Send a message to a Discord channel. It's useful for notifying your team or community when someone interesting happens, like a user signup, Stripe payment, mention on social media, etc.

Create val
import { discordWebhook } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/discordWebhook/main.ts";

await discordWebhook({
  url: Deno.env.get("DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL"),
  content: "Hi from val town!",
});

Example val: https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.discordWebhookEx

Follow the instructions here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks

It really only takes 2 minutes.

Paste it into val's environment variables.

Create val
import { discordWebhook } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/discordWebhook/main.ts";

await discordWebhook({
  url: Deno.env.get("DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL"),
  content: "Hi from val town!",
});

Any text, rendered as markdown. If over 2000 characters, we will truncate it to the first 2000 for you.

ie SUPPRESS_EMBEDS

Learn more about flag options here: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/message#message-object-message-flags

This helper function only supports content and flags as parameters. There are other parameters that Discord supports. PRs welcome!