Sending Embeds

You might have seen these special messages, often sent by bots. In this section, we will show how to create an embed.

To make an embed use this.

#include <dpp/dpp.h>
#include <dpp/fmt/format.h>
 
int main() {
    /* Setup the bot */
    dpp::cluster bot("token");
 
    /* Message handler to look for a command called !embed */
    bot.on_message_create([&bot](const dpp::message_create_t & event) {
        if (event.msg->content == "!embed") {
 
            /* create the embed and send it into the channel */
            dpp::embed embed = dpp::embed().
                set_color(0x0099ff).
                set_title("Some name").
                set_url("https://dpp.dev/").
                set_author("Some name", "https://dpp.dev/", "https://dpp.dev/DPP-Logo.png").
                set_description("Some description here").
                set_thumbnail("https://dpp.dev/DPP-Logo.png").
                add_field(
                        "Regular field title",
                        "Some value here"
                ).
                add_field(
                        "Inline field title",
                        "Some value here",
                        true
                ).
                add_field(
                        "Inline field title",
                        "Some value here",
                        true
                ).
                set_image("https://dpp.dev/DPP-Logo.png").
                set_footer(dpp::embed_footer().set_text("Some footer text here").set_icon("https://dpp.dev/DPP-Logo.png"));
 
            embed.timestamp = time(0);
 
            bot.message_create(dpp::message(event.msg->channel_id, embed));
        }
    });
 
    bot.start(false);
    return 0;
}

The code will send the following message.