API Support for Approving “Apply to Join” Membership Applications

[enovuh]

Hello Discord API Team,

I wanted to suggest an update to the Apply-to-Join system. Right now, when someone applies to join a server, they don’t show up as a guild member until an admin manually approves them. Because of that, bots can’t fetch the user, can’t receive a member add event, and can’t interact with their application at all. This makes it impossible for bots to help with screening or automating any part of the approval process.

It would be really helpful if bots had a way to see pending applications, read the answers users submitted, and approve or deny them through the API. Many communities rely on bots for moderation, onboarding, and verification, and this would make the Apply-to-Join feature much easier to integrate into those workflows.

[bosniltd-a11y]

Hello Discord API Team,

I wanted to suggest an update to the Apply-to-Join system. Right now, when someone applies to join a server, they don’t show up as a guild member until an admin manually approves them. Because of that, bots can’t fetch the user, can’t receive a member add event, and can’t interact with their application at all. This makes it impossible for bots to help with screening or automating any part of the approval process.

It would be really helpful if bots had a way to see pending applications, read the answers users submitted, and approve or deny them through the API. Many communities rely on bots for moderation, onboarding, and verification, and this would make the Apply-to-Join feature much easier to integrate into those workflows.

[vakiliner]

Where the answer?

[vcarl]

Additionally (and this isn't an API issue but it is a major problem with the Membership Application feature)

• Second/third/etc applications are not flagged, allowing prospective members to whack-a-mole different responses to try and game the application system.
• "Interview" does not get flagged for other moderators reviewing applications, so it's very easy for one to approve while another is interviewing.

[UHCBuilder]

This is definitely needed & would genuinely help towards improving and automating applications formats on Discord.

[Kaerion0]

I took a closer look at this and did some testing. Turns out bots simply can’t use this endpoint - the API responds with:

{'message': 'Bots cannot use this endpoint', 'code': 20001}

I tried using a user account token instead, and that works without issues. So for now, it looks like this endpoint is only accessible on behalf of a user, not a bot. As a quick workaround, I put together a small prototype that actually works and demonstrates the behavior:
https://github.com/Kaerion0/discord-server-requests

[Soheab]

I took a closer look at this and did some testing. Turns out bots simply can’t use this endpoint - the API responds with:

{'message': 'Bots cannot use this endpoint', 'code': 20001}

I tried using a user account token instead, and that works without issues. So for now, it looks like this endpoint is only accessible on behalf of a user, not a bot. As a quick workaround, I put together a small prototype that actually works and demonstrates the behavior:
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You may want to take a closer look at the fact that automating an user account is against the ToS of Discord.

Obviously the endpoint is accessible with an user token; that's how it's used in the clients etc.