Discord vs TikTok

Discord's REST and Gateway APIs let bots and apps manage servers, channels, messages, and slash commands, authenticated with a bot token for server-side integrations or OAuth2 for user-facing flows like account linking. Rate limits are enforced per route and per bucket, and most guild-management scopes only work once the bot has been added to a server with matching OAuth2 permission scopes.

TikTok for Developers bundles several OAuth-based kits under one app registration — Login Kit for authentication, Display API for a user's own public videos, and Content Posting API for publishing on their behalf — all issued through open.tiktokapis.com. More sensitive scopes require TikTok's app review before going live, and a separate Research API exists for qualified academics to query public data.