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sends a message to a discord channel via a bot using command line HTTP POST- curl
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discord-bot-post-message.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# update the TOKEN and the CHANNELID, rest is optional
# you may need to connect with a websocket the first time you run the bot
# use a library like discord.py to do so
BOT_TOKEN=''
CHANNELID=''
curl -v \
-H "Authorization: ${BOT_TOKEN}" \
-H "User-Agent: myBotThing (http://some.url, v0.1)" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d "{\"content\":\"${1}\"}" \
https://discordapp.com/api/channels/${CHANNELID}/messages
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