Get started with discord.py!

Tejas Kathuria — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:39:12 +0000

[](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.

Install discord.py

Make sure you have python installed on your computer. You have to install discord.py with

pip install discord.py

voilà! discord.py has been installed!

For making bots you'll need to have a developer account. You can check this guide!

Basics of developing a bot

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.commands

import 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 here

Let'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-string

Now, 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 $hello it should respond!

Source Code:

Adding Discord Bot Status with Python

Tejas Kathuria — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:46:11 +0000

About Rich Presence

We all have seen a custom status on a discord bot like 'playing a game' or 'watching a movie', that is known as 'Rich Presence'. We have to enter some lines of code to add a custom rich presence in a Discord Bot. This Post will help you to add a custom rich presence in your discord bot.

How to add it?

To add this, import discord and commands. The client object for the bot has a method change_presence. This is used to change the status of your bot!

• For Playing: Use discord.game() for adding playing status. Add the name of the game to the name argument

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_ready():
await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.Online, activity=discord.game('a video game'))
print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

• For Streaming: Use discord.Streaming() for adding streaming status with a url argument

Note: Discord only supports streaming links for YouTube and Twitch. The url argument must be formatted as an actual URL. http://www.twitch.tv will work while www.twitch.tv will not. It won’t change the bot status at all.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
client = discord.Client

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    await client.change_presence(activity=discord.Streaming(name='a movie', url='https://www.twitch.tv/your_channel_here'))
print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

• For Watching: Use discord.Activity() with the type argument set to discord.ActivityType.watching for the watching status.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
client = discord.Client

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    await client.change_presence(activity=discord. Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.watching, name='A Movie'))
print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

• For Listening: Use discord.Activity() with the type argument set to discord.ActivityType.listening for the listening status.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
client = discord.Client

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    await client.change_presence(activity=discord. Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.listening, name='To Music'))
print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

Example code

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

# Change below's prefix with your prefix

client = commands.Bot(command.prefix = 'ENTER YOUR PREFIX')

@client.event
async def on_ready():
await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.Online, activity=discord.game('a video game'))

# You can change the current status above
client.run('Your Bot Token')