API Support for Approving “Apply to Join” Membership Applications

[enovuh]

Hello Discord API Team,

I wanted to suggest an update to the Apply-to-Join system. Right now, when someone applies to join a server, they don’t show up as a guild member until an admin manually approves them. Because of that, bots can’t fetch the user, can’t receive a member add event, and can’t interact with their application at all. This makes it impossible for bots to help with screening or automating any part of the approval process.

It would be really helpful if bots had a way to see pending applications, read the answers users submitted, and approve or deny them through the API. Many communities rely on bots for moderation, onboarding, and verification, and this would make the Apply-to-Join feature much easier to integrate into those workflows.