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Get started with discord.py!
[](url)Discord.py is a very fantastic API. It helps us in creating Discord bots easily. People have made game bots, RPG bots, Moderation Bots, Economy bots, and even more! Using this guide, you can learn how to use it.Make sure you have python installed on your computer. You have to install discord.py with
pip install discord.pyvoilà! discord.py has been installed!
For making bots you'll need to have a developer account. You can check this guide!
When starting you have to choose weather to use
discord.Client or commands.Bot.discord.Client:• Is more lightweight than commands.Bot
• Is best if you're not going to be using commands
commands.Bot:• Is best if your bot is going to have commands
• Supports easy discord object conversion
In this series we will make a bot with
commands.Bot.We have to start by importing
discord and discord.ext.commandsimport discord
from discord.ext import commands
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="$")
bot.run('YOUR TOKEN HERE')We initialized a class as an object. We defined this class to the variable bot, which can be named whatever you want. Most people use
bot or client.Now when our bot is defined, we can start with our first command. In discord.py we make commands like this:
@bot.command(name='command_name', description="description for help command")
async def command(ctx, other_arguments_here):
# Tell bot what to do hereLet's make a command which will greet the user with a hello. We'll use
ctx.author for doing this:@bot.command(name='Hello', description="Greets the sender")
async def hello(ctx):
await ctx.reply(f"Hello {ctx.author.name}!")
# f-stringNow, when we greet the user, it will say Hello USER!
Congrats!! You've just written a bot using discord.py! Run the code. When you'll type
Source Code:
$hello it should respond!Source Code:
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