I have a question about discord bots (well kind of). Recently people have been joining my server (the majority have dots in their user). Most of the time when they join, I am offline. They will send a message in about 5 channels in the server that say “my naked pictures” and with a hook up link. A lot of people in the server believe they are bots and I think that some of them are but I also believe some are not. Sometimes I’ll be online when they join and I’ll warn them “No naked pictures” or “Children under the age of 13 in the server” something like that. The ones I have had the chance to warn, didn’t send the links or any messages. They’ve just stayed in the sever until an admin banned them. The other thing is that I’ve read some things where it is not a bot unless it had the bold letters next to it that read “BOT”. None of the users have the “BOT” next to their user. So I’m very confused. Is this happening to anybody else and if it is, are they bots or people??
Bots are identified by a blue "Bot" tag next (not in) their username. Note that, as mentioned in the comments, a bot can run off a user's account, which won't have the bot tag. These are called userbots, and are against Discord's terms of service to operate. So yes, in your case those were bots running off of user accounts.
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I want an app/bot that reads the last message that were sent to a specific channel on a server that I participate and depending on the text I want to send a message to that same channel. The thing is, I want to do it in my name, not using a bot id. I know that you can create a bot using your own name and avatar but what I really want is to send a message using my own account. Is that possible? Could not find anything like that in the docs, maybe a missed something?
I do not think you are even allowed to do this so I doubt the discord API would have support for this
Discord Guidelines
"Do not use self-bots or user-bots. Each account must be associated with a human, not a bot. Self-bots put strain on Discord’s infrastructure and our ability to run our services. For more information, you can read our Developer Policies"
However, if you really wanted to do this you could use a macro at the risk of getting your account banned by discord if they found out. You could create a macro in python using the pyautogui module.
I am an admin for a small group discord server we use for among us. when playing between games we need to batch mute a whole voice channel as a lot of users in the voice channel cannot use push to talk. would it be possible to create a bot to batch mute all users in a voice channel, without affecting other channels (we sometimes have 2 simultaneous games) without having to go in, right-click a user & select server mute?
As a side note, I do not want to use any mute roles as a solution because any new role permissions only come into effect after a user leaves and rejoins a voice channel (which would not be possible for users on phones, needing to stay on the among us app)
I am very new to discord adminning (is that a word?) and have no prior bot experience but if there is any simple bots to add to the server it would help.
Thanks for any help!
This is indeed possible. You will first need to narrow down what
language you're interested in working with for this bot (I recommend
Python, Javascript also works well)
The documentation for Discord.py is extremely good. If you're
comfortable with Python, I'd say just jump right into it.
discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#documentation-contents You can
just skip the "Migrating to v1" section because it's not applicable to
you. You'll also want to actually make the Bot account:
discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discord.html
There are also no shortage of youtube tutorials for Discord.py. I've
never seen one I thought did well but they might help you understand
the basic structure of a bot script before you start searching the
API.
– Allister
I have an official Discord server for a game and I want this bot to check to see if the user is on the game's website; if they are, they are given the role 'Currently Playing'; and when they come off the site, the role is removed.
I don't know if this is possible, but this would be extremely useful for so many people.
I don't think it will be possible without asking for more information, by design. It would be a privacy issue if you could.
Theoretically you could do it by having them type their username for the game or steam or whatever into the chat like
/gamebot #myusername
Now your bot could read that and now associate the discord account with the gamer account. You would then need an API from the game that's shows who is active and the bit can now know.
My interpretation of this question is that
If a player is on OnYourWebsite.com
It would say in their roles playing OnYourWebsite
This wouldn't really be possible unless you own the website or you are developing it. You could do this by using the Discord API this will let you create a discord sign in option.
Correct me if I am wrong,
but to directly check if a User is on a Website, you need the User´s IP address.
And you can´t get a Member´s IP address on Discord.
Another way could be rich presence, I know there are Rich Presences for Websites like YouTube, but I don´t know how they work.
Here is an example:
https://github.com/PreMiD/PreMiD
You need to install a Addon and install a program.
In this case, the Server Members would have to install a Addon and download a Programm , which you would have to program.
But, I dont know more about this topic.
This is all I have got.
(I would have commented this, but I don´t have enough reputation.)
Someone invited me to be a developer on his app. I did not get the email invite?
I have had others invite me and it works (and works well!)
We got around the problem by having an invite sent to another account. That works for now, but I really need the invite to be sent to the correct account.
Gary
The question is borderline off-topic in that it's not usually a programming question, but it comes up so often, from programmers and the customers we support, that I wanted to put an answer here in the hopes that it would be helpful.
I see that it was in your spam folder, which is one of the more common causes of "lost" emails.
In short, when an email is sent from one server, it goes through several other servers and routers on the way to the final user's PC.
Any one of the following conditions could cause a sent email to not reach a recipient:
Blocked Outbound Mail - The sender's company/business/ISP has email scanning software that scans outbound email, and blocks suspicious outbound emails.
Our workplace has this to limit sensitive data being sent out accidentally, to block outbound infected emails sent from infected PCs.
Relay Server Permissions/Configuration - Your code is sending through a relay server that has rules blocking unauthorized use of email relay functionality.
In most shops with good security consciousness, email servers are configured to disallow email relay except for known IP addresses and/or known, explicitly authorized users.
External party blocks the email - The sender's company has been blacklisted.
Blocked Inbound Mail - The receivers company has email scanning software that scans incoming email (similar to #1) to block malicious/non-work related/bad emails from reaching the recipient's inbox.
Receiver's Spam Filtering - The receiver's email inbox has spam mail filtering, which may automatically move the email to a spam folder, delete them, or other action depending on how you have it configured.
Receiver's Inbound Mail Rules - Similar to the above. The recipient may have rules defined that block, delete, or move emails.
Outlook allows this, as do other email clients. Emails can match the patterns set for existing rules and result in false positives that trigger the rule execution.
Human error - the sender sent the email to the wrong email address.
Human error - the recipient accidentally deleted the email and just didn't see it. (You'd be surprised how often I've seen this.)
Bad programming - there was an error sending the email, but the exception handling ignores the error, so nobody ever knows any better.
Only #9 is actually a programming issue, and it's also (in my experience) the least common. Odds are that the problem has nothing to do with code that you'd be writing.
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I've seen the most frequently. I'll add as I think of others.
I want to write a program that analyzes your fantasy baseball team and notifies you of recommended actions, possibly multiple times per day. The problem is, you aren't playing fantasy baseball on my site, you're playing on yahoo, or cbs, or espn, etc.
On the majority of these sites, fantasy teams and leagues are not public, so you must be logged in and a member of the league to see the teams in the league.
All that I need is the plain html for the team page on each of those sites to be sent to my server, where I can then parse and analyze the file and send user notifications.
The problem is that I need username/password combinations to easily get this data to my server when I need it, and I think there will be a lot of people who wouldn't want to entrust their yahoo/espn/cbs password to me.
I have come up with several possible ways to solve this problem:
The most obvious way is to ask for their credentials for the site on which their team is hosted. Then I could just programmatically log in and request the data I need. I'm guessing a number of people would be comfortable giving me their credentials, and a number of them not so much.
Write a desktop client, which the user then downloads. The client would require their credentials, but it could then basically do exactly the same thing that the server based version would do, log in, request the page, and send the page back to my server. The difference being that their password would never need to leave their desktop. Their computer would need to be on, and this program running for this method to work.
Write browser add-ons that navigate to the page I need, use the cookie that is saved from a previous login to login to the site, and send the page back to my server. This doesn't require my software to ever ask for their password, but if the cookie expires I am hosed, and I don't know much about browser add-ons besides.
I'm sure there are other options, but these are what I've come up with so far.
I have two questions:
1. What are the other possibilities for this type of task?
2. Am I over-estimating people's reluctance to give me their yahoo (for example) password? Is option (1) above the obvious choice?
It was suggested in the comments that I try yahoo pipes, and that looked like a promising suggestion so I explored it a bit. Having looked now at this, I don't think that is an option. So, it looks like I'll be going with option 1.
This is a problem I grappled with a couple of years ago when I wanted to do the same thing. Our site is http://benchcoach.com and the options we were considering were the following:
Original we considered getting the user's credentials and login. We would then log in and scrape their league and team info. The problem there is that after reading several of the various terms of service, this would definitely be violating the terms of service. On top of this, Yahoo! was definitely one of the sites we were considering and their users have email (where we could get access to sensitive data), and Yahoo! wallet. In addition, it would be pretty trivial for Yahoo/ESPN/CBS to block our programmatic logins by IP Address.
The solution we settled on (not 100% happy but it does seem to work) was asking our users to install a bookmarklet (like delicious, digg or reddit) which would post the current html page to our servers, where we could parse the data and load our database. If they were still logged into their Yahoo/ESPN/CBS account, we would direct them directly to the pages, otherwise, those sites would prompt for authentication. Clicking the bookmarklet once more, would post the page to our servers.
The pros of this approach was that we never collected anyone's credentials so any concern of security would have been alleviated. Secondly, it would make it impossible for Yahoo/ESPN/CBS to block access to our service since we would never be connecting directly to their servers but rather the user's browser would be posting the contents of their browser to our server.
The problems with this is that it takes 2 clicks to post a page to our site. For head to head leagues, we needed 3-4 pages so it would take our user 6-8 clicks to sync their league to our servers. We're still looking at options for this.
One important note is that I ran into the product manager of the Yahoo Fantasy Football site at a conference a year ago. We talked about how we were getting the Yahoo data, and he confirmed that getting credentials would violate their TOS and they may stop us. While I don't think they would have, it would have made it hard to invest time and energy to develop this only to have them block our site and pissing of users by closing their accounts.
A potentially more complicated answer could possibly be done with (for example) yahoo pipes.
Hypothetically, you create a pipe which prompts the user for their credentials and provides them with a url which contains their scraped data. They enter this URL in their site, and never have to provide their credentials directly. Even better, for the security-conscious, it would be possible to examine what the pipe was actually doing before entering any information.
The downside would be increased complexity (as well as you'd have to write and maintain the pipe). Having said that, you could provide a link directly to the published pipe from your site, to make things as easy as possible.
Option 1 is the obvious choice. People who trust your site will provide the details. There is no other way you can login to other site while screen scraping.