AutoMod APIs and Events

[shaydewael]

Today the new AutoMod feature is rolling out across Discord. Along with it comes new API changes that allow you to use and extend AutoMod features in your Discord apps.

👉 You can find the official changelog and new documentation for AutoMod APIs on the documentation site (and thanks for all of the community help and feedback on those!)

API changes

• New endpoints for creating, updating, and deleting Auto Moderation rules
• New gateway events emitted when Auto Moderation rules are created (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_CREATE), updated (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_UPDATE ), and deleted (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_DELETE ). Requires the AUTO_MODERATION_CONFIGURATION (1 << 20) intent
• New gateway event emitted when an action is executed (AUTO_MODERATION_ACTION_EXECUTION). Requires the AUTO_MODERATION_EXECUTION (1 << 21) intent
• New audit log entries when rules are created (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_CREATE), updated (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_UPDATE), or deleted (AUTO_MODERATION_RULE_DELETE), or when AutoMod performs an action (AUTO_MODERATION_BLOCK_MESSAGE)

[CodeElevator]

Why? Just why? Bots have already automod and anyways, why do we need a bot to add it?

[SuperSajuuk]

Not everyone needs a moderation bot, or even wants one. Just because bots already have a feature doesn't mean a native discord solution can't exist, then server owners can make up their own mind if they want to use the native feature or use a bot. There are plenty of server owners out there who have very little understanding of how to use or set up bots, so they should be accommodated with a simple native feature that will cover them for the majority of things they might want to deal with early on, until such a time that a bot is more useful to them.

[advaith1]

Also, existing bot automod implementations cannot block a message before it gets sent; Discord's can.

[InvalidLenni]

I like the Discord's Automoderation module but I don't use it on my servers where I'm administrator because it is not really mature yet and what is with the bots with automod and mod? I think they are useless then.