How do I use Discord.ui

[TriangularDev]

I heard discord.py has button, dropdown, and slash command support. Is there any documentation for this as I can't find it anywhere.

[trevorflahardy]

You heard correct! Discord.py has support for buttons, dropdowns, and application commands! All these features are on the master branch of the library, they aren't on the stable version of discord.py.

How do I install the master branch?

Windows

• No voice support: py -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py
• Or with voice support: py -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py#egg=discord.py[voice]

Linux/Mac

• No voice support: python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py
• Or with voice support: python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py#egg=discord.py[voice]

How do I create a button or dropdown?

Check out the examples on how Views work for some more info on that.

How do I create a slash command?

Check out this example on slash commands. In addition to this, feel free to check out this gist which describes application commands in more detail.

Documentation?

Documentation for the master branch can be found here, and support for migration can be found here. It will be very beneficial if you joined the discord.py Discord server as you can get on demand help for the library!

[trevorflahardy]

Thank you! I thought discord.py stopped development.

For about 6 months or so Danny halted development on the library, but he's back!

[2021-8-28] Danny stops dpy development: https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c78100287f1
[2022-3-06] Danny starts dpy development again, after announcement of v10: https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c4324f17a80c94776832430007ad40e6
[2022-3-14] Danny reworks async stuff, breaking changes for all! https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/6706e1c8f23ac27c98cee4dd985c8120

[aurkaxi]

how do i know which version is installed on my device?

[HigherOrderLogic]

pip show discord.py

[aurkaxi]

that shows '2.0.0'. is that stable branch or master branch?

[trevorflahardy]

that shows '2.0.0'. is that a stable branch or a master branch?

2.0 is now the stable version of discord.py (can be installed with pip install discord.py).