C#•2y ago

Post file to Discord channel

hey guys, has any of you tried to use the Discord api to send Valheim saves game to a Discord channel (to share them with friends, etc.)? My script (https://srcb.in/T7lfthUtfP) sends these files to the channel but after downloading, Valheim can't make use of them. I am sending them according to Discords specs https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#uploading-files but I reckon that my encoding before sending might be the problem, but I am stuck here, as my understanding of http/encoding is limited
Cheers!

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Angius•4/26/24, 8:09 AM

O-oh, that's Powershell

Angius•4/26/24, 8:09 AM

Might get more help on the $powershell server

AAngius Might get more help on the $powershell server

MODiX•4/26/24, 8:09 AM

https://discord.gg/powershell

Angius•4/26/24, 8:11 AM

I don't think I would be reading those binary files as a UTF-8 string

Angius•4/26/24, 8:11 AM

That's for sure

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 8:13 AM

that is where I am stuck^^ How else would you do it

Angius•4/26/24, 8:15 AM

I would not use Powershell lol

Angius•4/26/24, 8:15 AM

But if I had to, I'd try googling, and I might even find something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22491129/how-to-send-multipart-form-data-with-powershell-invoke-restmethod

Angius•4/26/24, 8:16 AM

Which basically uses .NET's

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 8:25 AM

yeah, I already read that^^ But might give it another try

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 8:45 AM

well, I am a little surprised: using HttpClient works, so I can load the save games now ...does this automatically mean the sent files are safely not corrupted? Like, in my mind I figure that I still might get an error at some point like "cant find asset..."

Angius•4/26/24, 8:49 AM

You're sending the exact bytes that are on your disk

Angius•4/26/24, 8:49 AM

So the files should be a 1:1 copy

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 8:51 AM

because I am sending a file stream now?

Angius•4/26/24, 8:53 AM

Yeah

Angius•4/26/24, 8:53 AM

Without serializing it as text

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 8:56 AM

so it should also work with my previous approach, when I use

$fileStream = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead($local_file[1])

instead of

$fileBytesFwl = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($local_file[0])

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 9:25 AM

thanks anyway^^

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:02 AM

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:02 AM

any reason you ... get the lenght of X before creating X ?

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:02 AM

how can it has the right value ?

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:02 AM

also ...

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:02 AM

why does your variable has ... CR and LF ?

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:03 AM

$LF = "n";

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:03 AM

this is CRLF lmao

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 11:03 AM

LF would be just `n

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n1lsOP•4/26/24, 12:05 PM

Yeah I use a bot token...the script
sends the request upon which the bot account posts the message. Is this design not common?

TTeBeCo why does your `LF` variable has ... CR and LF ?

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 12:06 PM

Thanks for pointing this out. A lot of this needs cleaning

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 12:24 PM

I see, the project was really just a quick idea and without knowing too much about discord bots I just followed this way. What would be a more professional design? I just want to run a script now and then to send a few save files to a Channel and or download a few.

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TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:46 PM

i mean you can do webhook i guess

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:46 PM

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:47 PM

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:47 PM

this is more or less an abstraction of a bot

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:47 PM

but I guess it's a generic way to avoid all the plumbing

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:48 PM

i suggested that for the upload

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:48 PM

sending

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:49 PM

that's what webhooks are mostly used for

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:49 PM

external system pushing info into discord

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:49 PM

hey guys, has any of you tried to use the Discord api to send Valheim saves game to a Discord channel

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:49 PM

that's a typical webhook usage

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:50 PM

(or a bot)

TeBeCo•4/26/24, 12:50 PM

if you need nothing more than this i'd slap a webhook and call it a day

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 12:57 PM

So the setting is the following: we share the save files in our channel. So every user needs to check which version is newer, local or remote and manually upload or download the most recent accordingly. Now I want a script which every user can run which checks which version is newer and uploads or downloads the files.

n1lsOP•4/26/24, 12:59 PM

I have it all complete already, just the upload was problematic as the files couldn't be read, but using http client fixed it.

It could use a totally different design if mine is total crap though