Discord Glitter

🌠🎇 Animated text messages for your Discord server.

As one can imagine, this bot doesn't really work in practice since Discord rate-limits requests to its API. That said, it can yield some nice results for short animations with low frame rate.

Setup & usage

Add Glitter to your npm project:

npm install --save discord-glitter

Create an index.js file with the following contents:

const Glitter = require('discord-glitter');
 
const glitter = new Glitter({
    token: 'your_secret_token',
    //prefix: '@g', /* Custom prefix for bot commands. */
});
 
glitter.start();

Activate Glitter by sending a command !g or !g <some string> to any channel of your server. You can specify animation types using !g|<type>, the currently supported types are flash and scan. Example commands:

!g
!g Hello World
!g|scan Beep
!g|flash Boop

Adding custom animations:

If you wanna try to add a custom animation, you'll need to clone this repo and extend lib/frame-generator.js. You will need to add a new key to AnimationTypes object and handle appropriate logic in generateFrames(...).

To run the test instance of the bot, copy test/config.example.json, rename the copy to config.json, input your token and run test/standalone.test.js.