Personal API: Allow for integrations with services like the Google Assistant API and IFTTT

First - I realize that there were issues with self-botting in the past. However, a reasonable level of integration should be expected with other services.

Recently, I've started encountering an issue that's severely limited my ability to use Discord. Unlike almost every other application I use, I can't have my Discord notifications read out or responded to. This means that having conversations with friends while I'm walking, for example, is significantly harder as I can't ask anything to automatically respond.

Now, here's some things to keep in mind:

- Don't bring back self-botting. This would not go well, we've seen it in the past.

- Don't make this available to everyone. This would lead to many of the same problems as self-botting.

- Don't limit it to Nitro users. That breaks the whole point.

Now here's what you should do.

- Manual verification process for services. This allows an integration with the Google Assistant, Siri, perhaps even IFTTT.

- Send and reply to messages, as well as get user data. This means I can do, say, "message Jake raid starts at 2pm" and, using a list of IDs stored by the service, get the member and send the message.

- Heavy ratelimiting for user accounts. Maybe 5 messages in a minute?

- Other than that, decent API access. Perhaps even expanding the API to include Go Live's. For example, I could, in a Google Assistant scenario, say, "Hey Google, start a Go Live", and it would then ask me for the server and channel details.

Bricklou

17 mai 2020 12:33

I'm interested to this feature !
I would like to be able to read my discord notification directly from a standalone device (more specificly an ESP8266). So is it possible to have an readonly user api to fetch user messages/ping/servers/... ?

A lot of people tried to do the same but are forced to create self-bots which are banned by the ToS. If we (developpers and makers) have an dedicated API which is approved by the ToS it will simplied our development process.

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