Categories On Help Command For Discord Bot

As you can see, the category says 'No category'. How can I change the category for a command? My code: @bot.command(pass_context=True) async def ping(ctx): '''Pong''' awai

Solution 1:

If you don't want the complexity of adding Cogs for a simple bot, you can rewrite the "No Category" string by modifying the HelpCommand: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.DefaultHelpCommand.no_category

For example:

...
from discord.ext import commands
...

# Change only the no_category default string
help_command = commands.DefaultHelpCommand(
    no_category = 'Commands'
)

# Create the bot and pass it the modified help_command
bot = commands.Bot(
    command_prefix = commands.when_mentioned_or('?'),
    description = description,
    help_command = help_command
)

The result should look like:

This is the bot description

​Commands:
  something Do something
...

Solution 2:

Help message categories are separated by cogs.

You can add cogs by using bot.add_cog(cog).

class SomeCategory:
    """Category documentations"""

    @commands.command(pass_context=True)
    async def ping(self, ctx):
        """Pong"""
        await bot.say(":ping_pong: Pong!")
        print ("user has pinged")

bot.add_cog(SomeCategory())

Solution 3:

Currently for any other people that come here, the syntax for creating cogs has been changed. Now your class has to inherit from commands.Cog and pass_context has been depreciated. So if you want to have a cog in the same file of the bot:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

class MyCog(commands.Cog):
   """Cog description"""

    @commands.command()
    async def ping(self, ctx):
        """Command description"""
        await ctx.send("Pong!")

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")
bot.add_cog(MyCog())
bot.run('token')

I recommend not doing this and having separate files for each cog, if you want a example on that, check out:

• The documentation
• An Example