Control Discord Bot with Natural Language via MCP Server — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity⚡ Trigger10 nodes💎 Other👁 571 viewsby David Ashby

Overview

What it is- I wanted to create a simple, easy-to-use, MCP server for your Discord bot(s).

How to set up- Literally all you do is select your bot auth (or crease a new Discord Bot auth if you havn't entered your key in n8n before) and that's IT!

How to use it- You can now ask your bot to do things via any MCP client, including from within N8N workflows!

Note: If you need an example, you can check out my simple quickstart Discord MCP Server that uses 4o to send messages to channels on your serv

Nodes used

Send DM to UserDiscord MCP Server TriggerGet Discord Server IDsSticky Note5

Workflow Preview

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Once we have the server ID of the server we w
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Send Discord Message to …
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Add Role To Member
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Remove Role from member
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Discord MCP Server Trigger
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Get channels of server b…
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Get members of server by…
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Send DM and Wait for reply
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Send to Channel and Wait…
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Send DM to User
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Get Discord Server IDs
10 nodes9 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a trigger trigger.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 10 nodes, connecting discordtool, httprequesttool, mcptrigger.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (10)

SE

Send DM to User

discordTool

#1
DI

Discord MCP Server Trigger

n8n-nodes-langchain.mcpTrigger

#2
GE

Get Discord Server IDs

httpRequestTool

#3
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Sticky Note5

stickyNote

#4

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded control-discord-bot-with-natural-language-via-mcp-server file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Control Discord Bot with Natural Language via MCP Server", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

discordtoolhttprequesttoolmcptrigger

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Nodes10
Complexitymedium
Triggertrigger
Views571
CategoryOther

Created by

David Ashby

David Ashby

@cfomodz

Tags

discordtoolhttprequesttoolmcptrigger
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