Send a Discord message with a bot and handle rate limits

domain: discord.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Create app + bot, enable required intents (MESSAGE CONTENT is privileged)
  2. Invite via OAuth URL with bot scope and permissions bitfield
  3. POST /channels/{id}/messages with Authorization: Bot <token>
  4. On 429 read retry_after from the JSON body and the X-RateLimit-Bucket headers

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