rich-presence-cli

Manage your Discord Rich Presence from the command line over UDP.

Here're some wacky things you can do:

usage

Start a UDP proxy to the Discord IPC pipe:

❯ make serve
go build -o ./bin/rich-presence.exe main.go
./bin/rich-presence.exe serve
2022/03/26 17:37:09 Listening on :1992

In another shell, send an update:

❯ rich-presence update --details "$(basename "$PWD")" --state browsing...

We can also form the JSON payloads ourselves:

❯ echo '{"details":"wassup"}' > /dev/udp/$WINHOST/1992

In the above snippets, I'm running on Windows via WSL (hence the .exe suffix), but it should work just fine on desktop Linux too.

configuration

Check out the rich-presence.yml configuration file at the root of this repo to see everything that's configurable. The search paths for this file are as follows:

• rich-presence.yml
• ~/.rich-presence.yml
• ~/.config/rich-presence/rich-presence.yml

rationale

Why a proxy? Because initial connection to the Discord IPC pipe is slow and the UX is unfriendly. Plus, if running on WSL, you kind of need some sort of proxy to interface with Windows named pipes (see WSL.md for more notes).