Airhorn Bot Has A Secret Identity?

Nelly
Discord Blog
Published in
3 min readApr 8, 2016

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A worthwhile cause.

A noise echoing.

A wish to begin again.

What is the mystery behind airhorn bot? What is it’s secret purpose?

What is behind this mask of justice? What is behind this sound of truth?

These questions, and more.

But before we seek to uncover the truth, we must take a journey. A journey… into the past.

Our artist is in Taiwan so this post is flooded with stock images instead ENJOY.

The Announcement

Last December, we published a blog post detailing the community-driven reverse engineering of our API. A bunch of awesome bots have been roaming around the Discord ecosystem providing everything from moderation tools to music bots to a shitpost bazooka.

Today, we’re announcing the initial launch of Discord’s official API. This includes documentation, application support, bot users, basic OAuth, and the level of juice you expect from Discord. We’ll be rolling out the full API in the future.

Check out the official Discord API documentation here.

Go ahead, celebrate with a crisp glass of sugar sweet orange juice.

aww yis motha fkin oj

The Future of API

As stated above, we’ll be launching part of the official API today. We want to get you guys rolling with our API now than wait for the entire project to be completed. Also we’re just excited we get excited pretty often I’m excited are you excited!?!?!?

The Upcoming API Features

hey look I made a real art

We plan on releasing the above API features in the following order:

  • Outgoing webhooks and incoming webhooks.
  • Slash commands with autocomplete.
  • Granular OAuth.
  • Built-In Integrations.

The Dirty Secret of Airhorn Bot

On April 1st, we announced the revolution in communication: Airhorn Solutions.

Since the launch we’ve had more than 500,000 airhorns bellowing amongst Discord servers.

Why would we unleash such a creation upon the world? Chaos? Calamity?

Sanctuary?

What is the secret of airhorn bot?

Well, dear time traveller, the airhorn bot’s secret is that it’s an open-sourced bot built with our initial release of API tools.

You can check out the source code on our Github page. Please enjoy safely and use ear protection.

We look forward to seeing what kinds of bots make their ways onto Discord. If you’re looking to chat and hang with other devs working on Discord bots, check out the unofficial Discord API Server.

We look forward to seeing what is made with these tools… and we may even have something competitive in the future. That, my friends, is the real secret here.

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