Add REST endpoints for getting members in a voice channel and getting a member's voice state

[gomander]

I recently rewrote my bot from using a gateway connection to purely using Discord's REST API due to scalability and reliability problems once it passed ~90 thousand servers.

In doing so, I've had to drop one command that relied on getting the nick/global/usernames of people connected to a particular voice channel. My bot previously used gateway events to know who was in a voice channel, with the Presence Intent enabled.

My request is for the ability to get the guild members currently connected to a voice channel with a REST call, and to get the voice state of a specific member.

That way I could get the user from the interaction, then the voice channel from that user's voice state, and finally the members from that voice channel.

[vladfrangu]

#7061 implements half of this 🎉

[advaith1]

for getting members in a voice channel, what data specifically would people like/need on the members, and what are the use cases for that data?

[DMax-YT]

I think that array of VoiceState should be enough.

The only thing I find it useful for is level system based on time spent in voice channel. But it requires watching for join/leave events, constantly doing API request to check people in VC is a bad idea, and therefore doesn't need joined_at field.

[gomander]

For my use case, I just need to know who's there, nothing more detailed.
Specifically, my bot spins a wheel-of-fortune-esque wheel that selects a winner at random. So long as I can find each GuildMember's nickname/username, then that allows me to put all the users' preferred names on the wheel and choose one of them as the winner.

Others may have more detailed information, but this is what I would use it for.

[timsjoberg]

Echoing the other comments, who's in the channel is sufficient. Voice-states would be better, but that info can be fetched with the new voice-states api