dhooks-lite

Contents

• Overview
• Functionality
• Examples
• Installation
• Documentation
• Contribution
• Change Log

Overview

dhooks-lite is a library with a set of classes for interacting with Discord webhooks written in Python 3.

This library aims to differentiate itself from similar libraries with the following properties:

• runs on any Python 3 version, including older version (e.g. 3.4, 3.5.2)
• is fully tested
• simple to use (only one way of doing things, same name of attributes and objects as in the official Discord documentation)
• has standard logging

Functionality

This library provides following functionality:

• Posting messages in Discord channels via webhooks (synchronous calls only)
• Attaching Embeds to messages
• Retrieve send reports and from Discord
• Retrieve HTTP status and headers from Discord, e.g. for implementing rate limit handling

Examples

Here are some examples on how to use dhooks-lite in your Python scripts.

Note that you also find the source code of all examples in the /examples folder of this repo.

Hello World

Minimal example for posting a message.

from dhooks_lite import Webhook

hook = Webhook(DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL)
hook.execute('Hello, World!')

Posting with custom avatar

In this example we are setting username and avatar.

from dhooks_lite import Webhook

hook = Webhook(
    DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL, 
    username='Bruce Wayne',
    avatar_url='https://i.imgur.com/thK8erv.png'
)
hook.execute('I am Batman!')

Complete example with embeds

Finally, here is an example for posting a message with two embeds and using all available features (shortened):

import datetime
from dhooks_lite import Webhook, Embed, Footer, Image, Thumbnail, Author, Field

hook = Webhook(DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL)
e1 = Embed(    
    description='Only a few years ago, scientists stumbled upon an electrical current of cosmic proportions.(...)',
    title='Universe\'s highest electric current found',
    url='https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174-900-universes-highest-electric-current-found/',
    timestamp=datetime.datetime.utcnow(),
    color=0x5CDBF0,    
    footer=Footer(
        'Science Department', 
        'https://i.imgur.com/Bgsv04h.png'
    ),    
    image=Image('https://i.imgur.com/eis1Y0P.jpg'),
    thumbnail=Thumbnail('https://i.imgur.com/2A4k28x.jpg'),
    author=Author(
        'John Scientist', 
        url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein',
        icon_url='https://i.imgur.com/1JoHDw1.png'
    ),    
    fields=[
        Field('1st Measurement', 'Failed'), 
        Field('2nd Measurement', 'Succeeded')
    ]
)
e2 = Embed(description="TOP SECRET - Do not distribute!")

hook.execute(
    'Checkout this new report from the science department:',
    username='Bruce Wayne',
    avatar_url='https://i.imgur.com/thK8erv.png', 
    embeds=[e1, e2], 
    wait_for_response=True
)

Installation

You can install this library directly from PyPI:

pip install dhooks-lite

Documentation

For a full documentation of all classes please see the official docs here.

Contribution

We welcome any contribution!

If you found a bug or have a feature request please raise an issue.

If you want to help further improve this library please feel free to issue a merge request. Please adhere to the following requirements in your change:

• Code should be compliant with PEP8
• Full overage by unit tests
• All classes should be immutable
• All classes and their public methods must have docstring documentation
• All changes must be documented in the Change Log