LUA Script Creation for Discord Webhook Integration Help

[Raptor6872]

Greetings All,

 

I've been working to try and create a LUA script that I can run in order to send data from the game to a Discord "webhook". I do not have a lot of knowledge on the topic but have been trying to learn more. It seems that LUASocket and JSON are all integrated in DCS thankfully, but I am not sure how to exactly make this work. So far I've come up with the following, but it does not work, any ideas?

 

Just a post to provoke thought and ideas since I've not found any decent resources.

 

(e.g. Have a trigger cause a msg. to send to Discord WebHook)

 

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-- Discord Bot (Hook) Test -------------------------

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package.path = package.path..";.\\LuaSocket\\?.lua;"

package.cpath = package.cpath..";.\\LuaSocket\\?.dll;"

 

local JSON = loadfile("Scripts\\JSON.lua")()

 

local http = require("http")

 

local siteurl = "YourWebHookURL"

local payload = "Test"

local respback = { }

local res, code, response_headers, status = http.request

{

url = siteurl,

method = "POST",

headers =

{

["Content-Type"] = "application/json",

["Content-Length"] = payload:len()

},

source = ltn12.source.string(payload),

sink = ltn12.sink.table(respback)

}

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[Pikey]

THere's a working example here you can check out and learn from. https://aggressors.ca/hypemanii/

[davidp57]

Thanks Pikey, interesting. Gives me ideas ^^

[Raptor6872]

Thanks a ton! I appreciate the info and for saving me the development time!