Nextcord
A modern, easy-to-use, feature-rich, and async-ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Fork notice
This is a fork of discord.py, which unfortunately has been officially discontinued <https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1/>
_ on 28th August 2021.
Nextcord will try to replace discord.py, with continued support and features, to still offer former discord.py users a stable API wrapper for their bots.
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 nextcord
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U nextcord
Otherwise to get voice support you should run the following command:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U "nextcord[voice]"
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U nextcord[voice]
To install additional packages for speedup, run the following command:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U "nextcord[speed]"
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U nextcord[speed]
To install the development version, do the following:
.. code:: sh
$ git clone https://github.com/nextcord/nextcord/
$ cd nextcord
$ 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
from nextcord.ext import commands
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='$')
@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
await ctx.reply('Pong!')
bot.run('token')
You can find more examples in the examples directory.
**NOTE:** It is not advised to leave your token directly in your code, as it allows anyone with it to access your bot. If you intend to make your code public you should `store it securely <https://github.com/nextcord/nextcord/blob/master/examples/secure_token_storage.py/>`_.