Discord Birthday Bot: Auto Messages & Birthday Role (Free)

A Discord birthday bot does two jobs: it lets members save their birthday, and it celebrates them on the right day — a message in your general channel, an @mention, and a special birthday role that lasts 24 hours. In Noria you build both halves as visual workflows on your own Discord bot, no code required.

The design is simple: members submit their birthday through a form, the date is stored, and a daily scheduled workflow checks "whose birthday is it today?" and celebrates.

Workflow 1: let members submit their birthday#

This workflow posts a button, opens a form when it is clicked, and saves the answer.

Step 1 — post the birthday button#

1. Add a Manual Trigger and connect a Discord action set to Send Message.
2. Write something like: Click the button below to register your birthday 🎂
3. In Buttons & menus, add a button labelled Set my birthday with the custom ID set_birthday.
4. Run the workflow once so the message appears in your #birthdays channel. This is a one-time setup post.

Step 2 — open a form on click#

Add a Discord — Button Click trigger:

• Button ID Filter: set_birthday
• Open a form (modal) on click: build a form with two short fields —
  • Month (2 digits, e.g. 07) with custom ID month
  • Day (2 digits, e.g. 09) with custom ID day
• Give the form a custom ID like birthday_form.

Asking for two digits matters: the daily workflow will look dates up as 07-09, so 7 and 07 would not match.

Step 3 — save the submission#

Add a Discord — Modal Submitted trigger with the Modal ID filter birthday_form. Each form field arrives as its own variable, so the answers are {{field_month}} and {{field_day}}.

Connect a Remember Data node:

• Operation: Append unique — add to a list field
• Record key: birthdays:{{field_month}}-{{field_day}}
• Field: users
• Value: {{user_id}}

This keeps one record per calendar date, each holding the list of members born that day. "Append unique" means clicking twice never adds someone twice.

Finish with a Discord action set to Reply to Slash Command (it answers any interaction, including form submissions) with Ephemeral enabled: Saved! We'll celebrate you on {{field_month}}/{{field_day}} 🎂. Only the member sees the confirmation.

One honest limitation: if someone re-submits a different date, they stay in the old date's list too. For most servers that is rare enough to fix by hand; if you want it airtight, also store each member's last submission in a per-user Remember Data record and remove them from the old list first.

Workflow 2: the daily birthday check#

This is a separate workflow with a Schedule trigger — see scheduled automation for how cron schedules work.

1. Schedule trigger — cron 0 9 * * *, timezone set to yours. It fires every day at 09:00.
2. Date node — operation Format, Date {{timestamp}}, format MM-DD. The result {{result}} is today's date as 07-09.
3. Remember Data — operation Get field, key birthdays:{{result}}, field users. This reads today's birthday list into {{value}}, and {{exists}} tells you whether anyone registered this date.
4. If / Else — continue only when {{exists}} is true, so quiet days end silently.
5. For Each / Repeat — loop over {{value}}. Inside the loop, {{loop.item}} is one member's user ID.
6. Inside the loop, add two Discord actions:
   • Send Message: Happy birthday <@{{loop.item}}>! 🎉 Everyone wish them a great day!
   • Add Role: pick your 🎂 Birthday role and set User to {{loop.item}}.

Want a fancier announcement? Turn the message into a card with these Discord embed examples.

Remove the birthday role the next day#

Add a second branch from the same Schedule trigger:

1. Date node — operation Subtract, amount 1, unit Days.
2. A second Date node — operation Format, Date set to the previous node's result, format MM-DD.
3. Remember Data — Get field on birthdays: + yesterday's date.
4. For Each / Repeat over the list, with a Remove Role action inside.

The role now exists for exactly one day per member.

Tips that save you a support ticket#

• Role position: your bot's own role must sit above the birthday role in Server Settings, or Discord refuses the role change.
• Test before waiting a day: temporarily swap the Schedule trigger for a Manual Trigger, or register your own birthday as today's date, then run it. The testing guide shows how to inspect each node's output.
• Timezones: set the Schedule timezone explicitly. 0 9 * * * in UTC is not 9am in most places.
• How storage works: Remember Data persists across runs — the same pattern powers leaderboards and giveaways. More in working with data.

Start celebrating birthdays automatically#

Two workflows, zero code, and it runs on your bot with your name and avatar — free during the beta.

• Start building free
• New to the editor? Build your first workflow first.
• Want more scheduled posts? The Scheduled Weekly Digest template uses the same daily-trigger pattern.