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Frank Matranga
Frank Matranga

Reputation: 184

Communicate between Discord bot and Node server

I am developing a web app with a complementary Discord bot. Currently, because I use Node for both, they are in the same project and share the same database connection with Mongoose. I can access the bot in the routes of the web app by requiring it as a module but it's rather clunky.

Is there a way I can send information back and forth between the bot program and the web server? I would just need to be send data like { "action": "send_message", "text": "hello world", etc.} back and forth, and they would be running on the same computer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1253

Answers (1)

jakemingolla
jakemingolla

Reputation: 1639

You can set up a REST Api in your Node app and have your discord bot communicate through it. At a glance, the API might have a route:

POST /v1/messages

which accepts an HTTP body containing { "text": "hello world" } etc.

There are many HTTP server modules for Node, express being the most popular. Happy coding!

Upvotes: 1

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