Verifiable
Every page carries a status, a last-verified date, and primary sources. Facts, observations, and hypotheses are labeled distinctly.
Discord Platform Atlas
Understand it, look it up, and actually run it. Every claim dated and sourced.
What do you want to do?
Section titled “What do you want to do?”Post to a channel with a webhookThe fastest integration: no bot, no login, no gateway. Get a URL and POST JSON.
Pick the right integration modelWebhook vs Bot vs App vs Interaction endpoint vs Activity vs OAuth2 — decided in one table.
Build a slash commandApplication commands, components, and modals — over an HTTP endpoint or the gateway.
Run a gateway botConnect over WebSocket, subscribe to events with intents, respond in real time.
Install an app (OAuth2)Scopes, user-install vs guild-install contexts, and authorizing integration owners.
Look up a termInteraction token, install context, snowflake, intent… the vocabulary, defined.
Why this atlas exists
Section titled “Why this atlas exists”The Discord platform is several different products wearing one name: webhooks, bots, applications, interactions, the gateway, OAuth2, and Activities each have their own rules. Most confusion comes from mixing them up. This atlas gives you a single mental model, a fast lookup path, and runnable code — while staying honest about what is verified, what is a hypothesis, and when each fact was last checked.
Runnable
Minimal, least-privilege examples you can clone and run in about a minute — secrets never committed.
Multilingual
English, 日本語, and 繁體中文. Use the language switcher in the top bar. Pages fall back to English until translated.
Current
Tracks the live platform: Discord API v10, Components V2, user-installable apps, DAVE end-to-end encryption, and the 2026 privileged-intent changes.