A quick and silly little bot re-written in Go (originally Python) that utilizes services such as vxtwitter, vxtiktok, vxreddit, and ddinstagram in one bot to properly embed media for the user.
I probably won't update it as frequently since its in a good enough state for me, but perhaps I can improve upon it over time.
Rather than re-inventing the wheel and creating a way to fix embeds on Discord for every major social media site -- I opted to automate the manual way of using these aforementioned services so it is done for you.
Just post a link from either twitter.com, x.com, tiktok.com, instagram.com (reels only for now), and Embe Bot will detect it and reply to the original message with the converted link.
This will require you to make an application in the Discord Developer Portal
- Create a New Application > Go to the Bot tab
- Turn on all Privileged Gateway intents
- Under Bot Permissions, give it Text Permissions
- Add bot to your server
- Clone the github repository
- in the /embebot directory build the image via
docker build . - in docker-compose.yml modify the line
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN =and add in your own Bot token by pressing "Reset Token" in the Bot tab and copy it to the line. - Finally, run ``docker-compose up -d``` (assuming Docker Compose is being used)
Whether it'd be vx/fxtwitter, ddinstagram, vxreddit, sometimes these services get rate limited which can lead to a much slower experience. Because of this you have the option to change the embed link to something else to avoid congestion, which is handy for those who already self-host these services.
Just edit the config.ini file, set EndpointOverride to true and start adding in your own endpoints for any of the services listed. Should you want to switch back, set them as default.
For reference, the default embed endpoints are:
- Twitter/X - vxtwitter.com
- Instagram - ddinstagram.com
- Reddit - vxreddit.com
This bot definitely wouldn't even exist without the heavy lifting of these projects, I just merely combined them to make the Discord experience slightly more bearable. So I thank these people orders of magnitude smarter than me for their great work:
Note: this thing is licensed under do whatever you want I dont care