Pycord is a modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Pycord supports Python 3.10 - 3.14
- Modern Pythonic API using
asyncandawait. - Proper rate limit handling.
- Optimised for both speed and memory usage.
- Full application API support.
Python 3.10 or higher is required
To install the library without full voice support, run the following command:
# Linux/macOS python3 -m pip install -U py-cord # Windows py -3 -m pip install -U py-cord
Otherwise, to get full voice support, run the following command:
# Linux/macOS python3 -m pip install -U "py-cord[voice]" # Windows py -3 -m pip install -U py-cord[voice]
To install additional packages for speedup, run the following command:
# Linux/macOS python3 -m pip install -U "py-cord[speed]" # Windows py -3 -m pip install -U py-cord[speed]
To install the development version, do the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord
$ cd pycord
$ python3 -m pip install -U .[voice]or if you do not want to clone the repository:
# Linux/macOS python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord # Windows py -3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord
- PyNaCl (for voice support)
- aiodns, brotlipy, cchardet (for aiohttp speedup)
- msgspec (for json speedup)
Please note that while installing voice support on Linux, you must install the following packages via your preferred package manager (e.g. apt, dnf, etc) BEFORE running the above commands:
- libffi-dev (or
libffi-develon some systems) - python-dev (e.g.
python3.10-devfor Python 3.10)
import discord bot = discord.Bot() @bot.slash_command() async def hello(ctx, name: str = None): name = name or ctx.author.name await ctx.respond(f"Hello {name}!") @bot.user_command(name="Say Hello") async def hi(ctx, user): await ctx.respond(f"{ctx.author.mention} says hello to {user.name}!") bot.run("token")
import discord from discord.ext import commands intents = discord.Intents.default() intents.message_content = True bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=">", intents=intents) @bot.command() async def ping(ctx): await ctx.send("pong") bot.run("token")
You can find more code examples in the examples directory.
Note: Make sure you do not reveal your bot token to anyone, as it can grant access to your bot.
- Documentation
- Learn how to create Discord bots with Pycord
- Our Official Discord Server
- Official Discord Developers Server
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