Discord Daily Quote

00-instructions.md

Description

A script that posts a daily quote and image to Discord via webhook.

Setup

1. Install deno
2. Create a new Discord webhook, copy URL, and update webhookURL value.
3. Create a Pexels account, generate an API key, and update pexelsAPIKey value.

Usage

1. Manually run deno run --allow-net daily-quote.ts
2. Compile with deno compile --unstable --allow-net daily-quote.ts and set up a cronjob targeting the compiled script.

daily-quote.ts

async function getDailyQuote(config: any) {
  const pref_mode = (config.mode) ? config.mode : 'random' // Available modes: [today, random, author (premium only)].
  // For premium subscriptions
  const pref_author = (config.author) ? config.author : null // Available authors: https://premium.zenquotes.io/available-authors/
  const pref_key = (config.key) ? config.key : null // https://premium.zenquotes.io/
    
  const zenQuotesAPI = `https://zenquotes.io/api/`
  const getDailyQuoteURL = (pref_mode == 'author' && pref_author && pref_key) ? `${zenQuotesAPI}quotes/${pref_mode}/${pref_author}/${pref_key}` : `${zenQuotesAPI}${pref_mode}`
  const response = await fetch(getDailyQuoteURL)
  if (response != null) {
    const data = await response.json()
    return data
  } else {
    return 'Error in zenquotes.io Daily Quote lookup.'
  }
}

async function getDailyImage() {
  const query = 'nature'
  const pexelsAPI = 'https://api.pexels.com/v1'
  const pexelsAPIKey = '<secret>'
  const randomPage = Math.floor(Math.random() * (100 - 1) + 1)
  const getDailyImageURL = `${pexelsAPI}/search?query=${query}&per_page=80&page=${randomPage}`
  const response = await fetch(getDailyImageURL, {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
      'Authorization': `Bearer ${pexelsAPIKey}`
    }
  })
  if (response != null) {
    const data = await response.json()
    return data
  } else {
    return 'Error in Pexels image lookup.'
  }
}

async function main() {
  let quoteParams = {
    'mode': 'random',
    'author': null,
    'key': null
  }
  const dailyQuote = await getDailyQuote(quoteParams)
  const dailyImage = await getDailyImage()
  const webhookURL = '<secret>'
  const colors = [
    '16670074',
    '16768298',
    '8280063',
    '4968442',
    '714881'
  ]
  
  return await fetch(webhookURL, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({embeds: [{
      title: dailyQuote[0].a,
      image: {
        url: dailyImage.photos[Math.floor(Math.random() * (79 - 1) + 1)].src.large
      },
      author: {
        name: '💭 Daily Quote',
      },
      color: colors[Math.floor(Math.random() * colors.length)],
      description: dailyQuote[0].q,
    }]}),
  })
}

export default main()