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WhatALaunch

Discord Bot

Bring Steam price digests, sales highlights, patch notes, blog posts, and followed-game alerts into your Discord server. Setup stays in Discord with slash commands. No WhatALaunch login is required to invite the bot.

What it does

  • Periodic digests for Price Changes and Sales & Deals.
  • Optional digests for Patch Notes and new Blog posts.
  • Server-wide game follows via /follow for price, patch, and sale alerts on titles your community cares about.

Setup

  1. Click Add to Discord and select a server where you have Manage Server permission.
  2. Run /setup channel:#your-channel so the bot knows where to post.
  3. Enable the digests you want with /notify (for example /notify type:price state:on).
  4. Optionally follow specific games with /follow.
  5. Confirm everything with /status.

Command reference

All configuration and follow commands require the Manage Server permission in Discord.

CommandDescription
/setupSet the default channel for notifications. Required before digests or follow alerts can post.
/notifyTurn price, sales, patches, or blog digests on or off for this server.
/channelRoute a notification type to a specific channel, or reset it to the default.
/followFollow a Steam game so this server gets alerts for price changes, patch notes, and sales on that title.
/unfollowStop following a game.
/followingList games this server is following.
/statusShow toggles, channel routing, follow count, and digest readiness.
/helpShort command list and a link back to this guide.

Permissions

The invite requests View Channels, Send Messages, Embed Links, Read Message History, and Use Application Commands. The bot does not need Message Content Intent. Keep its role high enough to post in the channels you select.

Privacy

For each installed server we store the guild id, chosen channel ids, notification toggles, delivery cursors, and the list of followed game ids. We do not read message content. See the Privacy Policy for site-wide practices. Personal Discord webhook alerts on your WhatALaunch account remain separate from this bot.

Guide URL: whatalaunch.com/discord