How to connect with an existing bot

[mwpowellhtx]

Hello,

Getting my feet wet with the discord dotnet API and needing a bit of guidance getting started.

I am in the effort of enhancing a discord bot, we have a credential, the core bot technology is already operating. I'd like to stand up another bot client, if that is possible. Do I need the credentials, and I can connect to an already existing discord ID?

After that, how do I interface with channels and so forth? Need to be able to clear a channel messages, and to also submit posts to a channel. That post may be of an image, png or otherwise, with an associated textual message.

Thanks for the great API and thanks for any guidance.

Best... 🍻

[mwpowellhtx]

Okay doke I am figuring some things out. Was trying to do what I was doing, and did not want to necessarily create an application, bot, etc, but it seems like that is unavoidable, and that is fair. Have it setup now, I think, to where I have the token for dev experimental purposes and starting to get connected. But how do I do further things with it? I'd like to ask the channels for instance? I see PrivateChannels, which I assume the bot credential needs to be in an appropriate role that can also see said channels, right? Otherwise there are no such channels returning upon connect.

[mwpowellhtx]

For instance, I get through connecting, it is definitely connected, but I see nothing otherside of that connection, i.e.

var privateChannel = client.PrivateChannels.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Name.Contains("my-channel-name", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase));

I have verified the bot cred is in a sufficient role, and channel grouping and channel both can be seen by that role, and the bot credential listed among the channel creds, should be able to see channels such as this.

[mwpowellhtx]

Question are their any router ports I need to think about making this work through the socket clients? Because that could be a thing in my current network mesh situation.

[mwpowellhtx]

This cannot be it from what I am reading...

[mwpowellhtx]

Do I need to satisfy the bot qualifications before I can start getting useful dotnet integration, interactions, seeing channels, messages, and other details pass back and forth?

[mwpowellhtx]

Best guess estimates, the verification steps are awaiting completion before I may start seeing information back from my dotnet discord connection. But if there is something else I am missing, clarification would perhaps be helpful as well.