[vscode] [discord] Discord Token

[1ycx]

I don't understand how to get the token. Can you check this issue I created on the same topic on discord-api-docs repo and tell me where I went wrong ?

discord/discord-api-docs#847

[SinisterRectus]

Discord does not support user account automation outside of their OAuth2 API. Additionally, submitting user tokens outside of their client is a security risk. For these reasons, they removed the ability to access user tokens via localStorage.

[1ycx]

@SinisterRectus Then . . . Is this extension useless for discord ?

[arjunattam]

Thanks @kogam22 and @SinisterRectus. Looks like the token access is disabled, and we will need to find an alternative here. We have been investigating using RPC API (#266), but since it is in private beta for most features (except Rich Presence), we are hitting a roadblock. Let me think of alternatives for this and get back to you.

[crock]

Perhaps the only solution at this time is to use bot tokens instead of user tokens. I know that would make the extension way less useful for Discord users as the bot would have to be installed on each server they are in, but it's an option.

[Muirrum]

Couldn't you also try and make an OAuth application (at least to read the messages for now)

[efskap]

This method still works!!
Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter#76 (comment)
(tl;dr: inspect network requests in dev tools and grab the token from the authorization header)

With this, the extension works great, thank you :)

[lukaskleinhaneveld]

This method still works!!
Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter#76 (comment)
(tl;dr: inspect network requests in dev tools and grab the token from the authorization header)

With this, the extension works great, thank you :)

I thought this WAS the way to get the auth token? hahaha

[efskap]

Well no, the docs still instruct the user to get the token from localStorage.token at the dev console.
No mention of network request inspection.

[arjunattam]

Closing for now. The docs call out that discord integration is unofficial and not recommended