I want to make a command where an admin can change the prefix for commands (eg: instead of using "." they can change it to "-" and only "-" will work if they do) I'd be able to setup the permissions to make only admins able to use the command
I've looked around, through the docs & interwebs but haven't found anything and I haven't had any idea on how to do this
You should use the command_prefix argument for discord.Bot this accepts either a string (meaning one bot wide prefix) or a callable (meaning a function that returns a prefix based on a condition).
Your condition relies on the invoking message. Therefore you can allow guilds to define their own prefixes. I'll use a dict as a simple example:
...
custom_prefixes = {}
#You'd need to have some sort of persistance here,
#possibly using the json module to save and load
#or a database
default_prefixes = ['.']
async def determine_prefix(bot, message):
guild = message.guild
#Only allow custom prefixs in guild
if guild:
return custom_prefixes.get(guild.id, default_prefixes)
else:
return default_prefixes
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = determine_prefix, ...)
bot.run()
@commands.command()
@commands.guild_only()
async def setprefix(self, ctx, *, prefixes=""):
#You'd obviously need to do some error checking here
#All I'm doing here is if prefixes is not passed then
#set it to default
custom_prefixes[ctx.guild.id] = prefixes.split() or default_prefixes
await ctx.send("Prefixes set!")
For a great example of this in use, refer to Rapptz (the creator of discord.py)'s very own RoboDanny bot, he made it a public repo for educational purposes as an example. In specific, see prefix_callable function, it's a more robust version of my determine_prefix example.