(based upon https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/wiki/Creating-a-discord-bot-&-getting-a-token)

First, you need to go here and click "New Application".

Now give your bot a name.

Click "Create". On the next screen, you can optionally set an Avatar Icon for your app and description.

Next, click on Bot on the left-hand menu

hen click "Add Bot"

Click "Yes Do It"

On the Bot screen you will generate your token. Click "Reset Token" and "Yes, Do It!" a second time.

Then you can click "Copy" to put the token it in your clipboard. Keep this for your matterbridge config file.

Here, you can also toggle if the bot is public, which will allow others to invite to their servers. This is off by default and will not do anything unless the matterbridge configuration file lists the servers it has been invited to, so you should just leave this off.

Make sure to also toggle the "Server Members Intent" and "Message Content Intent" options further down under "Privileged Gateway Intents" to allow the bot to see the member list, otherwise you'll get an error message similar to Error obtaining server members: HTTP 403 Forbidden, {"message": "Missing Access", "code": 50001}.

Click "Save Changes"

Now it's time to invite your bot to your server. Don't worry about your bot being started for this next step. You can get this under OAuth2 → General

Copy the client ID into this URL and go to it

https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID_HERE&scope=bot&permissions=536870912

The weird number (536870912 = 0x20000000) corresponds to the "Manage Webhooks" permission. If you don't want to use AutoWebhooks=true, then you can use 0 instead, but you will need to configure the necessary webhooks manually.

It will prompt you to select your server

and then Authorize it

Solve CAPTCHA if necessary

Then you should see

You can confirm the bot is added by looking in your #general channel for "A wild [bot name] appeared!" or "Welcome [bot name]. We hope you brought pizza." or some other pithy welcome message, and checking under Your Guild > Settings > Integrations > Bots and Apps.

For each channel you want to bridge, you need to make sure the bot user is a member.

The bot should be in all public channels in your server by default, but for private channels you must either make sure to give it an appropriate Role, or to directly add it under Edit Channel > Permissions > Roles/Members

It needs to have View and Send permissions

If you have trouble with this, open an issue and we can improve these docs.

Take the bot's token (the token, not the client ID) and add it to your matterbridge config like so:

[discord.yourbridgeid]
Token="NzY1OTgwMjA2Nzc4Mjg2MTIx.Gpz4tE.HOslqKftF2_bm2y_bIaaACyy3_vLBmbevl02JQ"
# ....

Then set up your individual bridges.