Parsing json data for embed in discord using discord.py

Question

I am trying to take json from a site called http://discohook.org

I would then like to be able to put the json it generates into a discord command for the bot to then post as an embed message.

This is what I have as my code:

payload = message.content.strip("$embed ")
embed = Embed.from_dict(json.loads(payload))
await message.channel.send(embed=embed)

The json looks like this:

{
  "content": null,
  "embeds": [
    {
      "title": "Testy Test",
      "description": "Hello World!",
      "color": 16711680,
      "footer": {
        "text": "I hope this works"
      },
      "timestamp": "2021-12-09T11:36:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

However, when I use the command with the above json (or any other seemingly-valid json for that matter), I get an error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Dev\London-RP\lrp-bot\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 343, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Dev\London-RP\lrp-bot\_Project\lrp-bot\main.py", line 116, in on_message
    await message.channel.send(embed=embed)
  File "D:\Dev\London-RP\lrp-bot\lib\site-packages\discord_slash\dpy_overrides.py", line 323, in send_override
    return await send(channel, *args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Dev\London-RP\lrp-bot\lib\site-packages\discord_slash\dpy_overrides.py", line 300, in send
    data = await state.http.send_message(
  File "D:\Dev\London-RP\lrp-bot\lib\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 254, in request
    raise HTTPException(r, data)
discord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50006): Cannot send an empty message

Any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated: (Edit: Included full error)

Answer 1

from_dict() & to_dict() methods work on/with Embed objects. So, the json message needs to be trimmed down to a single embed message like below else the function discord.Embed.from_dict() cannot parse it to appropriate fields (find documentation of supported fields here ) causing the above empty message error.

Note: Added timezone in the timestamp because of time parsing issue in discord/utils.py", line 110, in parse_time .

Please find the full sample code which I used to test below,

import discord
import json

bot = discord.Client()

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Logged in as {bot.user} (ID: {bot.user.id})')
    print('------')

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    response = '''
        {
          "title": "Testy Test",
          "description": "Hello World!",
          "color": 16711680,
          "footer": {
            "text": "I hope this works"
          },
          "timestamp": "2021-12-09T11:36:00.000+00:00"
        }
    '''
    # we do not want the bot to reply to itself
    if message.author.id == bot.user.id:
        return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
        await message.reply('Hello!', mention_author=True)

    if message.content.startswith('$embed'):
        payload = message.content.strip("$embed ")
        embed = discord.Embed.from_dict(json.loads(response))
        await message.channel.send(embed=embed)

bot.run('token')

Output: