Litecord support (how to edit base URL)

[Titaniumtown]

What do you want

A way to change the base URL for cordless in the form of a config file in ~/.config/cordless/

Why

It would benefit cordless because it would be able to connect to custom backends for discord. One of those custom backend is litecord (https://gitlab.com/litecord/litecord), which is written from scratch in python, that can be self-hosted.

Implementation hints

Make a config file of some sort in ~/.config/cordless/ that has an option to change the base url. And by default, this option would be the official discord servers, but with the added ability of the user to change it.

[Bios-Marcel]

Nice idea, love it

[Titaniumtown]

I just found out about litecord and would love to give it a spin, but cordless doesn't have support for custom Base URLs. Once this is implemented, someone might want to make a PR to https://gitlab.com/litecord/litecord/-/blob/master/docs/clients.md to add cordless to the supported clients.

[Titaniumtown]

Where is it hardcoded now? I can't seem to find it. I did

grep -R "https://discord.com/" .

[Bios-Marcel]

It's in https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/discordgo

[Titaniumtown]

Ok. I'll look forward for a commit that adds this option!

[NDagestad]

Would you consider keeping cordless around so it can be used as a litecord client ?

[Bios-Marcel]

Hey @NDagestad , I'll probably keep up the repository either way and probably even do another official release. However, I've already informed everyone who uses a package manager via an intentionally crippled build. You can still install cordless manually and you can still fork it, it is and stays open ;)

I've already added the ability to change the URLs, so litecord might already work. I might add a way to configure the URLs from within the cordless config today. Do you have a litecord backend in mind that I can test with?