discord-interactions

discord-interactions

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Types and helper functions that may come in handy when you implement a Discord Interactions webhook.

Overview

This library provides a simple interface for working with slash commands and Discord. You can build applications that allow users to use Interactions to send commands to your app. When a user runs such a command, Discord will send an HTTP request to your web application. This library makes it easier to:

• Verify that requests to your endpoint are actually coming from Discord
• Integrate verification with web frameworks that use connect middleware (like express)
• Use lightweight enums and TypeScript types to aid in handling request payloads and responses

To learn more about building on Discord, see https://discord.dev.

Installation

npm install discord-interactions

Usage

Use the InteractionType and InteractionResponseType enums to figure out how to respond to a webhook.

Use verifyKey to check a request signature:

 const signature = req.get('X-Signature-Ed25519');
 const timestamp = req.get('X-Signature-Timestamp');
 const isValidRequest = await verifyKey(req.rawBody, signature, timestamp, 'MY_CLIENT_PUBLIC_KEY');
 if (!isValidRequest) {
   return res.status(401).end('Bad request signature');
 }

Note that req.rawBody must be populated by a middleware (it is also set by some cloud function providers).

If you're using an express-like API, you can simplify things by using the verifyKeyMiddleware. For example:

app.post('/interactions', verifyKeyMiddleware('MY_CLIENT_PUBLIC_KEY'), (req, res) => {
  const message = req.body;
  if (message.type === InteractionType.APPLICATION_COMMAND) {
    res.send({
      type: InteractionResponseType.CHANNEL_MESSAGE_WITH_SOURCE,
      data: {
        content: 'Hello world',
      },
    });
  }
});

Make sure that you do not use other middlewares like body-parser, which tamper with the request body, for interaction routes.

Interaction Types

The following enumerations are available to help working with interaction requests and responses. For more details, see the examples.

InteractionType	An enum of interaction types that can be POSTed to your webhook endpoint.
InteractionResponseType	An enum of response types you may provide in reply to Discord's webhook.
InteractionResponseFlags	An enum of flags you can set on your response data.

Message Components

This library contains lightweight TypeScript types and enums that are helpful when working with Message Components.

MessageComponentTypes	An enum of message component types that can be used in messages and modals.
ActionRow	Type for Action Rows
Button	Type for Buttons
ButtonStyleTypes	Enum of available Button Styles
StringSelect	Type for String Selects
StringSelectOption	Type for String Select Options
InputText	Structure for `Text Inputs
TextStyleTypes	Enum for Text Style Types

For a complete list of available TypeScript types, check out discord-api-types package.

Learning more

To learn more about the Discord API, visit https://discord.dev.