Community Resources

Discord has the best online community. At least, we like to think so, and this is our website, so our word is law, deal with it. Therefore it's a fact that our community is the best, and they make really awesome things that we want to share with developers to make their lives easier. From permissions calculators to embed visualizers to full libraries to interface with our API, there are so many great things that have come out of our community.

The Official Discord Developers server is a developer ran, but community driven, support hub. If you need help with developing something on Discord or want official updates from the developers, this is the place to be.

The Discord team curates the following list of officially vetted libraries that conform to our APIs standards around authentication and rate limiting. Using custom implementations or non-compliant libraries that abuse the API or cause excessive rate limits may result in a permanent ban.

Many of these libraries are represented in the unofficial, community-driven Discord server for developers. There you'll find community members who can help answer questions about our API, community libraries, bot creation, and other development questions.

Interactions are the great, new way of making a Discord bot. The following open-source libraries provide help for the security and authentication checks that are mandatory if you are receiving Interactions via outgoing webhook. They also include some types for the Interactions data models.

• Clojure
  • ring-discord-auth
• Go
  • discord-interactions-go
• Javascript
  • discord-interactions-js
  • discord-slash-commands and its Deno fork
  • slash-create
• Python
  • discord-interactions-python
  • discord-interactions.py
  • dispike
  • flask-discord-interactions
• PHP
  • discord-interactions-php
• Other
  • caddy-discord-interactions-verifier
  • Rauf's Slash Command Generator
  • Autocode Slash Command Builder

Discord Game SDK's lobby and networking layer shares similarities with other gaming platforms (i.e. Valve's Steamworks SDK). The following open source library provides developers a uniform interface for these shared features and can simplify developing for multiple platforms. Note: this library is tailored for Unity3D development.

• HouraiNetworking

Using Discord's Dispatch tool for game developers publishing on Discord can sometimes involve using the same long commands multiple times. The following open-source tool helps shorten these commands for you. It will also provide webhook support for when you're pushing an update.

• JohnyTheCarrot's Dispatch CLI

Permissions in Discord are tricky. Luckily, we've got really smart people who love us and have made some great permissions calculators. If you're making a bot for others, and you're not sure how to properly calculate permissions or generate your authorization URL, these are great tools:

• FiniteReality's Permissions Calculator
• abalabahaha's Permissions Calculator

Gateway Intents are pretty confusing at first. If you're not sure what to send in your identify payload, then these tools may be of help:

• ziad87's Intent Calculator
• Larko's Intent Calculator

Webhooks and embeds might seem like black magic. That's because they are, but let us help you demystify them a bit. This sweet embed visualizer lets you play around with JSON data and see exactly how it will look embedded in Discord. It even includes a webhook mode!

• Autocode Embed Builder

If you're working on a project that interacts with our API, you might find an API types module useful as it provides type inspection/completion for the Discord API.

• discord.js API Types