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Get started with discord.py

terabyte. on March 04, 2021

Discord.py is a very powerful API. It aims to make creating Discord bots incredibly easy while still giving lots of power to the user. People have ...
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Deepak Raj • 
@bot.command(name='hello', description="Greet the user!")
async def hello(ctx):
    await ctx.send(f"Hello {ctx.author.name}!") # f-string
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It's not working for me

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terabyte. •

Is there an error, or is there just nothing happening?

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Deepak Raj •

It worked latter issue was due to other asynchronous function.

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terabyte. •

Oh, ok! Glad it works for you then!

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Sarmqn •

Is there a way I can contact you personally to talk to you about a few of these things?

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terabyte. • • Edited

Sure! you can join my discord server! You can also send me a DM on here!

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Sarmqn •

you need to open your inbox in your settings under extensions so people can DM you on here I think.

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Lorenzo • • Edited

Thank for the mention. Nice first article!

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terabyte. •

Thanks! :)

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Kate •

how do i send a message in a specific channel

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MisterFenek •

Thank you so much! your module for discord.py very much helped me in bot developement

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0dD3K •

i want to only be able to send links to links channel, what do i do?

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terabyte. • • Edited

You could check if message.channel.id == 123456789098
(123456789098 is your channel id, of course)

If it matches, just return.