pycord
A fork of discord.py. PyCord is a modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Key Features
- Modern Pythonic API using
async
andawait
. - 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:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U py-cord
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U py-cord
Otherwise to get voice support you should run the following command:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U "py-cord[voice]"
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U py-cord[voice]
To install the development version, do the following:
.. code:: sh
$ git clone https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord
$ cd pycord
$ python3 -m pip install -U .[voice]
Optional Packages
* `PyNaCl <https://pypi.org/project/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
--------------
.. code:: py
import discord
class MyClient(discord.Client):
async def on_ready(self):
print("Logged on as", self.user)
async def on_message(self, 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code:: py
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=">")
@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
await ctx.send("pong")
bot.run("token")
You can find more examples in the examples directory.