I’m working on a Discord bot project and need help with something. My bot is currently in multiple servers, and I want to create a way to generate invite links for these servers so I can join them with my personal account. I already have access to the list of all servers where my bot is present, but I’m stuck on the actual invite generation part. I need this to work either through command line or as a simple function in my code. I’m using Python 3.9 for this project. Has anyone done something similar before? What’s the best approach to automatically create these invitation links for servers where my bot already has the necessary permissions?
That approach works, but be pickier about which channel you use for invites. Don’t just grab the first text channel - look for “general” or “welcome” first since some channels are restricted. Loop through guild.text_channels and check the names. Also set your invite parameters: max_age=0 for permanent invites or max_uses=1 for one-time use. I learned this when my invites kept dying on me. Your bot might have permissions but server verification levels can still block invite creation, so watch out for that.
heads up - add delays when looping through servers or discord will temp ban your bot. I throw in time.sleep(1) between each invite creation. also check channel permissions first with channel.permissions_for(guild.me).create_instant_invite before creating invites to avoid errors
I’ve done this in one of my bots. Use create_invite() from a channel object, not the guild directly. Make sure your bot has “Create Instant Invite” permissions in those servers. I grab the first text channel with channel = guild.text_channels[0] then invite = await channel.create_invite(). Watch out for rate limits when hitting multiple servers - Discord’s pretty strict about that. Also, some servers disable invite creation completely, so you’ll need exception handling for when it fails.