🎯 Discord Live Members Count Badge

Add beautiful, real-time Discord member count badges to your GitHub README.

✨ Features

• 🔄 Real-time Updates - Live member count with smart caching (5-minute intervals)

• 👥 Multiple Badge Types - Total members, human-only, or bot-only counts

• 🛡️ Safe & Secure - Uses Discord API's `with_counts=true` for public access

• ⚡ Serverless Ready - Deploy to Vercel, Railway, Render, or any platform

• 🎨 Fully Customizable - Custom colors, labels, and scaling options

• 📱 Mobile Responsive - Optimized playground interface for all devices

• 📦 Zero Config - Just add your bot and start using

🚀 Quick Start

1. Add Bot to Your Server

First, invite our bot to your Discord server:

🤖 Add Bot to Server

2. Enable Server Widget

1. Go to your Discord server

2. Navigate to Server Settings → Engagement

3. Enable Server Widget

4. Copy your Server ID

Or follow this documentation

3. Use the Badges

Replace YOUR_GUILD_ID with your actual Discord server ID:

1. All members

   [](https://discord.gg/your-invite)

2. Bot members only

   [](https://discord.gg/your-invite)

3. Total members (users + bots)

   [](https://discord.gg/your-invite)

🎨 Customization Options

All endpoints support optional parameters for full customization:

Available Parameters

• color (optional) - Hex color without # (default: 5865F2)

• label (optional) - Custom text label (default: varies by endpoint)

• scale (optional) - Size multiplier from 0.5 to 10.0 (default: 1)

Example:
<!-- Purple total with community branding -->

[](https://discord.gg/your-invite)

🎬 Project Showcase

📽️ YouTube Demo: https://youtu.be/jSLE3u_2vag

📝 Blog Post: https://dev.to/rohan_sharma/heres-how-i-created-a-real-time-discord-badge-for-github-readme-4adg


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