API Update 5/27: API on all shards, direct chat messages

API on All Shards The API will now work across all of our real-time shards, meaning if there are campaigns that you have that are really old on the Dev Server and you weren't able to use API scripts with them before, it should work fine now. This also paves the way for us to allow use of the API on the main server in addition to the Dev Server, which will go out in the next update (in about a week).&nbsp; NOTE: &nbsp;You may have an error lock on your campaign right now if you were using it while I pushed out this update, if so just re-save the API script to clear it. Direct Chat Formatting There is a new chat command which is only available to the API server (via sendChat()), "/direct &lt;msg&gt;" This is basically a "direct pass-through" of the message content (e.g. it will not be autolinked), and you can also use some HTML tags with inside the message and they will be shown to the players. You can view the full list of HTML tags you can use here:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat</a> Enjoy!

You just use it like any tag. &lt;img src="<a href="http://path.to/image.png" rel="nofollow">http://path.to/image.png</a>"&gt; You have to host the image yourself someplace, though, right now...or, I suppose, do some fancy element-inspecting to figure out the URL from inside Roll20 for stuff you've uploaded...

Alex L. said: I would much rather be able to totally format a chat output, as the chat splitting is still getting on my nerves. Chat splitting? Nietsnie said: Any chance we are going to get any custom formatting in the other chat commands? I like /direct, it is cool we can use it, but I want to do that formatting in whispers and emotes if possible. I mean, emotes are just pre-formatted chat messages. I would think you could emulate them pretty easily using /direct, right? Whispers are another matter, though, I will consider it.