Discord has two obvious ways of sending notifications:
- via Webhooks
- +Simple HTTP Post request to an easily created URL (via channel settings)
- -Can only send to Channels in Discord Servers, not DMs
- via a Bot
- +Allows sending messages via DMs
- -Slightly Harder setup (creating an application with a bot on the Discord Developers page)
- -Complex (websocket) protocol, effectively requires a Library
Discord has two obvious ways of sending notifications: