sends messages to a discord channel using a bot via http POST

discord-bot-post-message.lua

-- Post a message to discord api via a bot 
-- Originally created by ianklatzco, forked and ported to lua by xxxYoloxxx999#2166 (preindex)
-- You don't need a library to do this, you just need something that runs lua to execute and a request function. 

local channelId = 'your_id_goes_here' 
local botToken = 'your_token_here' 
local ToPost = { -- Stuff you need to post
    ['content'] = 'hello world!'
}

local baseURL = string.format('https://discordapp.com/api/channels/%s/messages', channelID)
local headers = {
    ['Authorization'] = string.format('Bot %s', botToken),
    ['Content-Type'] = 'application/json',
    ['User-Agent'] = 'xxxYoloxxx999#2166 (https://system-exodus.com, v0.1)'  
}

-- Request using coro.request
local request = coro.request('POST', baseURL, headers, ToPost)

-- Request using any request function 
local Request = request({
    Url = baseURL, 
    Method = 'POST',
    Headers = headers, 
    Body = ToPost
})