Custom URL Schemes

[rtchade]

We have internal applications we use for our development workflow. These tools support custom URL schemes that are registered when our tools are installed. This makes it really easy for us to share a deep-link URL between users for our tools.

Previously we could send these links on discord and have them be clickable with <myscheme://stuff> however, the latest update seems to have broken this ability.

As a workaround I wrote a bot that inserted an embed and message components when it sniffed out a myscheme:// URL in attempt to generate clickable links. However, it doesn't seem like anything I do works. I simply get a 400 error when trying to have a link button component use our custom scheme, or have the description of an embed display a custom scheme link with markdown.

The error I get is:

nextcord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In components.0.components.0.url: Scheme "myscheme" is not supported. Scheme must be one of ('http', 'https', 'discord'). Not a well formed URL.

Is there any way we can make this work?

[mayeradelman]

Hi,

Have you found a work around for this?

[rtchade]

Nope, never was able to get this working.

[mayeradelman]

Thanks for the quick reply. Ya, it's unfortunate. I looked into a few more discussions about this and it seems they removed it for security reasons.

[rtchade]

For what it's worth, we ended up switching to Slack as our primary chat provider so we could get the features (like this one) we needed.

[mayeradelman]

@rtchade just impmeneted a partial work around by embedding https urls that route to a AWS Gateway and a lambda I set up which will then return a redirect response to the app URL.

It works very well on Android, but unfortunately on iOS users need to confirm the redirect.