🔒 Help with Discord Webhook Integration and Username Checker Script

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@terse walrus

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[terse walrus]

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a Python script to check the availability of Minecraft usernames, and if a username is available, it pings me in a Discord channel. I’m using a Discord webhook to post the results of the checks.

Here’s a brief overview of the issue I’m facing:
Problem:

The script works as expected when checking usernames, but the message is not being sent to Discord, even though the script appears to execute without errors.

The webhook integration doesn’t seem to send messages or alerts as it should.

What I’ve Tried:

I’ve confirmed that the webhook URL is correct.

The check for username availability works, and the script logs the correct output for available/unavailable usernames in the console.

The issue seems to be related to the communication with Discord, as there is no error but no message is sent either.

Here's the pastebin link for the source code for the discord integration: https://pastebin.com/Ue8SneS0

[lucid geode]

What is userid used for

[terse walrus]

to ping me when it finds an available name!

[lucid geode]

And why is it “hidden for privacy”

[terse walrus]

Because it's not my account

It's to ping my other discord account

[lucid geode]

Oh ok

[terse walrus]

Just don't want people friending it lols

Oh wait it seemed to work, It just doesn't do a live update.

It only sends the message when it's finished running the entire script and checking every name.

[lucid geode]

@terse walrus This is vibecoded right?

[terse walrus]

I'm not sure about 'vibecoded.' I wrote this script myself, but if you're referring to a specific style or method, I would love to know more!

[lucid geode]

Vibecoded is when code is written by ai

[terse walrus]

Ohhh, no I wrote it myself and my friend tweaked a little bit of the code.

[lucid geode]

for username in usernames:
if username_is_available(username):

You used function which is not in the code

[terse walrus]

Oh what?

This is like my second time using python

[lucid geode]

This looks very AI ngl

[terse walrus]

I don't know what it means to look AI, I can ask my friend if she used AI? because i only did the first bit of the code.

[lucid geode]

Yeah ask

[terse walrus]

Okay!

She said she wrote it then cleaned it up with AI. whatever that means?

[lucid geode]

Cause idk using non-existing function is very ai job

[lucid geode]

Can i see the original script?

[terse walrus]

The full script?

Sure

That bit is the only bit that seems to work as expected xD

[acoustic sable]

Hey @terse walrus!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[lucid geode]

Also i suggest using file to store the usernames

[terse walrus]

code block?

yea it does at the end

[lucid geode]

Would be way easier to check a ton of usernames

[terse walrus]

lemme re send that

ill upload to pastebin

discord does wacky shit with markdown

https://pastebin.com/CByBJvSr

[lucid geode]

AI did very bad here, it removed the check account system through mojang API and included nonexistent function

[lucid geode]

Let me see

[terse walrus]

yeah thats not my doing lol

[lucid geode]

Does this work?

[terse walrus]

it works yes

But only sends the message after the entire script has ran.

And I'm looking for it to send a message everytime it checks a name.

[lucid geode]

I think it actually does send

[terse walrus]

it does but only after it has checked every name in the txt

[lucid geode]

so you wanna make a list of existing minecraft accounts?

[terse walrus]

and with it containing like 20 thousand names, it is very painful to scroll up past all the existing names.

i wanna do the opposite

[lucid geode]

oh ok

[terse walrus]

make a list of non existent names

[lucid geode]

lemme see what i can do

[terse walrus]

okay awesome

[lucid geode]

can i remove comments from the code?

[terse walrus]

honestly it doesnt even need to send the unavailable names

[indigo mirage]

I do not recommend sending to discord due to message length and rate limit limitating

[terse walrus]

It will confuse me but yes sure

[terse walrus]

it sleeps for 1 second every time it checks

Sleep to avoid hitting rate limits or appearing like a bot

    time.sleep(1)

can discord stop formatting my messages

jeez

but yea it would be great if you could help with this

[indigo mirage]

e.g. it can only post message length <= 2000

[terse walrus]

yeah i know

[lucid geode]

# you can avoid formatting 

[terse walrus]

oh wow

yeah thats why i dont want it like this

[indigo mirage]

!d discord.utils.escape_markdown

[acoustic sable]

discord.utils.escape\_markdown

discord.utils.escape_markdown(text, *, as_needed=False, ignore_links=True)```
A helper function that escapes Discord’s markdown.

[terse walrus]

i want it to either update live, or only send the available ones, which will only be like 1/1000 names

[indigo mirage]

or this if you use discord.py / installed discord.py

[lucid geode]

import requests
import time
from colorama import Fore, Style, init

init()

WEBHOOK_URL = ""
USER_ID = ""

def check_username(username):
    url = f"https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/{username}"
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        return response.status_code == 204
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"{Fore.RED}Error while checking username '{username}': {e}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        return False

def send_to_discord(message):
    data = {"content": message}
    try:
        response = requests.post(WEBHOOK_URL, json=data)
        if response.status_code == 204:
            print(f"{Fore.GREEN}Message sent successfully to Discord!{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        else:
            print(f"{Fore.RED}Failed to send message. Status code: {response.status_code} Response: {response.text}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"{Fore.RED}Error while sending message to Discord: {e}{Style.RESET_ALL}")

def check_and_send_usernames(filename):
    with open(filename, 'r') as file:
        usernames = file.readlines()

    for username in usernames:
        username = username.strip()
        print(f"{Fore.YELLOW}Checking username: {username}...{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        if check_username(username):
            print(f"{Fore.GREEN}Username '{username}' is available!{Style.RESET_ALL}")
            message = f"<@{USER_ID}> Username '{username}' is available!"
            send_to_discord(message)
        else:
            print(f"{Fore.RED}Username '{username}' is not available.{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_and_send_usernames("usernames.txt")

Should work

[terse walrus]

let me try

works, however it doesnt send a live update

[lucid geode]

I very simplified this

[terse walrus]

is that only possible with bot token?

i can see that

[lucid geode]

No, i made another program and it sends live

Without bot

[terse walrus]

oh where to?

wait im so stupid

i forgot to put my userid and webhook url back in there

dohhh

[lucid geode]

Should it also save them into a file?

[terse walrus]

doesnt need to if its sending to discord or somewhere else

works very well, but do you know how to do a live update?

sends each message individually so i can bulk search without running into the message limit

[indigo mirage]

Gonna try something that is faster

[lucid geode]

import requests
import time
from colorama import Fore, Style, init

init()

WEBHOOK_URL = ""
USER_ID = ""

def check_username(username):
    url = f"https://api.mojang.com/users/profiles/minecraft/{username}"
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        return response.status_code == 204
    except:
        return False

def send_to_discord(message):
    try:
        response = requests.post(WEBHOOK_URL, json={"content": message})
        if response.status_code == 204:
            print(f"{Fore.GREEN}Sent to Discord: {message}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        else:
            print(f"{Fore.RED}Failed to send: {response.status_code} {response.text}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"{Fore.RED}Error sending to Discord: {e}{Style.RESET_ALL}")

def check_and_send_usernames(filename):
    with open(filename, 'r') as file:
        usernames = file.readlines()

    for username in usernames:
        username = username.strip()
        print(f"{Fore.YELLOW}Checking: {username}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        if check_username(username):
            print(f"{Fore.GREEN}Available: {username}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
            send_to_discord(f"<@{USER_ID}> Username '{username}' is available!")
        else:
            print(f"{Fore.RED}Unavailable: {username}{Style.RESET_ALL}")
        time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_and_send_usernames("usernames.txt")

[terse walrus]

faster? go for it

[lucid geode]

Using proxies so you dont get ratelimited is nice

You can use OpenBullet for that

Just make config yourself

[terse walrus]

yea

[indigo mirage]

Tbf idk the rate limit
But I can make you decide on amount of worker you used for simultaneous request

[terse walrus]

600 requests per 10 minutes

[indigo mirage]

Have you checked? If so, where

[terse walrus]

thats mojang api

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_API

discord is limited to 50 requests per second.

so the discord api is not a problem

[indigo mirage]

It's what I won't do

[terse walrus]

did it, but gonna have to heavily limit this, i can already see me getting limited by mojang

got it to work :D

[indigo mirage]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/7ZEQA5GXZIP4DP5K54EFWEI5M4
overkill mode

it should work if I didn't made mistake

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