diskord's Introduction

Diskord

^{This library is a maintained fork of now archived library, discord.py.}

A modern and easy to use API wrapper around Discord API written in Python.

Features

Modern, Pythonic API based on async / await
Consistent, object oriented & easy to use interface
Provides full coverage of Discord API
Proper and sane ratelimit handling
Optimized in both speed and memory
Extensions support & prebuilt powerful commands handler

Installation

Python 3.8 or higher is required to install this library.

Basic Installation

To install the library without full voice support, you can just run the following command:

python -m pip install diskord

Voice Support

Optionally, To interact with discord's voice API, You would require voice support of this library which you can install like so:

python -m pip install diskord[voice]

Development Version

You must have git installed to install development version. Otherwise, you can download the code.

$ git clone https://github.com/diskord-dev/diskord
$ cd diskord
$ python -m pip install -U .[voice]

or in short;

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/diskord-dev/diskord.git

Quick Example

Here are some quick examples to give you a quickstart and show off the basic features of the library.

Application (Slash) Commands

import diskord

client = diskord.Client()

@client.slash_command(description='Ping-Pong!')
async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.respond('Pong!')

client.run('token')

Legacy (Prefixed) Commands

import diskord
from diskord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>')

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

bot.run('token')