Dis.ml - An OCaml library for interfacing with the Discord API

This is a library for creating bots on Discord. Dis.ml uses JaneStreet's Async and Core libs and I highly recommend having a solid understanding of both of these before using this library.

Docs can be found here or generated using odoc and dune with dune build @doc

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State of the project

What is implemented?

• The full Discord REST API (Exposed through Disml.Http with abstractions on various models)
• Complete gateway support (sans voice)
• Automatic and manual sharding
• Event dispatch to a user-defined consumer that can be changed at runtime
• Automatic reconnection of dropped gateway connections, using RESUME when possible
• Automatic rate limit handling for REST requests
• Cache

What is not implemented?

• Abstractions for Discord Objects (Mostly Completed)
• Voice

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Getting started

In order to get started you'll first need to install OCaml (of course). I recommend using OPAM and Dune as a package manager and build tool respectively.

As of release 0.2.5 (12 February 2019), disml is published on OPAM and installable by running

opam install disml

If you would like to use the development version, run

opam pin add disml --dev-repo

Note: The dev repo relies on being pinned to the latest ppx_deriving_yojson due to breaking changes in yojson.1.6.0. You can pin the package with opam pin add ppx_deriving_yojson --dev-repo

If you do not use opam, see disml.opam for build instructions.

You'll find an example bot in /bin directory.

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Examples

Robust example

/bin/bot.ml Note: I use this for most of my testing involving API compat, so you'll likely see some bizarre commands.

Basic example

open Async
open Core
open Disml
open Models

(* Create a function to handle message_create. *)
let check_command (message:Message.t) =
    if String.is_prefix ~prefix:"!ping" message.content then
        Message.reply message "Pong!" >>> ignore

let main () =
    (* Register the event handler *)
    Client.message_create := check_command;
    (* Start the client. It's recommended to load the token from an env var or other config file. *)
    Client.start "My token" >>> ignore

let _ =
    (* Launch the Async scheduler. You must do this for anything to work. *)
    Scheduler.go_main ~main ()