discord-shell-slave

Why?
I' d like to allow a shell process to send Discord chat messages.

How?
You just need to pipe text input into discord-shell-slave.

discord-shell-slave... Isn' t it a little bit long?
Yes it is. There exists an alias called dss.

I' d like to know more. What is it good for?
In fact any shell script can send a Discord chat message now. So you do not need any coder skills to use it. If you have coding skills QWMI is an excelent usecase and a good example which supports the enhanced JSON structure.

JSON structure?
dss will parse piped string data into a JSON object if it is a valid JSON string. If not it will take the string and send a simple text message. If it is JSON dss expects the following structure.

{
  color : "0x3498db",
  title : "test",
  author : {name : "discord-shell-slave"},
  fields : [{name:"Message", value: "Hello"}]
}

How to install it on my machine?

npm i -g discord-shell-slave

No configuration?
For shure you need one. You need to create a file called .discord-shell-slave-rc in the current working directory of your shell or in one of its parent directories.

{
    "my-connection-name" : {
        "channel" : "General",
        "token" : "M*U4N*MwO****4NDg0M*I0.CzMGvA****iGcZW******"
    }
}

How to use it?

echo hello world | discord-shell-slave --connect my-connection-name

If you want to pass the the configuration file as parameter you can use --config with an absolute or relative path to the current working directory.

echo hello world | discord-shell-slave --connect my-connection-name --config /path/to/my/.discord-shell-slave-rc

for more details see COMMANDLINE-ARGUMENTS.md

How is this software licensed? MIT