open-social-distributor

Discord

Discord has great support for bots, who can be invited to servers and channels and then post there.

Discord connection strings

type=discord;code=<SHORTCODE>;guild_id=<GUILD_ID>;channel_id=<CHANNEL_ID>;token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>

• SHORTCODE - a unique code to refer to the social network instance, this will appear in logs
• GUILD_ID - id of the Discord server to post to
• CHANNEL_ID - channel of the Discord server to post to
• TOKEN - Access token for the Discord bot belonging to the Discord app (see below)

Create a bot and obtain an access token

To build a bot that can post into a server, you’ll need to:

• Create an app in the developers portal
• Add a bot (needn’t be public) to the app (on the Bot page)
• Capture the bot’s access token (you may need to regenerate the token)
• Use the URL Generator to create a url with the following permissions:
  • Bot
    • Send Messages
    • Attach Files
    • Add Reactions
    • Read Message History
    • Use Slash Commands
• Visit the url you have generated, and grant the bot access to your server

NB. There are also some interesting thread-based permissions. They are out of scope for this application for now.

Get the guild and channel ids

• Right click a server (guild) in your Discord client, and choose “Copy server id”
• Right click a channel in your Discord client, and choose “Copy channel id”

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