#4.Slash Commands in discord.py (2024)

Hey Fellows!
I am back with another post and this time we will learn about:

1.Slash Commands

• What are slash commands?

  when you type (/) in your discord chat (if you have use application commands perms in channel) then u might see some suggestions. These are slash commands. It helps to interact with bots. Slash command got features like autocomplete.

• How to create a slash Command?

  to create a slash command we will create an interaction.
  Now what is interacton? Well we will discuss about it.....

2.Creating A Slash Command:

1. First of all we will use a decorator:

@bot.tree.command(name="mannu",description="Mannu is a good boy")

2.Under this decorator we will create our async def as we always do:

async def slash_command(interaction:discord.Interaction): # Your Logic Goes Here...

3.in this def we will write a syntax to send message:

await interaction.response.send_message("Hello World!")

• Here's the complete code just in case:

@bot.tree.command(name="mannu",description="Mannu is a good boy")async def slash_command(interaction:discord.Interaction): await interaction.response.send_message("Hello World!")

Now let's try to understand what we did here:

In step 1, we used a decorator to create our command and in that decorator, I provided name and description of my command.

In step 2, I created a async def and in this async def there is param interaction which is discord.Interaction. its work iss same as ctx we used in our first .hello command. we will use it to control our bot.

now as our interaction is created let's create a logic

In step 3, I awaited a syntex to send a response of that interaction.

Before running our code we need to make sure our command gets synced with bot so we will add the following syntax in our on_ready event:

await bot.tree.sync()

here's complete code

@bot.eventasync def on_ready(): await bot.tree.sync()

Now Let's run our code and see does it work or not...

python main.py

Now on typing (/) we can see our slash command

Well I had to change the bot coz my bot was giving me error coz I accidently used discord in my bot username which isn't allowed.
I'll fix it in next post

So This is how We create our slash command. Hope it helps you.

Github: https://github.com/MannuVilasara/discord.py-tutorial
Refrance : https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/
Discord: https://discord.gg/pvvJvZU6nS

Up Next:

• error handling.
• accepting user input.