feat: ✨ Allow changing base url with Route.API_BASE_URL (#2714)

* ✨ Refactor API base URL handling in Route class

* 📝 CHANGELOG.md

Author: Paillat-dev

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ These changes are available on the `master` branch, but have not yet been releas
   ([#2579](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2579))
 - Added new `Subscription` object and related methods/events.
   ([#2564](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2564))
+- Added ability to change the API's base URL with `Route.API_BASE_URL`.
+  ([#2714](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2714))
 
 ### Fixed
 

discord/http.py

@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ async def json_or_text(response: aiohttp.ClientResponse) -> dict[str, Any] | str
 
 
 class Route:
+    API_BASE_URL: str = "https://discord.com/api/v{API_VERSION}"
+
     def __init__(self, method: str, path: str, **parameters: Any) -> None:
         self.path: str = path
         self.method: str = method
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ def __init__(self, method: str, path: str, **parameters: Any) -> None:
 
     @property
     def base(self) -> str:
-        return f"https://discord.com/api/v{API_VERSION}"
+        return self.API_BASE_URL.format(API_VERSION=API_VERSION)
 
     @property
     def bucket(self) -> str: