Make bot appear online

[filips123]

Is it possible to make a bot always (when FastAPI server is working) appear online? Or is this the limitation of using webhook-based bots?

I created an example bot and it responds to commands corerectly, but it appears as offline in members list.

[mrshmllow]

A user/bot will only show online when there is a active gateway connection.

If you really need that, my personal solution is you could use a always-free server tier to hold a gateway connection (Just use discord.py), and use something like cloud run for your interactions.

[EthanC]

discord/discord-api-docs#3581 looks to resolve this in the future. But for now, I believe this is outside the scope of this library.