Lanyard

Lanyard is a service that makes it super easy to export your live Discord presence to an API endpoint (api.lanyard.rest/v1/users/:yourid) and to a WebSocket (see below) for you to use wherever you want - for example, I use this to display what I'm listening to on Spotify on my personal website. It also acts as a globally-accessible realtime KV store which you can update from the Lanyard Discord bot or from the Lanyard API. You can use Lanyard's API without deploying anything yourself - but if you want to self host it, you have the option to, though it'll require a tiny bit of configuration. Just join this Discord server and your presence will start showing up when you GET api.lanyard.rest/v1/users/:yourid. It's that easy. Many Lanyard users render their presence on websites. The recommended library for React is use-lanyard. It subscribes over the WebSocket, so presences update live, and any…