Action: Send Channel Message

Discord Operation

The Send Channel Message action in Discord posts a message to a specified channel on a server.

Example User Story

I want to notify everyone about the upcoming team meeting, so I use the Send Channel Message action in Discord to post a reminder in the #announcements channel.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
channelID	String	Yes
message	String	Yes
embed	Object	No

Related Connections

Discord

Related Automations

Example link

Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "send-channel-message",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Send Channel Message",
    "description": "Sends a message to a specified Discord channel."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "channelID",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the Discord channel to send the message to."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "message",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The content of the message to send."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "embed",
      "type": "Object",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "An optional embed object to include in the message."
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "messageID",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the sent message."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/channels/{{channelID}}/messages",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"content\": \"{{message}}\", \"embed\": {{embed}}}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "message",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The content of the message to send.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "embed",
              "type": "Object",
              "description": "An optional embed object to include in the message.",
              "required": false
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}