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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 original Pycord Guide, which inspired some content in this guide.

We created this guide using Docusaurus v2, a modern static site generator for React. We would also like to thank Danktuary for his @discord-message-components/react package, from which we took the Discord message components.

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