The examples listed in each directory demonstrate different use cases of the library, and increasingly show more advanced or in-depth code.

All examples have documentation for new concepts, and try to explain any new concepts. Examples should be completed in order, so as not to miss any documentation.

If you are looking for voice examples, they can be found in songbird's repository and on lavalink-rs

To provide a token for them to use, you need to set the DISCORD_TOKEN environmental variable to the Bot token.
If you don't like environment tokens, you can hardcode your token in instead.
TIP: A valid token starts with M, N or O and has 2 dots.

To run an example, you have various options:

1. cargo-make

• Install cargo-make cargo install --force cargo-make

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity.git

• CD into the serenity folder: cd serenity

• Run cargo make 1, where 1 is the number of the example you wish to run; these are:

  1 => Basic Ping Bot: A bare minimum serenity application.
  2 => Transparent Guild Sharding: How to use sharding and shared cache.
  3 => Structure Utilities: Simple usage of the utils feature.
  4 => Message Builder: A demonstration of the message builder utility, to generate messages safely.
  5 => Command Framework: The main example, where it's demonstrated how to use serenity's command framework,
  along with most of its utilities.
  This example also shows how to share data between events and commands, using `Context.data`
  6 => Simple Bot Structure: An example showing the recommended file structure to use.
  7 => Env Logging: How to use the tracing crate along with serenity.
  8 => Shard Manager: How to get started with using the shard manager.
  9 => Create Message Builder: How to send embeds and files.
  10 => Collectors: How to use the collectors feature to wait for messages and reactions.
  11 => Gateway Intents: How to use intents to limit the events the bot will receive.
  12 => Global Data: How to use the client data to share data between commands and events safely.
  13 => Parallel Loops: How to run tasks in a loop with context access.
  Additionally, show how to send a message to a specific channel.
  14 => Slash Commands: How to use the low level slash command API.
  15 => Simple Dashboard: A simple dashboard to control and monitor the bot with `rillrate`.
  16 => SQLite Database: How to run an embedded SQLite database alongside the bot using SQLx
  17 => Message Components: How to structure and use buttons and select menus
  18 => Webhook: How to construct and call a webhook
  

2. Manually running:

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity.git
• Run the example of choice, selected using the -p flag: cargo run --release -p e01_basic_ping_bot

3. Copy Paste:

• Copy the contents of the example into your local binary project
  (created via cargo new test-project --bin)
  and ensuring that the contents of the Cargo.toml file contains that of the example's [dependencies] section,
  and then executing cargo run.

If you have any questions, feel free to submit an issue with what can be clarified.

If you add a new example also add it to the following files:

• .github/workflows/ci.yml
• Makefile.toml
• examples/README.md