Discord Ban Appeals

This is a form which allows users to appeal their bans from a Discord server.

By using OAuth2, it ensures users can't forge or fake appeals.

How do I use this?

1. Create an application on the Discord Developer Portal.

2. In the Bot section of the newly created application's dashboard, create a bot account and invite it to your server with the Ban Members permission.

Pro tip: Use a permissions calculator to generate the invite link!

3. In your server, create a channel dedicated to ban appeals. Ensure only mods and the bot can view the channel, and that the bot has the Send Messages and Embed Links permissions for this channel.

4. In Discord's settings, go in the Appearance section and enable Developer Mode. You will need it soon.

5. Create .env file with the following details

   Field name	Instructions
   DISCORD_CLIENT_ID	You can get this from the General Information section for the application you created in step 1.
   DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET	You can get this from the General Information section for the application you created in step 1.
   DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN	Get this in the Bot section that you used in step 2.
   GUILD_ID	This is where the developer mode you enabled in step 4 comes in handy. Right click your server icon and press Copy ID.
   APPEALS_CHANNEL	Same deal than the guild ID, but with the channel you created in step 3.
   JWT_SECRET	Use a password manager to generate a password with ~50 characters, or mash your keyboard.
   URL	URL (with protocol and without / at the end) where is your application running

6. Start the application by running:

npm install - Install dependencies

node build.js - Make sure that your Discord client was connected to the gateway at least once (run this just first time when you are setuping this)

npm start or node index.js - Start the application

7. Go back to the Discord Developer Portal, open the dashboard for the application you created in step 1, and click on OAuth2.

8. Click on Add Redirect and enter [your-site]/functions/oauth-callback, replacing [site-name]with URL (with protocol) where is your application running

9. Hit the green Save Changes button.

10. You should be good to go! You might want to test if it works as intended with an alt account, and if you encounter any problems feel free to create an issue on GitHub.

Blocking users

Users that spam requests can be blocked by creating an environment variable called BLOCKED_USERS, which should contain a comma-separated list of quoted user IDs. To do this:

• Create an environment variable with BLOCKED_USERS as its key. For the value, paste in the user ID you copied in the previous step, and enter in a quotation mark (") on both sides.

• To add more IDs, add a comma after the first quoted ID

After making changes in your env file, make sure to restart the application.

Information

This is rewrited project discord-ban-appeals to express webserver, so it does not have to be hosted on Netlify. It can be hosted for example on replit.

Rewrited by AnonDev

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