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Message Attachments

Attachments are a way to upload files to the Discord CDN, discord luau supports sending these attachments through the AttachmentBuilder object.

  1. Create a discord-luau bot implementation:

    local DiscordLuau = require("DiscordLuau")
    

    local DiscordSettings = DiscordLuau.SettingsBuilder.new("<DISCORD_TOKEN>")
    local DiscordClient = DiscordLuau.DiscordClient.new(DiscordSettings)
    

    DiscordClient.eventManager.onMessage:connect(function(message)
       if message.content == "!embed" then
          ...
       end
    end)
    

    DiscordClient.eventManager.onReady:connect(function()
       print(`🎉🎉 {DiscordClient.discordUser.username} is online! 🎉🎉`)
    end)
    

    DiscordClient:connectAsync()

  2. Create a Discord attachment that we can respond with:

       local responseAttachment = DiscordLuau.AttachmentBuilder.new()
          :setName("example.txt")
          :setDescription("Example Text Document")
          :setData("Hello, World - 'Tis be the data of this example document!")

  3. Reply to the message with the newly created embed:

       local responseMessage = DiscordLuau.MessageBuilder.new()
       local responseAttachment = DiscordLuau.AttachmentBuilder.new()
          :setName("example.txt")
          :setDescription("Example Text Document")
          :setData("Hello, World - 'Tis be the data of this example document!")
    

       message:replyAsync(responseMessage:addFile(responseAttachment))
See The Entire Code
local DiscordLuau = require("DiscordLuau")


local DiscordSettings = DiscordLuau.SettingsBuilder.new("<DISCORD_TOKEN>")
local DiscordClient = DiscordLuau.DiscordClient.new(DiscordSettings)


DiscordClient.eventManager.onMessage:connect(function(message)
   if message.Content == "!embed" then
      local responseMessage = DiscordLuau.MessageBuilder.new()
      local responseAttachment = DiscordLuau.AttachmentBuilder.new()
         :setName("example.txt")
         :setDescription("Example Text Document")
         :setData("Hello, World - 'Tis be the data of this example document!")


      message:replyAsync(responseMessage:addFile(responseAttachment))
   end
end)


DiscordClient.eventManager.onReady:connect(function()
   print(`🎉🎉 {DiscordClient.discordUser.username} is online! 🎉🎉`)
end)


DiscordClient:connectAsync()

That’s all! For more details, refer to the relevant docs;