Excuse me if I missed something and this is a duplicate, other QA's still left me with some questions.
I wanted to see if it was possible for my bot to access user connections (Steam acc, Reddit, etc.) so that the user can use a command to enable notifications in a specific channel, so that it would promote when they publish a video.
I've found similar bots, but they all required manual entering and they were admin-only.
I've found that it is NOT possible to directly access them (and rightfully so):
Unfortunately this is not possible when using a "real" bot account, however it is possible if you're using a user bot account.
I'd suggest a workaround of using OAuth2. You could have users authenticate your bot with OAuth2, and then fetch their connections this way. Some more information at
https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/oauth2
(Link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44265167/16255372)
But that last statement about OAuth really got me wondering.
If it is required for each user to authenticate via a link, that is an acceptable compromise for me.
On the discord developers website, I've found a connections scope which would allow the bot to access the connections of the user that authenticated via the link.
I also found a url for getting the user's connections here
Get User Connections
GET
/users/@me/connections
Returns a list of connection objects. Requires the connections OAuth2 scope.
But on other sources, I've seen that the scope is inaccessible to bots.
Furthermore, I don't see connections accessible in discord.py, which is what I use.
So my question is + TL;DR:
- Is it possible to access the user's connections, even if they each have to click on an oauth link (connections scope)
- Would this be possible using discord.py?
(potentially using
discord.ClientUser?)
Thank you for reading, I am also a new contributor. If you feel that I missed something or could elaborate or explain things better, please let me know how I could improve my question.