Variables

Open the announcement templates with Edit Template on Birthdays > Settings, or from the dashboard's Templates page. Write a variable in curly braces, such as {birthday.date}, and the bot fills it in when it posts.

Template	Slug	Variable groups
Birthday Announcement	`@birthday.announcement`	Server, Birthday Member (Member), Birthday Date
Birthday Digest	`@birthday.bulk_announcement`	Server, Bulk Birthday

Birthday Date

Variable	Description
`{birthday.date}`	Pre-formatted ordinal date, e.g. May 5th. Also usable as {strftime: birthday.date \| %B %d}
`{birthday.day}`	Numeric day of the month
`{birthday.month}`	Numeric month
`{birthday.month_name}`	Full month name
`{birthday.year}`	Birth year, or empty string if not set
`{birthday.full}`	Full date: May 5, 1998, or May 5 if no year
`{birthday.age}`	Age in years, or empty string if birth year not set
`{birthday.ordinal}`	Ordinal day string, e.g. 5th

Bulk Birthday

Variable	Description
`{birthdays.today}`	Pre-rendered list of all today's birthdays (one formatted line per person)
`{birthday_count}`	Number of members celebrating a birthday today

The shared groups (Server, Member) are listed with the common template variables. Every template also takes the Utility variables.

Notes

In the Birthday Announcement, the Member variables describe the member whose birthday it is, and {member.age} is their birthday age.
The Bulk Line Format takes the same variables as the Birthday Announcement, filled in for each member. The digest template itself takes {birthdays.today} (all the lines) and {birthday_count}.
{birthday.year} and {birthday.age} are empty for members who did not save a birth year.

Examples

Happy birthday {member.mention}! 🎂 It's {birthday.date} and you're turning {birthday.age}.

🎉 {birthday_count} birthdays today:
{birthdays.today}