Send

This module allows authorized users to send messages through the bot, and/or editing previously sent messages.

Note

All 4 actions below live under one /send command tree, and each one opens a short form (a Discord modal) to type the actual message/embed content, instead of taking it as a command argument. The dashboard's Message Composer page offers a Send and an Edit action with a full JSON embed editor and a live preview - use whichever you prefer.

Warning

Neither the /send forms below nor the dashboard's Message Composer page support attaching a file/image - Discord's modal forms have no file-upload field, and the dashboard's message editor doesn't expose one either.

/send message

Command Syntax

/send message channel:{channel}

Command Description

Opens a form to send a message to the given channel. The form's single field accepts either plain text, or embed json built with Discohook.

Permissions Needed

User: None.

Examples

/send message channel:#this-channel

/send embed

Command Syntax

/send embed channel:{channel}

Command Description

Opens a form to send an embed (built as JSON, e.g. with Discohook) to the given channel.

Warning

Only JSON is accepted for embeds - there's no tag-based shorthand.

Permissions Needed

User: None.

Examples

/send embed channel:#that-channel

/send edit

Command Syntax

/send edit message_link:{message link}

Command Description

Opens a form, pre-filled with the message's current content, to edit a message GiselleBot previously sent. Paste the message's link (right-click a message -> Copy Message Link).

You can use embed json built with Discohook instead of a regular text, if you want the message to be embedded.

You cannot edit a message attachment.

Note

To remove the content (plain text) of a message, submit {"content":""} as the form's content. To remove all embeds of a message, submit {"embeds":[]}.

Note

Only messages under 4000 characters can be edited this way (the form can't pre-fill a longer message without silently truncating it).

Permissions Needed

User: None.

Examples

/send edit message_link:https://discord.com/channels/533372744130363392/534171951732752394/534751296847216642

/send webhook

Command Syntax

/send webhook webhook_url:{full webhook URL}

Command Description

Opens a form to send a message through a webhook. Paste the webhook's full URL - the webhook doesn't have to belong to the channel you run the command from, only to the current server.

This command is meant to test the functionality of a Discord webhook.

You can use embed json built with Discohook instead of a regular text, if you want the message to be embedded.

Permissions Needed

User: Manage Webhooks. Discord's command-permissions picker for /send itself is open to everyone; Manage Webhooks is enforced in-code for this subcommand (see Layer 3).

Examples

/send webhook webhook_url:https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123456789098765432/AbCdEf...

On the Dashboard

Your server's Message Composer page covers Send and Edit in two tabs, without the modal-form size limits:

Send - pick a channel, then write the message content and/or a full embed in the built-in JSON embed editor, with a live preview of how it will look. After sending, an Edit This Message link jumps straight into the Edit tab, pre-filled with what was just sent.
Edit - paste a message link (or reuse the one from Send) to load its current content/embed into the same editor and save changes.

Like every /send form, neither tab can attach a file/image - see the Warning above.