Add thumbnail embed from locally running api

[lusty cairn]

As the title says, is there a way to add an image as embed thumbnail without having to deploy the api online? I'm new to writing rest api, and was wondering if it's possible to do this

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[hollow rock]

do you mean local files?

[lusty cairn]

I know local files are not supported for embed thumbnail
But I'm planning to deploy a website someday, and I'm starting to test stuff to learn how to use apis, and I came across this interrogation
If I'm running a rest api locally with every image etc that the bot as well as the website would use, could I also store embed thumnails and use them from there?

[hollow rock]

local files are supported though

[dry igloo]

Files in embeds should be attached via the message option object and referenced in the embed:

const attachment = new AttachmentBuilder('./image.png', { name: 'image1.png' });
const embed = new EmbedBuilder()
  .setTitle('Attachments')
  .setImage(`attachment://${attachment.name}`);

channel.send({
  embeds: [embed],
  files: [attachment]
});

[bitter imp]

basically the same but with setThumbnail instead

though if you really want to make a website you only need a file server, which is much easier to setup since doesn't even require code

but that's outside the scope of djs, you'd need to ask in #1081585952654360687