How can I use python to scrape ping messages?

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I have a discord bot that I've been working on. It will sometimes encounter errors, and I will be busy doing something somewhere else, and I don't wish for potential clients to have long downtimes. I've found a way that I can have it send me a dm regarding the error. The thing is, I use discord for other purposes and will get many dms throughout the day. I still want to be able to receive these messages without having to turn them ALL off when I'm busy, but I was wondering if there was a way to load the location that the dm came from so that, when I'm busy, I can get notices about dms from the bot, but not other people.

I've found that I can use the requests library in python to constantly search for information in the direct messages with discord's "https://discord.com/api/v9/channels/{ID}/messages" api, but I have found that this can take a lot of internet, and I don't really want to reload the messages every single time, and I've also noticed that this can be against Discord Community Guidelines if used incorrectly, so I want to avoid using it.

    headers = {
        'authorization': '{authkey}'
    }

    r = requests.get(f'https://discord.com/api/v9/channels/{ID}/messages?limit=1', headers=headers)

    data = r.json()
#more code that parses and reads the data...

Is there a way to extract the "ping" function from discord's website to load the pings that I have and look for one that is from the bot instead of loading the messages? I've looked for the xhr api key, but after many refreshes, I can't find ANYTHING that is related to pings, but the data is obviously getting pulled from somewhere.

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– Community Bot, Commented Aug 16, 2024 at 20:50

Dreadeye · Accepted Answer · 2024-09-05 15:43:01Z

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I have found that it is impossible to call this without interacting with a browser element and using javascript functions to pull a ton of information from the website itself, so, I have decided that it is most practical to create a discord bot that can read pings. I can then have the bot send the information to me.

answered Sep 5, 2024 at 15:43

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ShadowCrafter_01 Over a year ago

As this does not answer OPs question but suggests an other way this answer should rather be a comment. Once you'll earn enough reputation you'll be able to post comments

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