interactions.py VS pycord

Stay tuned with upcoming post about interactions.py and how you can take advantage of the library. If you like this post, be sure to give a heart. If you have any question, let me know in the comment section. Alternatively, you can join the official interactions.py Discord server for further help.

In this post, I will guide you how to make a simple Discord Bot in Python, using a library called interactions.py. Requirements: You need to have a good view with Python first as making a Discord Bot isn't exactly considered as beginner-friendly.

They announced the partnership on the 9th, IIRC, so they might still be in the planning stages. I’ve got no idea what will come of it, nor (to be honest) why it’s happening in the first place. It doesn’t sound like a merger, just an assurance of interoperability.

The other lib I might try also in the future is interactions.py due to its benchmarks and its purity for only being able to support the interactions api. The lib is also rather unstable for now so I'll wait for its full-blown stable release.

Theres some examples here

Pycord | Docs | A different fork. Can't say much. Tried to help people that use it and it didn't seem very cool. Plus, I've heard the support server is super childish.

So the “tickets” are a currency? If so that should be pretty simple; You just need a database like Mariadb|Docker and a way to interact with it, like sqlalchemy, then you just pick your favorite bot framework, like pycord, and build it. These are based on python but there should be node or whatever other language you prefer equivalents.

I moved to pycord, which recently released a stable 2.0.0 version with very good documentation and examples to work with.

That seems likely, thanks for the tip. I was working on the code on my local Windows for a long time, but only very recently tried to get the server Ubuntu going, so I guess I was using pycord from before that switch (apparently took place Mid Feb https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/1012 ), and during server installation I pulled a newer version.

I have written a few bots using the discord.py library, and while I appreciate the hard work the developers have put in, and I can appreciate wanting to leave the scene, this puts a bad taste in my mouth. I and many others relied on this library to interface with the Discord service only for them to abruptly archive the repository with no warning, and then suddenly decide to return just as quickly. What guarantees do I have that they won't just up and leave again? They said that the Python Discord bot scene is in disarray, a situation that A. they themselves caused and B. isn't even true. A number of forks spun off of the original repository and some have continued promising feature work (https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord is the one I had identified as the fork I was planning to switch to). Looking at the contributors, it looks like there are now two completing efforts with zero collaboration between them. I get the impression that there was a large amount of behind the scenes drama, with the archival of the repository done simply to attract attention.

I haven't worked with the new features yet, but you can check out the example on the pycord repo. It should be enough to get you started.

pycord repo