harrrson / discordpp

A Modularized C++ Library for the Discord API

Discord++

A Modularized C++ Library for the Discord API

Links

• Discord Server
• Echo: Example / Template Bot

Dependencies

Required

• Boost (If using a Beast module)
• OpenSSL
• A Discord++ REST module
  • REST: Simple-Web-Server
  • REST: Beast
• A Discord++ WebSocket module
  • WebSocket: Simple-WebSocket-Server
  • WebSocket: Beast
    • Currently broken

Included ^{(Git submodules)}

• nlohmann::json
• Asio (You can remove the submodule if Asio is being provided by Boost)

Recommended Plugins

• Plugin: RateLimit handes rate limiting
  • Without this plugin, Discord++ exits when encountering a rate limit for your safety
• Plugin: Overload provides overloads for the websocket send function to create std::shared_ptrs for you and provides some sane defaults when you don't need all their arguments.
• Plugin: Responder provides a simple interface for detecting commands in the form of a character and a string, e.g. !help
• Plugin: Native provides extensions to the default call , callJson, and callFile methods specific to different endpoints as well as native C++ objects for Discord's JSON structures
• You can find more plugins on the #discordpp-plugin tag

Usage

See the Wiki for setup and configuration