archive-rpc-help

[carmine mica]

cool

just don't set it more than once per 15 seconds

[woven fiber]

Snek is the hashing supposed 2 be 2 way and not for security, just so they always get it in the same format

[spark rain]

Will it just error and continue or will it error and crash or wut Snek

[carmine mica]

silently fail

i've asked them to make it error

but it probably won't happen

[spark rain]

So I can just keep on looping it and it really won't make a difference.

[woven fiber]

Snek, what is the point of the hashing. Is it just so they always get the same ammount of chars in a good format

[carmine mica]

who said anything about hashing

[woven fiber]

Me ages ago

What is the point of the hashing, this is obviously base64

Is it

[raw holly]

Spectate and join is for whitelisting only anyway

[woven fiber]

I know

[raw holly]

So it won't be useful for 90% of the people here

[woven fiber]

Ofc

But my question is what is the point of the hash, and should it be the hash of the match id

[carmine mica]

it should be whatever is relevent to you

[woven fiber]

Why do they want is hashed tho

[spark rain]

So by checking the file every run in a forever loop to dump to RPC I won't be missing anything

[solid pasture]

I was wondering the same thing.

[woven fiber]

Miroware

About Lavender or me

[solid pasture]

There's no "c" and "Miro", and I was referring to what you said.

[woven fiber]

Oops

I was thinking of another guy on discord while typing it sorry

[carmine mica]

@spark rain fixed that this.socket.close error

[spark rain]

huh, I found that by using the new commits (Up to the one you just did) closing the window worked.

[woven fiber]

SNEK do you know why they want it to be hashed

[spark rain]

Can someone tell me how I would make newlines in RPC statuses?

I tried \n to no avail

[ancient anchor]

the same u would in any string??

o

[spark rain]

I got this

details: 'Map: ' + items[2] + '\n Server IP: ' + items[0] + ':' + items[4],

making this ugly mess

Like, unless I am missing something beginner here.

@ancient anchor

[solid pasture]

You're not supposed to use line breaks in those messages, just as you're not supposed to use line breaks in your game playing status.

[spark rain]

Ah ok.

So there is 0 way of doing it.

[solid pasture]

Yes.

[spark rain]

So I guess I will dump the map in the tool tip for the large image

[solid pasture]

[ancient anchor]

ุ

@solid pasture [ ุ ] copy chars inside the [ ]

there is 2 chars

[solid pasture]

Huh?

[ancient anchor]

its an invis character

https://viction.are-pretty.sexy/574a65.png

[smoky scroll]

Is a RPC always on, or do u need like a console to run it?

[carmine mica]

if the client is open

its running

[smoky scroll]

client? discord client?

[ancient anchor]

rpc client

[solid pasture]

It's an app that you have to keep open to keep your rich presence.

[carmine mica]

discord client

[solid pasture]

...both.

You need both the app and Discord open on the same device for it to work.

[stray flicker]

@spark rain tf2 yay

[meager thorn]

@spark rain What you can do is that you put the images of the map as the largeImage and map name as the largeImageText

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[uncut sapphire]

I'd like to thank Snek for the amazong thing he has done with rpc

Good person you

[ancient anchor]

[uncut sapphire]

Yes

[uncut sapphire]

So is it normal for RP to take forever to notice I closed the app?

[meager thorn]

Shoulden't really

prob something in discords end

[uncut sapphire]

Maybe. Also great timing thinking I should look here

But man it just sits and sits when I close it

[spark rain]

@meager thorn yeah that was how I was gonna approach it

[proud loom]

Excuse me, I have a doubt, does the RPC server emits messages reactions events?

I'm not able to find anything in the discord official docs but a subscription to the MESSAGE_UPDATE event, which doesn't returns the reactions data

[carmine mica]

there is no event for that

[proud loom]

oh, thanks Gus xD

[carmine mica]

mhm

[proud loom]

I was looking for it, I was about to do some tests to check

if the message update event might contain some "non-documented" data

[astral gull]

Hi

[ancient anchor]

not rpc related

nor lib related

[astral gull]

oh

[ancient anchor]

?tcd

[pure onyx]

🔗 The Coding Den: Have a general node.js question? Need some Javascript help? Or even programming in another language? The Coding Den is exactly the place you need to be.
http://discord.gg/code

[astral gull]

Thanks...

[ancient anchor]

No problem...

[scarlet aspen]

is rpc a lib?

[ancient anchor]

https://my-dog.is-going-to.space/3ce7a9.png

thats why i said seperate things

smh

[scarlet aspen]

omg your domains

[ancient anchor]

omg!

https://this.is-a-professional-domain.com/21c4d4.png

:^)

[carmine mica]

?

[ancient anchor]

@scarlet aspen seems to like my domains so why not

sorry lol

[carmine mica]

can you guys stop shitposting

in this channel

thanks

[ancient anchor]

oh kay

[scarlet aspen]

does rpc really mean remote procedure calls?

[ancient anchor]

no he lied

yes, it does

[scarlet aspen]

i thought that means rich presence client

[ancient anchor]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[carmine mica]

it means remote prodecure call

[snow wedge]

Dang

Cant use rpc

Is there a way to use rich presence without owning a game?

[wanton spoke]

bro i answered you in general

[strange spade]

So will there be any way to like set the specific rpc gateway, so I can make it run on the 2nd instance of discord not first?
kinda want to show VS code info on my main and test on dev

[carmine mica]

i was considering that

but decided not to

no good way to define it

[strange spade]

aww okay

[steady sparrow]

What does instance do?

[proud loom]

@steady sparrow https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/rich-presence/how-to#updating-presence-update-presence-payload-fields it's for display and internal stuff into discord, it shows like the game is an instanced session (the room could end without the possibility of joining it), not a continue world like a MMORPG

[steady sparrow]

Ah, right

[smoky scroll]

is there docs for discord-rpc ?

[carmine mica]

ya

[smoky scroll]

like what methods and objects I have access to

besides the exaple

[carmine mica]

https://discord.js.org/#/docs/rpc/

[blissful pumice]

how to initalise client with discord-rpc and commando since both of them initalise client with require

[carmine mica]

you can't use commando with rpc

[blissful pumice]

ugh

[smoky scroll]

thx gus

[carmine mica]

do you know what rpc is

[smoky scroll]

yeah

[carmine mica]

i'm thinking no

[blissful pumice]

yea

[carmine mica]

no not you

mqke

[blissful pumice]

yea ik

[carmine mica]

what made you think commando would work with rpc

[scarlet aspen]

Rich Presence Client Remote Procedure Calls

[blissful pumice]

rich presence

oh

forget me then

[smoky scroll]

so it can use either IPC or WS huh

[carmine mica]

ya

but you won't be able to use websocket

[smoky scroll]

any reason why?

[carmine mica]

you need to register origins

and only whitelisted people can do that

[smoky scroll]

ah

oh I can use OAuth to authorise the app aswell

neat

[carmine mica]

you'll need to be whitelisted to use anything except rich presence

[smoky scroll]

damn

[carmine mica]

you can apply @ https://discordapp.com/gamebridge

[blissful pumice]

so rpc is rich presence right?

[carmine mica]

no

[blissful pumice]

ok

[scarlet aspen]

Read Channel Topic.

[carmine mica]

rpc is remote procedure calls

rich presence is a part of discord's rpc

[blissful pumice]

yea when look up i saw it xD

is it ok if i run 2 bot, one for normal discord bots and another for rpc?

[proud loom]

RPC is a call to an application functionality, in this case made through a local websocket in the PC a Discord client is running, it's mostly used to receive and transmit events between the client and the application

there's no use-case of the RPC in a bot

[smoky scroll]

I wonder

@carmine mica does discord-rpc allow connecting to other RPC clients on the network

[low cape]

no it's local

[smoky scroll]

also

idk if it's already in but what about if I have multiple RPC servers

like multiple discord clients

[carmine mica]

gg4u I guess

[smoky scroll]

kek

also gus one more thing

it seems that when calling destroy the presence does not reset

not until you kill the entire task

[raw holly]

yea

can you somehow reset the presence completely?

or is that just not a thing

[pastel sphinx]

just remove the game maybe ?

in discord

[raw holly]

uh

thats not really an option here

[lofty lodge]

the maxer dude made a disposable client in thier extension to reset the presence lul

[raw holly]

well im not saying this isnt the way to go

im just asking out of curiosity if its even possible

[lofty lodge]

If you mean is it possible in the realm of discord-rpc? possible? (havent looked into it myself)

But how else would other games etc reset the presence on quitting the game

[raw holly]

quitting isnt the issue

im talking about purposefully resetting it

to nothing

while being connected

[carmine mica]

@smoky scroll @raw holly that's intended behavior on discord's part

I can't control it

[smoky scroll]

wait what

it's meant to not reset the presence on disconnect?

[carmine mica]

correct

[smoky scroll]

huh

[carmine mica]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[smoky scroll]

so only killing the task resets it

[carmine mica]

Chris said they would probably add a clear presence thing

maybe sending null will clean it

not sure

[smoky scroll]

tried sending {}

[carmine mica]

nah

[smoky scroll]

it clears only the rich part

[carmine mica]

onya

that makes sense

what more do you want

[smoky scroll]

a full clear

[carmine mica]

discord always does "playing xyz" by if the process is focused

that has nothing to do with rp

[smoky scroll]

ah

[raw holly]

kk

thx

[carmine mica]

check if sending null and undefined work

I think it would throw an error

I can't look at my code rn tho

[smoky scroll]

turn it up

@carmine mica http://nyamato.me/i/hbu6g.png

[carmine mica]

ya that's what I expected

[smoky scroll]

[carmine mica]

simple fix

four characters

[proud loom]

Gus, I was wondering about what the guy asked earlier (how to reset the rich presence), what does happen if certain application is disconnected from the RPC server (likely an unhandled application error). Perhaps when a client is disconnected from the RPC server the rich presence resets, this shouldn't be this way, but could work as a workaround (I'm just guessing, I have no idea if this could actually work)

[smoky scroll]

can my account get deleted if I set rich presence even though it's not a game?

[carmine mica]

no

thats allowed

[smoky scroll]

thx

[onyx walrus]

Hi, is there any way to connect with websocket without gamebridge?

[carmine mica]

nope

[carmine mica]

@unborn edge this

[unborn edge]

hi

what

[carmine mica]

rpc

read channel topic

[unborn edge]

ok

[smoky scroll]

Why is using scope=identify%20rpc%20rpc.api resulting in error=invalid_scope? I made the app, so I should be on the whitelist?

[inland tinsel]

• instead of %20 maybe

[carmine mica]

no

@smoky scroll you need to be on the whitelist

to use rpc.api and rpc

all you can do is use rich presence

[smoky scroll]

What scopes are needed for Rich Presence?

[carmine mica]

none

just do client.login('client id')

don't send a secret

there's an example

https://github.com/devsnek/discord-rpc/tree/master/example

[smoky scroll]

ok thanks

So is there a way to use this v whitelist to allow setting Rich Presence with OAuth2?

For invited people.

[carmine mica]

you don't need to oauth

[smoky scroll]

Why is this not working?

const DiscordRPC = require("discord-rpc");

const CLIENT_ID = "---";
const CLIENT_SECRET = "Nope";

DiscordRPC.register(CLIENT_ID);

const rpc = new DiscordRPC.Client({transport: "ipc"});
const startTimestamp = new Date();

async function setActivity() {
  if (!rpc) return;

  rpc.setActivity({
    details: `Testing`,
    state: 'ABC123',
    startTimestamp,
    largeImageKey: 'galactic_icon_large',
    largeImageText: 'Thinking...',
    smallImageKey: 'galactic_icon_small',
    smallImageText: 'Will this work?',
    instance: false
  });
}

rpc.on('ready', () => {
  setActivity();
  setInterval(() => {
    setActivity();
  }, 15000);
});

rpc.login(CLIENT_ID).catch(console.error);

[ancient anchor]

client.register

Not the entire module

[smoky scroll]

const rpc = new DiscordRPC.Client({transport: "ipc"});
rpc.register(CLIENT_ID);

[carmine mica]

its on the root

you're just not updated

i don't think those changes are on npm yet

[smoky scroll]

I'm making a web game, would I need to put Rich Presence code on the client or server?

[quick wagon]

can you do rich presence with web games

[smoky scroll]

Browserify can convert node modules to Javascript, but I have no idea if the protocol will still work.

All RPC does is send something to a port on localhost, right?

Would the C++ SDK work with Emscripten?

it may work from the browser

[carmine mica]

nope

@smoky scroll it would not work

[smoky scroll]

I mean discord-rpc

[carmine mica]

it uses ipc

you can't do ipc through the browser

[smoky scroll]

the C++ one will definetly not work

[carmine mica]

none of it will work

you would have to get whitelisted by discord and use ws

[smoky scroll]

I wonder if they accept applications from solo devs

So is there currently no way to use Rich Presence from a web game?

[carmine mica]

not unless you're whitelisted

[smoky scroll]

Would the Tester invites work?

no

that's a different thing

Is there an OAuth2 thing to set Rich Presence?

[carmine mica]

as i keep saying

no

[smoky scroll]

rip

looks like I will have to allow players to share party links via bot commands

[carmine mica]

there's an invite thing

looks like this

@smoky scroll

https://gc.gy/✸☾Ⱦ.png

you get a panel like this

[smoky scroll]

ok

Doesn't that need Rich Presence though?

[carmine mica]

yes

[smoky scroll]

[smoky scroll]

[vale tundra]

Is there a way to use instead of Playing?

ike instead of playing we could do watching

[carmine mica]

nope

[blissful pumice]

do i have to install electron to run the rich presence example in doc?

[carmine mica]

just clone the repo

and do npm i

then npm run example

[blissful pumice]

ty @carmine mica

btw is it even possible to put rich presence to a bot? @blissful pumice

@carmine mica

[carmine mica]

no

[blissful pumice]

it would be great but ty anyways

[ancient anchor]

Tell discord that

[covert siren]

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/rpc
I don't see any rich presence (SET_ACTIVITY) in rpc commands

Is it undocumented?

[ancient anchor]

?docs client.setActivity rpc

Cry

Okay it isn't even documented?? Gus fix

[covert siren]

I am not talking about discord-rpc lib

[ancient anchor]

Because it's a method on the client, which sends the payload

For example message.channel.send isn't on discord developers, because it's a method in the lib which sends the payload to d api

[covert siren]

I looked at the source code of discord-rpc and saw it was sending {cmd: SET_ACTIVITY} as far as I understood... Just wanted to understand how it worked under the hood 😄

[ancient anchor]

Ah okay

[carmine mica]

@AbsoluteZero#0296 discord's docs can be out of date, don't sweat it

[covert siren]

I see. Thanks for the info

[gritty spindle]

do you need to be on canary to use rpc

[carmine mica]

no

[quasi oracle]

what's this id and why shouldn't it be changed

[smoky scroll]

you provide the application id that the assets belong to

you only dont change it if you want the example to work

because the assets belong to that id

[quasi oracle]

what are assets and how come they belong to an id

[smoky scroll]

when you make a bot account, you are given the option to enable rich presence & add assets

[quasi oracle]

:o

[smoky scroll]

its the same client id there

if discord would load i could provide pictures

have this lovely loading picture instead

[smoky scroll]

yeah right there. you add those images in there. and those assets belong to the client id declared at the top

[quasi oracle]

and what are the assets for? technically just pictures used for displaying rich presence?

[smoky scroll]

yeah just to show rich presence stuff. like you might have a picture for every world youre in a game,a nd a small asset for the character youre playing

as ive seen in some game presences

[quasi oracle]

can one automate asset uploading

[smoky scroll]

i dont think so, after watchign requests i dont see a way to imitate it

err

actually

no you probably can

[quasi oracle]

so if I have like, 100 pictures to upload, I'd have to do it by hand?

lol

[smoky scroll]

https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/applications/id/assets

post request there

[quasi oracle]

oh nice

[smoky scroll]

my b, its 4 am

cut me some slack

LOL

[quasi oracle]

thank bella

go get some sleep

[smoky scroll]

np, good luck with it

[quasi oracle]

how does one unset rich presence? 👀

[ancient anchor]

Close the app which is running it

[vernal sinew]

can i use it on linux?

[quasi oracle]

uh, sure?

you can use it on anything that runs node lol

[ancient anchor]

No because you can't add it as a game, if it's not even on localhost

[smoky scroll]

four characters

code bank

[carmine mica]

?

[proud loom]

I might be lost, I don't understand what the non-legible username said xD

[smoky scroll]

I don't either

[quick wagon]

"osama is here"

[tribal estuary]

🤔

[carmine mica]

what os are you on

i try to build the socket path by doing uh

const prefix = env.XDG_RUNTIME_DIR || env.TMPDIR || env.TMP || env.TEMP || '/tmp';
return `${prefix.replace(/\/$/, '')}/discord-ipc-0`;

which should be the same thing discord does

can you open your discord client console and search for "rpc"

https://gc.gy/Ǡ.png

you should see something like this

[tribal estuary]

currently on linux

but uh one sec

[carmine mica]

linux isn't very specific

distro plz

[tribal estuary]

raspbian

[carmine mica]

debian

ok

wait you're running discord on your rpi?

that must be pretty slow lol

[tribal estuary]

i've always run my bot on my pi o;

[carmine mica]

rpc runs on the same computer as your discord client

like the discord app

[tribal estuary]

that's probably the problem

i was just tryina get a richpres set up on my bot 🤔

[smoky scroll]

luhmao

bots dont get rich presence

[tribal estuary]

🤔

mmm that may also be a thing then

[smoky scroll]

..

[tribal estuary]

LMAO

[smoky scroll]

its an undisputable fact taht bots cant have rich presence

theres no maybe

[tribal estuary]

hhmmmm, so i would actually have to run it on my computer instead of keeping it over on my rpi, then?

[smoky scroll]

yes it has to run where your discord client runs

[tribal estuary]

righty, that got it working

👍

[smoky scroll]

👌🏻

[carmine mica]

👍🏻

[tribal estuary]

also probably a second dumb question but, when i change the client ID to my other applications, its destroys all

[smoky scroll]

you have to use the client id that has the assets you want

if you change it without changing the assets it wont work

[tribal estuary]

yuppers, made sure i had assets set up

[smoky scroll]

imma guess u copied the wrong id then or something, or used wrong asset names

it works a-ok for me

[tribal estuary]

oh, nevermind it just started working

[smoky scroll]

oh ok

[carmine mica]

oh ok

[tribal estuary]

might've been because it takes a few mins for new applications to register or whatever good stuff they do

was using an existing application to test and just made a new one

[proud loom]

Is there an use case for a game library (like Steam) within RPC server or has to be game spesific?

for example a game integrated with the steamworks C++ interface, could steam take care of discord join lobby request https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamMatchmaking#JoinLobby and change the current game?

[carmine mica]

er

i dunno

[proud loom]

I was wondering about this because if steamworks does implements something like that, every game using their matchmaking API could be accessible from discord and does not has to be writen once per application

[carmine mica]

if you're using the native discord-rpc impl

made by discord

it would probs look like uh

handlers.onJoinRequest = [=](DiscordJoinRequest req) {
  JoinLobby(req.secret);
};

i dunno

[proud loom]

I see, I'm going to propose this in the steamworks forums

[carmine mica]

huh

oh

¯_(ツ)_/¯

do it

[proud loom]

xD

[carmine mica]

DO IT BITCH

NO BALLS U WONT

[proud loom]

lul xD

I wasn't sure if this was possible with the current RPC protocol, I guess this will require a more permissive RPC protocol xD

[carmine mica]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[proud loom]

to make it easier for game developers

[carmine mica]

lead the way in amazing game stuff foffs

i beli🇧 in u

[smoky scroll]

foffs is godlike

[carmine mica]

dat ass is godlike

[proud loom]

tail*

[smoky scroll]

foffs

[carmine mica]

https://gc.gy/◖.png

[smoky scroll]

do it no balls

[proud loom]

wait, do I have to pay 100 U$D to post an idea to steamworks?

[urban sinew]

is this https://github.com/devsnek/discord-rpc/blob/master/example/main.js the example for RPC on a bot account/not in browser? I want to set it up on my bot

[smoky scroll]

@urban sinew u can't

the RPC server is only part of the Discord desktop app

and it's only for users

[urban sinew]

oohh ok, didnt know that

thanks :)

[solid pasture]

[quasi oracle]

how does one set the listening to presence

[carmine mica]

one sends type 2 on a bot account

[urban sinew]

does anyone know if discord plans to allow Bot accounts to use RPC?

[snow ocean]

what's the point though

rich presence is for games and bots cant play games

[pastel sphinx]

and game was for users when playing

and bots use it

so why not ?

listening, streaming, all this was for users but we can make it for bots

[snow ocean]

you can only display info for one person

holy shit someone actually addressed me by my name

[urban sinew]

same thing reseqo said

we use the activity status as a utility tool to communicate info to the users

same way in which the RPC could be utilized to communicate info to the users.

[snow ocean]

advertising?

[urban sinew]

communicating/displaying just any info

respectfully, I didnt ask what RPC is for (I know what it is for, its for users to show what games they're playing and to display rich data around that), Im just asking if anyone knows if discord staff have made any comment on bots being able to use it in the future

[long glacier]

Hey

[snow ocean]

im pretty sure theyre against it

the general consensus is that bots arent going to be allowed to use it

[urban sinew]

oo okay ty

[snow ocean]

sorry for the indirect answer

[smoky scroll]

Is custom rich presence against tos?

Ok

Thanks

[quasi oracle]

no liek

I know how it works for the regular presence

but I've seen people with rich presence that said listening to

[carmine mica]

ya they are using selfbots

thats against tos

[quasi oracle]

pls banne bobby

[carmine mica]

rpc only allows Playing

[smoky scroll]

[turbid lava]

Hey, so as of around yesterday, none of my RPC stuff is able to detect my client anymore.

VS Code, Spotify, etc

I get this error:

    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1050:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1073:20)
    at PipeConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1097:14)
  code: 'ENOENT',
  errno: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '\\\\?\\pipe\\discord-ipc-0' }```

[carmine mica]

is your client open

[turbid lava]

three different clients

stable, canary, ptb

[carmine mica]

i see

i think i know the issue

restart the one you want to connect to

[turbid lava]

done

ayy nice boop the snek works

"have you tried turning it off and on again"

maybe...

[quasi oracle]

i love that game

would pay for it

gus where to donate

[proud loom]

I've just realized it was done within the node library xD

[smoky scroll]

so rich presence is allowed if you are not using a selfbot?

*custom rich presence

[solid pasture]

I think that's not related to #archive-rpc-help.

...something...something...learn JavaScript.

[turbid lava]

so it seems like only I can see my rich presence

do I have to get it approved or something?

[raw holly]

? Wut

[turbid lava]

nobody other than me can see my rich presence

they only see the name of the game

[carmine mica]

your app is named spotify

[turbid lava]

that's all they can see

[carmine mica]

thats no bueno

you have to name it something else

[raw holly]

What Gus said

[turbid lava]

ah, so it's the name triggering a filter?

[carmine mica]

also discord is about to release an official spoitify integration

you might just wanna wait

[turbid lava]

alright then

I'll keep my eye out for that

[carmine mica]

there is a spotify rpc i made

https://github.com/RosieCode95/games-RPC

made with a friend

[turbid lava]

👌

mucho gracias

[carmine mica]

muchas*

[turbid lava]

muchas gracias

[hallow kestrel]

Hi, i was wondering if that would work using foobar instead of spotify? 🤔

[wanton spoke]

sure.just.make.it.work

[plush pumice]

did.you.lose.your.space.key?

[carmine mica]

?

[olive parcel]

Does appellation use the rpc for his vsc rich presence?

[smoky scroll]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=icrawl.discord-vscode

[carmine mica]

ads

banned

[smoky scroll]

come at me

[plush pumice]

[formal skiff]

In order to use RPC do we have to register or something

[smoky scroll]

register?

[formal skiff]

or can we just node the files and get started

[smoky scroll]

yes

working example comes with the repo

[formal skiff]

oh nice

[peak lodge]

thing I made using the rpc api to display your current spotify song using rp: https://github.com/nations/spoticord

[smoky scroll]

Think gus already made one

[carmine mica]

ya i did

https://github.com/RosieCode95/games-RPC

hecking

[smoky scroll]

Oh heck

[formal skiff]

I can't install electron

[smoky scroll]

Are you doing it on your computer over vps

As in not on your vps

[formal skiff]

I don't have a vps

[smoky scroll]

Well I'm just asking cuz it should work fine if you're on your pc

[formal skiff]

just goes to node install.js and stays there

it's been 30 mins

http://google-plus.is-a-bad.site/8l86ub

[wanton spoke]

npm i -g electron

npm run example

[languid saffron]

const DiscordRPC = require("discord-rpc");

const ClientId = 'censored';

DiscordRPC.register(ClientId);

const rpc = new DiscordRPC.Client({ transport: 'ipc' });

rpc.on('ready', () => {
  console.log("ready");
  rpc.setActivity({
    details: `test`,
    state: 'test',
    startTimestamp: new Date(),
    // largeImageKey: 'test',
    // largeImageText: 'test',
    // smallImageKey: 'test',
    // smallImageText: 'test',
    instance: false,
  });
});

rpc.login(ClientId).catch(console.error);

what am I doing wrong?

and where do I put the oauth2 token?

[carmine mica]

update to latest node

[languid saffron]

how

[carmine mica]

and you dont need any oauth2 tokens

[languid saffron]

is 6.11.311.3 new enough

[steady sparrow]

I don't think that's even close

[carmine mica]

thats not a node version

[tall wasp]

latest node.js LTS is 8.9.1

[languid saffron]

ok

[tall wasp]

latest node.js is 9.2 iirc but you should just go with LTS tbh

[carmine mica]

https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/

[smoky scroll]

Is using discord rpc to set a custom status alllowed, or can you get banned from discord for using it

custom status being like, editing code etc

[fallen hemlock]

It is allowed.

[smoky scroll]

Ok

[smoky scroll]

I’m confused, what Id do we put for client.login

when I put my own it says invalid

[quick wagon]

thonk

you're supposed to put a token

[smoky scroll]

Your own token ?

how is it allowed then

[carmine mica]

no

no

[quick wagon]

oh shit

[carmine mica]

you put a client id

[quick wagon]

i thought this was #archive-updating-to-v13

[smoky scroll]

i put my client id

[quick wagon]

nvm ignoreme

[smoky scroll]

it said invalid

[quick wagon]

xd

[carmine mica]

client.login('some client id')

[smoky scroll]

I got a error code 4000 with a message invalid client id

i put my own

[carmine mica]

then your client id is invalid

[smoky scroll]

how is my own client id invalid

if it’s invalid then what do I put

@carmine mica im getting the logged in log so thats working, but after that i get a "Unknown error"

[quasi oracle]

just fyi

you don’t use literally your accounts id

you need to make an application on the dev platform

enable rpc on it

and use its client id

@smoky scroll

[olive parcel]

How do you enable rpc on it?

Do you mean rich presence?

[undone loom]

I have a problem getting the rpc on node/npm

anyone help?

[raw holly]

just like

describe your problem?

instead of asking if anyone can help

[undone loom]

yeah, sorry.

I am doing npm i discord-rpc

and ill show logs if okay?

[raw holly]

if its the peer dependencies

yes

thats normal

[undone loom]

where should I send the logs?

its the git piece of shit

[raw holly]

so you dont have git installed?

[undone loom]

I have the git bash and scuh

such*

[raw holly]

well

make a screenshot of the error then

[undone loom]

I have the error in my clipboard on text from the cmd, if I can send it to DM's or anything?

[raw holly]

why a dm

just post it in here

[undone loom]

well, sure

[raw holly]

if its too long go to hastebin

[undone loom]

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: register-scheme@github:devsnek/node-register-scheme (node_modules\discord-rpc\node_modules\register-scheme):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: No git binary found in $PATH

npm ERR! code ENOGIT
npm ERR! No git binary found in $PATH
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed using git.
npm ERR! Please check if you have git installed and in your PATH.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\memes\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2017-11-29T13_01_33_110Z-debug.log

[raw holly]

yea

git isnt in your path

or installed

[undone loom]

so how do i get it in my path and which git should I get?

[raw holly]

is this windows

[undone loom]

yes

[raw holly]

https://git-scm.com/download/win

[undone loom]

I have that

[raw holly]

you surely dont have it installed correctly

so do it again

[undone loom]

which path should I have it on?

[raw holly]

it adds itself to path automatically

[undone loom]

I currently have it on my D: partition, because of shits on this pc

[raw holly]

that doesnt matter

[undone loom]

done

so, what now?

[raw holly]

you open a new shell

and go again

[undone loom]

so I open a git bash, and do npm i discord-rpc?

[raw holly]

it doesnt have to be git bash

whatever terminal you use

[undone loom]

well, I get command not found -.-

[raw holly]

command not found what

[undone loom]

bash: npm: command not found

[raw holly]

do you like

even remotely know what you are doing

npm just worked in your error above

and now you tell me it doesnt

[undone loom]

I tried it in the Git CMD

[raw holly]

im asking again

do you even remotely know what you are doing

[undone loom]

i 50/50 know what I am doing.

[raw holly]

then how about

you use the npm command

in the terminal

you used earlier

where it worked

[undone loom]

Same shit happened, git thing

[raw holly]

ok

since this has nothing to do with me anymore now or this server or rpc

you go and google

"how to add git to path"

and edcuate yourself a little bit

or go to

?tcd

[pure onyx]

🔗 The Coding Den: Have a general node.js question? Need some Javascript help? Or even programming in another language? The Coding Den is exactly the place you need to be.
http://discord.gg/code

[raw holly]

and ask for advice on not having git in path

[undone loom]

okay I found out and I am an idiot.

I need basically admin privileges, which I dont have on this PC since this is a school PC.

So I can't proceed.

[tall wasp]

wat

[olive parcel]

@pure onyx A D V E R T I S I N G

[tall wasp]

why defuq do you have a school pc without admin and try to develope an rpc app on that

[undone loom]

oh wait, I figured a way around

[olive parcel]

@undone loom Replace sticky keys with cmd

Then start sticky keys when ur not logged in

cmd with admin privs

[tall wasp]

people using school pcs to develope that is strange

i mean

just why

[undone loom]

i know

[tall wasp]

....

[undone loom]

i am trying something xd

[tall wasp]

what is shit xd

[undone loom]

I MADE IT WORK!

[tall wasp]

still not rpc related

[undone loom]

i know

[tall wasp]

then dont write in here

[undone loom]

I mean

[tall wasp]

[undone loom]

I got RPC into here

I mean

fuck

[tall wasp]

its still not related

[smoky scroll]

The fuck did I just read

[meager thorn]

Someone trying to npm discord-rpc using git bash instead of actual cmd

And asking why it's not working

[smoky scroll]

[tall wasp]

Same

[ancient anchor]

no

u

[carmine mica]

?

[ancient anchor]

!

yeah stop shitposting

[smoky scroll]

can u actually stop

[ancient anchor]

im sorry

[smoky scroll]

I’m getting a error

[carmine mica]

what error

[smoky scroll]

<rejected> Error: Unknown Error

[carmine mica]

thats a pretty cool error

[smoky scroll]

Hm

[carmine mica]

i'll need to know more

or i can't help you

[smoky scroll]

one sec lemme login on my pv

pc

ill tag u when I’m ready

@carmine mica https://hastebin.com/elobipegud.coffeescript

  <rejected> Error: Unknown Error
    at RPCClient._onRpcMessage (C:\Users\dab\node_modules\discord-rpc\src\Client.js:156:16)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at IPCTransport.emit (events.js:210:7)

[carmine mica]

thats from the client then

[smoky scroll]

well yea

its happening when i set the activity

[carmine mica]

no i mean

thats from the discord client

[smoky scroll]

is there a way to fix it?

[carmine mica]

do you get it every time

[smoky scroll]

what you mean everytime

everytime i load the script?

[carmine mica]

whenever it happens

does it happen consistently

[smoky scroll]

yes

[carmine mica]

cool

open discord console

watch console as you run it

you should see something useful

[smoky scroll]

ok

[carmine mica]

look for Socket Emit and Socket Message

from [RPCServer:IPC]

[smoky scroll]

@carmine mica got it

what do I do now

[carmine mica]

show me it

screenshot or smth

[smoky scroll]

Got it working @carmine mica also for like large image key and stuff what can we put, can we put like a image url

[carmine mica]

no

can i see the actual error object

what was triggering it

etc

@smoky scroll

[smoky scroll]

@carmine mica the large and small image was occurring the unknown err

[carmine mica]

wdym

invalid keys?

[smoky scroll]

i copied it from your code on the examp,e

so most likely

but I can’t seem to set the name, it’s just saying streamkit overlay

[carmine mica]

hwhat

you're using test/sk.js?

[smoky scroll]

Yea

[carmine mica]

no

don't use that

[smoky scroll]

Oh

What do I use

[carmine mica]

@smoky scroll try the folder called example

tests and examples are not the same thing

[smoky scroll]

why electron tho

[carmine mica]

because thats what the example is

[smoky scroll]

the image is causing the error @carmine mica

when I remove all the stuff with the image it works fine

[carmine mica]

can you just show me the object it sends

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[smoky scroll]

which object

[cosmic skiff]

is using rich precents API Abuse?

[carmine mica]

the error

no

[cosmic skiff]

b1nzy wont ban me :-)?

[smoky scroll]

the only error I’m getting is a error on the get request to /assets 404

canary.discordapp.com/api/v6/oauth2/id/assets

@carmine mica

[carmine mica]

no I meant

after that

there should be an rpc message

with an error object

[smoky scroll]

Checking

@carmine mica there’s no error object but if there is all I’m getting is ERROR and unknown error

just take a screenshot of that

[fast pelican]

@carmine mica how does discord-rpc allow for a more detailed game status/activity? Looked at discordjs and it for doesnt seem to have the same capability as discord-rpc

[carmine mica]

?

they aren't the same thing

[fast pelican]

https://github.com/mcao/Discord-Spotify-RPC

ik

im asking how

u did it

differently

[carmine mica]

uhm

one is rpc

one is bot api

[fast pelican]

ik....

[solid pasture]

Well, discord.js is for accessing the Discord API, where you can control all of the online data Discord uses. On the other hand, discord-rpc is a thing you're supposed to embed into your game or program that allows users to have rich presences for said program.

[carmine mica]

that was a pretty meh explaination

[solid pasture]

[carmine mica]

discord.js handles the discord gateway/http api

discord-rpc handles the local client rpc

[proud loom]

Discord.js is intended to interact with the Discord API, the Discord-RPC library is intended to interact with a local Discord client RPC server

[carmine mica]

foffs get rekt

[proud loom]

dam :c

[fast pelican]

@solid pasture @proud loom thank u for actually answering my question

[proud loom]

2fast4me

[solid pasture]

I tried to put it into words a someone who has never touched code before would understand. 😛

Most people just make fake "games" with it though, and set up their own personal rich presences.

[carmine mica]

atf

i know you hate me

but this is my lib

so you'll have to deal with me

[fast pelican]

👍

[solid pasture]

xD

[fast pelican]

u were a dick to me first, so if there is any hate, its justified

[smoky scroll]

tf didnt gus say the exact same thing, except first

[carmine mica]

isa

go do ur hw

plz

[smoky scroll]

never

[carmine mica]

❤

[proud loom]

before he pulled a dick for some reason this situation reminds me of this quote xD

[carmine mica]

i'll pull your dick

[proud loom]

wait

wut

.>

[carmine mica]

💦

[proud loom]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/185/112/767.gif

[carmine mica]

:3

[lapis pollen]

:3

[smoky scroll]

hi

[formal skiff]

when I try to use npm i, when it gets to electron it takes forever

should this be happening?

[carmine mica]

no

[formal skiff]

why does it then?

[carmine mica]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[formal skiff]

that's helpful

[carmine mica]

i dunno

i don't support electron or npm

[formal skiff]

fair enough

[smoky scroll]

@carmine mica I gotchu fam

[meager thorn]

That was a nice professional answer 👌

[smoky scroll]

can't tell if sarcasm or not

[meager thorn]

was being for real

[smoky scroll]

I can expect everything from this guild

[spark rain]

Does anyone know a reliable way to package RPC applications?

Because I have had no luck here.

[tall wasp]

define "to package"

[spark rain]

Like, to make ones code an EXE or to bundle Node JS with it.

[tall wasp]

uhh

i dont think you should do that anyways

just create a ZIP out of your files and then do with that whatever you want, when you need it again unpack it and run it as normal

[spark rain]

It's just that primarily I want to package it to a not very programmer orientated group (TF2 playerbase)

[smoky scroll]

I only know you can make batch to run the npm script don't know about compiling outside of ts

[spark rain]

But eh, might just my over hey-lets-make-this-easy sense kicking in and I am underestimating how intelligent the rest of the world is.

[tall wasp]

i know there was a project to compile node.js applications to an EXE

but i dont remember it

[carmine mica]

i have used electron and zeit pkg with great success

[spark rain]

I tried PKG and my app never closes, even when the window itself is dead, the Discord still thinks it is running

[carmine mica]

do you mean the rich presence stays?

that could be a discord bug

[spark rain]

Hmmm.

I tried in canary and it still happens, but only on PKG

it works on it's own.

[carmine mica]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

check for orphaned processes

i can't really support this

[spark rain]

Ya know what, I am just gonna go all out set it up yourself mode and since I can sort out the hardest half as an exe (The python segment) the node js part will probably be fine un packaged.

[hidden hull]

how would i change the "Playing" to "Listening to" or etc.?

🤔

[tall wasp]

Sefbots are not allowed

[hidden hull]

o

[tall wasp]

also you can change that by rpc aswell y21 iirc

[smoky scroll]

@hidden hull master version

you cannot

unless im missing something

@carmine mica

[tall wasp]

oh you can't?

[smoky scroll]

gus said you cant, not with rpc,

[tall wasp]

though so

well then you cant

mb

[carmine mica]

you can't

[unique bolt]

so only bot accounts can use rpc?

[smoky scroll]

the opposite

[unique bolt]

nani?

i thought selfbots can't

[smoky scroll]

rpc interacts with your discord client

[unique bolt]

so like, a new instance of my discord client?

[smoky scroll]

no

like ur client picks up games, this sends info to it

[unique bolt]

ah

so what if i did a playing status on my client that is supported by rich presence?

[smoky scroll]

???????

if u use rpc its allowed

[unique bolt]

ah

thanks lucario!

[smoky scroll]

np

[limpid hazel]

how do I get the elapsed add the elapsed time for custom rich presense

[carmine mica]

send timestamps

[cedar totem]

Can someoen help me with rpc?

upon run I get this error

for (const [name, message] of Object.entries(Messages)) register(name, message);
                                     ^

TypeError: Object.entries is not a function```

[raw holly]

update to at least node 8

which is LTS now

[cedar totem]

ok

oh god your right actually I've not updated node in a while

thanks I will try that now

[smoky scroll]

console.log("Discord.js")

@smoky scroll please take your shitposting to a non support channel

@smoky scroll

dud

i was just joking

calm

those

last kind warning to move to a different channel

[quick wagon]

Tl;dr gtfo

[crude pollen]

hey guys trying to get rich presence working

[carmine mica]

cool

[crude pollen]

im trying this but its not even installing
https://github.com/WalshyDev/Discord-Spotify-RPC#node-spotify-webhelper

module.js:487
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './util'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/gibigbig/node4/spoticord/node_modules/discord-rpc/src/index.js:2:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)

[wanton spoke]

we dont support your inability to download a script off github

[carmine mica]

we don't support random modules here

p.s. if you want a good spotify thing

i made one

[wanton spoke]

yeah but i made a better one

[crude pollen]

i also tried this

https://github.com/devsnek/discord-rpc

[carmine mica]

yes thats mine

[wanton spoke]

and the error was?

[crude pollen]

which says its an extension of discordjs which is why im here

ok one sec

[carmine mica]

what is your question

[crude pollen]

let me gather the info

module.js:487
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './util'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/gibigbig/node_modules/discord-rpc/src/index.js:2:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)

[wanton spoke]

thats the same error

[crude pollen]

same error

yeah

i install discordjs and discord-rpc

and used the example in the documentation with edits to the clientid

[carmine mica]

looks like an outdated version

[crude pollen]

i installed from git updated 12 hours ago

[carmine mica]

nowhere in the current codebase does ./util turn up

so you're outdated

https://gc.gy/Ĝ.png

[crude pollen]

ok im deleting everything and starting over

ok more or less the same thing

I tried running test/rp.js and i get this

{ Error [RPC_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT]
    at Timeout.setTimeout [as _onTimeout] (/home/gibigbig/node3/discord-rpc/src/Client.js:109:47)
    at ontimeout (timers.js:488:11)
    at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:323:5)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:283:5) [Symbol(code)]: 'RPC_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT' }

[carmine mica]

rpc runs on your computer

not a server

@crude pollen

[crude pollen]

Hmm so I have to install node and stuff on my pc?

I was hoping to avoid that since I have a nice environment in my server

and I just wanted to set the RP vars manually

[smoky scroll]

it communicates with ur discord client

so it must run on wherever ur client is ran

[crude pollen]

I see, thanks. so just to be clear, I need to install node on my machine, and then install discord-rpc

and then run rp.js locally?

[smoky scroll]

yea

[crude pollen]

ok trying

[crude pollen]

thanks guys