discord.bash

An attempt at making a wrapper for Discord's HTTP API in bash

Usage

First you'll need to set a bot token as the TOKEN variable in the .env file. In your script you'll need to source the index.sh file to gain access to the functions. A basic example to send a message to a channel would be like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
source ./index.sh
channel="719188046809006142"
content="This is a message sent from bash"
send_message

Every function takes an optional clear argument that unsets every variable used by the function, for example:

channel="719188046809006142"
content="This is a message sent from bash"
send_message "clear"
echo "$channel" # this will print a blank line

After a function is called, it'll parse the JSON data returned by the API into variables that you can use. When parsed, any values that are null or empty arrays will be ignored. Nested object keys will be combined with an underscore, and in an array the array index will be added with an underscore. An example of JSON data returned from the API is

{
	"id": "1081056853196296292",
	"type": 0,
	"content": "1\" 2: 3, 4} 5{ 6[ 7]",
	"channel_id": "719188046809006142",
	"author": {
		"id": "739697358350057503",
		"username": "SSH Bot",
		"display_name": null,
		"avatar": "fac5be6015240610d44ab269f49727d0",
		"avatar_decoration": null,
		"discriminator": "2953",
		"public_flags": 0,
		"bot": true
	},
	"attachments": [
		{
			"id": "1081056852961406986",
			"filename": "text.txt",
			"size": 121,
			"url": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719188046809006142/1081056852961406987/text.txt",
			"proxy_url": "https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/719188046809006142/1081056852961406987/text.txt",
			"content_type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8"
		}
	],
	"embeds": [],
	"mentions": [],
	"mention_roles": [],
	"pinned": false,
	"mention_everyone": false,
	"tts": false,
	"timestamp": "2023-03-03T03:33:58.867000+00:00",
	"edited_timestamp": null,
	"flags": 0,
	"components": [],
	"referenced_message": null
}

The corresponding variables this will be parsed into are

id="1081056853196296292"
type=0
content="1\" 2: 3, 4} 5{ 6[ 7]"
channel_id="719188046809006142"
author_id="739697358350057503"
author_username="SSH Bot"
author_avatar="fac5be6015240610d44ab269f49727d0"
author_discriminator="2953"
author_public_flags=0
author_bot=true
attachments_0_id="1081056852961406986"
attachments_0_filename="text.txt"
attachments_0_size=121
attachments_0_url="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719188046809006142/1081056852961406987/text.txt"
attachments_0_proxy_url="https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/719188046809006142/1081056852961406987/text.txt"
attachments_0_content_type="text/plain; charset=utf-8"
pinned=false
mention_everyone=false
tts=false
timestamp="2023-03-03T03:33:58.867000+00:00"
flags=0

Messages

Create

The create_message function depends on the $channel and at least one of the $content or $attachment variables, where:

• $channel is a channel ID
• $content is the desired message content
• $attachment is a path to a file

Example:

channel="719188046809006142"
content="testing 123"
attachment="/path/to/file.txt"
create_message

Edit

The edit_message function depends on the $channel, $message, and at least one of the $content or $attachment variables, where:

• $channel is a channel ID
• $message is the ID of the message to edit
• $content is the desired message content
• $attachment is a path to a file

Example:

channel="719188046809006142"
message="1083634354493849660"
content="testing 456"
attachment="/path/to/another-file.txt"
edit_message

Delete

The delete_message function depends on the $channel and $message variables, where:

• $channel is a channel ID
• $message is the ID of the message to delete

Example:

channel="719188046809006142"
message="1083634354493849660"
delete_message

Channels

Create

The create_channel function takes 2 arguments: a guild ID and the channel name.

create_channel 444523238580813825 "testing-channel"

Edit

The edit_channel function takes 2 arguments: a channel ID and the new channel name.

edit_channel 1080391136033636362 "testing-123"

Delete

The delete_channel function takes 1 argument: a channel ID.

delete_channel 1080391136033636362