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Previously we created a copy of the object and did some strange iteration over the data and set the attributes that we thought were valid. This worked back then in v0.1.0 of the library when it was written, but it no longer works nowadays when we want to be as future proof as possible.
discord.py
discord.py is an API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
This was written to allow easier writing of bots or chat logs. Make sure to familiarise yourself with the API using the documentation.
Breaking Changes
The discord API is constantly changing and the wrapper API is as well. There will be no effort to keep backwards compatibility in versions before v1.0.0.
I recommend that you follow the discussion in the unofficial Discord API discord channel and update your installation periodically through pip install --upgrade discord.py. I will attempt to make note of breaking changes in the API channel.
Installing
Installing is pretty easy.
pip install discord.py
Will install the latest 'stable' version of the library.
If you want to install the development version of the library, then do the following:
pip install git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@develop
Installing the async beta is similar.
pip install git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@async
Note that this requires git to be installed.
Quick Example
import discord
import asyncio
client = discord.Client()
@client.event
async def on_ready():
print('Logged in as')
print(client.user.name)
print(client.user.id)
print('------')
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
if message.content.startswith('!test'):
logs = await client.logs_from(message.channel, limit=100)
counter = 0
tmp = await client.send_message(message.channel, 'Calculating messages...')
for log in logs:
if log.author == message.author:
counter += 1
await client.edit_message(tmp, 'You have {} messages.'.format(counter))
elif message.content.startswith('!sleep'):
await asyncio.sleep(5)
await client.send_message(message.channel, 'Done sleeping')
client.run('email', 'password')
Note that in Python 3.4 you use @asyncio.coroutine instead of async def and yield from instead of await.
You can find examples in the examples directory.
Requirements
- Python 3.4.2+
aiohttplibrarywebsocketslibrary
Usually pip will handle these for you.