Generate Alt Text with AltText.ai API on New Message (Instant) from Discord API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Discord trigger and AltText.ai action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Message (Instant) trigger
1. Connect your Discord account
2. Configure Channels
3. Configure discordApphook
Configure the Generate Alt Text action
1. Connect your AltText.ai account
2. Optional- Configure Image Data
3. Optional- Configure Image URL
4. Optional- Configure Image File Path
5. Optional- Configure Keywords
6. Optional- Configure Negative Keywords
7. Optional- Configure Keyword Source
8. Optional- Select a Language
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Message (Instant) on Discord

Description:Emit new event for each message posted to one or more channels in a Discord server

Version:1.0.3

Key:discord-new-message

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Discord Overview#

The Discord API interacts seamlessly with Pipedream, empowering you to craft customized automations and workflows for your Discord server. With this powerful integration, you can automate tasks like message posting, user management, and notifications, based on a myriad of triggers and actions from different apps. These automations can enhance the Discord experience for community moderators and members, by synchronizing with external tools, organizing community engagement, and streamlining notifications.

Trigger Code#

import discord from "../../discord.app.mjs";
import sampleEmit from "./test-event.mjs";

export default {
  type: "source",
  key: "discord-new-message",
  name: "New Message (Instant)",
  description: "Emit new event for each message posted to one or more channels in a Discord server",
  version: "1.0.3",

  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    discord,
    channels: {
      type: "$.discord.channel[]",
      appProp: "discord",
      label: "Channels",
      description: "Select the channel(s) you'd like to be notified for",
    },
    // eslint-disable-next-line pipedream/props-label,pipedream/props-description
    discordApphook: {
      type: "$.interface.apphook",
      appProp: "discord",
      async eventNames() {
        return this.channels || [];
      },
    },
  },
  async run(event) {
    if (event.guildID != this.discord.$auth.guild_id) {
      return;
    }
    this.$emit(event, {
      id: event.id,
    });
  },
  sampleEmit,
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Discord	`discord`	`app`	This component uses the Discord app.
Channels	`channels`	`$.discord.channel[]`	Select the channel(s) you'd like to be notified for
	`discordApphook`	`$.interface.apphook`

Trigger Authentication#

Discord uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Discord account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Discord and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Discord API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

botemailidentifyguilds

About Discord#

Use this app to create a Discord source that emits messages from your guild to a Pipedream workflow.

Action#

Generate Alt Text on AltText.ai

Description:Generates a descriptive alt text for a given image. [See the documentation](https://alttext.ai/apidocs#tag/Images/operation/create-image)

Version:0.0.1

Key:alttext_ai-generate-alt-text

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AltText.ai Overview#

AltText.ai provides an API that leverages artificial intelligence to generate alternative text (alt text) for images, which is crucial for web accessibility and SEO. With AltText.ai, you can automate the process of creating descriptive, keyword-rich, and meaningful alt text for images on websites, blogs, or online stores. In Pipedream, you can create workflows that trigger on various events to send images to the AltText.ai API and receive alt text, which you can then store or apply to your content management system automatically.

Action Code#

import alttextAi from "../../alttext_ai.app.mjs";
import fs from "fs";
import { LANGUAGE_OPTIONS } from "../../commons/constants.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "alttext_ai-generate-alt-text",
  name: "Generate Alt Text",
  description:
    "Generates a descriptive alt text for a given image. [See the documentation](https://alttext.ai/apidocs#tag/Images/operation/create-image)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    alttextAi,
    imageData: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Image Data",
      description:
        "The image data in base64 format. Only one of `Image Data`, `Image File Path` or `Image URL` should be specified.",
      optional: true,
    },
    imageUrl: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Image URL",
      description:
        "The public URL to an image. Only one of `Image URL`, `Image Data` or `Image File Path` should be specified.",
      optional: true,
    },
    imageFilePath: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Image File Path",
      description:
        "The path to an image file in the `/tmp` directory. [See the documentation on working with files](https://pipedream.com/docs/code/nodejs/working-with-files/#the-tmp-directory). Only one of `Image File Path`, `Image URL` or `Image Data` should be specified.",
      optional: true,
    },
    keywords: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Keywords",
      description:
        "Keywords / phrases to be considered when generating the alt text. Keywords must be in English, even if requesting alt text in another language. Max 6 items.",
      optional: true,
    },
    negativeKeywords: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Negative Keywords",
      description:
        "Negative keywords / phrases to be removed from any generated alt text. Negative keywords must be in English, even if requesting alt text in another language. Max 6 items.",
      optional: true,
    },
    keywordSource: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Keyword Source",
      description:
        "Text to use as the source of keywords for the alt text. Will only be used if `Keywords` is not provided. This text might be a product description, or a paragraph that describes the context of the images, etc. Max 1024 characters.",
      optional: true,
    },
    language: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Language",
      description: "The language for the generated alt text.",
      options: LANGUAGE_OPTIONS,
      default: "en",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (
      (!this.imageData && !this.imageFilePath && !this.imageUrl)
      || (this.imageData && this.imageFilePath)
      || (this.imageData && this.imageUrl)
      || (this.imageFilePath && this.imageUrl)
    ) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("Only one of `Image Data`, `Image File Path` or `Image URL` should be specified.");
    }

    const response = await this.alttextAi.generateAltText({
      $,
      data: {
        image: {
          url: this.imageUrl,
          raw:
            this.imageData ??
            (this.imageFilePath &&
              fs.readFileSync(
                this.imageFilePath.includes("tmp/")
                  ? this.imageFilePath
                  : `/tmp/${this.imageFilePath}`,
                {
                  encoding: "base64",
                },
              )),
        },
        keywords: this.keywords,
        negative_keywords: this.negativeKeywords,
        keyword_source: this.keywordSource,
        lang: this.language,
      },
    });

    $.export("$summary", "Generated alt text successfully");
    return response;
  },
};

Action Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
AltText.ai	`alttextAi`	`app`	This component uses the AltText.ai app.
Image Data	`imageData`	`string`	The image data in base64 format. Only one of `Image Data`, `Image File Path` or `Image URL` should be specified.
Image URL	`imageUrl`	`string`	The public URL to an image. Only one of `Image URL`, `Image Data` or `Image File Path` should be specified.
Image File Path	`imageFilePath`	`string`	The path to an image file in the `/tmp` directory. See the documentation on working with files. Only one of `Image File Path`, `Image URL` or `Image Data` should be specified.
Keywords	`keywords`	`string[]`	Keywords / phrases to be considered when generating the alt text. Keywords must be in English, even if requesting alt text in another language. Max 6 items.
Negative Keywords	`negativeKeywords`	`string[]`	Negative keywords / phrases to be removed from any generated alt text. Negative keywords must be in English, even if requesting alt text in another language. Max 6 items.
Keyword Source	`keywordSource`	`string`	Text to use as the source of keywords for the alt text. Will only be used if `Keywords` is not provided. This text might be a product description, or a paragraph that describes the context of the images, etc. Max 1024 characters.
Language	`language`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`{ "label": "Afrikaans", "value": "af" }{ "label": "Albanian", "value": "sq" }{ "label": "Amharic", "value": "am" }{ "label": "Arabic", "value": "ar" }{ "label": "Armenian", "value": "hy" }{ "label": "Assamese", "value": "as" }{ "label": "Aymara", "value": "ay" }{ "label": "Azerbaijani", "value": "az" }{ "label": "Bambara", "value": "bm" }{ "label": "Basque", "value": "eu" }{ "label": "Belarusian", "value": "be" }{ "label": "Bengali", "value": "bn" }{ "label": "Bhojpuri", "value": "bho" }{ "label": "Bosnian", "value": "bs" }{ "label": "Bulgarian", "value": "bg" }{ "label": "Catalan", "value": "ca" }{ "label": "Cebuano", "value": "ceb" }{ "label": "Chinese (Simplified)", "value": "zh-CN" }{ "label": "Chinese (Traditional)", "value": "zh-TW" }{ "label": "Corsican", "value": "co" }{ "label": "Croatian", "value": "hr" }{ "label": "Czech", "value": "cs" }{ "label": "Danish", "value": "da" }{ "label": "Dhivehi", "value": "dv" }{ "label": "Dogri", "value": "doi" }{ "label": "Dutch", "value": "nl" }{ "label": "English", "value": "en" }{ "label": "Esperanto", "value": "eo" }{ "label": "Estonian", "value": "et" }{ "label": "Ewe", "value": "ee" }{ "label": "Filipino (Tagalog)", "value": "fil" }{ "label": "Finnish", "value": "fi" }{ "label": "French", "value": "fr" }{ "label": "Frisian", "value": "fy" }{ "label": "Galician", "value": "gl" }{ "label": "Georgian", "value": "ka" }{ "label": "German", "value": "de" }{ "label": "Greek", "value": "el" }{ "label": "Guarani", "value": "gn" }{ "label": "Gujarati", "value": "gu" }{ "label": "Haitian Creole", "value": "ht" }{ "label": "Hausa", "value": "ha" }{ "label": "Hawaiian", "value": "haw" }{ "label": "Hebrew", "value": "he" }{ "label": "Hindi", "value": "hi" }{ "label": "Hmong", "value": "hmn" }{ "label": "Hungarian", "value": "hu" }{ "label": "Icelandic", "value": "is" }{ "label": "Igbo", "value": "ig" }{ "label": "Ilocano", "value": "ilo" }{ "label": "Indonesian", "value": "id" }{ "label": "Irish", "value": "ga" }{ "label": "Italian", "value": "it" }{ "label": "Japanese", "value": "ja" }{ "label": "Javanese", "value": "jv" }{ "label": "Kannada", "value": "kn" }{ "label": "Kazakh", "value": "kk" }{ "label": "Khmer", "value": "km" }{ "label": "Kinyarwanda", "value": "rw" }{ "label": "Konkani", "value": "gom" }{ "label": "Korean", "value": "ko" }{ "label": "Krio", "value": "kri" }{ "label": "Kurdish", "value": "ku" }{ "label": "Kurdish (Sorani)", "value": "ckb" }{ "label": "Kyrgyz", "value": "ky" }{ "label": "Lao", "value": "lo" }{ "label": "Latin", "value": "la" }{ "label": "Latvian", "value": "lv" }{ "label": "Lingala", "value": "ln" }{ "label": "Lithuanian", "value": "lt" }{ "label": "Luganda", "value": "lg" }{ "label": "Luxembourgish", "value": "lb" }{ "label": "Macedonian", "value": "mk" }{ "label": "Maithili", "value": "mai" }{ "label": "Malagasy", "value": "mg" }{ "label": "Malay", "value": "ms" }{ "label": "Malayalam", "value": "ml" }{ "label": "Maltese", "value": "mt" }{ "label": "Maori", "value": "mi" }{ "label": "Marathi", "value": "mr" }{ "label": "Meiteilon (Manipuri)", "value": "mni-Mtei" }{ "label": "Mizo", "value": "lus" }{ "label": "Mongolian", "value": "mn" }{ "label": "Myanmar (Burmese)", "value": "my" }{ "label": "Nepali", "value": "ne" }{ "label": "Norwegian", "value": "no" }{ "label": "Nyanja (Chichewa)", "value": "ny" }{ "label": "Odia (Oriya)", "value": "or" }{ "label": "Oromo", "value": "om" }{ "label": "Pashto", "value": "ps" }{ "label": "Persian", "value": "fa" }{ "label": "Polish", "value": "pl" }{ "label": "Portuguese", "value": "pt" }{ "label": "Punjabi", "value": "pa" }{ "label": "Quechua", "value": "qu" }{ "label": "Romanian", "value": "ro" }{ "label": "Russian", "value": "ru" }{ "label": "Samoan", "value": "sm" }{ "label": "Sanskrit", "value": "sa" }{ "label": "ScotsGaelic", "value": "gd" }{ "label": "Sepedi", "value": "nso" }{ "label": "Serbian", "value": "sr" }{ "label": "Sesotho", "value": "st" }{ "label": "Shona", "value": "sn" }{ "label": "Sindhi", "value": "sd" }{ "label": "Sinhala (Sinhalese)", "value": "si" }{ "label": "Slovak", "value": "sk" }{ "label": "Slovenian", "value": "sl" }{ "label": "Somali", "value": "so" }{ "label": "Spanish", "value": "es" }{ "label": "Sundanese", "value": "su" }{ "label": "Swahili", "value": "sw" }{ "label": "Swedish", "value": "sv" }{ "label": "Tagalog (Filipino)", "value": "tl" }{ "label": "Tajik", "value": "tg" }{ "label": "Tamil", "value": "ta" }{ "label": "Tatar", "value": "tt" }{ "label": "Telugu", "value": "te" }{ "label": "Thai", "value": "th" }{ "label": "Tigrinya", "value": "ti" }{ "label": "Tsonga", "value": "ts" }{ "label": "Turkish", "value": "tr" }{ "label": "Turkmen", "value": "tk" }{ "label": "Twi (Akan)", "value": "ak" }{ "label": "Ukrainian", "value": "uk" }{ "label": "Urdu", "value": "ur" }{ "label": "Uyghur", "value": "ug" }{ "label": "Uzbek", "value": "uz" }{ "label": "Vietnamese", "value": "vi" }{ "label": "Welsh", "value": "cy" }{ "label": "Xhosa", "value": "xh" }{ "label": "Yiddish", "value": "yi" }{ "label": "Yoruba", "value": "yo" }{ "label": "Zulu", "value": "zu" }`