Migrating from discord¶

If you are coming from discord bot development there is a large similarity with this library and discord.py. The overall structure and behaviour of the library is similar allowing a nearly seamless transition.

Due to differences between Revolt and Discord a couple things have changed in behaviour and naming.

Guild is now Server¶

The official API documentation calls the “Server” concept a “Server” instead of how Discord handles it.

A list of differences is as follows:

Discord	Revolt
`Message.guild`	`Message.server`
`GuildChannel.guild`	`ServerChannel.server`
`Client.guilds`	`Client.servers`
`Client.get_guild`	`Client.get_server()`
`Role.guild`	`Role.server`
`Invite.guild`	`Invite.server`
`Member.guild`	`Member.server`
`Permissions.manage_guild`	`Permissions.manage_server`
`Client.create_guild`	`Client.create_server()`

Self Bots¶

Unlike Discord, self bots are allowed and are to a certain extent encouraged. These can be used to enhance and customise your Revolt experience. You have the option to login as a user or as a bot the two are functionality identical. The different connection methods are as follows:

# Login as a user
client = Client().run(
    session_token="session_token",
    user_id="user_id"
)

# Login as a bot
client = Client().run("bot_token")