hikari VS discord.py

Compare hikari vs discord.py and see what are their differences.

hikari

A Discord API wrapper for Python and asyncio built on good intentions. (by hikari-py)

discord.py

An API wrapper for Discord written in Python. (by Rapptz)
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hikari discord.py
13 107
759 8,720
0.9% -
9.2 9.9
about 22 hours ago over 2 years ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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hikari

Posts with mentions or reviews of hikari. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-19.
  • Making bump reminder bot
    6 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 19 Nov 2022
    Hikari | Docs | The only one that's not a fork. I find the docs miserable and they have a far fewer users than the others, so your only luck of finding help is in their support server.
  • I'm making a help command with hikari-tanjun, but it keeps returning "Application did not respond"
    2 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 30 Sep 2022
    I've been working on a help command for my Discord music bot which uses hikari and hikari-tanjun and it's been going fine so far but I added this part to my code and whenever you do /help , it's supposed to show help for that specific command, but it only responds with "Application did not respond" when I try it. I've tried removing the obj argument and removing the parentheses but it just keeps saying "Application did not respond" and I don't know what to do or how to fix it and there is no error. No one in the Hikari server helped when I asked multiple times, so can someone help?
  • Hikari or discord.py?
    2 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 17 May 2022
    Getting started is easy: check the [docs](https://hikari-py.dev/hikari), join the [server](https://discord.gg/hikari), and take a look at the [examples](https://github.com/hikari-py/hikari/blob/master/examples/).
  • Disnake or Pycord
    3 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 23 Feb 2022
    I recommend try out Hikari (The Library) + Lightbulb (Command Handler Extension)
  • For discord.py users, what library are you going switch?
    6 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 26 Jan 2022
    For me, I' m now using hikari because I feel like its a hidden gem cuz of its nice workflow around its command frameworks (lightbulb and tanjun).I haven't tried tanjun but I find both hikari and lightbulb to have a really nice documentation.
    6 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 26 Jan 2022
    I have switched to Hikari + Lightbulb and I'm not looking back.
  • discord.py bots
    4 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 29 Dec 2021
    Pycord is a bad fork in my opinion. I recommend using discord.py until it's entirely dead and then switching to enhanced-discord.py (Or switching to it right now). You can get slash commands with discord.py using slash_util. You can also switch to a completely different Python Discord API wrapper, like hikari.
  • How Do You Receive Input?
    5 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 26 Dec 2021
    hikari
  • [Megathread] The Future of discord.py
    17 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 10 Sep 2021
    hikari https://discord.gg/hxXDMzdNCd (docs, github)
  • Best discord.py alternative?
    2 projects | /r/Discord_Bots | 2 Sep 2021
    Could try Hikari: https://github.com/hikari-py/hikari it exists for a while already and is not just a fork of discord.py

discord.py

Posts with mentions or reviews of discord.py. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hikari and discord.py you can also consider the following projects:

pycord - Pycord, a maintained fork of discord.py, is a python wrapper for the Discord API

nextcord - A Python wrapper for the Discord API forked from discord.py

discord.js - A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API

Discord-Token-Grabber - A simple Discord token grabber written in Python 3

VALORANT-rank-yoinker - A Python app which retrieves the VALORANT rank and players' equipped skins during a match

disnake - An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.

JDA - Java wrapper for the popular chat & VOIP service: Discord https://discord.com

discord-interactions-python - Useful tools for building interactions in Python

Discord-S.C.U.M - A Discord API Wrapper for Userbots/Selfbots written in Python.