Overview

messages can be sent with the components key to add buttons and other components (when discord brings them out), you can edit and add new buttons via editing the message, this is useful for the disabled key to stop people from clicking it.

Example Payload

{
    "content": "this is an example message for components",
    "components": [
        {"type": 1, "components": [
            {"type": 2, "style": 2, "label": "Button 1", "custom_id": "1"},
            {"type": 2, "style": 2, "label": "Button 2", "custom_id": "2"}
        ]}
    ]
}

Message

extending message payload.

Key	Value
components?	list of Component

Component

Key	Value	Description
type	ComponentType	the type of component
style?	ComponentStyle	the style of button
custom_id?	string	the internal id of the button, set this yourself, mutually exclusive with `url`
label?	string	the text on the button
url?	string	used to set the url for hyperlinks
emoji?	PartialEmoji	used for an emoji in the button text
disabled?	boolean	used to enabled and disable the button - defaults to false
components?	list of Component	children components

Component Limits

Key	Limit (number of characters)
custom_id	100
label	80
url	500

ComponentType

Key	ID	Description
action_row	1	used as the parent of buttons, takes a list of components with the `components` key with the type of `2`
button	2	an actual button

ComponentStyle

Key	ID	Description
primary	1	a blurple coloured button
secondary	2	a grey coloured button
success	3	a green coloured button
danger	4	a red coloured button
link	5	a grey hyperlink button, set the link in the `url` key

If a url is given to a button, they must have a style set to 5. You can't have custom_id and url. url based buttons do not dispatch INTERACTION_CREATE.

PartialEmoji

Key	Value
name?	string
id?	snowflake

InteractionData

extending interaction data payload.

Key	Value
custom_id?	string
component_type?	ComponentType

InteractionResponseType

Key	ID	Description
DeferredMessageUpdate	6	Signals that a message update will appear later (not required, basically an ACK). No body

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