Make it possible for bots, to check if user has nitro, is in hypesquad, is staff, etc.

Andre_601
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 Suggestion is simple: Make it possible for Bots, to actually see, if a user has nitro (if yes probably also what kind of nitro), is in HypeSquad (And perhaps what type/house), is a official staff, is partner and what else could be seen as a badge on the users profile.

There is the User object (user structure) which already provides this info. But (at least as I understand it) is that behind a different OAuth2-scope (identify), which can't be used by a bot, or at least only through some changes in code and/or the link?

I know that this could give potential for abuse (like only allow users with nitro or a certain HypeSquad house to join a guild), but lets be honest: What on discord's API doesn't give a potential for abuse (And maybe is already abused?)

This would give Bot-developers a really nice way, to f.e. show custom badges/emotes on a Embed with user-info, or tell others if someone of the mighty staff-team joined the guild (Which could be possible).

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  • moonlightcapital
    Would be cool by one sense, abusable in another. Imagine bots immediately banning anyone who isn't in X HypeSquad house instead of Y.
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  • broman

    This endpoint already exists. See "flags"

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  • Andre_601

    @broman

    The issue with that is, that it needs you to have a special 2OAuth setup/link in order to even receive the info (See how it mentions "Identify" in the "Required OAuth2 Scope" area, which according to the OAuth2 page is a seperate setting(?)

    My feedback was for making it usable by bots, I updated my description a bit to make it more clear.

     

    Also @MoonlightCapital

    Isn't that already the case with bots out there? This would (of course) make it worse, but it wouldn't start this "fight", There are 145+ million users out there (And I have no idea if that already counts bots) and the chance that there are bots which "abuse" certaing things is almost always 100%.

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  • ThatTonybo

    Already possible. Read the API docs.

    -3
  • ||Jojo||
    Oauth2 is "useable" by the bots and ``What on discord's API doesn't give a potential for abuse`` is a really bad argument. There is a reason why it requires an additional scope like for email, list guilds, connections or invitation.
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  • lengo
    I believe this is already possible.
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  • Andre_601

    Discord added public_flags which is pretty much what I requested, with the exception of specific badges like nitro which is perfectly fine for me.

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  • Trash Panda

    They also added premium-type which shows if they have nitro.

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  • arrowfn

    Trash Panda

    Yes, but bots currently cannot access user profiles. It is documented, but bots cannot use it. Only proper Discord users can access the profile endpoint.

     

    The https://discordapp.com/api/v9/users/958158495302176778/profile endpoint can only be accessed by using a user token.
    The https://discordapp.com/api/v9/users/958158495302176778 endpoint can be accessed by using a user or bot token.
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