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Discord Verified account @discordapp It's time to ditch Skype and Teamspeak. Discord is the only free and secure voice, video, and text app designed for gamers that works on your desktop and phone. Discord bots come in a range of flavors and can offer productive and not-so productive features to a server. For example, you can get bots that play music, offer amusing memes upon request, fetch your game stats all the way to playing an airhorn within the channel.
If you’re a gamer, you will know. The successor to Teamspeak and Ventrilo, Discord is now used by millions of gamers across the world to provide voice chat to games. If you run a voice server for your game or clan, did you know you can add bots to it? Here’s how to add bots to your Discord server.
Also see our article Bots have something of a bad rap. They used to be primarily used on networks to annoy, sell, collect data or use social engineering to part you with your information or cash. That is only one small side of bots. They are much more than that and many major social networks and web applications use them for much more productive means.
One such application is Discord. Discord bots Discord bots come in a range of flavors and can offer productive and not-so productive features to a server. For example, you can get bots that play music, offer amusing memes upon request, fetch your game stats all the way to playing an airhorn within the channel. Should you wish to experiment with them. If you prefer more useful bots that offer a productivity boost or some neat features, you might want to head over to the.
It is regarded as one of the best repositories of Discord bots around. There is always if those two sites don’t have what you’re looking for.
Adding bots to your Discord server If you want to add bots to your Discord server, the process is fairly straightforward. You will need admin access to the server, called ‘Manage Server’ to make it work but otherwise, most of the heavy lifting is done for you. Some bots will require you to be logged in to the server through your browser as well as the client. Some will not.
A little experimentation is required to see which is which. If you have admin permissions for your Discord server, all you need to do is find a bot you like the look of, check its reviews and then add it via the Discord web interface. Navigate to the and log in. Navigate to your profile and look under General Permissions. Check that Manage Server is enabled.
Select ‘Add Bot to Server’ or ‘Invite bot’ depending on what source you have. Select a server to add the bot to and authorize the bot in the popup window that appears. Open your Discord server and you should see the bot appear in the sidebar. That is the easiest way to add bots to your Discord server as you will have one up and running with a few clicks.
If you’re a more experienced user, you can use the URL method instead. You will need to know the Client ID of the bot for this to work but is a simple way to add GitHub bots as well as others. The same as above, you will need to be logged into your Discord server for this to work properly. Open your browser and paste the following URL:. Change ‘BotClientID’ in the above URL with the actual client ID of the bot you want to add. You may still have to authorize the bot even though the command uses Oauth2 to do that very thing. Either of those methods should add a Discord bot to your server.
The bot should then interact with your users in the prescribed way, whether that’s playing memes, music or getting your game stats. Authorizing your Discord bot Discord seem to be very careful with bots and sometimes require multiple authorizations to enable one to work. Even though the platform uses Oauth2 to enable a permitted bot to access and interact, you may still be asked to authorize it within the channel. While a pain if you are adding multiple bots, I think this is a good thing. This doesn’t always happen but the a couple of the bots I played with to write this tutorial gave a ‘this app cannot read or send messages on your behalf’ message until I selected Authorize underneath.
If you see the same message in your channel, there should be a small ‘Authorize’ box you can select underneath that initial message. Select it and the bot should work as normal. You may, or may not, see value in such things but if you want to add bots to your Discord server, you now know how. Got any other sources any good bots? Write your own and want to promote it?
Tell us about them below if you do!