API endpoint for adding/removing a role from multiple members at once

[scottbucher]

Large Bots, such as my own (Birthday Bot) often have to give or take a role the same role from a list of users quite often. Typically, this can be handled fine by the existing endpoints, however, as I've noticed with one of my servers (PewDiePie's server with 191k members), at 12am, my bot needs to give the "birthday role" from, on average 38 users, and take the role from another 38 whose birthday was yesterday. This can cause rate limits, and even when handled properly, cause the bot to take a while to complete these actions.

It would be much easier if there was a request where I could pass a role and a list of user ids to give/remove the role to/from.

[Droid00000]

There’s an endpoint for this, but they’ve blocked bots from using it

PATCH /guilds/{guild.id}/roles/{role.id}/members

[scottbucher]

Damn, is there any plan to open it up to bots? Or is it possible to open it up to large or specific bots that require it? Similar to privileged intents?

[KevinNovak]

I can understand discord wanting to keep that endpoint locked down, but I agree with @scottbucher that specific bots have legit use cases to apply roles in bulk, I could see this being something that bots can apply for

[Droid00000]

Damn, is there any plan to open it up to bots? Or is it possible to open it up to large or specific bots that require it? Similar to privileged intents?

Dunno. If they did ever make it useable, I doubt it would be locked behind an intent. The endpoint is already limited to adding 30 members atm