Simple discord webhook with python

webhook.py

import requests # dependency

url = "<your url>" # webhook url, from here: https://i.imgur.com/f9XnAew.png

# for all params, see https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhook
data = {
    "content" : "message content",
    "username" : "custom username"
}

# leave this out if you dont want an embed
# for all params, see https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#embed-object
data["embeds"] = [
    {
        "description" : "text in embed",
        "title" : "embed title"
    }
]

result = requests.post(url, json = data)

try:
    result.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as err:
    print(err)
else:
    print(f"Payload delivered successfully, code {result.status_code}.")

# result: https://i.imgur.com/DRqXQzA.png

thanks!

tysm

this does multiple things in a weird way that it doesn't need to, like assigning to a dict after creating it and manually dumping JSON instead of letting requests handle it.

I recommend this simpler variant:

import requests

url = "<your webhook url>"

embed = {
    "description": "text in embed",
    "title": "embed title"
    }

data = {
    "content": "message content",
    "username": "custom username",
    "embeds": [
        embed
        ],
}

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

result = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
if 200 <= result.status_code < 300:
    print(f"Webhook sent {result.status_code}")
else:
    print(f"Not sent with {result.status_code}, response:\n{result.json()}")

i am new to this and this helped a lot, but i just found out that you don't really need to define the headers or pass them as a parameter if you are passing the data into JSON, like laundmo did just above. the code defined below would just work fine as the one above.

`import requests

url = "put webhook url"

embed = {
    "description": "text in embed",
    "title": "embed title"
    }

data = {
    "content": "message content",
    "username": "custom username",
    "embeds": [
        embed
        ],
}


result = requests.post(url, json=data)
if 200 <= result.status_code < 300:
    print(f"Webhook sent {result.status_code}")
else:
    print(f"Not sent with {result.status_code}, response:\n{result.json()}")

@z0ned-out you're right of course, requests will set the header automatically

Hey, thank you for the recommendations @laundmo and @z0ned-out. I have integrated them into the code and also updated the linked example images for the newest discord layout.

Note that f-strings are not used in the example to preserve compatibility with versions below Python 3.6. With f-strings the last line could be print(f"Payload delivered successfully, code {result.status_code}.").

@Bilka2 Python 3.5 has already reached its End of Life, there is no reason to support it. f-strings are way more performant and readable than .format and as such should ideally be used.

My desire to support pre-3.6 is a good enough reason to keep the code how it is.

Is there a way to attach embed images?

Hey guys, is there a way to send texts that are actually links?
like in html e.g(Text)
I am trying to send shoe sizes as a message to my chanel, and I want to be able to click on those sizes and itll take me to the respective page of each size

@andyias you can use markdown links in the webhook content

[the link](https://example.com)

this is something unique to webhooks, and won't work for normal discord messages.

@Senoel i recommend taking a look at https://leovoel.github.io/embed-visualizer/ (make sure to click on "webhook mode")

you can also take a look at https://birdie0.github.io/discord-webhooks-guide/structure/file.html for sending files without an embed

very useful

very useful, since im a noob with python :D

Neat, thanks!

how would one attach a file?
do we just use .read() for the contents? and where does the file name go?

how would one attach a file? do we just use .read() for the contents? and where does the file name go?

@Hypurrnating I think you can use this:
requests.post("<your webhook url>", json = {"content": "<your message here (you can just set to an empty string)>"}, files = {"myfile": open("<your file path here>", "rb")})
Note that you can change myfile to anything other, and so, add multiple items into the dictionnary passed to files by changing the name.