Discord API for Search, Channels, and Messages - discord

I'm new to Discord and would like to know whether Discord provides APIs for the following purposes:
I would like to send a search keyword in the request and would like to receive in response all public servers / channels that are a match. (This is similar to the 'Explore Public Server' functionality available in the Discord web and desktop front-ends (but not on mobile devices)
The user goes through the search results and select one of the results. Now, I would like to send this server (server name or server Id) in the request and expect to get the list of public channels on this server.
The user then selects one of the public channels. Now I send the channel id in the request and expect to receive the messages along with their corresponding usernames and datetime they were posted in the channel.
I tried to refer to the API documentation but was unable to figure out. I plan to use Java API (JAX-RS) with Jersey.
Thanks,
Dicky

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I want to implement a connected OAuth app in Salesforce which should trigger push events in case some entities changed, for example an opportunity was closed.
Zapier implemented something similar
https://zapier.com/apps/salesforce/integrations/webhook
Could not find something I need which is a simple way to subscribe to entity changes using the OAuth client's token and passing a webhook endpoint. I read about apex callouts, streaming API and outbound messages.
Yeah, we solved this exact problem at Fusebit and I can help you understand the process as well.
Typically speaking here's what you need to do:
Create triggers on the Salesforce Objects you want to get updates for
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If you're leveraging javascript, then you can use the jsforce sdk & salesforce tooling API to push the code into the salesforce instance AFTER the Auth flow has occurred AND on Salesforce Instances that have API access enabled (typically - this is enterprise and above OR professional with API enabled).
This will be helpful for you to look through: https://jamesward.com/2014/06/30/create-webhooks-on-salesforce-com/
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In which programming language?
For consuming outbound messages you just need to be able to accept an XML message and send back "Ack" message to acknowledge receiving, otherwise SF will keep trying to resend it for 24h.
For consuming platform events / streaming API / Change Data Capture (CDC) you'll need to raise the event in SF (Platform Event you could raise from code, flow, process builder, CDC would happen automatically, you just tell it which objects it should track).
And then in client app you'd need to login to SF (SOAP or REST API), subscribe to channel (any library that supports cometd should be fine). Have you seen "EMP Connector", mentioned for example in https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/change-data-capture/subscribe-to-events?trail_id=architect-solutions-with-the-right-api ?
Picking right messaging way is an art, there's free course that can help: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/trails/architect-solutions-with-the-right-api
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host=wa-audio-gateway.mybluemix.net
userID=carlos.ferreira
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Choosing which skill set to use (Required parameter)
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Your tenant ID (Required parameter)
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Client language specific preferences can be passed (Optional parameter with a default value: en-US)
language=en-US
Choosing which STT and TTS engine to convert audio to text and text to audio - possible values are : watson, google , (Optional parameter with a default value : watson)
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Google Channel API sends a message to all clients

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If you want to send the same message to multiple clients, in short, you will have to keep a track of active clients and send the same message to all of them.
If that approach sounds scary and messy, consider using PubNub for your push notification messages, where you can easily create one channel and have many subscribers. To make it run on Google App Engine is not that hard, since they support almost any platform or device.
I know this is an old question, but I just finished an open source project that uses the Channel API to implement a publish/subscribe model, i.e. you can have multiple users subscribe to a single topic, and then all those subscribers will be notified when anyone publishes a message to the topic. It also has some nice features like automatic message persistence if desired, and "return receipts", where a subscriber can be notified whenever OTHER subscribers receive that message. See https://github.com/adevine/gaewebpubsub#gae-web-pubsub. Licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

Google App Engine Channel Token and Client ID relationship

In Google App Engine documentation for Channel API, it is stated that "Only one client at a time can connect to a channel using a given Client ID".
In contradiction, when I try to create a channel with the same Client ID, a new channel is consumed. In other words, when I call creat channel api for ClientID "user_one" channelService.createChannel("user_one"); for ten times, 10 different channels with 10 different token strings would be created, and when I send a message to "user_one" channelService.sendMessage(new ChannelMessage("user_one", message));, all of the ten clients on different devices, would receive the message!
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Only one client at a time can connect to a channel using a given Client ID, so an application cannot use a Client ID for fan-out. In other words, it's not possible to create a central Client ID for connections to multiple clients (For example, you can't create a Client ID for something like a "global-high-scores" channel and use it to broadcast to multiple game clients.)
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App engine channel deploy

I created an application that has ~50 users.
I am trying to use channel API but I've run into a problem while testing with message send.
I am saving the token into the database so i can use the same token if an user opens multiple tabs with the same interface and i have a servlet that resets my token when it expires.
It works fine until I redeploy my application or change the version of my app. I stop receiving messages. If I try to open a channel with the old app version token it doesn't throw an error or anything, it opens it but I still don't receive messages on that channel.
If I reset my token it works OK again.
Does anyone know of a solution to this bug, or has anyone had it before? I deploy often while people are working so I can't ignore it.
My best guess is that ChannelServiceFactory.getChannelService() returns a different instance of ChannelService so when I call channelService.sendMessage("id","message"); it sends it to a different channel.
I can't explain why stored tokens wouldn't work on re-deploying your app (they should), but I can explain why they don't work when you change versions. Briefly, tokens are specific to an app version.
First, the reason for this: we want to ensure that applications that send different data or change message formats or whatever in different versions don't send messages across version boundaries. In the same way that you don't want your javascript bundle from v1 rendering against servlets on v2, you wouldn't want v1 your javascript message handlers receiving messages from v2 servlets (or vice versa).
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public void sendMessage(clientid, message) {
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The upshot is that tokens are only valid for messages sent from the same version of the app that created them.

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