discord-webhooks

Webhooks used in the #tech-news channel of the TinkerHub Discord server.

Webhooks

• DEV.to

  DEV.to's API is used to fetch the most popular posts from DEV.to.

  https://dev.to/api/articles?top=1
  

  The endpoint returns an array of the most popular posts. But it's highly likely for the same post to be popular accross multiple days; so to change it up, a random object is selected from the array of popular posts.

  The selected array is then formatted into a nice looking Discord embed using the discord-webhook-node package and finally sent to the specified channel using the secret 👀 Discord webhook URL.

• Hashnode

  The process is similar to DEV.to's webhook. Except this time, there's a few different things around the API. Hashnode's API is a GraphQL API, so you only get the data that you ask for. You can play around with it here.

  Hashnode's API has a single endpoint (as a result of it being a GraphQL API) and whatever stuff you want is specified in a special format (similar to JSON), in the form of schema. See line 19 of hashnode.js to see the schema that was used for this webhook.

Local Setup

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/TinkerHub/discord-webhooks.git

# slide into the directory
cd discord-webhooks

# install the dependencies
npm install

Then go the .env (create one, if it doesn't exist), you need to "keep a few secrets".

TECHNEWS_WEBHOOK_URL=<YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL_HERE>

Replace <YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL_HERE> with the URL of your webhook.

And then finally run the script by running npm start.

License

This repo is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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P.S. Thanks to GitHub Copilot for helping me write this article!