Serenity is a Rust library for the Discord API.

View the examples on how to make and structure a bot.

Serenity supports bot login via the use of Client::new.

You may also check your tokens prior to login via the use of validate_token.

Once logged in, you may add handlers to your client to dispatch Events, by implementing the handlers in a trait, such as EventHandler::on_message. This will cause your handler to be called when a Event::MessageCreate is received. Each handler is given a Context, giving information about the event. See the client's module-level documentation.

The Shard is transparently handled by the library, removing unnecessary complexity. Sharded connections are automatically handled for you. See the gateway's documentation for more information.

A Cache is also provided for you. This will be updated automatically for you as data is received from the Discord API via events. When calling a method on a Context, the cache will first be searched for relevant data to avoid unnecessary HTTP requests to the Discord API. For more information, see the cache's module-level documentation.

Note that - although this documentation will try to be as up-to-date and accurate as possible - Discord hosts official documentation. If you need to be sure that some information piece is accurate, refer to their docs.

A basic ping-pong bot looks like:

#[macro_use] extern crate serenity;

use serenity::client::Client;
use serenity::prelude::EventHandler;
use serenity::framework::standard::StandardFramework;
use std::env;

struct Handler;

impl EventHandler for Handler {}

fn main() {
    // Login with a bot token from the environment
    let mut client = Client::new(&env::var("DISCORD_TOKEN").expect("token"), Handler)
        .expect("Error creating client");
    client.with_framework(StandardFramework::new()
        .configure(|c| c.prefix("~")) // set the bot's prefix to "~"
        .cmd("ping", ping));

    // start listening for events by starting a single shard
    if let Err(why) = client.start() {
        println!("An error occurred while running the client: {:?}", why);
    }
}

command!(ping(_context, message) {
    let _ = message.reply("Pong!");
});

Full examples, detailing and explaining usage of the basic functionality of the library, can be found in the examples directory.

Add the following to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
serenity = "0.5"

and to the top of your main.rs:

#[macro_use] extern crate serenity;

Serenity only supports the latest Stable, Beta, and Nightly.

Features can be enabled or disabled by configuring the library through Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.serenity]
default-features = false
features = ["pick", "your", "feature", "names", "here"]
version = "0.5"

The following is a full list of features:

• builder: The builders used in conjunction with models' methods.
• cache: The cache will store information about guilds, channels, users, and other data, to avoid performing REST requests. If you are low on RAM, do not enable this;
• client: A manager for shards and event handlers, abstracting work away handling shard events and updating the cache, if enabled.
• framework: Enables the framework, which is a utility to allow simple command parsing, before/after command execution, prefix setting, and more;
• gateway: A Shard, used as a higher-level interface for communicating with the Discord gateway over a WebSocket client.
• http: Functions providing a wrapper over Discord's REST API at a low enough level that optional parameters can be provided at will via a JsonMap.
• model: Method implementations for models, acting as helper methods over the HTTP functions.
• standard_framework: A standard, default implementation of the Framework
• utils: Utility functions for common use cases by users.
• voice: Enables compilation of voice support, so that voice channels can be connected to and audio can be sent/received.

Serenity requires the following dependencies:

• openssl

The following dependencies all require the voice feature to be enabled in your Cargo.toml:

• libsodium (Arch: community/libsodium)
• opus (Arch: extra/opus)

Voice+ffmpeg:

• ffmpeg (Arch: extra/ffmpeg)

Voice+youtube-dl:

• youtube-dl (Arch: community/youtube-dl)

• Discord.net
• JDA
• disco
• discordrb
• discord.js
• discord.py
• discord-rs