Dec 2022
ChatGPT in Discord
One of the first publicly demonstrated ChatGPT integrations. I built it less than five days after ChatGPT launched.
- Built with
- Cloudflare Workers (with Workers KV and a scheduled refresh), Discord's interactions API, ChatGPT's private web API
ChatGPT came out on November 30, 2022. There was no API yet, but there was a website, and people were already wiring it into WhatsApp, Telegram and Twitter. On December 5, I posted this:
The demo above is that original 32-second clip. You type /talk with a message, and the bot answers in the channel. Under its answer is a Respond button, which opens a little form so you can keep the conversation going.
How it worked, with no API
There was no official API yet, so the first version simply borrowed my own login: I copied my ChatGPT session token and called the same internal API the website used.
Then, to make it work consistently, I kept the login alive with a refresh token: a scheduled worker refreshed it periodically and stored the fresh one in Workers KV, where the bot could always use the latest version.
Of course, a few months later, an official API was created and this method was patched, unfortunately.