Role Discord Members (by username) from File
Bot Setup
- Navigate to https://discord.com/developers/applications
- Create a new application
- Navigate to the “Bot” tab
- Make sure “Public Bot” is checked
- Turn on “Server Members Intent” under “Priveleged Gateway Intents”
- Navigate to “OAuth2” and the “URL Generator Tab”
- Select “bot” from “Scopes”, appropriate selections from “Bot Permissions” (Administrator may be overkill, but will get the job done)
- Copy & Paste the generated URL at the bottom & select designated server – this is inviting the bot to the server
Bot Setup in Server
- Ensure you assign your bot a role within your server that is higher than the role you intend to assign to your list/file of users with the bot – meaning the bot’s highest role should be greater than the role it is assigning – allowing for the bot to assign and edit roles of other users. This is important! You might need to make a new role or change permissions within the role in Discord to allow the bot to edit roles.
Using this file
- To get the server ID – aka guild id as referred to in the file – make sure you have Developer Mode turned on in Discord (Settings–>Advanced–>Developer Mode)
- Find the designated server icon in the left side panel, right click and select ‘Copy ID’ from the tool tip. This should be inserted in line 20:
guild = client.get_guild(ENTER SERVER ID HERE) - Enter the role name you wish to assign to your list/file of users:
role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles,name="ENTER ROLE NAME HERE") - In order to connect the Bot you created in the first set of instructions – go back to https://discord.com/developers/applications, select your application and navigate to the “Bot” tab again
- Under “Token”, (just to be safe), hit “Regenerate” and “Copy” this token
- Insert this token in line 41:
client.run('PASTE TOKEN HERE')
