Introduction

Pycord is a modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord, written in Python. Pycord is a maintained fork of discord.py.

Before you begin¶

Pycord is an advanced and complex Python library. To take advantage of the full capabilities of Pycord, you will need to have a good understanding of Python. You should know the basics of Python and have an understanding of the following concepts:

Variables
Data Types
Functions
Packages
Conditionals
Loops
Classes
Object-Oriented Programming
Inheritance
Exception Handling
Iterators
Coroutines
Async/Await

This list is not exhaustive, but it should give you a good idea of what you need to know to get started.

When you see an ellipsis - that's the three dots - in this guide, it is a placeholder for code that you need to fill in. Sometimes, it may be code for a command, while other times it could be something simple like a Guild ID. Make sure to replace them before running your bot!

Learning Resources¶

Here are some good resources to get started or to freshen up your Python knowledge:

Credits¶

First of all, we would like to thank Rapptz for the original discord.py library. Pycord is a maintained fork of this library.

We would also like to thank the discord.js guide, which inspired this guide style-wise, and the now defunct original Pycord Guide, which inspired some of the content of the previous Pycord Guide that this guide is, in turn, based on.

This current guide is built with Zensical. We would also like to thank Danktuary for his @discord-message-components/react package, from which the previous guide took its Discord message components.

And finally, we would like to thank the amazing and loving community of Pycord users, contributors and developers.