Bots using /crosspost and /followers endpoint

[bsian03]

A couple days ago I was experimenting with statuspage's webhook function, sending a status update to Discord via glitch. As part of this, I was checking if messages (including webhooks) could be published by bots so we don't have to do it ourselves
Now the thing is, I don't see any documentation about the /crosspost endpoint despite it working, I only found #1161 and unless I'm misunderstanding it, it seems like bots using the endpoint aren't supported?

Obviously restricting the endpoint isn't ideal for my usecase, and there would be so many use cases for bots to be able to use this function, I won't get into too much detail here

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Ok so after having a chat on the discord dev server, someone pointed me to Jake's message from 4 days ago saying bots cannot yet publish messages. The next day I was able to when I was experimenting as said above. So surely bots using the endpoint is supported?

I'll be happy to create a PR to document this if this is the case

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EDIT
/channels/id/followers is also on the list, see this comment

[night]

The team did expose this to bots, but I do not believe it's documented. cc @jonzlin95 for context

[jonzlin95]

The endpoint is now accessible to bots, but there’s a few things that don’t fully conform to our bot API standards which I need to fix up before I’d b be comfortable documenting it. It won’t be going away or changing externally, just something I haven’t had the time to get around to yet

[Doc94]

Wait then the endpoint can be used by bots?

Edit: i see now work... then only wait for docs xd

[SinisterRectus]

Looks like bots can POST /channels/id/followers as well.

[vladfrangu]

I don't know if this is related to this issue (but it is about announcement channels), but why can't bots access the follower-stats endpoint? 👀

[bsian03]

@SinisterRectus what that do?

[kevinbioj]

@SinisterRectus what that do?

This endpoint is used by the client when you push the "Follow" button in announcement channels. Basically it creates a webhook in whatever channel you want that will broadcast announcements from the source channel.
POST /channels/{id}/followers with a body containing an object with a webhook_channel_id property set to the ID of the target channel
You need the Manage Webhooks in the target channel to perform this