Creating a bot account

To use Red you will require a bot account and to enable privileged intents. Both these steps will be covered below.

Creating the bot application

In order to use Red, we must first create a Discord Bot account.

Creating a Bot account is a pretty straightforward process.

  1. Make sure you’re logged on to the Discord website.

  2. Navigate to the application page

  3. Click on the “New Application” button.

    The new application button.

  4. Give the application a name, check the box to accept the Terms of Service, and click “Create”.

    The new application form filled in.

  5. Open the “Overview” category and navigate to the “Installation” tab on the left side of the screen.

    The installation tab in the application page.

  6. Uncheck “User Install” and set “Install Link” to “None”

    How the Installation options should look like for most people.

  7. Navigate to the “Bot” tab on the left side of the screen.

    The bot tab in the application page.

  8. If you want others to be able to invite your bot tick the Public Bot. Keeping it unticked will prevent others from inviting your bot to their servers and only you will be able to add the bot to servers (provided that you have needed permissions in the server you want to add the bot to).

    • Make sure Require OAuth2 Code Grant is unchecked.

    How the Bot User options should look like for most people.

  9. Acquire the token using the “Reset Token” button, then “Copy” after it is revealed.

    Warning

    Do not share your token as it is like your password. If you shared your token you can regenerate it.

Continue to the next section to enable privileged intents.

Enabling Privileged Intents

Warning

Red Bot requires all intents. This section is required.

  1. Make sure you’re logged on to the Discord website.

  2. Navigate to the application page

  3. Click on the bot you want to enable privileged intents for.

  4. Navigate to the bot tab on the left side of the screen.

    The bot tab in the application overview page.

  5. Scroll down to the “Privileged Gateway Intents” section, enable all three privileged intents and save your changes.

    The privileged gateway intents selector.

Warning

Red bots with over 100 servers require bot verification which is not covered in this guide. Remember that we do not support public bots. We encourage you to read that page before scaling up your bot.

Parts of this guide have been adapted from discord.py intro and discord.py privileged intents.