- Everything with async/await. Full integration with the latest Server-Side Swift packages.
- Access the full Discord API for bots, except Voice (for now).
- Connect to the Discord Gateway and receive all events easily.
- Send requests to the Discord API using library's Discord client.
- Hard-typed APIs. All Gateway events and API responses have their own type and can be decoded easily.
- Abstractions for easier testability.
Vapor community's Penny bot serves as a good example of utilizing this library.
Make sure you have Xcode 14.1 or above. Lower Xcode 14 versions have known issues that cause problems for libraries.
First you need to initialize a BotGatewayManager instance, then tell it to connect and start using it.
Make sure you've added AsyncHTTPClient to your dependancies.
import DiscordBM
import AsyncHTTPClient
let httpClient = HTTPClient(eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew)
let bot = await BotGatewayManager(
eventLoopGroup: httpClient.eventLoopGroup,
httpClient: httpClient,
token: <#Your Bot Token#>,
presence: .init( /// Set up bot's initial presence
/// Will show up as "Playing Fortnite"
activities: [.init(name: "Fortnite", type: .game)],
status: .online,
afk: false
),
/// Add all the intents you want
/// You can also use `Gateway.Intent.unprivileged` or `Gateway.Intent.allCases`
intents: [.guildMessages, .messageContent]
)See the GatewayConnection tests or Vapor community's Penny bot for real-world examples.
Warning
In a production app you should use environment variables to load your Bot Token.
Avoid hard-coding your Bot Token to reduce the chances of leaking it.
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import DiscordBM
import Vapor
let app: Application = <#Your Vapor Application#>
let bot = await BotGatewayManager(
eventLoopGroup: app.eventLoopGroup,
httpClient: app.http.client.shared,
token: <#Your Bot Token#>,
presence: .init( /// Set up bot's initial presence
/// Will show up as "Playing Fortnite"
activities: [.init(name: "Fortnite", type: .game)],
status: .online,
afk: false
),
/// Add all the intents you want
/// You can also use `Gateway.Intent.unprivileged` or `Gateway.Intent.allCases`
intents: [.guildMessages, .messageContent]
)Note
For your app's entry point, you should use a type with the@mainattribute like below.
@main
struct EntryPoint {
static func main() async throws {
/// Make an instance like above
let bot: BotGatewayManager = <#GatewayManager You Made In Previous Steps#>
/// Tell the manager to connect to Discord. Use a `Task { }` because it
/// might take a few seconds, or even minutes under bad network connections
/// Don't use `Task { }` if you care and want to wait
Task { await bot.connect() }
/// Handle each event in the `bot.events` async stream
/// This stream will never end, therefore preventing your executable from exiting
for await event in await bot.events {
EventHandler(event: event, client: bot.client).handle()
}
}
}
/// To keep things cleaner, use a type conforming to
/// `GatewayEventHandler` to handle your Gateway events.
struct EventHandler: GatewayEventHandler {
let event: Gateway.Event
let client: any DiscordClient
/// Each Gateway payload has its own function.
/// See `GatewayEventHandler` for the full list.
/// This function will only be called upon receiving `MESSAGE_CREATE` events.
func onMessageCreate(_ payload: Gateway.MessageCreate) async throws {
print("NEW MESSAGE!", payload)
/// Use `client` to send requests to Discord
let response = try await client.createMessage(
channelId: payload.channel_id,
payload: .init(content: "Got a message: '\(payload.content)'")
)
/// Easily decode the response to the correct type
/// `message` will be of type `DiscordChannel.Message`.
let message = try response.decode()
}
}Note
On a successful connection, you will always see aNOTICElog indicatingconnection is established.
Note
By default,DiscordBMautomatically handles HTTP rate-limits and you don't need to worry about them.
The way you can make sense of the library is to think of it as a direct implementation of the Discord API.
In most cases, the library doesn't try to abstract away Discord's stuff.
- If something is related to the Gateway, you should find it near
GatewayManager. - If there is a HTTP request you want to make, you'll need to use
DiscordClient. - You should read Discord documentation's related notes when you want to use something of this library.
Everything in the library has its related Discord documentation section linked near it.
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DiscordBM comes with full support for all kinds of "interactions" such as slash commands, modals, autocomplete etc... and gives you full control over how you want to use them using type-safe APIs.
You can see Penny as an example of using all kinds of commands in production.
Penny registers the commands here and responds to them here.
In this example you'll only make 2 simple slash commands, so you can get started:
In your EntryPoint.main():
/// Make a list of `Payloads.ApplicationCommandCreate`s that you want to register
/// `DiscordCommand` is an enum that has the full info of your commands. See below
let commands = DiscordCommand.allCases.map { command in
return Payloads.ApplicationCommandCreate(
name: command.rawValue,
description: command.description,
options: command.options
)
}
/// You only need to do this once on startup. This updates all your commands to the new ones.
try await bot.client
.bulkSetApplicationCommands(payload: commands)
.guardSuccess() /// Throw an error if not successful
/// Use the events-stream later since the for-loop blocks the function
for await event in await bot.events {
EventHandler(event: event, client: bot.client).handle()
}In your EventHandler:
/// Use `onInteractionCreate(_:)` for handling interactions.
struct EventHandler: GatewayEventHandler {
let event: Gateway.Event
let client: any DiscordClient
let logger = Logger(label: "EventHandler")
/// Handle Interactions.
func onInteractionCreate(_ interaction: Interaction) async throws {
/// You only have 3 second to respond, so it's better to send
/// the response right away, and edit the response later.
/// This will show a loading indicator to users.
try await client.createInteractionResponse(
id: interaction.id,
token: interaction.token,
payload: .deferredChannelMessageWithSource()
).guardSuccess()
/// Delete this if you want. Just here so you notice the loading indicator :)
try await Task.sleep(for: .seconds(1))
/// Handle the interaction data
switch interaction.data {
case let .applicationCommand(applicationCommand):
switch DiscordCommand(rawValue: applicationCommand.name) {
case .echo:
if let echo = applicationCommand.option(named: "text")?.value?.asString {
/// Edits the interaction response.
/// This response is intentionally too fancy just so you see what's possible :)
try await client.updateOriginalInteractionResponse(
token: interaction.token,
payload: Payloads.EditWebhookMessage(
content: "Hello, You wanted me to echo something!",
embeds: [Embed(
title: "This is an embed",
description: """
You sent this, so I'll echo it to you!
> \(DiscordUtils.escapingSpecialCharacters(echo))
""",
timestamp: Date(),
color: .init(value: .random(in: 0 ..< (1 << 24) )),
footer: .init(text: "Footer!"),
author: .init(name: "Authored by DiscordBM!"),
fields: [
.init(name: "field name!", value: "field value!")
]
)],
components: [[.button(.init(
label: "Open DiscordBM!",
url: "https://github.com/DiscordBM/DiscordBM"
))]]
)
).guardSuccess()
} else {
try await client.updateOriginalInteractionResponse(
token: interaction.token,
payload: Payloads.EditWebhookMessage(
content: "Hello, You wanted me to echo something!",
embeds: [Embed(
title: "This is an embed",
description: """
You sent this, so I'll echo it to you but there was nothing!
""",
timestamp: Date().addingTimeInterval(90),
color: .green,
footer: .init(text: "Footer!"),
author: .init(name: "Authored by DiscordBM!"),
fields: [
.init(name: "field name!", value: "field value!")
]
)]
)
).guardSuccess()
}
case .link:
/// `DiscordBM` has some "require" functions for easier unwrapping of
/// application commands. These "require" functions will either give you
/// what you want, or throw an error.
/// See the full list below.
let subcommandOption = try (applicationCommand.options?.first).requireValue()
let subcommandName = subcommandOption.name
let subcommand = try LinkSubCommand(rawValue: subcommandName).requireValue()
let id = try (subcommandOption.options?.first).requireValue().requireString()
let name = subcommand.rawValue.capitalized
try await client.updateOriginalInteractionResponse(
token: interaction.token,
payload: Payloads.EditWebhookMessage(
content: "Hi, did you wanted me to link your accounts?",
embeds: [.init(
description: "Will link a \(name) account with id '\(id)'",
color: .yellow
)]
)
).guardSuccess()
case .none: break
}
default: break
}
}
}In a new file like DiscordCommand.swift, to keep things organized:
// MARK: - Define a nice clean enum for your commands
enum DiscordCommand: String, CaseIterable {
case echo
case link
/// The description of the command that Discord users will see.
var description: String? {
switch self {
case .echo:
return "Echos what you say"
case .link:
return "Links your accounts "
}
}
/// The options of the command that Discord users will have.
var options: [ApplicationCommand.Option]? {
switch self {
case .echo:
return [ApplicationCommand.Option(
type: .string,
name: "text",
description: "What to echo :)"
)]
case .link:
return LinkSubCommand.allCases.map { subCommand in
return ApplicationCommand.Option(
type: .subCommand,
name: subCommand.rawValue,
description: subCommand.description,
options: subCommand.options
)
}
}
}
}
// MARK: - You can use enums for subcommands too
enum LinkSubCommand: String, CaseIterable {
case discord
case github
/// The description of the subcommand that Discord users will see.
var description: String {
switch self {
case .discord:
return "Link your Discord account"
case .github:
return "Link your Github account"
}
}
/// The options of the subcommand that Discord users will have.
var options: [ApplicationCommand.Option] {
switch self {
case .discord: return [ApplicationCommand.Option(
type: .string,
name: "id",
description: "Your Discord account ID",
required: true
)]
case .github: return [ApplicationCommand.Option(
type: .string,
name: "id",
description: "Your Github account ID",
required: true
)]
}
}
}StringIntDoubleBoolhas:requireString() throws -> StringrequireInt() throws -> IntrequireDouble() throws -> DoublerequireBool() throws -> Bool
Interaction.ApplicationCommand.Optionhas all theStringIntDoubleBoolfunctions for unwrapping an option'svalue.Interaction.ApplicationCommand.Optionand related types (like[Option]) have:option(named: String) -> Option?requireOption(named: String) throws -> Option
[Interaction.ActionRow]and[Interaction.ActionRow.Component]have:component(customId: String) -> Interaction.ActionRow.Component?requireComponent(customId: String) throws -> Interaction.ActionRow.Component
Interaction.ActionRow.Componenthas:requireButton() throws -> ButtonrequireStringSelect() throws -> StringSelectMenurequireTextInput() throws -> TextInputrequireUserSelect() throws -> SelectMenurequireRoleSelect() throws -> SelectMenurequireMentionableSelect() throws -> SelectMenurequireChannelSelect() throws -> ChannelSelectMenu
- Swift's
Optionalhas arequireValue() throwsfunction overload (only inDiscordBM).
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DiscordBM has support for sending files as attachments.
Note
It's usually better to send a link of your media to Discord, instead of sending the actual file.
/// Raw data of anything like an image
let image: ByteBuffer = <#Your Image Buffer#>
/// Example 1
try await bot.client.createMessage(
channelId: <#Channel ID#>,
payload: .init(
content: "A message with an attachment!",
files: [.init(data: image, filename: "pic.png")],
attachments: [.init(index: 0, description: "Picture of something secret :)")]
/// ~~~~~~~^
/// `0` is the index of the attachment in the `files` array.
)
)
/// Example 2
try await bot.client.createMessage(
channelId: <#Channel ID#>,
payload: .init(
embeds: [.init(
title: "An embed with an attachment!",
image: .init(url: .attachment(name: "penguin.png"))
/// ~~~~~~~^
/// `penguin.png` is the name of the attachment in the `files` array.
)],
files: [.init(data: image, filename: "penguin.png")]
)
)Take a look at testMultipartPayload() in /Tests/DiscordClientTests to see how you can send media in a real-world situation.
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DiscordBM contains some utility functions for working with Discord's text-message format.
The mention helpers:
let userMention = DiscordUtils.mention(id: <#User ID of type UserSnowflake#>)
let channelMention = DiscordUtils.mention(id: <#Channel ID of type ChannelSnowflake#>)
let roleMention = DiscordUtils.mention(id: <#Role ID of type RoleSnowflake#>)
let slashCommandMention = DiscordUtils.slashCommand(name: "help", id: <#Command ID#>)
/// Then:
/// Will look like `Hi @UserName!` in Discord
let userMessage = "Hi \(userMention)!"
/// Will look like `Welcome to #ChannelName!` in Discord
let channelMessage = "Welcome to \(channelMention)!"
/// Will look like `Hello @RoleName!` in Discord
let roleMessage = "Hello \(roleMention)!"
/// Will look like `Use this command: /help` in Discord
let slashCommandMeessage = "Use this command: \(slashCommandMention)"And the emoji helpers:
let emoji = DiscordUtils.customEmoji(name: "Peepo_Happy", id: <#Emoji ID#>)
let animatedEmoji = DiscordUtils.customAnimatedEmoji(name: "Peepo_Money", id: <#Emoji ID#>)
/// Then:
/// Will look like `Are you happy now? EMOJI` where emoji is like https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/832181382595870730.webp
let emojiMessage = "Are you happy now? \(emoji)"
/// Will look like `Here comes the moneeeey EMOJI` where emoji is like https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/836533376285671424.gif
let animatedEmojiMessage = "Here comes the moneeeey \(emojiMessage)"Plus the end-user-localized timestamp helpers:
let timestamp = DiscordUtils.timestamp(date: Date())
let anotherTimestamp = DiscordUtils.timestamp(unixTimestamp: 1 << 31, style: .relativeTime)
/// Then:
/// Will look like `Time when message was sent: 20 April 2021 16:20` in Discord
let timestampMessage = "Time when message was sent: \(timestamp)"
/// Will look like `I'm a time traveler. I will be born: in 15 years` in Discord
let anotherTimestampMessage = "I'm a time traveler. I will be born: \(anotherTimestamp)"And a function to escape special characters from user input.
For example if you type **BOLD TEXT** in Discord, it'll look like BOLD TEXT, but using this function, it'll instead look like the original **BOLD TEXT** input.
let escaped = DiscordUtils.escapingSpecialCharacters("**BOLD TEXT**")
/// Will look like `Does this look bold to you?! **BOLD TEXT**` in Discord. Won't actually look bold.
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DiscordBM has the ability to cache Gateway events in-memory, and keep the data in sync with Discord:
let cache = await DiscordCache(
/// The `GatewayManager`/`bot` to cache the events from.
gatewayManager: <#GatewayManager You Made In Previous Steps#>,
/// What intents to cache their related Gateway events.
/// This does not affect what events you receive from Discord.
/// The intents you enter here must have been enabled in your `GatewayManager`.
/// With `.all`, `DiscordCache` will cache all events.
intents: [.guilds, .guildMembers],
/// In big guilds/servers, Discord only sends your own member/presence info.
/// You need to request the rest of the members, and `DiscordCache` can do that for you.
/// Must have `guildMembers` and `guildPresences` intents enabled depending on what you want.
requestAllMembers: .enabled,
/// What messages to cache.
messageCachingPolicy: .saveEditHistoryAndDeleted
)
/// Access the cached stuff:
if let aGuild = await cache.guilds[<#Guild ID#>] {
print("Guild name is:", aGuild.name)
} else {
print("Guild not found")
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DiscordBM has some best-effort functions for checking permissions and roles.
FYI, in interactions, the member field already contains the resolved permissions (Interaction.member.permissions).
Warning
You need aDiscordCachewith intents containing.guilds&.guildMembersand alsorequestAllMembers: .enabled.
let cache: DiscordCache = <#DiscordCache You Made In Previous Steps#>
/// Get the guild.
guard let guild = await cache.guilds[<#Guild ID#>] else { return }
/// Check if the user has `.viewChannel` & `.readMessageHistory` permissions in a channel.
let hasPermission = guild.userHasPermissions(
userId: <#User ID#>,
channelId: <#Channel ID#>,
permissions: [.viewChannel, .readMessageHistory]
)
/// Check if a user has the `.banMembers` guild-wide permission.
let hasGuildPermission = guild.userHasGuildPermission(
userId: <#User ID#>,
permission: .banMembers
)
/// Check if a user has a role.
let hasRole = guild.userHasRole(
userId: <#User ID#>,
roleId: <#Role ID#>
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Sharding is a way of splitting up your bot's load accross different GatewayManagers. It is useful if:
- You want to implement zero-down-time scaling/updating.
- You have too many guilds to be handeled by just 1
GatewayManager.
Note
Discord says sharding is required for bots with 2500 and more guilds. For more info, refer to the Discord docs
To enable sharding, simply replace your BotGatewayManager with ShardingGatewayManager:
let bot = await ShardingGatewayManager(
eventLoopGroup: httpClient.eventLoopGroup,
httpClient: httpClient,
token: <#Your Bot Token#>,
presence: .init( /// Set up bot's initial presence
/// Will show up as "Playing Fortnite"
activities: [.init(name: "Fortnite", type: .game)],
status: .online,
afk: false
),
/// Add all the intents you want
/// You can also use `Gateway.Intent.unprivileged` or `Gateway.Intent.allCases`
intents: [.guildMessages, .messageContent]
)And that's it! You've already enabled sharding. DiscordBM will create as many BotGatewayManagers as Discord suggests under the hood of ShardingGatewayManager, and will automatically handle them.
Note
ShardingGatewayManagermight still only create 1BotGatewayManagerif that's what Discord suggests.
ShardingGatewayManager takes a few more options than BotGatewayManager to customize how you want to perform sharding:
let bot: any GatewayManager = await ShardingGatewayManager(
eventLoopGroup: httpClient.eventLoopGroup,
httpClient: httpClient,
configuration: .init(
/// You can request an exact amount of shard counts using `.exact(<number>)`.
/// Defaults to `.automatic` which means it will ask Discord for a suggestion of how many shards to spin up.
shardCount: .exact(<#number#>),
/// This is an opportunity to customize what shard takes care of which intents.
/// By default, all intents are passed to all shards.
makeIntents: { (indexOfShard: Int, totalShardCount: Int) -> [Gateway.Intent] in
/// return a value of type `[Gateway.Intent]` based on `indexOfShard` and `totalShardCount`.
}
),
...
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DiscordLogger enables you to send your logs to Discord with beautiful formatting and a lot of customization options.
Read more about it at https://github.com/DiscordBM/DiscordLogger.
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React-To-Role helps you assign roles to members when they react to a message. Read more about it at https://github.com/DiscordBM/DiscordReactToRole.
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DiscordBM comes with tools to make testing your app easier.
- You can type-erase your
BotGatewayManagers using theGatewayManagerprotocol so you can override your gateway manager with a mocked implementation in tests. - You can also do the same for
DefaultDiscordClientand type-erase it using theDiscordClientprotocol so you can provide a mocked implementation when testing.
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These are some general implementation detail notes about the DefaultDiscordClient.
Generally, the DefaultDiscordClient will try to be as smart as possible with minimal compromise.
I'll refer to
DefaultDiscordClientas "DDC" to be more concise.
DiscordBM comes with a HTTPRateLimiter type that keeps track of the x-ratelimit headers.
This, in conjunction with ClientConfiguration's RetryPolicy, helps DiscordBM to recover from what that can otherwise be a 429 Too Many Requests error from Discord.
The behavior specified below is enabled by default.
- Before each request, DDC will ask the rate-limiter if the headers allow a request.
- The rate-limiter will respond with
yes, you can,no, you can'toryes, but you must wait x seconds first, otherwise no. - If the response is
yes, the DDC will continue performing the request. - If the response is
no, the DDC will throw a "rate-limited" error. - If the response is
yes, but you must wait x seconds first, otherwise no, then the DDC will look at theretryPolicyof itsconfiguration. - The DDC will act like there has been a
429error, and will ask theretryPolicyif it's possible to retry such a failure, and under what circumstances. - The
retryPolicymay specify that429requests can be retriedbasedOnHeadersif not longer thanmaxAllowedseconds. - The DDC will wait as long as
x secondswhich the rate-limiter specified, then will perform the request. This only happens if thex secondsis not longer than themaxAllowed. - In any other cases other than specified above, the DDC will fail with a "rate-limited" error.
ClientConfigurations CachingBehavior has the ability to avoid multiple concurrent requests with the same "cacheable identity".
- You can enable caching using DDC's
configuration.cachingBehaviorthrough the initializers by passingcachingBehavior: .minimal,.enabledor the.customstatic functions. - As an example, if you have caching enabled for a cacheable endpoint, and you make 10 concurrent requests to the endpoint with the same parameters, the DDC will only perform 1 of those requests, and let the other 9 requests use the cached value.
To use the DiscordBM library in a SwiftPM project,
add the following line to the dependencies in your Package.swift file:
.package(url: "https://github.com/DiscordBM/DiscordBM", from: "1.0.0"),Include DiscordBM as a dependency for your targets:
.target(name: "<target>", dependencies: [
.product(name: "DiscordBM", package: "DiscordBM"),
]),Finally, add import DiscordBM to your source code.
DiscordBM will try to follow Semantic Versioning 2.0.0, with exceptions:
- To keep
DiscordBMup to date with Discord API's frequent changes,DiscordBMwill add any new properties to any types in minor versions, even if it's technically a breaking change. - This includes adding new cases to enums. If you want to try to avoid breaking changes, make sure you have a
defaultcase in yourswitchstatements or useif case let/if case.
- If you need help with anything, ask in DiscordBM's Discord server.
- Any contribution is more than welcome. You can find me in the server to discuss your ideas.
- If there is missing/upcoming feature, you can make an issue/PR for it with a link to the related Discord docs page or the related issue/PR in Discord docs repository.
- Passing the
linux-integrationtests is not required for PRs because of token/access problems.