dvembed

(D)iscord (v).redd.it media (embed)der

dvembed uses youtube-dl to download v.redd.it / vreddit media, at the highest available audio and video quality. If the media file is smaller than the 8MB Discord file upload limit, the bot will post the file, meaning v.redd.it media can now be embedded nicely within Discord, without having to leave the app and view the thread.

Future

• If the media file exceeds 8 MB, dvembed will attempt to use alternate versions of the file hosted by v.redd.it.
• Some larger will not have alternate versions that do not exceed the 8 MB limit. The bot will attempt to compress and reduce the file size with ffmpeg.

Usage

Currently, this is a private bot, and so you will need to create a Discord Application, with a Bot User, and then generate a token. Please visit the Discord developer site.

Run the bot with an executable (or directly from source with go run)

dvembed -t SECRET-TOKEN

or, to have run as a background process (Linux/Unix only):

nohup dvembed -t SECRET-TOKEN &

By default, output will be sent to the file nohup.out, but you can specify with

nohup dvembed -t SECRET-TOKEN ./dvembed.log

Token

Flag: -t SECRET-TOKEN

Token can also be added to token.go if building from source, so you can omit the flag.

Requirements

• ffmpeg

Future

• The functionality that youtube-dl provides will be shifted to Go code, so will not be required in the future.

Example