Discord Bot Tutorial#2Adding Options (Arguments) to Slash Commands!

Hi there! It's Mojangcam 🙌 Last time, we built a basic slash command, /hello, remember?

This time, we'll build a slash command that takes user input and acts on it. Something like /say message:안녕!

📦 The Code

Once again, we're using Python and discord.py. Take a look at the code below first👇

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

intents = discord.Intents.default()
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="/", intents=intents)

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    await bot.tree.sync()
    print(f"✅ {bot.user} is ready!")

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description="A simple greeting command")
async def hello(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    await interaction.response.send_message("Hello!")

@bot.tree.command(name="say", description="Repeats the message you type!")
@app_commands.describe(message="Enter the message to repeat.")
async def say(interaction: discord.Interaction, message: str):
    await interaction.response.send_message(f"You said: {message}")

bot.run("YOUR_TOKEN")

🧪 What It Looks Like in Action

What happens if you type this into a Discord chat?

/say message:안녕 나는 봇이야

👇 The bot replies like this:

You said: 안녕 나는 봇이야 ("Hi, I'm a bot" in Korean)

📌 You Can Use Many Other Option Types, Too!

Type Description Example

🧠 Wrapping Up

Slash commands that take options make your bot far more versatile! Next time, we'll look at Enum-style options that limit the choices, or grouping subcommands (Command Groups)!

If you have any questions, leave them in the comments or the guestbook 🙌 Thanks for reading!