Setting Different Statuses on Your Bot

You've probably seen a bot or two have a status message under their username in the member bar set to something such as Playing Commands: .help.

This guide shows how to set such a status, so your bot can have one as well.

Please note:

If you want to change the bot status, it is suggested to not do so during the on_ready event, since it would be called many times and making an API call on that event has a chance to disconnect the bot.

The status should not have a problem being set during runtime with change_presence, in the examples shown below.

Instead, set the desired status using the activity / status kwarg of commands.Bot, for example:

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", activity=..., status=...)

The following are examples of what you can put into the activity keyword argument.

Setting 'Playing' Status¶

await client.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(name="a game"))

Setting 'Streaming' Status¶

await client.change_presence(activity=discord.Streaming(name="My Stream", url=my_twitch_url))

Setting 'Listening' Status¶

await client.change_presence(activity=discord.Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.listening, name="a song"))

Setting 'Watching' Status¶

await client.change_presence(activity=discord.Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.watching, name="a movie"))

Add Optional Status as Well:¶

• discord.Status.online (default, green icon)
• discord.Status.idle (yellow icon)
• discord.Status.do_not_disturb (red icon)
• discord.Status.offline (gray icon)