discord.py

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

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🚀 Key Features

• Modern Pythonic API using async and await.
• Proper rate limit handling to keep your bot running smoothly.
• Optimised in both speed and memory.
• Feature-rich support for the latest Discord API features.

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📁 Project Structure

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├── discord/             # Core discord.py library source
├── SKILLS/              # Skill definition for AI assistants
│   └── custom-readme-generator/ 
├── images/              # Project visual resources
├── sounds/              # Audio resources for the bot
├── main.py              # Main entry point for the bot
├── pyproject.toml       # Project configuration and dependencies
├── requirements.txt     # Python dependencies
└── README.md            # This documentation

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📦 Installation

Python 3.8 or higher is required.

It is recommended to use a virtual environment.

# Basic installation
pip install -U discord.py

# With voice support
pip install -U "discord.py[voice]"

Development Version

git clone https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py
cd discord.py
pip install -U .[voice]

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💻 Quick Example

import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print(f'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')

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

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

🤖 Bot Example (using commands extension)

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>', intents=intents)

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

bot.run('token')

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🔗 Links

• 📚 Documentation
• 💬 Official Discord Server
• 🔌 Discord API

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Made with ❤️ for the Discord community