.dockerignore

# configurations
.idea
.vscode
.dccache
package-lock.json

# crawlee and apify storage folders
apify_storage
crawlee_storage
storage

# installed files
node_modules

# git folder
.git

.gitignore

node_modules
.vscode
.dccache
package-lock.json
apify_storage
crawlee_storage
storage

package.json

{
	"name": "discord-message",
	"version": "0.0.1",
	"type": "module",
	"description": "This is an example of an Apify actor.",
	"dependencies": {
		"apify": "^3.0.0",
		"discord.js": "^14.7.1"
	},
	"scripts": {
		"start": "node src/main.js",
		"test": "echo \"Error: oops, the actor has no tests yet, sad!\" && exit 1"
	},
	"author": "It's not you it's me",
	"license": "ISC"
}

.actor/actor.json

{
	"actorSpecification": 1,
	"name": "discord-message",
	"title": "Discord Message",
	"description": "This actor send message to Discord automatically.",
	"version": "1.0",
    "buildTag": "latest",
	"input": "./input-schema.json",
	"readme": "./README.md",
	"dockefile": "./Dockerfile"
}

.actor/Dockerfile

# Specify the base Docker image. You can read more about
# the available images at https://sdk.apify.com/docs/guides/docker-images
# You can also use any other image from Docker Hub.
FROM apify/actor-node:16

# Copy just package.json and package-lock.json
# to speed up the build using Docker layer cache.
COPY package*.json ./

# Install NPM packages, skip optional and development dependencies to
# keep the image small. Avoid logging too much and print the dependency
# tree for debugging
RUN npm --quiet set progress=false \
    && npm install --omit=dev --omit=optional \
    && echo "Installed NPM packages:" \
    && (npm list --omit=dev --all || true) \
    && echo "Node.js version:" \
    && node --version \
    && echo "NPM version:" \
    && npm --version \
    && rm -r ~/.npm

# Next, copy the remaining files and directories with the source code.
# Since we do this after NPM install, quick build will be really fast
# for most source file changes.
COPY . ./


# Run the image.
CMD npm start --silent

.actor/input-schema.json

{
  "title": "Send message to a Discord Webhook",
  "type": "object",
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "properties": {
    "webhookUrl": {
      "title": "Url",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Discord Webhook Url in a format https://discord.com/api/webhooks/",
      "isSecret": true,
      "editor": "textfield"
    },
    "text": {
        "title": "Message",
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Message that will be sent to Discord",
        "prefill": "Hello from 'Discord-Message' Apify actor!",
        "example": "Hello from 'Discord-Message' Apify actor!",
        "editor": "textfield"
      }
  },
  "required": ["webhookUrl", "text"]
}

.actor/README.md

# Discord message

This actor sends message to [Discord](https://discord.com/) automatically. It can be used separately, or as a notificaton tool at the end of other actors.

## Discord Webhook setup

It is necessary to create a webhooks through the Discord server settings.You can create webhooks directly through the Discord client. Go to Server Settings, and you will see an `Integrations` tab.

![Create discord webhook](https://discordjs.guide/assets/creating-webhooks-1.9d51faa6.png)

If you already have created a webhook, the webhooks tab will look like this; you will need to click the `View Webhooks` button.

![View discord webhook](https://discordjs.guide/assets/creating-webhooks-2.24d92370.png)

Once you are there, click on the `Create Webhook / New Webhook` button; this will create a webhook. From here, you can edit the channel, the name, and the avatar. Copy the link, the first part is the id, and the second is the token.

![View discord webhook](https://discordjs.guide/assets/creating-webhooks-3.1fddb27b.png)

Copy your webhook URL and save it for later.

Ref: [Discord webhook](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks)

## Input

The following table shows specification of the actor INPUT fields as defined by its input schema.

Field | Type | Description
---| ---| ---|
Url| *String*| (required) Discord Webhook URL
Message| *String*| (required) Message that will be sent to Discord (i.e.  "Hello from 'Discord-Message' Apify actor!" ).

## How to run

To run the actor, you'll need an [Apify account](https://my.apify.com/). Simply create a new task for the actor by clicking the green button above, modify the actor input configuration, click Run and get your results.

## API

To run the actor from your code, send a HTTP POST request to the following API endpoint: **TODO**

## CU usage

Approximately 0.001 CU per run.

## Documentation reference

- [Apify Actor documentation](https://docs.apify.com/actor)
- [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli)

src/main.js

// https://sdk.apify.com/
import { Actor, log } from 'apify';
// https://discord.js.org/
import { WebhookClient } from 'discord.js'

(async () => {
    await Actor.init()

    const input = await Actor.getInput();

    const webhookClient = new WebhookClient({'url': input.webhookUrl});
    // https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhook
    await webhookClient
        .send({'content': input.text})
        .then((result) => {
            const resultDateFormat = result.timestamp.
                replace(/T/, ' ').  // replace T with a space
                replace(/\..+/, '') // delete the dot and everything after
            log.info(`${resultDateFormat} Discord message sent successfully`);
        })
        .catch((error) => {
            log.error(`Failed to send Slack message: ${error.code}`);
            throw error;
        });

    await Actor.exit();
})();