URL Protocol for use by the OS protocol handler

[murpii]

My old bot on discord.py 1.7.3 used to be able to send clickable url link protocols like so by wrapping the url in "<>" symbols like so:

player_embed.add_field(name=f"Player: {player_name}",
                            f"\nNon-Steam <ddnet://{address}/>"
                            f"\nSteam: <steam://run/412220//{address}/>",
                            ...

This does not seem to work anymore after updating to discord.py 2.2.2. The steam one still works, but the Non-Steam one is just plain text now.

Does anyone know how to fix that?

[ItsNeil17]

As far as I know, they removed "ddnet" or whatever its meant to be. You can send clickable URLs through the use of markdown. I'll give you the format below:

[display text](URL here)
An example is: Click here to go to google!

Escaped example: Click [here](https://google.com) to go to google!

[murpii]

ddnet was technically never supported. The url just happened to work because it was wrapped in <>. What it basically did is, open the game, connect to a specific game server with given address.

Your example I think requires either http or https to work, which we can't really use here.

[ItsNeil17]

Oh, I see, I never used ddnet so I wasn't sure

[Rapptz]

The library doesn't do anything with these short of sending them over so whatever changed is entirely on discord's end.

[murpii]

Thank you for letting me know. It is unfortunate that the update happened just as I were updating my bot.