I need my Discord Bot handling GET and POST requests for an external website
Question
I want my Discord Bot handling GET and POST requests, to control some features of my Bot with a dashboard. Knowing that my Bot is hosted in a different server than my future dashboard.
Someone talked about setting a RESTFul API but after some researches I don't really know how to do it and if it will really help me. I can't say if another ways are possible. I'm using node.js and the library discord.js
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2 ACCPTED 2019-01-18 21:22:56
You can use express to do different things for GET and POST
Use POST for the webserver requests as the browsers use GET.
Note: the bot would run this to serve the webserver
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var data = '{"example":{"online":true,"status":"200"}}';
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('<html><head><script>window.location.href = \'https://google.com/\'</script></head><body>You shouldn\'t be here! <a href=\'https://google.com\'>Exit</a></body></html>');
/** Redirect the browser to google with window.location.href
* Change this to your site */
});
app.post('/', function(req, res) {
/** You could add some auth code here but
* if your sending it all to the client there isn't much of a difference
* because people could read it from the website. */
res.type('json');
res.json(data);
/* Webserver --> Bot */
res.end();
});
app.listen(8080);
console.log('API Online');
You will have to use setInterval(() => {}, 15000); to update the data variable and you need to parse the data on the client.
XMLHttpRequest should work well enough for that
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