# Public API

> A REST interface a bot vendor exposes so third parties can read and write its data. Rare among Discord bots — most expose nothing, and several that do bind a token to one guild.

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/public-api
- Group: Development
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/webhook, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/vito, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/custom-bot
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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The questions that decide whether a published API is usable: whether the rate limit is
documented before you hit it, whether the token is scoped or guild-bound, whether there is a
client library, and whether writes are supported or it is read-only.

**Vetox** publishes a documented REST API of 494 paths with a released npm SDK
(`@vetox-bot/vito`) and webhook signature verification.