clawdbot-workspace/discord-bot-automation-research.md

Discord Bot Automation Research

Goal

Automate the creation of Discord bot applications and tokens programmatically.

Approaches

1. Discord REST API

Discord provides a REST API that can create applications/bots without browser automation.

Key Endpoints:

• POST /applications/v2 - Create a new application
• POST /applications/{application.id}/bot - Add a bot user to an application

Authentication:

• User Account Token (from discord.com/login)
• Can be retrieved from browser local storage or by using Discord OAuth

2. Discord.js / Discord API Wrapper

Use Node.js libraries to interact with Discord's API:

• @discordjs/rest
• discord-api-types

3. Prerequisites

To create a bot application programmatically:

1. Discord user account token (NOT a bot token - need an account token)
2. The account must have 2FA enabled (Discord requirement for dev actions)
3. Proper headers for user agent and authorization

Implementation Plan

1. Extract Discord user token from the Discord credentials
2. Use the Discord REST API to create a new application
3. Add a bot user to the application
4. Retrieve and return the bot token
5. Update clawdbot.json with the new bot token
6. Generate an OAuth2 invite link

Next Steps

• Test the Discord REST API approach
• Build a Node.js script for bot creation
• Integrate into Clawdbot workflow