---
title: "Send a Discord Direct Message"
method: POST
path: "/v1/messaging/discord/dms"
tags: ["Discord"]
---

# Send a Discord Direct Message

`POST /v1/messaging/discord/dms`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apihub.co.il`
- URL: `https://apihub.co.il/v1/messaging/discord/dms`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Send a 1:1 Direct Message from the bot to a Discord user (by snowflake ID).
Supports the same payload shape as channel posts: content, embeds, media
attachments, and TTS.

Constraints (Discord platform limits):
  - The bot can only DM users it shares at least one guild with.
  - If the recipient has DMs disabled for non-friends, Discord returns 403
    (surfaces as a 502 platform error).
  - `content` capped at 2,000 chars.
  - At least one of `content`, `embeds`, or `attachments` is required.
  - The recipient must be identified by Discord snowflake ID (not username).

This is a dedicated endpoint rather than a `POST /v1/posts` variant because
DMs are 1:1 operational messages (onboarding, billing reminders, support
pings) with a different lifecycle than scheduled channel posts. DMs are
not persisted to `Post` / `ExternalPost` and are always sent immediately.


**Billing:** Request; paid actions are priced in credits (see GET /v1/messaging/prices) · **Rate limit:** 60/min

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string
- `X-Tag` string

## Request body

- object
  - `tts` boolean: Send as text-to-speech message.
  - `embeds` object[]: Up to 10 Discord embeds. Same shape as channel-post embeds (title, description, color, fields, etc.). See DiscordPlatformData.embeds for the embed object schema.
  - `userId` string, required: Discord snowflake ID of the recipient (15-21 digits).
  - `content` string: Message text, up to 2,000 characters.
  - `accountId` string, required: SocialAccount _id of the connected Discord account the bot speaks as. Caller must own the account (directly or via team membership).
  - `attachments` object[]: Up to 10 media attachments. Each is `{ type: image|video|gif|document, url, filename?, mimeType?, size? }`.
    - `url` string, uri, required
    - `size` integer
    - `type` 'image' | 'video' | 'gif' | 'document', required
    - `filename` string
    - `mimeType` string

## Response `200`

Completed

- object
  - `id` string: Execution id — stable across internal retries; use it with GET /v1/executions/{id}
  - `status` 'pending' | 'processing' | 'completed' | 'partial' | 'failed' | 'cancelled' | 'timeout'
  - `operation` string
  - `tag` string, nullable: Your X-Tag, if sent
  - `created_at` string, date-time
  - `completed_at` string, date-time, nullable
  - `output` object: Operation result (see each operation). While a Studio render is processing: `stage` (queued · transcribing · downloading · preparing · cleaning_voice · mixing_audio · rendering · finishing), `phase` (the engine's: download · prepare · voice · audio · encode · qa · upload, or null), `progress` (a percent, 0–100) and `progress_fraction` (0–1), `eta_seconds` (seconds left, never below 0) and `estimate_seconds`
    - `url` string: Direct link to the message, using Discord's @me path for DMs
    - `account` object
      - `id` string
      - `username` string
      - `displayName` string
    - `channelId` string: DM channel snowflake (Discord auto-creates one per recipient pair)
    - `messageId` string: Discord message snowflake ID
    - `recipient` object
      - `userId` string
      - `platform` string
    - `timestamp` string, date-time
  - `error` string, nullable
  - `usage` object
    - `credits_charged` number, nullable
    - `credits_reserved` number
    - `estimated_credits` number
    - `cost_source` 'provider_reported' | 'calculated' | 'estimated' | 'null', nullable
    - `provider_usage` object, nullable: Normalised consumption, e.g. { VIDEO_SECOND: 22.4 }
  - `balance` object
    - `available` number
    - `reserved` number

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid input
- `402`: Insufficient credits / project budget
- `404`: Resource not found (or not yours)
- `429`: Rate limited
- `503`: Service temporarily paused

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