This is a nonexhaustive summary of the DDevs Q&A stage. Most of the points below are paraphrased for brevity. Ephasis is my own unless explicitly stated, and my opinions on certain things may shine through. Please refer to a VOD of the stage for the exact wording from the Discord Developers.
Slash commands, as we know are one of discord's new features released for bots to integrate into discord servers better. However, these same slash commands are not very appreciated by many members of the developer community. Several reasons will be explained here.
First, we start off by including arguments from Danny - the former discord.py maintainer who stepped down, and archived discord.py. (Looking for a fork? Try https://github.com/iDevision/enhanced-discord.py).
The link to the full gist created by Danny in whereabouts to his leave from d.py can be found here.
Around July and August 2020, the Discord employees started talking to the people in the Discord Infrastructure server about the possibility of Slash Commands finally coming to Discord. This feature was one that had been in the talks since the very beginning of Discord's history, so some people were hyped it was finally c
Slash commands offer a way to integrate your bot commands directly into the Discord UI. However, these commands are still very limited and cannot replace every use-case for now. I'll explain the limitations and possibilities of this new feature a bit here.
Slash Commands work entirely through the Webhook API. Which introduces a number of moderation issues. See the Moderation section below. It also causes some Rate Limit Problems.
This guide will walkthrough the ways to create a custom help command by subclassing HelpCommand.
CTRL, SHIFT and I on your keyboard at the same time.>> button, and then click on Application.
Application tab, click the little triangle next to Local Storage, and then click on https://discordapp.com.
If you're wondering what Gateway Intents are, what Privileged Intents are, why your bot can't see statuses, or why your bot can't see member joins anymore, then this page should explain it to you!
if you do not know what intents are, please read this entire page
First, a short explanation of how bots work: bots can make requests over the REST (HTTP) API to retreive information and do actions, and they get real-time updates from Discord in the form of websocket gateway events. They can also fetch server members via the gateway.
Examples of gateway events you are probably familiar with are Message Create (a message was sent) and Guild Member Add (a user joined a server).
See here some of the API's you can use in your discord bot or anything. For any help or questions on how to use one, please contact the owner of the API and not me.
[TOKEN] = API requires a token to access some if not all endpoints.
The descriptions are mostly copied from the API, sometimes personal or from the dev.
| import os | |
| import pathlib | |
| import discord | |
| from discord.ext import commands, tasks | |
| # put your extension names in this list | |
| # if you don't want them to be reloaded | |
| IGNORE_EXTENSIONS = [] |
| from discord.ext import commands | |
| # The check to ensure this is the guild used where the command was made | |
| def guild_check(_custom_commands): | |
| async def predicate(ctx): | |
| return _custom_commands.get(ctx.command.qualified_name) and ctx.guild.id in _custom_commands.get(ctx.command.qualified_name) | |
| return commands.check(predicate) | |
| class CustomCommands(commands.Cog): |
