Quote allows you to quote messages in a better way

🎫 Invite to your server

Usage

> <text>

Quote a message that contains text from the same channel and replace your message with an embed.

<url>

Quote a message by the URL and replace your message with an embed.

/help

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Required Permissions

• Manage Webhooks
• Read Messages
• Send Messages
• Manage Messages
• Embed Links
• Read Message History

How it works

Quote uses Discord's Webhook API to send messages with a customised username and an avatar. We delete the original message and use this technique to pretend the message as if it was sent by another user.

FAQ

Quote didn't find the message despite I used the command properly

Due to Discord's API limitation, the number of messages you can go back is restricted up to 100. Alternatively, we provide another way that uses URL to quote so you can use it to avoid the issue.

Quote doesn't work on my server! What's wrong?

There's several possible scenarios. Check the following cases:

Permisson is not enough

See Required Permissions section above and give enough permissions for running Quote.

2FA (Two-factor Authentication) is required on your server

Since Quote using some admin-level features such as "Manage Messages", you need to disable 2FA otherwise it will not work properly.

Why my message has a badge BOT?

Since Quote uses Discord's Webhook API to replace your message, the embed was actually sent by the bot though it is pretended as if you sent it.

This is an awesome idea! Why doesn't the Discord team implement it officially?

I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Tell them to hire me.

Deployment

Requirements

• Node.js >= 12
• Yarn
• Git

First of all, clone this repository using git.

git clone https://github.com/nakayoshi/quote.git

Copy the example of configuration file then edit it

cp .env.example .env
vim .env

Here's the detail of the environment variables

env	nullability	description
DISCORD_TOKEN	required	Access token of your Discord bot
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_NAME	optional	Namespace of Webhook API which will be used for identifying channels. Defaults to quote
NODE_ENV	optional	You can set production to enable some optimisations

Then create a storage file

touch persistence.json
echo "{}" > persistence.json

Then, install Node.js dependencies with Yarn

yarn

Then build the programme written in TypeScript into runnable JavaScript

yarn run build

Finally, you can start the bot by the following command:

node ./dist/index.js