discord.py

Version: 2.1.0

Minimum python version: 3.8

A modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python.

This is a fork of discord.py

Please read the gist for why the original was discontinued.

A list of changes made to the fork from the original are in the changelog.

Application commands are documented in application_commands.md.

This fork is not being worked on anymore

In light of discord.py resuming development, this fork will not be worked on anymore.

Key Features

• Modern Pythonic API using async and await.
• Proper rate limit handling.
• Optimised in both speed and memory.

Installing

Python 3.8 or higher is required

To install the library without full voice support, you can just run the following command:

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/StockerMC/discord.py_fork

# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/StockerMC/discord.py_fork

Otherwise to get voice support you should run the following command:

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U "git+https://github.com/StockerMC/discord.py_fork[voice]"

# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/StockerMC/discord.py_fork[voice]

To install the development version, do the following:

$ git clone git+https://github.com/StockerMC/discord.py_fork
$ cd discord.py
$ python3 -m pip install -U .[voice]

Optional Packages

• PyNaCl (for voice support)

Please note that on Linux installing voice you must install the following packages via your favourite package manager (e.g. apt, dnf, etc) before running the above commands:

• libffi-dev (or libffi-devel on some systems)
• python-dev (e.g. python3.6-dev for Python 3.6)

Quick Example

import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})')
        print('------')

    async def on_message(self, message: discord.Message):
        # don't respond to ourselves
        if message.author == self.user:
            return

        if message.content == 'ping':
            await message.channel.send('pong')

client = MyClient()
client.run('token')

Bot Example

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>')

@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx: commands.Context):
    await ctx.send('pong')

bot.run('token')

Slash Command Example

import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})')
        print('------')

client = MyClient()

# setting `guild_ids` in development is better when possible because
# registering global commands has a 1 hour delay
@client.application_command
class Avatar(discord.SlashCommand, guild_ids=[123]):
    """Get information about yourself or the provided user."""

    # the `required` kwarg keyword argument can also be set to `False`
    # instead of typehinting the argument as optional
    user: typing.Optional[discord.User] = discord.application_command_option(
        description='The user to get information about.',
        # the default callback can also be a coroutine function
        default=lambda response: response.user,
    )

    async def callback(self, response: discord.SlashCommandResponse):
        avatar = response.options.user.display_avatar.url
        await response.interaction.response.send_message(avatar, ephemeral=True)

client.run('token')

You can find more examples in the examples directory.

Links

• Official Discord Server