What it does
Post to a Discord channel via webhook. Uses embeds to show a grid of thumbnails and attaches the extracted frames inline — ideal for community bots that watch videos alongside users.
When to reach for it
- Community bot that summarises dropped videos on the fly
- Share clip breakdowns in a dev/art channel with frames inline
- Pipe agent output into a private Discord for async review
Install
npm i -g peepshowUse it
peepshow ./clip.mp4 --sink discord \
--sink-arg webhook=https://discord.com/api/webhooks/...Make it automatic
Register the sink once — every run fires it afterward. Scope by --when so it only runs for matching videos.
peepshow sinks add discord
peepshow sinks add discord --when extension=mp4,mov
peepshow sinks add discord --when path=/Volumes/Work/Configuration
PEEPSHOW_DISCORD_WEBHOOKWebhook URL for the target channel. required
Use with an LLM agent
Every peepshow sink reads its config from env vars and receives a single JSON payload on stdin. An LLM agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, Codex) can drive the Discord sink automatically when three things are true:
- the env vars below are exported in the agent's shell (or a project
.envit can load), - the
peepshowCLI is onPATH— install withnpm i -g peepshow, - a peepshow auto-sink is registered for the run (optional but recommended — makes invocation zero-argument).
1. Set the environment
# Add to ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or a project .env the agent can load
export PEEPSHOW_DISCORD_WEBHOOK="..."2. Register as an auto-sink
peepshow sinks add discord
peepshow sinks add discord --when extension=mp4,mov3. Example LLM session
You → drop a
.movinto Claude Code.Claude → auto-invokes
/peepshow:slides ./clip.mov. peepshow extracts frames + audio, theDiscordsink forwards the run to the configured channel. Claude replies with a summary and a link to the created record.
The transcript snippet is posted alongside the frames as a secondary message.
Write your own
A sink is any executable that reads the --emit json payload on stdin. Shell, Node, Python, Go — the spec's in docs/PLUGINS.md. Register persistent ones with peepshow sinks add-cmd 'your-command'.