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Basic Cogs Example (Discord.py rewrite)

This guide is on setting up cogs in discord.py.

What are cogs?

Cogs are used to split up your bot in different files.

Why cogs?

To organize your bot.
To avoid having tons of lines of codes in a single file.
To avoid messy code.

⚠️ Notice

This guide is for discord.py 1.7 version. In upcoming v2.0, Webhooks were greatly overhauled and in fact simplified a lot. They no longer require adapters. Usage of webhooks is now quite straight forward. As such, this guide is now outdated and should not be followed.

Furthermore, this guide is focused on discord.py. No support for forks are covered in this guide.

Basic Webhooks Example using Discord.py (Rewrite)

Webhooks are a great way to send messages to Discord without having a bot account. You just need a webhook URL and just do a POST request on that URL and the message will be sent to discord.

Webhooks can also be used if your bot has to send messages to a channel a lot. For example, If your bot has event logging so everytime having to fetch channel and sending can be slow so you can use some webhook magic.

Step 1 - Make a Discord Webhook

Find the Discord channel in which you would like to send commits and other updates
In the settings for that channel, find the Webhooks option and create a new webhook. Note: Do NOT give this URL out to the public. Anyone or service can post messages to this channel, without even needing to be in the server. Keep it safe!

Step 2 - Set up the webhook on Github

Navigate to your repository on Github, and open the Settings

	import ast
	import discord

	from discord.ext import commands


	def insert_returns(body):
	# insert return stmt if the last expression is a expression statement
	if isinstance(body[-1], ast.Expr):
	body[-1] = ast.Return(body[-1].value)