Tried to get numbers of discord members using discord's API endpoint GET/guilds/{guild.id}/members (see here).
I am using Postman to make a call to it. I set the Authorization header:
Authorization: "Bot ${BOT_TOKEN}"
The response I get is
{ "message": "Missing Access", "code": 50001 }
I also tried with Authorization: DISCORD_CLIENT_ID.
The response is { "message": "401: Unauthorized", "code": 0 }.
Am I missing something? Please help me out with this.
First, you need to make sure you are using the correct guild id and not a channel id. You can enable Developer Mode on Discord through User settings -> Advanced, which allows you to obtain the guild id by right-clicking on a guild (server), and then clicking on Copy ID.
Next, go to your application through Developer Portal, select your application and navigate to the Bot tab on the navigation bar to the left. From there, obtain your bot's authentication token that you need to pass in the headers of your request. On the same tab - since you need to get the list of Guild Members, and since that "endpoint is restricted according to whether the GUILD_MEMBERS Privileged Intent is enabled for your application" - scroll down to the Privileged Gateway Intents section and enable SERVER MEMBERS INTENT.
Below is a working example using the Node.js standard modules. Please note that, as described here, the default limit of maximum number of members to return is 1. Thus, you can adjust the limit in the query parameters, as below, to receive more results per request. The maximum number of results you can get per request is 1000. Therefore, if a guild contains more members than that, you can keep track of the highest user id present in each previous request, and pass it to the after parameter of the next request, as described in the documentation. In this way, you can obtain every member in a guild. Also, make sure you set the properties in options in the proper way, as shown below; otherwise, you might come accross getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND error, as shown here.
If you haven't already, you should add your bot to the server you wish, by generating an invite link for your bot through URL Generator under OAuth2 in your application settings (select bot from scopes). Now, you can access that URL from your browser and add the bot to any of your servers. If you need to, you can share the same invite link with others, so that they can add your bot to their servers.
Example in Node.js
const https = require('https')
const url = require('url');
GUILD_ID = "YOUR_GUILD_ID"
BOT_TOKEN = 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN'
LIMIT = 10
const requestUrl = url.parse(url.format({
protocol: 'https',
hostname: 'discord.com',
pathname: `/api/guilds/${GUILD_ID}/members`,
query: {
'limit': LIMIT
}
}));
const options = {
hostname: requestUrl.hostname,
path: requestUrl.path,
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Authorization': `Bot ${BOT_TOKEN}`,
}
}
const req = https.request(options, res => {
res.on('data', d => {
process.stdout.write(d)
})
})
req.on('error', error => {
console.error(error)
})
req.end()
Example in Python
import requests
import json
GUILD_ID = "YOUR_GUILD_ID"
BOT_TOKEN = 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN'
LIMIT = 10
headers = {'Authorization' : 'Bot {}'.format(BOT_TOKEN)}
base_URL = 'https://discord.com/api/guilds/{}/members'.format(GUILD_ID)
params = {"limit": LIMIT}
r = requests.get(base_URL, headers=headers, params=params)
print(r.status_code)
print(r.text,'\n')
#print(r.raise_for_status())
for obj in r.json():
print(obj,'\n')