Automated-Discord-Custom-Status

This is really similar to my other project but the key difference is that instead of using the Rich Presence API this sets your custom status (and the way processes are found and matched is different).

Not Actively Maintained

Though at a certain point this used to work, I have not updated it in 4 years while Discord have most likely changed their internal API.

Disclaimers

Using this might be a violation of Discord TOS as this code uses your discord token to pretend to be the user and set the custom status.
I highly recommend looking through the code and making sure the script you give your discord token to (it's almost the same as giving away your password) does no harm.
I don't recommend looking through the code too much as most of it is recycled from my older project which literally has a disclaimer So don't expect the code to make sense.
This uses the windows API so it only works on windows.

Usage

First put discord account's token inside token.txt. Compile main.rs and write custom commands inside config.ini (config.ini doesn't use .ini file syntax).
There is an example config.ini file included.
If you are going to run the .exe file move the config forder to the target (where the .exe file is) directory.
If you are going to run via cargo run --release you don't need to move the file.
The following arguments can be used:

• text static string which will be used as a custom status text
• emoji static emoji which will be used as the custom status emoji
• regex (used with format)
  the regex to match the window's text and split it into groups. Example: (.) and (.) would match and group one and two as

{
    0: "one and two",
    1: "one",
    2: "two"
}

• format (used with regex)
  this is a string used to put the groups into one piece. Example: {2} and {1}. The number inside {} is the group's index (indexing starts from 1, 0 is the entire matched regex). If group 2 matched to two and group 1 matched to one the final string will be two and one.
• fallback (optionally used with format and regex if nothing is matched)
  if regex and format don't match anything this will be the status instead
• fallback_emoji optionally used together with fallback as the emoji

How to get your discord token?

There are plenty of tutorials online for example this.
Here's a step by step guide (this is for Firefox but it's probably really similar on other browsers)

1. Open discord on your browser
2. Press f12 to open developer tools and open network
3. Find a request with an Authorization field in Request headers (if you don't find anything refresh). The Authorization value is the token you need to put in token.txt.

Examples

Example Problem

You want to display a custom status that is only set when watching youtube

Solution

1. Find a regex that matches the browser window with youtube and write it down
   ".* YouTube .*"
2. Set emoji and text to whatever you want (I'll leave emoji blank here)
   text = watching youtube

The entire Script will look like

".* YouTube .*"
text = watching youtube

Example Problem

You want your custom status to have the name and artist of a song you're listening to on spotify

Solution

1. Find a regex that matches the spotify window and doesn't match other windows
   "^[^-]*? - (?!Mozilla)(?!IntelliJ)(?!Discord)[^-]*$"
   This regex exludes windows like IntelliJ IDEA, Discord and Mozilla Firefox but matches everything else in a format text - more text
2. Set regex to group the important parts of the window's name
   regex = (.*) - (.*)
3. Set format to put together the final text
   format = listening to {2} by {1}
4. Set emoji
emoji = 🎵

The entire Script will look like

"^[^-]*? - (?!Mozilla)(?!IntelliJ)(?!Discord)[^-]*$"
regex = (.*) - (.*)
format = listening to {2} by {1}
emoji = 🎵