Snippet: Discord Daily NASA APOD Posts

Discord Daily NASA APOD Posts
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This snippet gets NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day posted daily into a Discord channel using [NASA's official API](https://api.nasa.gov/).
const lib = require('lib')({token: process.env.STDLIB_SECRET_TOKEN});

// sending an HTTP request to the API to get APOD info
let apod = await lib.http.request['@1.1.6'].get({
  url: `https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=${process.env.NASAAPI_KEY}`,
});

let data = await apod.data;

// checks if `copyright` field is present in the JSON data - if, then includes `footer` field of embed to display copyright holder(s)
if ('copyright' in data) {
  // checks if the post type is image & copyrighted
  if (data.media_type === 'image') {
    await lib.discord.channels['@0.2.2'].messages.create({
      channel_id: process.env.NASAAPOD_CHANNEL_ID,
      content: `🌌 **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 🌌`,
      embeds: [
        {
          title: data.title,
          description: data.explanation,
          color: 0x0165b3,
          image: {url: data.url},
          footer: {text: `Copyright - ${data.copyright}`}, // please keep this due to NASA's restrictions, learn more about them here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
        },
      ],
    });
    // sending a different message if the post is not an image & copyrighted
  } else {
    await lib.discord.channels['@0.2.2'].messages.create({
      channel_id: process.env.NASAAPOD_CHANNEL_ID,
      content: `🌌 **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 🌌`,
      embeds: [
        {
          title: data.title,
          description: data.explanation,
          fields: [
            {
              name: `Due to Discord not allowing to display videos in rich embeds, you'll have to visit the webpage`,
              value: `https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html`,
            },
          ],
          color: 0x0165b3,
          footer: {text: `Copyright - ${data.copyright}`}, // please keep this due to NASA's restrictions, learn more about them here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
        },
      ],
    });
  }
  // checks if the post type is a video and not copyrighted
} else if (data.media_type === 'video') {
  await lib.discord.channels['@0.2.2'].messages.create({
    channel_id: process.env.NASAAPOD_CHANNEL_ID,
    content: `🌌 **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 🌌`,
    embeds: [
      {
        title: data.title,
        description: data.explanation,
        fields: [
          {
            name: `Due to Discord not allowing to display videos in rich embeds, you'll have to visit the webpage`,
            value: `https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html`,
          },
        ],
        color: 0x0165b3,
      },
    ],
  });
  // checks if the post type is an image and not copyrighted
} else if (data.media_type === 'image') {
  await lib.discord.channels['@0.2.2'].messages.create({
    channel_id: process.env.NASAAPOD_CHANNEL_ID,
    content: `🌌 **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 🌌`,
    embeds: [
      {
        title: data.title,
        description: data.explanation,
        image: {url: data.url},
        color: 0x0165b3,
      },
    ],
  });
}