discord-slim

Discord Slim

Lightweight Discord client for Node.js.

Provides access to Discord client gateway and API for bots.
Very minimalistic way without excessive abstractions and dependencies. Also with very low resources usage.

Before you start

Node.js 12+ is required!

Make sure you have some understaning of Discord API.

API

Client - main client class.

Methods

• Auth(token) - set up token for the client.
• Connect(intents?) - connect to the gateway to receive intents.
• Disconnect() - disconnect from the gateway.
• Request(method, route, data?, auth?) - send a request to Discord API.
• WsSend(data) - send data to the gateway directly.

? means optional arg.

Events

• connect - client established a connection to the gateway.
• disconnect - client disconnected.
• packet - intent packet received.
• warn - other noticeable information.
• error - error appeared, client will continue to work.
• fatal - fatal error, client will shutdown.

Other exports

Host - contains current Discord domain.
API - contains current Discord API address.
CDN - contains current Discord CDN address.
Routes - base API route constructors.
Permissions - list of known permissions.
Intents - list of known intents.

Installation

npm i discord-slim

Basic bot setup example

const Discord = require('discord-slim');

const client = new Discord.Client();

client.Auth('BOT_TOKEN');
client.Connect(Discord.Intents.GUILDS | Discord.Intents.GUILD_MESSAGES);

// Listen for intent packets
client.on('packet', packet => {
    // packet.t contains intent type
    // packet.d contains intent data
    if(packet.t == 'MESSAGE_CREATE')
        HandleMessage(packet.d);
});

You can read about possible intents here and here.

Scripting and routing

Auth and Connect functions are separated because API requests doesn't actually require connection to the gateway. This is useful if you want only a script that just sends some requests without actual client connection.

const Discord = require('discord-slim');

const client = new Discord.Client();

client.Auth('BOT_TOKEN');
// client.Connect() is not required if you don't need to listen intents

const Routes = Discord.Routes;
// Post a message in some channel
client.Request('POST', Routes.Channel('CHANNEL_ID') + '/messages', { content: 'Hello!' });

Message posting example

Build from source

Install typescript package from npm and run tsc.