Responding to interaction with a video from a URL
Hi,
I have a database of videos that are all stored as links (all on the discord CDN and ending in .mp4). I want to respond to a ChatInputCommandInteraction with a video.
At the moment I'm doing
await i.reply({files: [new Attachment({url: row.content})]}), but that re-uploads the video to the Discord CDN rather than just showing it from the URL, which makes it slower. With images I know you can just provide a url and not have to reupload it, I assume this is possible with videos too? And also Attachment's constructor is private so its not ideal.
Is there a "more ideal" way to do this, that's efficient and works?4 Replies
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files will go through the CDN directly
You can just send the url in teh message content, but unlike messages, embedded videos do not replace the content; instead, the url will still be visible in the content, but the video will be embedded (assuming the bot has the Embed Files permission)
Btw, AttachmentBuilder is the class with a public constructorah right. I was thinking like how in the image field of embeds you can specify a URL and it will use that url, rather than fetching the image and re-uploading it - I assume it's not possible to do anything like that with videos, and only option is to re-upload it (or just put url in content, but i don't want to do that)?
Yeah you can't send videos in embeds