Discord does not embed link when sent by my bot

Question

My code works fine and the bot sends the link, but Discord does not recognize it as one and does not embed it. When I copy and paste it myself, it then recognizes it as a link and embed the image. Here is my code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


if message.content.startswith(".dog"):

    response = requests.get("https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random")
    soupRaw = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml')
    soupBackend = str(soupRaw).split("message")
    soup2 = soupBackend[1]
    soup3 = soup2[3:]
    soup = soup3[:-20]

    await bot.send_message(message.channel, soup)

Here is an example: https://imgur.com/m9GM2wQ

Does anyone know how to make it embed the link when it is sent by my bot? Thanks for the help!

Edit: I am not trying to send an embedded message, I am trying to send a link that will BE embedded by Discord, as shown in my example. This is not a duplicate question.

Possible duplicate of How can I send an embed via my Discord bot, w/python? — bboll
@bboll Nope not a duplicate. Please read my question. I am not trying to send an embedded message, I am trying to have Discord embed the link I am sending with the bot. Completely different things. — Mark W
Read the API. You are trying to send an embedded message because it will not automatically create one for you. I found another duplicate question that perhaps helps you better. e.set_image(url=soup). Then you would call it with a different parameter passing your embed object: await bot.send_message(message.channel, embed=e) — bboll
Unrelated to your question, but - you could replace the five lines starting with "soup" with simply url = response.json()['message']. BeautifulSoup is doing nothing here besides mangling the JSON response from the api. — Nathan Vērzemnieks
@bboll you still are confusing the difference between an embedded message and an embedded image. Please see the difference between an embedded message and an embed of an image here: imgur.com/a/7xXJS I understand how to send an embedded message. Very simple. But when a link is sent in discord, Discord automatically embeds the image in the chat. When my bot posts the link to — Mark W

Eric B Eric B · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-07T00:14:03

Very late answer, but if anyone is viewing this answer for later; I believe the problem is that your variable soup contains escape characters (backward slashes) for every forward slash, e.g. https:\\/\\/images.dog.ceo\\/breeds\\/maltese\\/n02085936_4480.jpg.

Sending this as a message (even as a regular user) shows the link as it should look, but does not automatically create an embed for it. You can replace the backslashes with the function soup.replace("\\", "").

I would however recommend a completely different approach as the response object has a .content attribute which is in json format and can easily be parsed, and used as a python dict, using the builtin import json library (It will automatically leave the escape codes for you and you don't have to worry about string length for response.text).

soup = json.loads(response.content).get("message") should do the trick.

Discord does not embed link when sent by my bot

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