Discord is one of the most popular communicator all over the world. Discord ensures text and voice communiacton protocol for many communities. Developers of this amazing communicator gives opportunity for other independent developers to integrate thier products with Discord. One of the most interesting option is to share your's activty with rest of the community. This can be reached with Discord Rich Presecne.
There is official Discord Rich Presence API (discord-rpc) but officially it supports only C, C++, Unity and Unreal Engine. There are also featured some unofficial wrappers in other languages but not in Python. This project contains the simple wrapper written in Python to communicate with Discord app via inter-process communication techniques.
In the package you can find:
- The most important tools that provides methods to connect to Discord and communicate with it via Discord IPC socket.
- Simple example how to use Discord Rich Presence.
Wrapper is easily extendable, just read the code/documentation and write your own payload that covers your point of interests. It should be easy because you are developer, am I right?
Full documentation can be found here: Welcome to documentation of Discord Rich Presence Client!
There is no package avaible in Python PyPi because there are only four short files that you should be interseted in:
- discord_ipc.py - Discord Rich Presence API wrapper
- os_dependencies.py - expected localizations to Discord IPC socket on specific platforms
- payloads.py - templates and descriptions of payloads that can be send to Discord
- discord_rpc_client.py - main entry point, example usage of wrapper
You can find all necessary files in folder named src, just download it.
There is no need to install requirements.txt because it contains packages needed to use Sphinx documentation tool only.
Firstly you should visit Discord developers site and register your application. After that your unique Client ID should be generated. Nextly download src folder from the repository and open file named discord_rpc_client.py.
In line 22 you should replace ClientID parameter with ID generated in last step.
ipc = discord_ipc.DiscordIPC("ClientID")
You are ready to go just save the file, open Discord app and run program with command in terminal:
python discrod_rpc_client.py
Community should see that your status changed!
| OS | status |
|---|---|
| Windows | ✅ tested |
| Linux | ✅ tested |
| MacOS | ✅ tested |
If any error occured, I will be really happy to help you with the problem but it will be nice to see the error message. You can change logger mode and paste log contnet into GitHub issue page.
Replace line 23 in discord_ipc.py with:
logger_level = "DEBUG"
Ensure that file discord_ipc.log does not exist in folder where discord_ipc.py is. If file exists, delete it.
After that run program:
python discrod_rpc_client.py
Open discord_ipc.log file and copy the content.
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Copyright (c) 2018 Maciej Bedra
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