Discord linked roles

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I am setting up a Ghost website with a paid membership, and I want to grant paid members an exclusive role on my Discord server. Discord has a new featured called Linked Roles that allows members to authenticate with third-party credentials to gain special roles on Discord. For example: connect a Twitter account with at least 1,000 followers > get a special role on Discord.

This is the flow members go through to gain a linked role:

  • Login to Discord
  • Go to the specified server and open the Linked Roles menu
  • Choose the role you want
  • Authenticate with your third-party credentials
  • Discord verifies you meet the criteria and grants the role

I am looking into building a Ghost integration that is hosted on Cloudflare Workers, but I am a novice when it comes to OAuth2 and authentication in general. Does anyone have advice on how I should approach this? Is it even feasible currently?

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This would be a great feature to have natively. I’m hoping to offer a similar thing to members.

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Yes, please build it.

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I decided to abandon the Linked Roles approach and instead built my own integration inside a Discord bot. When a new member subscribes on the website, the welcome page gives them instructions for joining the Discord server and claiming their role with a simple command.

So far this has worked well. If there is enough demand for this feature, I will look into making the integration widely available.

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Any links that can help me research how to do this myself? It is my stopgap on my company moving forward right now.

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You’re missing the Oauth flow.

But you can do this with ghost “out of the box” – except you need a separate cloud function, lambda, etc.

This uses the linked roles feature: