How do i make a working slash command in discord.py

Question

I am trying to make a slash command with discord.py I have tried a lot of stuff it doesn't seem to be working. Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This is not possible with discord.py, but with a fork of it, for example py-cord. To install py-cord, first run pip uninstall discord.py and then pip install py-cord==2.0.0b4. Then in your code, first import the library with

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

create you bot class with

bot = commands.Bot()

and create your slash command with

@bot.slash_command(name="first_slash", guild_ids=[...]) #Add the guild ids in which the slash command will appear. If it should be in all, remove the argument, but note that it will take some time (up to an hour) to register the command if it's for all guilds.
async def first_slash(ctx): 
    await ctx.respond("You executed the slash command!")

and then run the bot with your token

bot.run(TOKEN)

Answer 2

discord.py does not support slash commands and will never add support for slash commands (as it has shut down) thus I recommend disnake (a popular fork). Specifically disnake because out of all the forks disnake seems to be the more intellectual one.

Answer 3

They're sort of in the middle of adding slash commands to discord.py but you can see a few examples in https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c4324f17a80c94776832430007ad40e6 You seem to be using discord_slash, which I have not used.

The main documentation for this stuff is https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/interactions/api.html?highlight=dropdown#decorators but the main "how to" is that you've gotta make a "tree", attach commands to that tree, and sync your tree for the commands to show up. discord.ext.Bot makes its own tree, which is why I'm using that instead of client, which I think doesn't make a tree by default.

If you specify the guilds, the commands sync takes place instantly, but if you don't specify the guild, I think it takes an hour to update or something like that, so specify the guild until you're ready for deployment.

I'm not quite sure how to do it in cogs, because I have mine in groups but basically what I'm doing is a combination of @bot.tree.command() in the main bot file and a few groups in separate files.

So here's my main file

import discord
import simplegeneralgroup
from config import TOKEN
MY_GUILD = discord.Object(id=1234567890)

class MyBot(discord.ext.commands.Bot):
    async def on_ready(self):
        await self.tree.sync(guild=MY_GUILD)

bot: discord.ext.commands.Bot = MyBot

@bot.tree.command(guild=MY_GUILD)
async def slash(interaction: discord.Interaction, number: int, string: str):
    await interaction.response.send_message(f'Modify {number=} {string=}', ephemeral=True)

bot.tree.add_command(simplegeneralgroup.Generalgroup(bot), guild=MY_GUILD)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    bot.run(TOKEN)

and then the simplegeneralgroup file

import discord
from discord import app_commands as apc
class Generalgroup(apc.Group):
    """Manage general commands"""
    def __init__(self, bot: discord.ext.commands.Bot):
        super().__init__()
        self.bot = bot

    @apc.command()
    async def hello(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        await interaction.response.send_message('Hello')

    @apc.command()
    async def version(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        """tells you what version of the bot software is running."""
        await interaction.response.send_message('This is an untested test version')

There should be three commands: /slash, which will prompt the user for a number and string, /generalgroup hello, and /generalgroup version