You’ve found the Discord Developer Documentation! These pages are dedicated to showing you all the ways that you can use Discord to make cool stuff. Whether you’re looking to create awesome bots for your community, empower your applications with our API, or hook us right into your game with Rich Presence or the GameSDK, Discord has something for you.
All of our documentation is on GitHub and we <3 corrections and improvements!
If you believe you're experiencing a bug with our API or want to report incorrect documentation, open an issue on our issue tracker.
For a more real-time avenue of communication, check out the unofficial, community-driven Discord server for developers. There you'll find community members who can help answer questions about our API, community libraries, bot creation, and other development questions.
Bots and apps are the lifeblood of the Discord development community. They come in all shapes and sizes, from small hobby projects for your server with friends, to huge projects that live in hundreds of thousands of servers. We love seeing the unique, fun, and sometimes downright strange (in a good way) creations that come from our community.
Discord offers an open API to serve requests for both bots and OAuth2 integrations. So whether you’re making your own !airhorn or looking to Log In With Discord, we’ve got you covered.
So go do it! Go! Go make an app and create something awesome.
Games are what Discord is all about. Everything we do is built around the idea of bringing players together around games, and if YOU have a game that you want to supercharge with Discord, then we have just the thing for you.
If you haven’t yet noticed, Discord has a [game store](link to store blog announcement)! That means that we’ve got a whole suite of tools to help bring your game to life on Discord. Need networking? Have networking! Want a friends list? Take relationships too!
We are proud to be working with a number of indie developers to help bring their games to life with our First on Discord program. If you have an unreleased game that you think might be a good fit, [drop us a line](link to form).
If you’ve already published a game and want to know how you can be a part of the Discord store, hold tight! We’ve got more cool stuff coming in the future.
No matter where your game lives, it should have a first-class experience in Discord. Rich Presence is the way to make that a reality! Display rich game data on your players’ profiles, empower them to send game invites to each other, and spend more time playing together and less time exchanging lobby codes.
It’s free, easy, open-source, and self-serve, so check out the How To guide and get started!
We love our developers, and we plan to keep making practical tools so that YOU can keep making cool stuff. Build a bot, integrate our account system, or put us right in your game; whatever you do, do it with Discord.
We can’t wait to see what you make.
-- Discord