I’m trying to build a Discord bot that can send notifications across multiple Discord servers where I have the right permissions. The bot should work in servers where I have a certain role and can ping everyone. I want it to automatically detect all servers I’m part of and send messages there. I looked at some documentation but couldn’t figure out how to implement it properly. The main thing I’m wondering about is whether this can work dynamically - like if I join a new server or create one and add the bot there, will it automatically start working without me having to change the code each time? Has anyone done something similar before?
I built something similar last year and hit a few gotchas you should watch out for. The dynamic detection works great once you nail the permissions, but check for both SEND_MESSAGES and MENTION_EVERYONE before trying to ping. Learned this the hard way when my bot kept erroring in servers where I had admin but the bot role sat below one that blocked mentions. You’ll also want a cooldown system - Discord’s rate limits can temporarily ban your bot if you’re hitting too many servers at once. The bot picks up new servers automatically when it joins, but test in a few places before you scale up.
This approach works well, but watch out for server-specific configs. Don’t hardcode channel IDs when you’re iterating through client.guilds - store each server’s preferred notification channel in a database instead. When you join new servers, just add a simple command so admins can pick where notifications go. Also, set up a whitelist system. Just because you’re in a server doesn’t mean you should auto-spam notifications there. I learned this the hard way when my bot started flooding friend servers that weren’t meant for it. The YouTube API integration is pretty straightforward once Discord’s working, but cache your video data so you don’t blow through quota limits.
yeah, totally! just use client.guilds to see all the servers your bot’s in and then check the roles/permissions. don’t forget to set up OAuth properly when you add it to new servers – it’ll find 'em all by itself, no code changes needed.