discord-video-embed-bot

A Discord bot that automatically embeds media and metadata of messages containing a link of a supported platform.

Supported platforms

• Instagram ✅
• Facebook ✅
• Tiktok ✅
• Reddit ✅
• Twitter ✅
• Youtube Shorts ✅

How to run

• Build the docker image: docker build . -t video-embed-bot or simply pull it from ghcr:

docker pull ghcr.io/amadejkastelic/discord-video-embed-bot:<latest|tag>

• Run it with your discord api key: docker run -e DISCORD_API_KEY=<api_key> video-embed-bot

Facebook

Facebook requires you to provide cookies. Download them in your browser using an extension while you're logged in and mount them to the container).

Reddit

• For extended reddit support you need to create an app on reddit and add the following environment variables:

REDDIT_API_TOKEN=<your_reddit_api_token>
REDDIT_API_SECRET=<your_reddit_api_secret>
REDDIT_USER_AGENT=<name_version_and_your_username>

Twitter

• For better twitter support you need to add credentials:

TWITTER_USERNAME=<your_twitter_username>
TWITTER_EMAIL=<your_twitter_email>
TWITTER_PASSWORD=<your_twitter_password>

Instagram

• For better instagram integration that allows to view items that require login, you need to provide the instagram.sess file and instagram username environemnt variable:

INSTAGRAM_USERNAME=<your_instagram_username>

• instagram.sess file should be in the working directory of your instance
• You can obtain the session file by logging into Instagram in Firefox and running:

python bin/fetch_instagram_session.py