API Feature Request: Allow fetching channel info for a webhook without a bot user in the guild.

[queer]

Suppose I have an application without a bot user that uses webhooks to send messages to channels. I can use the webhook.incoming scope to let users create webhooks on channels, but I can't subsequently fetch information about the channel to display in some kind of a UI.

This could be worked around by doing something like letting users set a custom name in my application for a webhook, but this feels like a suboptimal solution (ex. channel / server names could change later and a "nickname" set in my application may become out of date). This could also be worked around by making a bot user for the application, but this adds extra steps for a user to use the application, and not all users want to add yet another bot to their guild.

From reading the docs, my understanding is that

• the webhook info routes will never return a channel object, just a channel ID
• the partial guilds in /users/@me/guilds will never contain channel objects
• channel info can't be fetched with a bearer token

so it would be very useful to have another method of getting a channel object for a webhook without needing a bot.

[queer]

Bump, just wondering if there's any updates on this because it's something I'd still love to have available without needing a bot user.

[jhgg]

Currently no plans for this - access to channel information goes beyond the scope of what a webhook should ever see.

[queer]

Would it be possible to get this information as part of the webhook.incoming scope when creating a webhook? I do get that this might not be appropriate to return this information without a bot user, it would just be convenient.