Discord Community Digest Generator

Generate daily or weekly Discord community digests from servers you own or manage.

This Actor turns recent Discord channel activity into CSV/API-friendly rows and a ready-to-copy markdown digest. It is built for community managers, server owners, moderators, creators, support teams, and product communities.

What it generates

The Actor scans selected Discord channels and reports:

• total messages scanned
• active channels
• unique authors
• most active channels
• most active authors
• links shared
• open-looking questions
• attachment counts
• optional message samples
• a markdown digest summary

This v1 uses deterministic heuristics. It does not call an LLM by default, so cost and behavior are predictable.

Important permission note

This Actor is for Discord servers you own or manage. It requires your own Discord bot token and only accesses channels your bot has permission to read.

It does not bypass Discord permissions, use user tokens, scrape private servers, or extract members from servers you do not control.

For message content, your Discord bot may need the Message Content Intent enabled in the Discord Developer Portal and the right channel permissions.

Input

{
  "botToken": "YOUR_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN",
  "guildId": "123456789012345678",
  "channelIds": ["234567890123456789"],
  "hoursBack": 24,
  "maxMessagesPerChannel": 500,
  "includeMessageSamples": false,
  "includeMarkdownDigest": true,
  "topLimit": 10
}

Input fields

• botToken — Discord bot token. Store this as a secret.
• guildId — Discord server ID.
• channelIds — optional text/thread/announcement channel IDs. If omitted, the Actor scans visible text and announcement channels.
• hoursBack — time window, 1 to 168 hours.
• maxMessagesPerChannel — per-channel scan cap.
• includeMessageSamples — include short snippets in output. Disabled by default for privacy.
• includeMarkdownDigest — write a ready-to-copy markdown digest row.
• topLimit — number of top links/questions/authors to include.

Output

Dataset row types:

• summary
• channel_activity
• active_author
• link
• question
• markdown_digest
• channel_error

Example markdown digest row:

{
  "recordType": "markdown_digest",
  "guildId": "123456789012345678",
  "markdownDigest": "# Discord community digest\n..."
}

Common uses

• create daily or weekly Discord recaps
• find active channels and dead channels
• collect links shared by the community
• surface unanswered-looking questions
• prepare moderator/community manager reports
• export community activity to Sheets, Notion, Airtable, or a warehouse