Why fork discord.py?

The development of discord.py library has been ceased by its core (and sole) maintainer - Danny. Please read Danny’s gist for the full write-up on how we got to this point. Thank you, Danny. Thank you for all the amazing work you’ve done for this community.

Key Features

• Modern Pythonic API using async and await.

• Proper rate limit handling.

• 100% coverage of the supported Discord API.

• Optimised in both speed and memory.

Installing

Python 3.5.3 or higher is required

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

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U redcord.py

# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U redcord.py

Otherwise to get voice support you should run the following command:

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U "redcord.py[voice]"

# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U redcord.py[voice]

To install the development version, do the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/Cog-Creators/redcord.py
$ cd redcord.py
$ python3 -m pip install -U .[voice]

Quick Example

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')

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')

Links

• Documentation

• Official Discord Server

• Discord API