Shimmer

A Gleam library for interacting with the Discord API

Warning This Library is pre-alpha and being worked on.

Talks

• FOSDEM 2023 (Harry Bairstow)

Basic Example

shimmer = "~> 0.0.6"
gleam_stdlib = "~> 0.25"
gleam_erlang = "~> 0.17"

import gleam/io
import gleam/string
import gleam/int
import gleam/erlang/process
import shimmer
import shimmer/handlers

pub fn main() {
  let handlers =
    handlers.new_builder()
    |> handlers.on_ready(fn(data, _client) {
      io.println(
        [
          "Logged in as ",
          data.user.username,
          " (",
          int.to_string(data.user.id),
          ")",
        ]
        |> string.join(with: ""),
      )
    })
    |> handlers.on_message(fn(message, _client) { io.print("Received: " <> message) })

  let client =
    shimmer.new("TOKEN")
    |> shimmer.connect(handlers)

  process.sleep_forever()
}

Supported Events

• Ready
• Resumed
• Channel Create
• Channel Update
• Channel Delete
• Channel Pins Update
• Guild Create
• Guild Update
• Guild Delete
• Guild Ban Add
• Guild Ban Remove
• Guild Emoji Update
• Guild Integrations Update
• Guild Member Add
• Guild Member Remove
• Guild Member Update
• Guild Members Chunk
• Guild Role Create
• Guild Role Update
• Guild Role Delete
• Invite Create
• Invite Delete
• Message Create
• Message Update
• Message Delete
• Message Delete Bulk
• Message Reaction Add
• Message Reaction Remove
• Message Reaction Remove All
• Message Reaction Remove Emoji
• Presence Update
• Typing Start
• User Update
• Voice State Update
• Voice Server Update
• Webhooks Update