Discord AutoBan

Discord Bot to automatically ban a user whose username contains a specific string.

Originally made by @Whismirk to counter the spam of bots pointing to h0nde (Twitter)
Improved by @Rikj000 to counter the spam of bots pointing to the MoniGoMani (Discord)

Requirements

• If you don't have it yet, install python.
• Install discord.py via pip (guide here).

Usage

• If you don't have a dev app yet, create one on https://discord.com/developers/applications/.

• Create a bot for your app. Save its token for later.

• Grant privileged gateway intents to your newly made bot (just tick the options).

• Invite the bot on your server, with appropriate permissions (namely, read and ban).

• Then, in autoban.py, configure the SETTINGS section to your needs:

  • You can get user_ids by going into your Discord settings => Advanced => Enable Developer Mode.
  • Then right click on a user and at the bottom of the options menu you will be able to copy the user_id.

  # === ↓ SETTINGS ↓ ============================================================
  target_strings = [
      'verification',
      'your_server_name_here',
      'your_moderator_name_here',
      'your_moderator_name_here',
      'whatever_other_words_that_need_banning',
  ]
  
  whitelisted_user_ids = [
      123456789123456789,  # your_moderator_user_id_here
      123456789123456789,  # your_moderator_user_id_here
  ]
  
  ban_reason = 'Verification, the server name or moderator names are not allowed in the username to prevent scammers.'
  bot_token = 'your_bot_token_here'
  kick_instead_of_ban = False  # set to True to kick users instead of banning
  # === ↑ SETTINGS ↑ ============================================================

• Finally, run autoban.py inside your terminal of choice. (The bot will only work while the script is running)

• Optional: A Dockerfile has been added to make running with docker possible 🙂