discord.py /slash cog

A drop-in vanilla discord.py cog that acts as a translation layer to add slash command support with little to no code modifications, no forks needed

Features:

• Automatically generates a command map with argument listing for the entire bot
• Wraps around existing discord.py Context, almost no code modifications needed
• Automatic Multi-Instance bot detection (currently, it will only register if there is no shards or the bot runs shard 0)

General TO-DOs & RFCs:

• Make the cog more modular in order to support more customizations
• Allow registering guild-specific commands
• Allow preventing the cog from automatically registering global commands

Unsupported Features (Unsupported by Discord):

• Translation for Custom checks
• Translation for @commands.check_any()
• is_owner (commands currently hidden)
• is_nsfw (commands currently hidden)
• *has_permissions (only roles and user IDs are accepted)
• bot_has_(any)?_role
• guild_only
• dm_only

Fork Support:

I personally won't provide support for forks as for simplicity's sake I will be basing this cog on Rapptz/discord.py master v2.0.0a. However, fork-specific pull requests are allowed.

A word though, because everyone is making their own forks of discord.py, I would suggest changing up the readme to include what changes and features the fork has added apart from API parity and maintenance just to make everybody's lives easier.

Usage:

Simply install the pip package with:

pip install -U slash_cog

Then in your bot's cog loader, load the cog (CRITICAL: Load it as the first extension as the cog needs to monkey patch command checks):

bot.load_extension("slash_cog")

P.S. If this project / POC has been useful sponsor me pls, iambroke