Discord.js Meme Command With Meme Subreddit Returns Image As 403 Forbidden

I'm making a meme command that sends a random meme from the meme subreddit and after discovering everything except the actual image in embed was working I logged the image to conso

Solution 1:

I have tried your code and have seen that the & in the image URL is encoded to & (example: https://preview.redd.it/z8jsjzvkhq051.jpg?auto=webp&s=bb492d4861f48b62da806584f26bcc15f4d6663a) that Redd.it can't understand it and returns a 403 error.

Just replace the & to & in the image URL and it worked for me.

const https = require('https');
constDiscord = require('discord.js');
const url = 'https://www.reddit.com/r/meme/hot/.json?limit=100'module.exports = {
    name: 'meme',
    description: 'sends meme',
    execute(message, args) {

        https.get(url, (result) => {
            var body = ''
            result.on('data', (chunk) => {
                body += chunk
            })

            result.on('end', () => {
                var response = JSON.parse(body)
                var index = response.data.children[Math.floor(Math.random() * 99) + 1].dataif (index.post_hint !== 'image') {

                    var text = index.selftextconst textembed = newDiscord.MessageEmbed()
                        .setTitle(subRedditName)
                        .setColor(9384170)
                        .setDescription(`[${title}](${link})\n\n${text}`)
                        .setURL(`https://reddit.com/${subRedditName}`)

                    message.channel.send(textembed)
                }

                var image = index.preview.images[0].source.url.replace('&', '&')
                var title = index.titlevar link = 'https://reddit.com' + index.permalinkvar subRedditName = index.subreddit_name_prefixedif (index.post_hint !== 'image') {
                    const textembed = newDiscord.RichEmbed()
                        .setTitle(subRedditName)
                        .setColor(9384170)
                        .setDescription(`[${title}](${link})\n\n${text}`)
                        .setURL(`https://reddit.com/${subRedditName}`)

                    message.channel.send(textembed)
                }
                console.log(image);
                const imageembed = newDiscord.MessageEmbed()
                    .setTitle(subRedditName)
                    .setImage(image)
                    .setColor(9384170)
                    .setDescription(`[${title}](${link})`)
                    .setURL(`https://reddit.com/${subRedditName}`)
                message.channel.send(imageembed)
            }).on('error', function (e) {
                console.log('Got an error: ', e)
            })
        })
    },
}

Solution 2:

I tweaked the code to make it work with any subreddit. So you would just do (prefix)meme funny and it would search the top 100 or less posts for the subreddit "funny". I also added a nsfw check. If you are not in a nsfw channel on discord then it will go through each one of the top 100 posts and check if it is nsfw or not. If it is then it will remove it from the array that I pushed each of the posts into. If it cannot find a non-nsfw post then it will tell you that in chat. However if you are in a nsfw chat, then it will just pick a random post from the top 100 it found.

Side note: I could not find a way to check if the subreddit exists or not, so I just made it check if the result had more than 1000 characters. Any subreddit that exists should have more than 1000 characters. And any that does not exist should have less than 1000 characters.

const prefix = '.'const args = message.content.substring(1).split(" ")
if (message.content.startsWith(prefix){
    if (args[0] == 'meme'){
        if (args[1] != null){
            var url = `https://www.reddit.com/r/${args[1]}/hot/.json?limit=100`
        } else {
            var url = `https://www.reddit.com/r/meme/hot/.json?limit=100`
        }
            https.get(url, (result) => {
                var body = ''var chunked = false
                result.on('data', (chunk) => {
                    body += chunk
                    if (chunked == false){
                        chunked = true
                    }
                })
                result.on('end', () => {
                    if (body.length > 1000){
                        var response = JSON.parse(body)
                        var postChildren = []
                        if (message.channel.nsfw == false){
                            var postsNumber = 0for (varnumber = 0; number < response.data.children.length; number++){
                                postChildren.push(number)
                            }
                            for (var found = false; found == false; postsNumber ++){
                                if (postChildren.length > 0){
                                    var index1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * (postChildren.length))
                                    var index2 = postChildren[index1]
                                    if (response.data.children[index2].data.over_18 == true){
                                        postChildren.splice(index1, 1)
                                    } else {
                                        var index = response.data.children[index2].datavar found = true
                                    }
                                } else {
                                    var found = true
                                }
                            }
                        } else {
                            var index = response.data.children[Math.floor(Math.random() * (response.data.children.length-1)) + 1].data
                        }
                        if (postChildren.length > 0 || message.channel.nsfw){
                            var title = index.titlevar link = 'https://reddit.com' + index.permalinkvar subRedditName = index.subreddit_name_prefixedif (index.post_hint !== 'image') {
                                var text = index.selftextif (title.length > 256) {
                                    title = (title.substring(0, 253) + "...")
                                } 
                                if (text.length > 2048) {
                                    text = (text.substring(0, 2045) + "...")
                                } 
                                const textembed = newDiscord.MessageEmbed()
                                .setTitle(title)
                                .setColor('#ff0000')
                                .setDescription(text)
                                .setURL(`https://reddit.com/${subRedditName}`)
                                message.channel.send(textembed)
                            }
                            if (index.post_hint == 'image'){
                                var image = index.preview.images[0].source.url.replace('&amp;', '&')
                                if (title.length > 256) {
                                    title = (title.substring(0, 253) + "...")
                                } 
                                const imageembed = newDiscord.MessageEmbed()
                                .setTitle(title)
                                .setImage(image)
                                .setColor('#ff0000')
                                .setURL(link)
                                message.channel.send(imageembed)  
                            }
                        } else {
                            message.channel.send('Could not find a meme that was not nsfw')
                        }
                    } else {
                        message.channel.send('Could not find subreddit!')
                    }
                }).on('error', function (e) {
                    console.log('Got an error: ', e)
                })
            })
    }
}