discord-embed

Discord will only create embeds for videos and images if they are smaller than 8MB. We can "abuse" this by using the twitter:image HTML meta tag.

This is useful when you send a video and want it to be playable in Discord.

How it works

This program will create a .html that you will send instead of a .mp4 file. Discord will parse the HTML and create an embed for you. The embed will be the same as the one you would get if you send a .mp4 file.

Installation

This implies that you have experience with Nginx. Don't be afraid to contact me if you need help.

• Install latest version of git, Python, Poetry and Nginx.
• Clone the repository or download the source code directly from GitHub.
• Install the dependencies using Poetry.
  • poetry install
• Rename .env.example to .env and fill in the required values.
• Copy discord-embed.service to /etc/systemd/system/discord-embed.service.
  • sudo cp discord-embed.service /etc/systemd/system/discord-embed.service
  • Change lovinator to your username.
  • Change DOMAIN to the domain where we will serve the files.
• There is a bundled nginx config file that can be used to serve the site.
  • sudo cp nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
• Start Nginx at boot.
  • sudo systemctl enable --now nginx
• Create directory for uploaded files.
  • sudo mkdir /Uploads
• Check what user is running Nginx, Arch is using http. Others could be www-data:
  • ps aux | grep nginx
• Change permissions of /Uploads directory. Change lovinator to your username and http to the user running Nginx.
  • sudo chown -R lovinator:http /Uploads
• Create log folder.
  • sudo mkdir /var/log/discord-embed
• Change permissions of /var/log/discord-embed directory. Change lovinator to your username.
  • sudo chown -R lovinator:lovinator /var/log/discord-embed
• Start the services.
  • sudo systemctl enable --now discord-embed.service
  • sudo systemctl enable --now discord-embed.socket
• Check if the services are running.
  • sudo systemctl status discord-embed.service
  • sudo systemctl status discord-embed.socket
• Check logs for errors.
  • cat /var/log/discord-embed/error.log and cat /var/log/discord-embed/access.log

Need help?

• Email: tlovinator@gmail.com
• Discord: TheLovinator#9276
• Steam: TheLovinator
• Send an issue: discord-embed/issues