Notifications to Discord

[ManiacMinor]

I managed to get everything working but notifications. Looking for some help with this, thanks.

I don't understand how to set the notifications with Apprise.
My goal is to have this connected to a Discord webhook.

On Windows and cloned the repo.

I read the readme, and it set to set "NOTIFY to the notification services you want to use".
I tried changing lines in the config.js but clearly don't understand.

Below is what I tried:

notify: process.env.NOTIFY == 'discord://{WebhookID}/{WebhookToken}',
notify: 'discord://{WebhookID}/{WebhookToken}',

This is my first time using .js and apprise.

Thanks

[spider1163]

Hello,

Options are set via environment variables

Without Docker :
https://github.com/vogler/free-games-claimer#without-docker

put options in data/config.env :
NOTIFY='discord://{WebhookID}/{WebhookToken}/'
https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_discord

[ManiacMinor]

This works, but the notify-test.js does not. I assume because I have no games to claim?

error: Command failed: apprise discord://xxxx/xxxxx/ -i html '' -b 'epic-games:<br>- <a href="https://gaming.amazon.com/home">Epistory - Typing Chronicles</a> (claimed)' The system cannot find the file specified.

On line 11 in notify-test.js, if I remove everything after "epic-games:" the notification goes through as "'epic-games:'".
I am unsure what file the error is having issues with.
notify('epic-games:<br>${html_game_list(notify_games)}');

Thanks again!

[vogler]

You should just have to set the NOTIFY environment variable. No need to touch .js files.

notify-test.js will send a test notification (Epistory) to NOTIFY, content formatted via html_game_list, same way as the other scripts use it.

I don't know why the notification should work if you remove the HTML part of the body, the quoting looks fine.
I assume you have apprise installed. I don't know what The system cannot find the file specified. may refer to on Windows (command or just arg?).
Try running apprise 'discord://xxxx/xxxxx/' -i html '' -b 'epic-games:<br>- <a href="https://gaming.amazon.com/home">Epistory - Typing Chronicles</a> (claimed)' in the terminal and see what you have to remove to make it work.

[ManiacMinor]

It have messed around and if I use '' around
epic-games:<br>- <a href="https://gaming.amazon.com/home">Epistory - Typing Chronicles</a> (claimed)

I get output:

epic-games:

• Epistory - Typing Chronicles (claimed)

This doesn't use the HTML formatting for a href. I tested it as a Windows notification as well, and does same
For my use I could change it since I don't think Discord can use HTML masking yet and works differently

Eg.
apprise "discord://xxxxx/xxxxx/" -i html "" -b "Epic-Games: https://gaming.amazon.com/home<br>- Epistory - Typing Chronicles (claimed)"

Output:

epic-games: https://gaming.amazon.com/home

• Epistory - Typing Chronicles (claimed)

[ManiacMinor]

Could you explain how to get it for work like I formatted, like what files to change and to what?
I am assuming line 239 in epic-games.js? But unsure how to change it exactly

Thanks for the help!

[vogler]

Interesting that discord doesn't support HTML.
You can try markdown as format to make links:
https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_discord
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/fumcsq/how_do_i_make_text_a_clickable_linkhyperlink_on/

Just this line needs to be adjusted:

free-games-claimer/util.js

Line 122 in 7e4770b

export const html_game_list = games => games.map(g => `- <a href="${g.url}">${escapeHtml(g.title)}</a> (${g.status})`).join('<br>');

Could make a game_list that formats it as html/markdown/text depending on what the service supports. However, such a per-service conversion seems like an abstraction that should be added to apprise itself.