authentication to discord

[dave7280]

where in this library is some information how to authenticate before even using it? i'm checking examples but there's nothing about authentication, not or git page....

[colcrunch]

http://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/discord.html

[IngeniousCoder]

1. Are you using ASYNC or Rewrite
2. Please Read the docs. https://discordpy.rtfd.io

[Vexs]

As you haven't really gotten a good answer yet, put bluntly, we have no idea what you're asking for. What exactly are you talking about regarding "authentication"?

[dave7280]

Hello again,

Sorry for missleading question. I was really confused, the entire library looks very good but i had really hard time finding how to perform authentication to discord server - i mean using this so called token. How to find it? where to put it?

At the end i managed to create new app using discord panel and get a key from there.. but there should be quick 5 point tutorial for this. Especially since i had no experience with discord but had to implement a notification using it. From my perspective it'd be great to have few words on this on git page.

[dave7280]

Also the library focuses a lot on so called full-time bots. It was quite difficult to find information how to perform simple log-in and send message task... then quit. Finally i made it, but quite confusing for such simple tasks using these coroutines.

[Vexs]

Bot accounts aren't really for logging in and sending a single message, as you get a limited number of connects/day. It's also quite a lot of information to send/receive just for a single message. If you want that functionality, use webhooks instead, defined in the docs here. Webhooks are supported on the rewrite branch of the lib, but it's trivial to post them yourself.

It's generally assumed that you have some knowledge of how discord bots work, but the process for creating a bot account is documented on the development branch. Furthermore, the examples serve as a more than sufficient, well, example for just a basic bot.

[dave7280]

Do you know what the estimated limit is for number of connects per-day?

[IngeniousCoder]

I’m quite sure it’s infinite

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[IamTails]

2000 gateway conns. per 24hrs they reset your token if more , you don't need a lib for what you want, refer to the Discord doc's you can achieve what you want with a simple post request.

[Vexs]

All of the above is incorrect. You are limited to 1000 identify calls within a 24 hour period, across all shards. Bots with more than 100k servers receive a higher limit, but I'm unsure what it is. It's 2k

Again, connecting a bot to discord transfers quite a lot of information. Members, servers, emojis, all that jazz. I highly recommend that you just use a webhook if you're intending to stay within one channel, as it involves none of the above restrictions, doesn't require a lib, coros, or anything, just a single, basic POST request.

[IngeniousCoder]

I would also like to check, what is a identify call?

Does things like creating channels count? As my bot has a create channel command.

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All of the above is incorrect. You are limited to 1000 identify calls within a 24 hour period, across all shards. Bots with more than 100k servers receive a higher limit, but I'm unsure what it is.

Again, connecting a bot to discord transfers quite a lot of information. Members, servers, emojis, all that jazz. I highly recommend that you just use a webhook if you're intending to stay within one channel, as it involves none of the above restrictions, doesn't require a lib, coros, or anything, just a single, basic POST request.

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