What is HTTP INTERACTION discord bot?

• An Interaction Discord Bot writing using HTTP API
• Although the bot is offlined, it still can be continue working properly.
• Only can use application commands, X no message content command
• There's no any status (online, offline, idle, dnd, streaming) to this type of bot.

This project is referred from:

• Slash Command Discord Bot (fastify)
• Offical Github Discord API

Required Packages:

• fastify
• ngrok
• node-fetch
• fastify-raw-body
• discord-interactions

For copy the codes in this project, do:

git clone https://github.com/chingh1123/nodejs-http-interaction-bot/

Set up interactivity

• The project needs a public endpoint where Discord can send requests. To develop and test locally, you can use something like ngrok to tunnel HTTP traffic.

• Install ngrok if you haven't already (npm i ngrok), then start listening on port 3000:

ngrok http 3000

You should see your connection open:

Session Status                online    
Session Expires               1 hour, 59 minutes                                                                        
Version                       2.3.40                                                                                   
Region                        United States (us)                                                                        
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4040                                                                     
Forwarding                    http://1234-someurl.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000      
Forwarding                    https://1234-someurl.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000                                                                                                                             
Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90                                                                             
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

Copy the forwarding address that starts with https, in this case https://1234-someurl.ngrok.io, then go to your app's settings and paste it to the Interactions Endpoint URL option.

How to run?

• Type this in your terminal and enter it:

npm run register

and then you are all set!

• do npm start for start booting the server.

⚠️ Note

• Remember don't close the ngrok http 3000 terminal & npm start terminal, or else the commands in the bot will not be working