ListeningKitPlatformsDiscord
Discord: the clients GitHub has, and how much of what we found each one already does
The 7 user-account Discord clients the GitHub search turned up (githubSearch.md) were shallow-cloned on 2026-10-28 into ~/.buzz/REPOS/discordClients/, not committed. Each was searched for the 66 things our inspect runs found (README.md, background/*.md), in four areas, by ~/.buzz/RESEARCH/DISCORD_CLIENT_VENDOR_MATRIX/coverage.py (raw: coverage.json). The gaps the pattern search reported for the leading clients were then checked by hand.
The count
| Client | Language | Watch (18) | Read and send (8) | Sign in (6) | Background calls (34) | All (66) | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merubokkusu/Discord-S.C.U.M | Python | 17 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 37 | 2024-03-25 |
| chojs23/concord | Rust | 16 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 33 | 2026-10-23 |
| sparklost/endcord | Python | 18 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 2026-10-28 |
| HuyaneMatsu/hata | Python | 17 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 2026-10-21 |
| DiscordMessenger/dm | C++ | 15 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 2026-10-03 |
| uowuo/abaddon | C++ | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 2026-09-09 |
| Badim41/DiscordUserAPI | Python | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2026-10-20 |
Corrected by hand from the pattern search: Discord-S.C.U.M reads history (discum/messages/messages.py getMessages, ?limit=&before=), and endcord resumes the socket (endcord/gateway.py resume(), resume_gateway_url) and reads the DM list from READY's private_channels.
What each of the three Python ones has and lacks
| Discord-S.C.U.M | endcord | hata | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gateway, zlib-stream, identify, heartbeat, resume, READY | yes | yes | yes |
MESSAGE_CREATE, TYPING_START, MESSAGE_REACTION_ADD, MESSAGE_ACK | yes | yes | yes |
PASSIVE_UPDATE_V2 | no | yes | no |
SESSIONS_REPLACE | yes | yes | yes |
History (before + limit) | yes | yes | yes |
Send (nonce), ack, typing, profile | yes | yes | yes |
mobile_network_type on a send | no | no | no |
auth/login, captcha | yes | yes | no (a bot library) |
mfa/totp | yes | no | no |
settings-proto | no | yes | no |
| Shape | a library (discum) | a terminal app; endcord/gateway.py, discord.py, auth.py are its client | a bot library |
| Transport | requests, websocket-client 0.59 | websocket-client | aiohttp |
| Size | 78 code files | 53 code files | 1362 code files |
Where it leaves us
- The watch (one gateway socket, every
MESSAGE_CREATEto someone else) is done in Discord-S.C.U.M, endcord and hata alike. endcord is the only one withPASSIVE_UPDATE_V2and is kept up to date (pushed the day we searched); Discord-S.C.U.M hasn't been pushed since March 2024. - Read and send (history paging, a send with a
nonce, ack, typing) are in all three Python ones. None sendsmobile_network_type, which the web client does. - Sign-in is in Discord-S.C.U.M and endcord; only Discord-S.C.U.M does two-step. Our account is signed in by matt in the browser, so the client would carry the token from the account's session.
- The background calls (experiments, quests, billing, science…) are mostly the web client's own; no client does many of them, and nothing we do depends on them.
- concord (Rust) covers about as much as the Python ones, and is the one to read when the web client's exact headers matter.