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A Golang library for the Discord API.
Examples
Simple
Simple bot example without any state. All it does is logging messages sent into
the console. Run with BOT_TOKEN="TOKEN" go run .
Undeleter
A slightly more complicated example. This bot uses a local state to cache everything, including messages. It detects when someone deletes a message, logging the content into the console.
This example demonstrates the PreHandler feature of this library. PreHandler calls all handlers that are registered (separately from session), calling them before the state is updated.
Comparison: Why not discordgo?
Discordgo is great. It's the first library that I used when I was learning Go. However, it's not good enough. Here are some things that this library aims to solve:
- Better package structure: this library divides the Discord library up into smaller packages.
- Cleaner API/Gateway structure separation: this library separates fields that would only appear in Gateway events, so to not cause confusion.
- Automatic un-pagination: this library automatically un-paginates endpoints that would otherwise not return everything fully.
- Flexible underlying abstractions: this library allows plugging in different JSON and Websocket implementations, as well as direct access to the HTTP client.
- Flexible API abstractions: because packages are separated, the developer could
choose to use a lower level package (such as
gateway
) or a higher level package (such asstate
). - Pre-handlers in the state: this allows the developers to access items from the state storage before they're removed.
- Pluggable state storages: although only having a default state storage in the library, it is abstracted with an interface, making it possible to implement a custom remote or local state storage.
- No code generation: just so the library is a lot easier to maintain.
Roadmap
Things that need to be done before the library can be considered a viable discordgo replacement.
- Gateway methods/calls
Testing
The package includes integration tests that require $BOT_TOKEN
. To run these
tests, do
export BOT_TOKEN="<BOT_TOKEN>"
go test -tags integration ./...