Reddit Connector

The Reddit connector offers an easy way to stream new submissions from any subreddit to one (or more) of the webhooks configured in your Discord server.

!reddhook

Command Syntax

!reddhook (subreddit name) (webhook URL or --channel (channel id/mention/q_name)) [customization params]

Command Description

Starts a streaming service for the selected subreddit. If a new submission is found, it will be sent to the specified webhook service.

The subreddit name shall not contain the /r/ or r/ prefixes, but the command should work even if those are used.

Warning

Discord webhooks are a very powerful feature, but they (currently) lack 2-way authentication of messages. This means that a malicious user knowing a webhook URL will be able, with some effort, to forge a message containing any kind of content using external tools and send that message to the webhook. In order to protect yourself from this (rare) occasion, make sure you run this command in non-public channels.

Note

Alternatively, you can replace the webhook URL with the --channel (channel id/mention/q_name) parameter: a new dedicated webhook will be created and the URL from the new webhook will be automatically used for this feed.

This alternative option requires GiselleBot to have “Manage Webhooks” permissions.

Customization Params

`--nsfw [censor/skip/only]`

Reddit submissions might be natively flagged as “NSFW”.

Depending on the selected parameter, these are the NSFW behaviors:

censor will post a NSFW URL surrounded by < > angle brackets, disabling the default Discord URL auto-embed preview. This censorship will also be applied to the content URL, if it’s added to the header using the corresponding placeholder. Refer to the --header param for more info.
skip will completely ignore NSFW-flagged items, “cleaning” the stream from NSFW items.
only will only post NSFW-flagged items and skip the rest. The items will not be censored. You can use this mode to create a complementary NSFW stream of the previous “clean” stream.

Note

This check relies on the author (or a very fast moderator) flagging the submission as NSFW. If you know that the subreddit you are going to stream is “safe for work”, you can safely skip this check. This is usually the suggested behavior if you know what you’re doing.

Default: false (both SFW and NSFW -uncensored- items will be posted), or censor if --nsfw is used without any specific mode.

`--flair (first flair) [second flair] [...]`

Adds a whitelist, inclusive filter for submission flairs to the stream. Links or posts that are flagged with (one of) the selected flair(s) will be sent to the webhook, while the rest will be skipped.

You can also set “composite words” (two or more words as a single flair) by quoting them: "foo bar" test will count as 2 flairs filter elements: foo bar and test. All filters are case-insensitive.

Warning

This parameter will only work for flairs that are present at the time of checking the subreddit. Flairs added at a later date may not work.

Default: No filter

`--filter (first word) [second word] [...]`

Adds a whitelist filter to the stream. In this example, if the submission contains first word and/or (see below) second word, the submission will be sent to the webhook, otherwise it will be ignored. You can set one or more words, case-insensitive.

You can also set “composite words” (two or more words as a single filter) by quoting them: "foo bar" test will count as 2 filter elements: foo bar and test.

The filter works on partial words (e.g. “announce” will work on both “announcement” and “announced”).

Default: No filter

`--mode (AND/OR)`

Sets the filter behavior when more than 1 word is added to the whitelist filter.

AND will only allow submissions that contain all of the filtered words.
OR will allow submissions that cointain at least one of the filtered words.

Default: OR

`--include` or `--exclude`

Sets the filter behavior one or more words are added to the whitelist filter.

--include will only allow submissions that contain the filtered word(s).
--exclude will only allow submissions that do not contain the filtered word(s).

These parameters will work together with --mode (AND/OR), allowing the Reddit connector to filter based on INCLUDING the filter items (e.g., at least one filter item (OR) or all filter items (AND) are included in the submission) or EXCLUDING filter items (e.g., post if all filter items are absent from the submission (AND) or at least one filter item is absent from the submission (OR)).

Default: --include

Note

Using both parameters in the same command will give --include the strict priority and ignore --exclude.

`--header (message)`

Sets a new message template for when submissions are posted. Custom headers can have a maximum of 1024 characters.

Custom headers can be formatted as embeds by following a very specific syntax. Do know that both GiselleBot and Discord are very sensitive to this specific syntax, which is easily “broken” by special characters: for this reason, using embeds as header is not suggested, nor directly supported. Use them at your own risk! If you are brave enough, I suggest the usage of this embed generator (click on the “Enable webhook mode” button at the bottom of the page).

Custom headers support a few dynamic tags that are replaced with their respective “real” value during run-time. These are:

%subreddit%: This will be replaced with the subreddit “technical” name, excluding any prefix (/r/ or r/) (e.g. askreddit)
%subreddit_fullname%: This will be replaced with the subreddit “display” name (e.g. Ask Reddit...)
%author%: This will be replaced with the Reddit account name of the author of the post, excluding any prefix (/u/ or u/) (e.g. cycloptux)
%title%: This will be replaced with the title of the submission (e.g. Without saying what the category is, what are your top five?)
%flair%: This will be replaced with the name of the flair assigned to the post, if present, or “None” if no flair is assigned
%content_url%: This will be replaced with the “URL” parameter of a post, which will be an URL to the comments if the post is a text post, or the URL of the content (image, video, link…) otherwise
%timestamp% or %timestamp_utc%: This will be replaced with the submission creation UTC time, with format YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss (UTC).
%timestamp_iso%: This will be replaced with the submission creation UTC time, as ISO8601 string.
%timestamp_pst%: This will be replaced with the submission creation PST time, with format YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss (PST).
%url%: This will be replaced with the Reddit post permalink URL. See below for more info.

Timestamp tags also support custom time zones. You can replace the utc part with either:

A different valid time zone identifier: use the !searchtz command to look for a valid time zone name.
An UTC offset, in the form of [UTC/GMT](+/-)(hours)[:][minutes]. Here are some valid examples:
- %timestamp_Europe/London%
- %timestamp_America/Los_Angeles%
- %timestamp_Japan%
- %timestamp_PST8PDT%
- %timestamp_+0800%
- %timestamp_-10:30%
- %timestamp_UTC+2%

By default, without an explicit use of %url%, all headers will be followed by the actual Reddit post permalink URL on a new line; rendering of that URL will be done by Discord.

If the %url% parameter is used, the default URL will not be appended to the custom header.

Default: New submission in /r/%subreddit% from /u/%author%!

`--webhook-name (custom name)`

Adds a custom username to the webhook when submissions are posted. Custom usernames can have a maximum of 32 characters.

Default: New submissions will be displayed by a webhook with the /r/ name of the subreddit (including the prefix itself)

`--no-username-overwrite`

Removes any custom name from the webhook. The real webhook name (the one that you assigned when creating the webhook in Discord) will be used.

Default: false (Custom or automated names will be applied)

`--no-avatar-overwrite`

Removes any custom avatar from the webhook. The real webhook avatar (the one that you assigned when creating the webhook in Discord) will be used.

Default: false (Automated avatars will be applied)

Permissions Needed

User: Manage Webhooks

Examples

!reddhook tifu https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123456789098765432/LONG_WEBHOOK_TOKEN --nsfw
!reddhook pokemon https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123456789098765432/LONG_WEBHOOK_TOKEN --header A wild submission appeared!

!reddehook

Command Syntax

!reddehook (subreddit name/stream index) [new customization params]

Command Description

Replaces all previously set customization params for the selected Reddit stream with a new set of customization params. The stream index is the number shown with !reddlhook.

Warning

Editing the webhook will not change the existing params, it will completely replace them. Take note of the existing params first, and use them in the command!

Permissions Needed

User: Manage Webhooks

!reddrhook

Command Syntax

!reddrhook (subreddit name/stream index)

Command Description

Stops a previously set Reddit stream and removes its link to the server webhook. The stream index is the number shown with !reddlhook.

Permissions Needed

User: Manage Webhooks

Examples

!reddrhook pokemon
!reddrhook 2

!reddlhook

Command Description

Prints a list of all the Reddit streams that are linked to webhooks in the current server.

Reddit Connector

!reddhook

Command Syntax

Command Description

--nsfw [censor/skip/only]

--flair (first flair) [second flair] [...]

--filter (first word) [second word] [...]

--mode (AND/OR)

--include or --exclude

--header (message)

--webhook-name (custom name)

--no-username-overwrite

--no-avatar-overwrite

Permissions Needed

Examples

!reddehook

Command Syntax

Command Description

Permissions Needed

!reddrhook

Command Syntax

Command Description

Permissions Needed

Examples

!reddlhook

Command Description

`--nsfw [censor/skip/only]`

`--flair (first flair) [second flair] [...]`

`--filter (first word) [second word] [...]`

`--mode (AND/OR)`

`--include` or `--exclude`

`--header (message)`

`--webhook-name (custom name)`

`--no-username-overwrite`

`--no-avatar-overwrite`