[Suggestion] Adding a way to see if user is "premium"

[Artuto]

Well, today a friend and me were wondering if on Discord API was a way to know if a user has a "status" like Nitro, Hype Squad, etc.

And we'd like to implement it into our bot (I know that depends on the library).

[devsnek]

Bots cannot see user profiles, which was a deliberate choice.

[Artuto]

Maybe a new way on the API to check it? Without checking profiles

[night]

Why do you need this information? It is currently intentionally only available on the profile.

[z64]

Most people I've seen ask this (a fair amount since badges came out) want this information to provide "their own nitro perks" - a special role, channel, access to bot features - in their own servers, like one might do for integrations (twitch/yt subs) or other kinds of connections.

Personally, at least with regards to nitro, I dont think I'd want to see a lot of bots that gate features like that. While it's nice to encourage people to support discord, I think it kind of goes against the spirit of nitro; imagining an extreme (but unlikely) scenario where people might think "I can't get a good bot without nitro". I recognize that some already do this with services like patreon or their own donation solutions.

[Artuto]

Hmm No, I want this because I have a User Info command and would be cool showing an emote of Nitro/HypeSquad. El jul 11, 2017 8:34 PM, "Zac Nowicki" <notifications@github.com> escribió:

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Most people I've seen ask this (a fair amount since badges came out) want this information to provide "their own nitro perks" - a special role, channel, access to bot features - in their own servers, like one might do for integrations (twitch/yt subs) or other kinds of connections. Personally, at least with regards to nitro, I dont think I'd want to see a lot of bots that gate features like that. While it's nice to encourage people to support discord, I think it kind of goes against the spirit of nitro; imagining an extreme (but unlikely) scenario where people might think "I can't get a good bot without nitro". I recognize that some already do this with services like patreon or their own donation solutions. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#295 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AI2CdUaP8ee5DN8kQ5muq-saHRPAaicpks5sNCKHgaJpZM4OTqBv> .

[devsnek]

that is fine, but not everyone is you. the above scenario would 100% happen, and I don't think the pro of "nitro emojis in user info" outweigh the cons of people making the platform worse with pay2use bots.

[nhooyr]

I think you guys are exaggerating your reasoning. Why would someone gate features for nitro users? What do they get out of it? Nothing. I don't see it happening, at least not on a scale where it becomes a real problem.

And discord could instantiate a policy to ban bots that do that.

[Artuto]

No, you are misunderstanding, I'll never make a "nitro-only" feature on my bot (I dont have even nitro). I only want a way to check if a user has Nitro or something to add the Nitro emoji to their profile info.

[z64]

@nhooyr quoting myself, I've already said that I'm exaggerating:

imagining an extreme (but unlikely) scenario where people might think "I can't get a good bot without nitro"

Myself, I wouldn't put it past some people (and I've seen several who have explicitly said they wanted to do something like I described), regardless of how "dumb" it might be in the bigger picture.

Moreover ; enforcing a "ban" on people who do this is a waste of Discord's time (if they were inclined to do so) when they can just not allow access to the endpoint / fields at all - as it is now.

@ArtutoGamer we understand. We're not talking about you - we're talking about any bot developer in general.

[night]

This is not something we want to expose to bots at this time.

[advaith1]

Maybe premium_type access for bots should be reconsidered since bots can access user flags now (#1490)? Now bots can show most user badges without OAuth but not nitro and boost (and end-users might think that's a bug)

[MinnDevelopment]

You think they left out nitro by accident? If bots could see that it would just make nitro scam bots even easier.

[advaith1]

Well nitro is a different field (premium_type vs flags)