To install the library, you can just run the following command:

# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U lightdiscord

# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U lightdiscord

⚠️ If the size of the library and the proximity with the discord api is not absolutely necessary for you, https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py may be a better option.

• Easy to use and quick to learn
• Currently the smallest alternative to discord.py
• Support custom listeners
• Support multiple bot instances
• Full support for Bot and User accounts
• Support proxies
• Customizable user agent
• Low level: directly interact with the discord api and manage cache as you want

First, you need to import lightdiscord. You can then create a bot object, specify a token and optional features:

• user: A boolean (True for user accounts, False by default)
• listeners: A dictionnary containing your events listeners and the API endpoint
• proxy: A proxy (None for no proxies, None by default)
• user_agent: The user agent sent to discord

bot = lightdiscord.Bot(
    "YOUR_TOKEN", listeners={"READY": on_ready}
)

To start the bot, you need to use an async function. Here is an example with asyncio

import asyncio

async def main(loop):
    await bot.start()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(main(loop))
    loop.run_forever()

You can check https://github.com/Th0rgal/lightdiscord/blob/master/example.py