---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "discordbot"
kind: "link_preview"
operator: "Discord"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "medium"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/discordbot.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/discordbot/"
---

# Discordbot

> Discord's fetcher that visits a link shared in a Discord message to grab title, description and image for an embed; it does not crawl on its own.

## Dossier

- Kind: Link previewers
- Operator: Discord (https://discord.com/)
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: Discordbot
- Feeds: link preview
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. Official Discord support article exists but returned 403 to our fetch; third-party sources disagree on robots.txt.
- Verification: Unknown
- Labels matched in our logs: discordbot

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

A New Runtime link was shared in a Discord server; often AI/dev communities.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 18 requests on 2 days; first seen 2026-09-11, last seen 2026-09-14; Dormant.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://knownagents.com/agents/discordbot

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md