discord-bots

[abstract owl]

ayee ty so much bro

[sick birch]

See here for more information https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/commands.html#bool

[abstract owl]

also one more doubt i have a configuration bot that basically works on the json file and a main bot which works on everything and everytime i like use a command of configuration bot it just throws an error in the main bot saying that xyz variable is Refrenved before assignment. The reason being for a split second the data inside json file is deleted and a new data is dumped. Any way to overcome it?

[abstract owl]

i will, tysm

[sick birch]

I don't think the "variable" being referenced has to do with how writing to JSON works
Can you give us more information?

[desert heart]

I think the library is called intersphinx. Refer to the @unkempt canyon source code to see how it was used. I don't know the details well.

[abstract owl]

I'll give more updates about it in the morning its almost 4 for me rn and I'm heading to bed. I'll open the lappy up in mrng and send you some snippets. My main problem as of now is resolved, thanks to you.

[real badger]

I get the error:
AttributeError: 'Guild' object has no attribute 'category'
What do I do?

[cloud dawn]

What are you trying to do?

[fading marlin]

perhaps you meant categories?

[cloud dawn]

Does seems like he wants a specific one.

[real badger]

I want to test if a category exists

[sick birch]

if "category name" in [category.name for category in guild.categories]:
  ...

[real badger]

i figured it out it was categories not category

How do I create a channel in a certain category?

[cedar estuary]

still gets the bots author if i do it like this

[crimson mauve]

I seem to be misunderstanding you then.

[crimson mauve]

So your bot is taking the post of another person and reposting it in another channel?

[slate swan]

hey where could I move this return statement at?

[feral frost]

Code

            cursor.execute(f"SELECT user FROM liked WHERE id = {user1.id}")
                result = cursor.fetchone()

                if result is None:
                    sql = ("INSERT INTO liked(id, user) VALUES(?, ?)")
                    val = (user2.id, user2)

                    cursor.execute(sql, val)
                    db.commit()

                elif result is not None:
                    query = ("DELETE from liked WHERE user = ?")
                    params = [user2.id]

                    cursor.execute(query, params)
                    db.commit()

Error

cursor.execute(sql, val)
sqlite3.InterfaceError: Error binding parameter 1 - probably unsupported type.```

anyone knows what i need to do ?

[cedar estuary]

Can i send my code to you in dm or do i just put it here? So maybe then u get what i mean?

[crimson mauve]

Add the user ID to the footer of the new Embed, you will be able to access it from there as needed.

At this point it's up to you where to store the ID, I would pick footer because it's the simplest right now. Not unless you want to start learning databases.

[crimson mauve]

Remove it.

With that there it's blocking all the code under it from running.

[cedar estuary]

And how do i get it from the embed?

[mental hollow]

🤨

[crimson mauve]

lol

[mental hollow]

message.embeds[0].footer id assume

[crimson mauve]

!d discord.Message.embeds

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.embeds

A list of embeds the message has. If Intents.message_content is not enabled this will always be an empty list unless the bot is mentioned or the message is a direct message.

[mental hollow]

ya

[crimson mauve]

there we go

[young dagger]

How can I fix this?
discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound: Member "29455219532952935" not found.

@client.command()
async def warn(ctx, member: discord.Member = None, *, reason: str=None):

    if reason is None:
        await ctx.send("You must provide a reason for the warning.")
        return

    if member is None:
        await ctx.send("Could not find that member. Please try again.")
        return```

[real badger]

How do I delete a category and everything in it in a button?

[feral frost]

pls help

[umbral mesa]

If you want to get an attachment like image or video ect from a message try "ctx.message.attachments[0].url"

[real badger]

someone?

[feral frost]

explain a bit more

[real badger]

whats the pastebin link?

[feral frost]

huh ?

[real badger]

for the python discord whats the pastebin

[feral frost]

for python discord ?

[crimson mauve]

I'll figure it out some day

[real badger]

!pastebin

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[crimson mauve]

I was almost there

[real badger]

xd

[feral frost]

i didnt understand

[real badger]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/sawepaxezu
This is the code, It needs to delete the category, the text channel, and the voice channel

[crimson mauve]

#databases

What you are asking for is not really what we do in this channel.

[feral frost]

yep already put it there

but it is about discord bots so it can be both

[crimson mauve]

What did they have to say?

[feral frost]

me ?

[crimson mauve]

Sorry, that's not how this works.

[feral frost]

well to late

[crimson mauve]

Good luck then

[feral frost]

thanks

[real badger]

are you able to help me based on the code i sent?

[feral frost]

sure

ill have a look

[crimson mauve]

What do you have so far?

[real badger]

@crimson mauve

[feral frost]

with a button ? you said

[real badger]

yeah

it would have to happen in class suite_close

[crimson mauve]

looking over it

try

   @discord.ui.button(label = "Create a Suite", style = discord.ButtonStyle.blurple, custom_id = "PlasmaBotsuite_button")
    async def ticket(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button):
        await interaction.response.defer()
        suiteCategory = utils.get(interaction.guild.categories, name = f"{interaction.user.name}'s Suite")

[real badger]

how do I delete the category? Because it is not a channel. Also how do I delete the voice channel?

[dull basalt]

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

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!', intents= discord.Intents.all())

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"We have logged in!")
    try:
        synced = await bot.tree.sync()
        print(f"Synced {len(synced)} command")
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description="say hello")
async def hello(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    await interaction.response.send_message(f"Hello {interaction.user.mention}!")
    
bot.run(12345)# I know that is not the bot token. ````






\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 672, in connect
    raise PrivilegedIntentsRequired(exc.shard_id) from None
discord.errors.PrivilegedIntentsRequired: Shard ID None is requesting privileged intents that have not been explicitly enabled in the developer portal. It is recommended to go to https://discord.com/developers/applications/ and explicitly enable the privileged intents within your application's page. If this is not possible, then consider disabling the privileged intents instead.

does anyone know how to fix this

[crimson mauve]

!d discord.CategoryChannel.delete

[unkempt canyon]

discord.CategoryChannel.delete

await delete(*, reason=None)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Deletes the channel.

You must have [`manage_channels`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.manage_channels "discord.Permissions.manage_channels") to do this.

[tawny junco]

Did you activate the privileged intents on the developer portal?

[dull basalt]

i can't find it

[real badger]

That works! How do I search for the voice channel because the voice channel is named General and I am worried about deleting other voice channels named General?@crimson mauve

[dull basalt]

do u see it

@tawny junco this is the thing of perms and scopes i can give it ^

[tawny junco]

I found it

Go to the bot tab and it should be right there

[tawny junco]

Yes

[dull basalt]

it is already enabled

i am rly confused bc it is checked it has admin perms and has no errors and it still is broken

[tawny junco]

Try this

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

[dull basalt]

like this?

[tawny junco]

Yes. Does it work

[dull basalt]

no same error

[young dagger]

How do I add a message if memebr is not found?
discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound: Member "29455219532952935" not found.

@client.command()
async def warn(ctx, member: discord.Member = None, *, reason: str=None):

    if reason is None:
        await ctx.send("You must provide a reason for the warning.")
        return

    if member is None:
        await ctx.send("Could not find that member. Please try again.")
        return```

[tawny junco]

I haven't worked with tree yet so idk. It's probably tied to that

[dull basalt]

ok should i just ask around to see if anyone knows

[real badger]

How many commands do you have on your bot @dull basalt

[dull basalt]

1 bc i am trying to find the issue

[crimson mauve]

You can grab it by ID

!d discord.Client.get_channel

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Client.get\_channel

get_channel(id, /)```
Returns a channel or thread with the given ID.

Changed in version 2.0: `id` parameter is now positional-only.

[primal token]

!d discord.ext.commands.Command.error

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Command.error

@error```
A decorator that registers a coroutine as a local error handler.

A local error handler is an [`on_command_error()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error "discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error") event limited to a single command. However, the [`on_command_error()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error "discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error") is still invoked afterwards as the catch-all.

Changed in version 2.0: `coro` parameter is now positional-only.

[primal token]

also your annotations arent correct

[real badger]

How do I find the channel id?

[tawny junco]

Maybe a try exception block?

[young dagger]

What do you mean?

[real badger]

I would reccomend just switching to slash commands now

[crimson mauve]

Now that depends.

[dull basalt]

lighgeb it is on slash commands

[real badger]

why did you define a command prefix

[primal token]

when adding default values you must provide the type of the default value if its not the same as the one being expected

TL;DR you must be explicit with default values

e.g

# Wrong
def foo(bar: Bar = None) -> None:
    ...


# Correct 
def foo(bar: Bar | None = None) -> None:
    ...

[young dagger]

You mean like this?

async def warn(ctx, member: discord.Member = None, *, reason: str=None):```

[crimson mauve]

Because ZippyIstheBest* Is objectionably the best way to start any command.

[primal token]

Since you made an edit, my last statement is not valid anymore. No, please give a look at the annotations of arguments on both function definitions, look at both of the parameters of both functions

[real badger]

how

[dull basalt]

@real badger wdym

[real badger]

@dull basalt wdym wdym

[dull basalt]

oh

i see

do i not need that

[young dagger]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/bufayayesi

It's still not showing any message if member not found

[crimson mauve]

Don't have them both named General
then grab by name

!d discord.utils.get

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.get

discord.utils.get(iterable, /, **attrs)```
A helper that returns the first element in the iterable that meets all the traits passed in `attrs`. This is an alternative for [`find()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.utils.find "discord.utils.find").

When multiple attributes are specified, they are checked using logical AND, not logical OR. Meaning they have to meet every attribute passed in and not one of them.

To have a nested attribute search (i.e. search by `x.y`) then pass in `x__y` as the keyword argument.

If nothing is found that matches the attributes passed, then `None` is returned.

Changed in version 2.0: The `iterable` parameter is now positional-only.

Changed in version 2.0: The `iterable` parameter supports [asynchronous iterable](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-asynchronous-iterable "(in Python v3.11)")s...

[real badger]

I named it something different and it works

[young dagger]

Why doesn't the "except discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound:" work for this code? https://paste.pythondiscord.com/bufayayesi

[desert heart]

Because when an argument to a command is invalid, discord.py will not execute the code in the command - it will raise an error before it gets to that point.

If you want to have custom error handling, have a look here https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/commands.html#error-handling

[crimson mauve]

[young dagger]

Thank you

[slate swan]

How can I make my bot play song from youtube with youtube_dl ?

[crimson mauve]

Downloading videos is against YouTube ToS.

[slate swan]

It doesn't have to do with downloading videos

I just have !play command and next to it I add the youtube url and then I want my bot to play the video

[crimson mauve]

youtube_dl
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Hmmmmm

[sick birch]

!ytdl

[unkempt canyon]

Per Python Discord's Rule 5, we are unable to assist with questions related to youtube-dl, pytube, or other YouTube video downloaders, as their usage violates YouTube's Terms of Service.

For reference, this usage is covered by the following clauses in YouTube's TOS, as of 2021-03-17:

The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:

1. access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as specifically permitted by the Service;  (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

3. access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except: (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file; (b) with YouTube’s prior written permission; or (c) as permitted by applicable law;

9. use the Service to view or listen to Content other than for personal, non-commercial use (for example, you may not publicly screen videos or stream music from the Service)

[sick birch]

We won't help with projects that breach terms of service here, sorry

[slate swan]

Ok is there another way for doing the thing I want?

[desert heart]

Find a service that allows you to use their content in such way. Or play media files that are stored locally.

[shrewd apex]

if u are just practicing u could use anime and movie websites

[slate swan]

if i have a users authorid in a variable called id so how can i send direct messages to the player using the id variable?

await message.id.send

does not work, dunno if it's even supposed to work

[sick birch]

await bot.get_user(id).send("Hello, world!")

[ionic garden]

so, i wanna check an arbitrary error against a bunch of dev-defined errors that might arise
however, i came upon this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42378726
should i worry about it?

[sick birch]

This is mostly for iterables

Checking for errors should be pretty fast

[ionic garden]

alr cool

[ionic garden]

not sure if this is against the spirit of async in & of itself, but i want the bot to print out when it's finished syncing

        print("Syncing commands globally...")
        await bot.tree.sync()
        print("Synced commands!")

however, this obviously doesn't work

[pulsar kettle]

Kick error does not get bot to send the missing perms message, instead the error just shows in the terminal

@bot.tree.command(name='kick', description='Kicks a member from the server')
@has_permissions(kick_members=True)
async def kick(interaction: discord.Interaction, member: discord.Member, reason: str=None):
    guild = interaction.guild
    await member.send(f"You have been kicked from: ***{guild.name}*** | {reason}")
    await member.kick(reason=reason)
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'***{member} has been kicked*** | {reason}'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)

@bot.listen()
async def on_command_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.MissingPermissions):
        await ctx.send(":redTick: You don't have permission to use this command!")
    else:
        raise error```

[slate swan]

Hey

for some reason

my welcome message don't work

and it does not have a error

when a member joins

async def dm_all(ctx, *, message = None):
        if message != None:
                members = ctx.guild.members
for member in members:
        try:
                await member.send(message)
except:
        pass
else:
        await ctx.send("Please provide an message!")``` I can't seem to figure out where i messed up on the indentation. error states: ```  File "/root/roof.py", line 30
    except:
IndentationError: unexpected unindent``` help.

[flat marsh]

hello i created a bot

and when i write in my server i get blank strings

printed out

not the actual messages

If anyone is up to help, it would be appreaciated, im up at 1am trying to figure this issue out for 3hrs now

[slate swan]

...

[desert heart]

Hard to tell by looking at it, so I rewrote all the indents. Try this ```py
@client.command()
async def dm_all(ctx, *, message = None):
if message != None:
members = ctx.guild.members
for member in members:
try:
await member.send(message)
except:
pass
else:
await ctx.send("Please provide an message!")

Also, don't use except:. Catch the actual exceptions you expect to be raised.

At a minimum use except Exception:, but even then you should try to be more specific

[sick birch]

Can you specify what you mean by "doesn't work"?

[slate swan]

thank you

[sick birch]

This is because on_command_error only picks up prefix commands, while you have a slash command

[ionic garden]

i mean it sends "syncing finished" almost immediately after the first message

[sick birch]

But did it sync?

[ionic garden]

wait uh dumb question

when await is called, it does not wait for it to finish right? does it like start a new process & move on or smth?

[pulsar kettle]

So how can i adapt MissingPermission errors to slash commands?

[sick birch]

@kick.error
async def kick_error(ctx, error):
  ...

should still work

[sick birch]

Only the coroutine is blocked

[flat marsh]

Would anyone know why printing message.content returns an empty string aka an empty line is printed everytime i write something in my server with the bot in it

[sick birch]

But await does await for the task to finish
That's the whole point

[sick birch]

!intents

[unkempt canyon]

Using intents in discord.py

Intents are a feature of Discord that tells the gateway exactly which events to send your bot. Various features of discord.py rely on having particular intents enabled, further detailed in its documentation. Since discord.py v2.0.0, it has become mandatory for developers to explicitly define the values of these intents in their code.

There are standard and privileged intents. To use privileged intents like Presences, Server Members, and Message Content, you have to first enable them in the Discord Developer Portal. In there, go to the Bot page of your application, scroll down to the Privileged Gateway Intents section, and enable the privileged intents that you need. Standard intents can be used without any changes in the developer portal.

Afterwards in your code, you need to set the intents you want to connect with in the bot's constructor using the intents keyword argument, like this:

from discord import Intents
from discord.ext import commands

# Enable all standard intents and message content
# (prefix commands generally require message content)
intents = Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

For more info about using intents, see discord.py's related guide, and for general information about them, see the Discord developer documentation on intents.

[ionic garden]

what's the coroutine here?

[sick birch]

hard to tell since I don't have context as to what function it's in

on_ready, maybe? setup_hook perhaps

[pulsar kettle]

Is there a way I can make it apply for every command? Or do I haev to rewrite the code for each command

[flat marsh]

But i did nextcord.Client() which should make all intents true by default, no?

[flat marsh]

.

[sick birch]

async def on_error(...):
  ...

bot.tree.on_error = on_error

[sick birch]

No

You need to specify which intents you want

message_content is the one that gives you the content to the message

@pulsar kettle see here for documentation details https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html?highlight=on_error#discord.app_commands.CommandTree.on_error

[flat marsh]

Ive enabled message content in the discord portal website so i dont know if its a problem

[sick birch]

Have you enabled it in your code as well?

[flat marsh]

No

[sick birch]

Do that as well

[flat marsh]

How could i do that, im quite new to this

[sick birch]

see here

[flat marsh]

Kk

So basically i have to make the intents into code, alr will do and update u in a minute

[pulsar kettle]

I tried this for individual commands but it still doesn't work:

@kick.error
async def kick_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.MissingPermissions):
        await ctx.send(":redTick: You don't have permission to use this command!")
    else:
        raise error```

I'll keep experimenting

[flat marsh]

IT WORKS

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I can finally go sleep now

Tmrw is school 💀

[sick birch]

Good luck!

[slate swan]

hey @shrewd apex , i'm taking another look at ur pagimation and got a question.

you have assert isinstance(items, list) so if I define list as a class elsewhere in the code, whatever data is in the list, it can return that as items then right?

[sick birch]

Add a print statement to see if it's being called at all

[pulsar kettle]

What do I print? (I'm being smoothbrain rn sorry)

[rare echo]

anything

"test" , "success", "called"

[sick birch]

Anything really

We just want to see if the function is being called at all

[primal token]

I usually just print 1 lol

[sick birch]

works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[primal token]

def test() -> None:
    print("Robin called me")

[pulsar kettle]

So like this?:

@kick.error
async def kick_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, MissingPermissions):
        await ctx.send(":redTick: You don't have permission to use this command!")
        print("success")
    else:
        raise error```

[primal token]

just after the function definition

[pulsar kettle]

Success
success
Task exception was never retrieved```

It prints it twice

[sick birch]

Now can you print(type(error))?

[shut elk]

oi, can anyone help me with my bot, i posted in python help

[pulsar kettle]

<class 'discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError'>
Task exception was never retrieved```

[sick birch]

Ah, that's why

[pulsar kettle]

Is it not a missing perms thing?

[sick birch]

The missing permission error is wrapped inside a CommandInvokeError

@kick.error
async def kick_error(ctx, error):
  error = error.original if isinstance(error, app_commands.CommandInvokeError) else original
  ...

This will unwrap the nested error from out the CommandInvokeError container

[pulsar kettle]

app_commands and original "is not defined Pylance"

[golden portal]

tbh, should just use getattr, since there are multiple error other than CommandInvokeError that wraps the error

[sick birch]

Yeah you'd have to import it

getattr is a better approach, yeah

error = getattr(error, "original", error)

@pulsar kettle use instead

[pulsar kettle]

Yes it works! Tysm guys <3

Can I just copy and paste that for every command too?

[sick birch]

A global error handler would probably be better then

[sick birch]

See here for how to bind an on error to your tree

[pulsar kettle]

Aight, I’ll try it out 👍

[slate swan]

can someone help it keeps saying TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'dict'

[subtle jolt]

how do i delete an application command? No matter what I try, i get every status code but 204

[civic fractal]

that happens when you pass a value which cannot be converted to an integer to int

!e py non_integer_value = {"key": "value"} as_an_integer = int(non_integer_value)

[unkempt canyon]

@civic fractal :x: Your 3.11 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
003 | TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a real number, not 'dict'

[sick birch]

.http_status 204

[lament depot]

**Status: 204**

[sick birch]

204 is not bad

[clear elm]

does anyonne know how to make a timed mute command? i have a mute command, i just wanna make it so you can control how long they're muted for

@client.command(description="Mutes the specified user.")
@commands.has_permissions(timeout_members=True)
async def mute(ctx, member: discord.Member, *, reason=None):
    guild = ctx.guild
    mutedRole = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name="Muted")

    if not mutedRole:
        mutedRole = await guild.create_role(name="Muted")

        for channel in guild.channels:
            await channel.set_permissions(mutedRole, speak=False, send_messages=False, read_message_history=True, read_messages=False)

    await member.add_roles(mutedRole, reason=reason)
    await ctx.send(f"Muted {member.mention} for reason {reason}")
    await member.send(f"You were muted in the server {guild.name} for {reason}")```

[subtle jolt]

cant you use datetime?

[subtle jolt]

yeah thats what im trying to get..
is this the right code?

import requests
from btoken import TOKEN


url = 'https://discord.com/api/applications/903765373181112360/commands/1061192774742966342'

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {TOKEN}'
}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)```

[sick birch]

You're registering slash commands by hand?

[subtle jolt]

im deleting it because it still exists for some reason even when i removed the code for it multiple days ago

[sick birch]

Did you sync?

[subtle jolt]

if this counts as syncing

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    def __init__(self, *, intents: discord.Intents):
        super().__init__(intents=intents)
        self.tree = app_commands.CommandTree(self)
    async def setup_hook(self):
        self.tree.copy_global_to(guild=MY_GUILD)
        await self.tree.sync(guild=MY_GUILD)```

do i need to make it global

[slate swan]

what's super() for?

*general question

[candid jacinth]

I have a working GPT chatbot and im looking for some assistane 1. Use our current chatGPT bot build a canned response chatbot on top of it that uses a database for responses. 2. Design and implement two databases: --A "canned" database for storing previous questions and answers that have been asked at least three times. --A "live" database for storing current questions and answers that have not yet been canned. 3. Write code to interface with the GPT API and the Discord bot. When a message is received: --Check the "canned" database for a matching question. --If a matching question is found, choose one of the previous responses at random (with a 1/3 chance for each) and send it to the Discord server. --If a matching question is not found, submit the question to the GPT API and save the question and answer to the "live" database. 4. Implement an accuracy system using difflib. If a question is similar (e.g., 95% similar) to a previous canned question, choose the corresponding answer for the most similar question. 5. Create a separate process that sorts through the "live" database and populates the "canned" database with any questions that have been asked at least three times. 6. As the "canned" database grows, consider lowering the temperature and max_token values and potentially using a different model such as Curie to improve the chatbot's responses. Overall, the goal of this chatbot is to create a community database of questions and answers that can be used by future developers to reduce token costs by avoiding unnecessary API calls. The chatbot will save on token costs by using previously asked questions and answers from the "canned" database when possible, while still providing a sense of randomness and organic conversation by choosing responses at random. As the "canned" database grows, the chatbot's responses will become more cost-effective.

[slate swan]

it refers to the main instance of your subclass, for example ```py
class Hello(discord.Client):
def run(self) -> None:
# "i overrided this method"
super().run("...")

`super()` here would be the original discord.Client() instance that Hello wraps

ohhhh

ty

[slate swan]

how to fix

[civic fractal]

huh? you're trying to do something that is impossible

the solution is to not do that

[civic fractal]

kinda like if you said your calculator gave you an "error" when you tried to divide zero by zero

the way to "fix" it is to not try and divide zero by zero

[shrewd apex]

no lol i have multiple paginators handed down so thats for typehint purposes for my typechecker

[slate swan]

then i'm lost on how I can use it 😢 i cant just add this data and have a command include the embed i'm guessing?

        for member in ctx.guild.members:
            self.DataPost[f"Member: {member.name} Member.ID {member.id}\n"] = None

        for role in ctx.guild.roles:
            self.DataPost[f"Role: {role.name} Role.ID {role.id}\n"] = None

        for category in ctx.guild.categories:
            self.DataPost[f"Category: {category.name} Category.ID {category.id}\n"] = None

        for channel in ctx.guild.channels:
            self.DataPost[f"Channel: {channel.name} Channel.ID {channel.id}\n"] = None
or
        list = []
        for member in ctx.guild.members:
            list.append((member.name, member.id))
        for role in ctx.guild.roles:
            list.append((role.name, role.id))
        for category in ctx.guild.categories:
            list.append((category.name, category.id))
        for channel in ctx.guild.channels:
            list.append((channel.name, channel.id))

cause everything i've tried, keeps giving errors unless i'm supposed to just import this into another .py, idk what else to try ;.;

[ionic garden]

is there a way to hide a bot cog from the general public? like it won't even show up in the autocomplete in non-authorized servers?

[golden portal]

in a help command?

[shut elk]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1061809135303266305
can anyone help?

You can ping me here and tell me if u know, thx

[fading marlin]

You're not responding fast enough to the interaction

[real badger]

!pastebin

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[shut elk]

I put the pastebin there

click on the link

[shut elk]

wdym, and how can i fix it?

[fading marlin]

either defer or respond faster 🤷

[shut elk]

So would I have to put it at the start of the function?

[shut elk]

defer doesn't work for my code

Because I'm trying to edit msg with a view

and I don't think you can followup edit msg unless there is

[fading marlin]

you can edit_original_response

[shut elk]

But if i defer, I can't put the view there of making it (the button) disabled

[shut elk]

interaction. edit_original_response?

[fading marlin]

sure

[shut elk]

That works after defering?

Oh yeah cuz its not response

ok, I'll try it ty

[pulsar kettle]

Just finished fixing the handling error portion, however even though a member without kick_members cannot kick a member, the bot still sends the kick DM to the person without kicking them. I assume it has something to do with the way I put the DM before the kick since my bot cannot DM someone it does not share a server with, so how can I fix this?

@bot.tree.command(name='kick', description='Kicks a member from the server')
@has_permissions(kick_members=True)
async def kick(interaction: discord.Interaction, member: discord.Member, reason: str=None):
    guild = interaction.guild
    await member.send(f"You have been kicked from: ***{guild.name}*** | {reason}")
    await member.kick(reason=reason)
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'***{member} has been kicked*** | {reason}'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)

@kick.error
async def kick_error(interaction: discord.Interaction, error):
    error = getattr(error, "original", error)
    await interaction.response.send_message("You do not have permission to use this command!")```

[sick birch]

Not much you can do here honestly

Either you send the message after the kick and risk having the message not be delivered or you put up with with the message being sent regardless

[pulsar kettle]

Wait I just realised using the kick command kicks the member but the bot responds with "You do not have permission to use this command!" even tho the kick was successful

And it also didn't DM the member

[young dagger]

How can I show the timestamp using the format?

        timestamp = infraction["timestamp"]
        field_name = f"{infraction['type']} • <t:{timestamp}:f>"```

Doesn't look too good as you can tell

[shut elk]

aight it worked, thx a lot!

[fading marlin]

You're welcome!

[pulsar kettle]

@sick birch sorry for ping but any thoughts?

[fading marlin]

timestamp appears to be an object? probably a datetime object?

[young dagger]

So I need to convert it first?

[naive briar]

!d datetime.datetime.timestamp

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.datetime.timestamp

datetime.timestamp()```
Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") instance. The return value is a [`float`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float "float") similar to that returned by [`time.time()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.time "time.time").

Naive [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") instances are assumed to represent local time and this method relies on the platform C `mktime()` function to perform the conversion. Since [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") supports wider range of values than `mktime()` on many platforms, this method may raise [`OverflowError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#OverflowError "OverflowError") for times far in the past or far in the future.

For aware [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") instances, the return value is computed as:

```py
(dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)).total_seconds()
```   New in version 3.3.

Changed in version 3.6: The [`timestamp()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.timestamp "datetime.datetime.timestamp") method uses the [`fold`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.fold "datetime.datetime.fold") attribute to disambiguate the times during a repeated interval.

[naive briar]

!d discord.utils.format_dt

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.format\_dt

discord.utils.format_dt(dt, /, style=None)```
A helper function to format a [`datetime.datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "(in Python v3.11)") for presentation within Discord.

This allows for a locale-independent way of presenting data using Discord specific Markdown...

[naive briar]

Or that

[pulsar kettle]

Wait now it works wha
edit: ok nvm when I have the line await member.kick(reason=reason) BEFORE await member.send(...) the bot always responds with "You do not have permission to use this command!"

However it still kicks the member

[naive briar]

There's already a built-in kick command

[young dagger]

Oh yeah I remember this one.

        timestamp = infraction["timestamp"]
        fmt_time = discord.utils.format_dt(timestamp, "f")
        field_name = f"{infraction['type']} • {fmt_time}"```

[pulsar kettle]

Yeah but from what I know it doesn't dm the user

[ionic garden]

sure, in both help commands, & slash command autocomplete

[fading marlin]

!d discord.ext.commands.CogMeta you can pass a dictionary with its key as hidden and value as True to command_attrs

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.CogMeta

class discord.ext.commands.CogMeta(*args, **kwargs)```
A metaclass for defining a cog.

Note that you should probably not use this directly. It is exposed purely for documentation purposes along with making custom metaclasses to intermix with other metaclasses such as the [`abc.ABCMeta`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/abc.html#abc.ABCMeta "(in Python v3.11)") metaclass.

For example, to create an abstract cog mixin class, the following would be done...

[fading marlin]

Then you can filter commands in your help command and autocomplete

[golden portal]

no direct way to do it, but you can use CogMeta.command_attrs, and set hidden to True, if all commands are hidden, it wont show up in the help command, but if you want this dynamic, you should use Cog.cog_check, help command calls each checks on a command

[ionic garden]

where do i use this CogMeta?

[golden portal]

!d discord.ext.commands.CogMeta.command_attrs

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.CogMeta.command\_attrs

A list of attributes to apply to every command inside this cog. The dictionary is passed into the Command options at __init__. If you specify attributes inside the command attribute in the class, it will override the one specified inside this attribute. For example:

class MyCog(commands.Cog, command_attrs=dict(hidden=True)):
    @commands.command()
    async def foo(self, ctx):
        pass # hidden -> True

@commands.command(hidden=False)
    async def bar(self, ctx):
        pass # hidden -> False

[golden portal]

this example in particular, you dont really "use" the cogmeta, the cogmeta is already with the commands.Cog

[pulsar bridge]

Trying to send a list of items to a typing.Literal converter using a function that calls the needed items from an external text file, but I've hit a dead end.

async def funtTags(): # Function Defining
    async with aif.open((directory + '\\' + 'list.txt'), 'rt') as file: # Opens the list file
        tags = await file.read() # Reading file
        tags_dict = ast.literal_eval(tags) # As the file is a dictionary, I have to convert it
        x = tags_dict['tags'].keys() # Get the keys
        return x # Returns x

And the actual command

@client.tree.command(name='add_note', description="Save a quick note for instant access to it later!")
async def create(interaction: discord.Interaction, title: str, tags: typing.Literal[funtTags()], source: str = None): # <- Calling the function here
    print('Success')

Any ideas?

[naive briar]

Why

[desert heart]

You will have to create your own converter class. typing.Literal does not support dynamically specifying multiple values.

[pulsar bridge]

It's.. complex

[desert heart]

Or just perform the validation within the function

[pulsar bridge]

How'd I do that? for the latter one?
I still have yet to learn how to do either <.<;;

[naive briar]

!e

import inspect
import typing


attrs = {0: None, 1: None}.keys()
def cmd1(para: typing.Literal[attrs]):
    pass

print(inspect.signature(cmd1))

attrs = (0, 1)
def cmd2(para: typing.Literal[attrs]):
    pass

print(inspect.signature(cmd2))

[unkempt canyon]

@naive briar :white_check_mark: Your 3.11 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | (para: Literal[dict_keys([0, 1])])
002 | (para: Literal[0, 1])

[naive briar]

Either way, you shouldn't be doing this 🐈

[desert heart]

Oh, so the trick is just to use a tuple instead of a list

[pulsar bridge]

Why so?
I'll switch to using a database if need be

[desert heart]

async def my_command(...):
    if arg != what_is_allowed:
        raise BadArgument("some error message")```

If the file you're reading does not change, then you should cache its content to avoid reading it every time the command is invoked

[pulsar kettle]

Attempting to code a purge command, however upon running the command I always get the error discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'purge' raised an exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction which I suspect is because the purge deletes the command message so it cannot reply. How can I work around this?

@bot.tree.command(name='purge', description='Deletes a specified number of messages from a channel')
@discord.app_commands.checks.has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def purge(interaction: discord.Interaction, limit: int):
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'Purged {limit} messages'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.channel.purge(limit=limit)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)

@purge.error
async def purge_error(interaction: discord.Interaction, error):
    error = getattr(error, "original", error)
    await interaction.response.send_message("You do not have permission to purge messages!")```

[naive briar]

It took too long to respond

Defer the interaction before calling purge method

[pulsar kettle]

Like this?

async def purge(interaction: discord.Interaction, limit: int):
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'Purged {limit} messages'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.defer()
    await interaction.channel.purge(limit=limit)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)```

Because if so now I get the error discord.errors.InteractionResponded: This interaction has already been responded to before

[sick birch]

!d discord.Interaction.followup

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.followup

Returns the follow up webhook for follow up interactions.

[pulsar kettle]

Triedinteraction.followup.send, but bot doesn't send Purged {limit} messages and I still get the error discord.errors.InteractionResponded: This interaction has already been responded to before

async def purge(interaction: discord.Interaction, limit: int):
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'Purged {limit} messages'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.defer()
    await interaction.channel.purge(limit=limit)
    await interaction.followup.send(embed=embed)```

[slate swan]

what if u wanted to disable the kick command?

[young dagger]

How I can make a line break for each embed.add_field(name=field_name, value=field_value, inline=False)?

[slate swan]

like a divider between each embed?

[young dagger]

No same embed, between each infraction

[sick birch]

Oh, strange.
Just use interaction.channel.send() instead

[young dagger]

Is there any way to add new lines with (\n) in field_name?

[pulsar kettle]

Cool, bot now send Purged {limit} messages 3 seconds after the interaction, however the bot deletes {limit} - 1 messages, so if I input 5 it actually deletes 4 (excluding the initial command)> How can I fix that?

[slate swan]

like for a list? ye

[young dagger]

Each infraction is listed in field_name and field_value, same embed. I want to add a line break for each one of them

[sick birch]

You can just add 1 if you'd like

[pulsar kettle]

So Purged {limit + 1} messages?

[sick birch]

Yeh

[young dagger]

I tried to add it there but it didn't add a new line for next infraction

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/zokuputubu

I want each entry to have a space in between

[slate swan]

for this, i think u'd be better off doing 3 embeds inline=true. so then u have 3 columns

[young dagger]

I would like to have them separated and not inline

[slate swan]

@discord.app_commands.checks.has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def purge(interaction: discord.Interaction, limit: int):
    command_message = interaction.message
    await interaction.channel.purge(limit=limit)
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'Purged {limit} messages'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await command_message.channel.send(embed=embed)

@purge.error
async def purge_error(interaction: discord.Interaction, error):
    error = getattr(error, "original", error)
    await interaction.response.send_message("You do not have permission to purge messages!")

try this

[upbeat otter]

STOP SPOONFEEDING

[slate swan]

whats that

im trying to help someone out?

it was resolved in dms, if i did something wrong i apologise

[upbeat otter]

giving out code without explaining what you did

[slate swan]

im new to this server and will get inline with the rules

i apologise again, wont happen again

[upbeat otter]

no it's fine it's fine lol

[slate swan]

thanks for explaining that rule to me, ill take it into consideration next time

[upbeat otter]

don't apologize smh
I'm just saying that you should explain things first

[upbeat otter]

🛐

[pulsar kettle]

Trying to code my own AFK feature for my bot, but I am completely unsure on how I can get the bot to check if any mentioned user has "[AFK]" in their name, and if they do, the bot sends a message. Can anybody please help me out? (I will definitely need explanations because I have little idea on what I'm doing lol)

@bot.tree.command(name='afk', description='Sets an AFK status to display when you are mentioned by another member')
async def afk(interaction: discord.Interaction, reason: str=None):
    if interaction.user.nick == None:
        await interaction.user.edit(nick=(f'[AFK] {interaction.user.name}'))
        embed = discord.Embed(title=(f"Changed your status to AFK | {reason}"), color=0xf6ff00)
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)
    else:
        await interaction.user.edit(nick=(f'[AFK] {interaction.user.nick}'))
        embed = discord.Embed(title=(f"Changed your status to AFK | {reason}"), color=0xf6ff00)
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)```

So far I've only got the first part of the code working which adds [AFK] to somebody's username

[sick birch]

You'd check message.mentions inside an on_message

Loop through each Member in message.mentions, check if "[AFK]" in mentioned_member.nick

[slate swan]

tbh a database would work much better here but yeah you can do this as a shortcut

cons would be that bot won't be able to set afk for users with higher roles

or if a user changes their nickname themselves the afk will be removed

[pulsar kettle]

I'm fine with that since if the AFK member sends a message it would be removed anyways

Ideally

[ionic garden]

for a decorator check like this:

def is_registered():
    async def predicate(ctx: commands.Context) -> bool:
        if not dm.is_registered(ctx.author.id):
            raise UserNotRegistered
        return True

    return commands.check(predicate)
```i have to call it like so:
```py
@is_registered()
```this is a question that pertains more to python in general, but is there a way to code decorators so that parens aren't needed?

[slate swan]

you can use the @decorator syntax but im pretty sure this syntax is not supported by Python since version 2.4

dont quote me on that though

[pulsar kettle]

Probably completely wrong but:

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(message):
    if message.mentions:
        for member in guild:
            if "[AFK]" in mentioned_member.nick:
                await message.channel.send(f"This person is currently AFK.")

What do I need to fix in this

[slate swan]

!e ```py
def dont_need_to_call(callable):
def wrapper():
print("...")
return wrapper()

@dont_need_to_call
def foo(): ...

[unkempt canyon]

@slate swan :white_check_mark: Your 3.11 eval job has completed with return code 0.

...

[ionic garden]

ah, you call it in the decorator itself

thanks

[slate swan]

given that a check requires a context, this won't be valid for discord.py checks
but yeah you can use decorators without calling them over function

[slate swan]

for member in message.mentions:
    if "[AFK]" in member.display_name:
        # member is afk
``` you don't need to iterate on each guild member

[pulsar kettle]

And then do I use ctx.send('...') to get the bot to send a message?

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(message):
    if message.mentions:
        for member in message.mentions:
            if "[AFK]" in member.display_name:
                await ctx.send('This user is currently AFK')
            else:
                return
    else:
        return```

[slate swan]

message.channel.send

or message.reply if you wanna reply

[pulsar kettle]

Works great! Now is there a way for the bot to check if someone with [AFK] in their name sends a message, and when they do the bot replies to them and removes the [AFK] from their nick?

[subtle jolt]

if i set a button to disabled with button.disabled = True,
how do i update it if is in a slash command response?
this wont work await interaction.edit_original_response(view=self)

[slate swan]

disable it from view's children

!d discord.ui.View.children

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.View.children

property children```
The list of children attached to this view.

[slate swan]

use on_message event
check if "[AFK]" in message.author.display_name
if it is, use message.channel.send/message.reply to respond

and message.author.edit to change nickname again

[subtle jolt]

like this?

        for item in self.children:
            item.disabled = True```

[slate swan]

this will disable all buttons yeah

[subtle jolt]

yeah that works but how do i update the button for this to take effect

[slate swan]

i agree w/ this

[pulsar kettle]

Bot now responds to the AFK user's message, but now how can I only remove the [AFK] part of their nickname if they have a nickname set that is different to their username?
Also the bot responds to it's own message with This user is currently AFK when they reply to the AFK user

[snow trench]

Guys how can I keep my discord.py bot on 24/7? For free

[slate swan]

cuz the bot mentions them lol, just add a check to return if message author is a bot ```py
if message.author.bot: return

[maiden fable]

Replit You gotta pay for hosting but there's free packages by various hosting services. Checkout #965291480992321536 @snow trench

[slate swan]

assuming member to be the message author ```py
await member.edit(nick=member.display_name.replace("[AFK]",""))

i love the new syntax highlighting

!d discord.Member.edit is it nick or nickname

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.edit

await edit(*, nick=..., mute=..., deafen=..., suppress=..., roles=..., voice_channel=..., timed_out_until=..., reason=None)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Edits the member’s data.

Depending on the parameter passed, this requires different permissions listed below...

[slate swan]

nick yeah

[maiden fable]

i wish it was on mobile too

The newer colors are brighter as well

[pulsar kettle]

Returns error: UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'member' where it is not associated with a value

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author.bot:
        return
    if message.mentions:
        for member in message.mentions:
            if "[AFK]" in member.display_name:
                await message.reply('This user is currently AFK')
            else:
                return
    if "[AFK]" in message.author.display_name:
            await message.reply('Welcome back, I have removed your AFK status')
            await member.edit(nick=member.display_name.replace("[AFK]",""))
    else:
        return```

On this line: await member.edit(nick=member.display_name.replace("[AFK]",""))

[maiden fable]

Indent issues prolly

[slate swan]

assuming member to be the message author
define the variable first

[pulsar kettle]

Jsut noticed indents yeah

[slate swan]

you should also continue, not return in the second if statement

[upbeat otter]

ok

[pulsar kettle]

Everything's working as intended now, final question (sorry): If I want to put the AFK reason in User is currently AFK | {reason}, how can I pull the variable from:

@bot.tree.command(name='afk', description='Sets an AFK status to display when you are mentioned by another member')
async def afk(interaction: discord.Interaction, reason: str=None):
    if interaction.user.nick == None:
        await interaction.user.edit(nick=(f'[AFK] {interaction.user.name}'))
        embed = discord.Embed(title=(f"Changed your status to AFK | {reason}"), color=0xf6ff00)
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)
    else:
        await interaction.user.edit(nick=(f'[AFK] {interaction.user.nick}'))
        embed = discord.Embed(title=(f"Changed your status to AFK | {reason}"), color=0xf6ff00)
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)```

[slate swan]

that's where the "you should be using a database" point comes from

not possible without a database or a cache

the cache will be lost everytime the bot restarts

so database is the only dependable choice

[pulsar kettle]

Is it difficult to implement?

[maiden fable]

Not if bot.on_error helps u

[slate swan]

using a database is much easier than making a bot, so you can assume 🤷‍♂️

depends on what database you use, but yeah it's easy

[pulsar kettle]

I see, because this discord bot I'm working on is sort of my first "real" entry into coding since the stuff they taught in my schools was either irrelevent or extremely simple

Kinda just learning as I go along aha

[slate swan]

well databases are a nice to know about, it will be useful in any case related to storage

for the basics 3-4 lines of sql query is all you need to learn

[pulsar kettle]

Are there any notable guides I could follow that would work with my bot + others if I decide to branch out?

[slate swan]

well first choose a database, there's mainly sql and nosql database
and both categories have flavours of own

for starters i'll suggest sqlite3 as it's inbuilt in python too, doesnt need a server setup ( it just uses a file in your project ) and doesnt need much effort to learn

20-30 minutes is all you'll need to put to learn basics

[pulsar kettle]

Aight I'll look into it, tysm for you help <3

[slate swan]

Wait what, I've been using mongo, I need to look into that

[sudden beacon]

hey

can anyone help me with discord oauth2 join guild and user authentication ?

[upbeat gust]

For sql you can use sqlbolt

[flint hare]

a github repo for bots?

[rare echo]

?

https://github.com/python-discord/bot

[flint hare]

thats it. thank you

[subtle jolt]

how do you make slash command input suggestions like so:

[regal nebula]

discord.Option(discord.Role, 'Choose a Role')

[subtle jolt]

thanks

[slate swan]

what's your issue

[sudden beacon]

i just need an example to start from but i cant find any good ones on the internet

[slate swan]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/oauth2#authorization-code-grant-redirect-url-example
there;s examples in the docs, on the top of it i'll suggest using hikari instead, it has proper integrations for oauth and stuff

https://github.com/hikari-py/hikari/blob/master/examples/oauth.py

[sudden beacon]

ay thank you

[sudden beacon]

that is quite helpful

[light violet]

how do i get message.webhook?

pls help me

[swift pine]

mmmm ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[light violet]

what pls help me

[upbeat otter]

?

[light violet]

how do i detect if the message author is a webhook or not

[vale wing]

!d discord.Message check attributes and find out, that's how you use docs

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message

class discord.Message```
Represents a message from Discord.

x == y Checks if two messages are equal.

x != y Checks if two messages are not equal.

hash(x) Returns the message’s hash.

[light violet]

i didnt find any think related to webhook there

.

[vale wing]

Look at last attribute

That's very pointing

[light violet]

oo webhook_id

should i fetch the webhook by channel.fetch_webhook?

oo got it client.fetch_webhook

[unkempt canyon]

@light violet, looks like you posted a Discord webhook URL. Therefore, your message has been removed, and your webhook has been deleted. You can re-create it if you wish to. If you believe this was a mistake, please let us know.

@light violet, looks like you posted a Discord webhook URL. Therefore, your message has been removed, and your webhook has been deleted. You can re-create it if you wish to. If you believe this was a mistake, please let us know.

[light violet]

@vale wingwhy am i getting the url after fething as discord.com/api/webhooks/1061921432981995531/None

none as token?

wtf

cant get the url by myself also how the heck

its blocked

[abstract owl]

@sick birch im making a premium user command or admin command, so that the only people i add in the bot can use the command, now when i type -config_addadmin <id> It adds the id to the config file but doesnt work until i reload the json. Any way to solve that?

[upbeat otter]

you need to open the json every time you want to access the data

[abstract owl]

while everytime i call on_message
im calling with open('config.json') as f:
etc

and loading the owner_id too

[light violet]

pls help me also

[upbeat otter]

can you show a bit of your code around here?

[abstract owl]

yea

[upbeat otter]

idk why that would be happening really
why don't you load the file using json.load(f) though, I think that is easier than opening the json file and extracting content as a string and then turning it into a json object

[abstract owl]

oh

I'll try

i fixed it, it was taking a global variable as the config file. I changed its variable to smth else and works now tysm ash

[upbeat otter]

nice

[light violet]

why is it

[terse orchid]

hiya, how would I run an async function in the background? I need to run a while loop to check the time but want to be able to use other functions concurrently

[shrewd apex]

just use the inbuilt task loop by discord.py

check perms

[light violet]

it has admin even i am getting that button blocked

[shrewd apex]

also lol dont share webhook anyone can use it to spam the channel

[light violet]

that copy url button

[light violet]

idc

@shrewd apexsee this

how is it

[shut star]

?

i have a bit of experience in dpy

whats the problem

nvm u sent the code

from my memory that should work?

[slate swan]

if your code is running you're on an ancient version of discord.py

update discord.py, the code for sending message is wrong

[shut star]

or theres a possibility its a self-bot, considering that error has been given a lot with selfbots using embeds

[slate swan]

im not familiar with selfbot libraries so idk

yeah no client.send_message is not a thing

[shut star]

you can make them on discord.py

[slate swan]

not anylonger

[shut star]

nope, you still can

just downgrade dpy

update ur dpy

and shouldnt it be ctx.send?

[slate swan]

discord has discontinued the api version that self bots need, even if you selfbot you won't be able to read messages without fetching

someone tried that lol

[light violet]

why dont you try ctx.send(embed=embed)

[shut star]

well it works for me

[light violet]

no need to define mess ch

[shut star]

just tested it

!ping still works with older dpy

[unkempt canyon]

You are not allowed to use that command here. Please use the #bot-commands channel instead.

[shut star]

shut

have u updated ur dpy

[light violet]

reinstall dpy

[shut star]

why was it an older version anyway?

[light violet]

try that line and gimme the error

did u reinsall?

see the console log the lines with error and show me

[potent spear]

so your randomjoke command has some flaws ig

you read that right

could you put this in

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[light violet]

the whole code

?

[potent spear]

why is EVERYTHING in a run_discord_bot function? 🤢

that's an issue, you know

[light violet]

yea complex

[potent spear]

red flag

[light violet]

hmm

[potent spear]

YT is one of the shitties ways of learning this kind of library

[light violet]

hmm

do u know py basics?

[potent spear]

mostly because this library changes quickly and tutorials get outdated
most tutorials on yt are incorrect anyways

use official documentation and learn that way

[potent spear]

^this is also important

[light violet]

i think this should work

try it https://paste.pythondiscord.com/nanukebaxu

i made it for you

[subtle jolt]

can you edit a interaction.response and include a file?

TypeError: InteractionResponse.edit_message() got an unexpected keyword argument 'file'

[potent spear]

yes, the kwarg is attachments=...

just edit

edit_message is the internal command function 😉

[light violet]

why did u del my msg

[potent spear]

I didn't...

[light violet]

who did it lmao

[potent spear]

the bot most likely

[light violet]

hmm

[subtle jolt]

like attachments=discord.File()?

[tough fern]

hello, how to make bot (AutoShardedBot) react to message (to be exact using custom emojis)

[potent spear]

try and see ( it needs a list though, so just put 1 element in there)

[potent spear]

add_reaction is a method you can call on a message...

[light violet]

can i send a modal with ctx?

[tough fern]

how?

[potent spear]

not sure, I haven't worked with v2 stuff

[potent spear]

check the docs

[light violet]

hm

[tough fern]

is it the same way for the embedded one?

[potent spear]

embedded one? what're you talking about?
adding a reaction to something can be on any message

[tough fern]

oh ok

[subtle jolt]

oh wait does it need to be a link

or can it be a directory

code:

await interaction.response.edit_message(content=f"{self.name}'s {mode} session:", attachments=[f'{os.getcwd()}/assets/{mode}_{self.session}.png'])```

error:
```python
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'to_dict'```

[potent spear]

if you can prove to me you've read the docs (by linking it to me ). I'll help you

spoiler: ||a string to a file in your directory will not work, you need to pass a file OBJECT||

[subtle jolt]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html?highlight=attachment#discord.AppCommandOptionType.attachment

[potent spear]

no, the edit_message method

[crimson mauve]

Welcome to coding, just a heads up, making a bot with Discord.py is very intense as your first project. you might be better off starting on smaller projects to learn with then come back to the bot making.

[potent spear]

if you're being honest, you just typed "attachment" in the discord py search in documentation & clicked the first link...

[subtle jolt]

whats a variable

[subtle jolt]

yes thats what i looked at before

[crimson mauve]

Like I said, smaller project first.

[subtle jolt]

i made an app that added one number to the other

and then put it on github

[crimson mauve]

Can you humor me real quick? What's a String?

[potent spear]

that's the incorrect link though, as suggested earlier, understanding the basics is key on progressing

[potent spear]

women underwear

[crimson mauve]

That was cringe.

[potent spear]

technically correct

[gloomy jackal]

In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation).

[potent spear]

thank you, google

[crimson mauve]

Thank you Luca.

[gloomy jackal]

I Am GOOOOOOOOGLE

[gloomy jackal]

BTW who is Luca?

[crimson mauve]

The person I was asking......

[potent spear]

luca||'t my balls||?

[gloomy jackal]

Well im not Luca

[gloomy jackal]

HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH* He says sarcasticallly

[crimson mauve]

Damn, I would have never guessed......

[gloomy jackal]

if i were u, me neither

[crimson mauve]

Need anything?

[gloomy jackal]

Just some braincells

[gloomy jackal]

Actually, u being my friend

[crimson mauve]

Pass

[gloomy jackal]

NOooo, I will now eternally live under a rock thinking about how u rejected me as a friend, How could u do that to me!?

[crimson mauve]

Easy, any level of self respect.

[gloomy jackal]

alright, i admit, that was a good roast

[crimson mauve]

lol, glad you took it with good humor.

[gloomy jackal]

So you wanna be my friend now?

[crimson mauve]

Why would you put yourself though that?

[gloomy jackal]

what, are u a bad friend?

[gloomy jackal]

through*

[gloomy jackal]

You there bro?

[shrewd fjord]

Sup

[crimson mauve]

my blood pressure, how about you?

[shrewd fjord]

Me good :))

[crimson mauve]

Awesome, anything we can help you with?

[shrewd fjord]

Zippy, cool name 🙂

[shrewd fjord]

Nah

I am actually here to help ppl 🗿

But there is no one 🤧

[crimson mauve]

It's still early/late for most people.

[subtle jolt]

okay then, why isnt this removing the select box:

    async def on_timeout(self):
        self.clear_items()```

[shrewd fjord]

!d discord.ui.View.clear_items

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.View.clear\_items

clear_items()```
Removes all items from the view.

This function returns the class instance to allow for fluent-style chaining.

[shrewd fjord]

Wait a sec

U need to edit the message btw to do it

[crimson mauve]

Calling self. does nothing, you need to have a message object.

[subtle jolt]

if pass in the message object, the on_timeout function doesnt get called

[crimson mauve]

Show code.

[subtle jolt]

perfect timing

I turned off my pc

[crimson mauve]

I get it, just a troll.

[subtle jolt]

I did

its 2am

off

[crimson mauve]

Your "Python is not a real language." bait is telling me otherwise.

[subtle jolt]

its for the funny

[crimson mauve]

Funny is for people that know you, I don't know you.

[subtle jolt]

but I find it funny

[crimson mauve]

Cool, and it makes you look like a troll to me.

[subtle jolt]

define 'troll'

[crimson mauve]

This

[subtle jolt]

like the thing under the bridge or...

[crimson mauve]

Yup, I was right.......

[subtle jolt]

OK now I'm actually under the bridge

I wasnt before

[crimson mauve]

Did you get an error?

[light violet]

Show the error

.

[crimson mauve]

Message can't be empty.

[light violet]

@crimson mauve he send an embed

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/nanukebaxu

Check the code

[crimson mauve]

Not correctly it seems.

[light violet]

Check the code herehttps://paste.pythondiscord.com/nanukebaxu

[crimson mauve]

need the entire traceback

await ctx.send(mess_channel, embed=embed)

[light violet]

Sorry it was my mistake maybe

[crimson mauve]

!d discord.abc.Messageable.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.abc.Messageable.send

await send(content=None, *, tts=False, embed=None, embeds=None, file=None, files=None, stickers=None, delete_after=None, nonce=None, allowed_mentions=None, reference=None, ...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Sends a message to the destination with the content given.

The content must be a type that can convert to a string through `str(content)`. If the content is set to `None` (the default), then the `embed` parameter must be provided.

To upload a single file, the `file` parameter should be used with a single [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") object. To upload multiple files, the `files` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.11)") of [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

To upload a single embed, the `embed` parameter should be used with a single [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") object. To upload multiple embeds, the `embeds` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.11)") of [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

[light violet]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/edowecifiw

Heres the updated one

Check it

[young dagger]

How I can make a line break for each embed.add_field(name=field_name, value=field_value, inline=False)? Each infraction is listed in field_name and field_value, same embed. I want to add a line break for each one of them. https://paste.pythondiscord.com/zokuputubu

[light violet]

@slate swan https://paste.pythondiscord.com/edowecifiw try this

[crimson mauve]

Are you sure that's the entire traceback?

[tawny junco]

Where does one host a discord bot 24/7 for the sake of development (free) besides replit?

[crimson mauve]

Your computer.

[light violet]

. Gitlab

@slate swan whats the ping? There

@slate swan what is your bot ping in discloud

[tawny junco]

Which one? My phone or my nonexistent laptop/desktop? 🥲

[light violet]

U can use glitch if u arent coding in dpy

[upbeat otter]

How doyou code on phone 💀

[tawny junco]

I code on my phone

[upbeat otter]

pro 🛐

[crimson mauve]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=innovationlabs.python.com&gl=US&pli=1

[light violet]

I also code on mobile and got my bot verified

[tawny junco]

There's a python ide app for Android called pydriod

[light violet]

Error

[upbeat otter]

bro
I meant that it's kinda hard to code on phone

ok and

your code?

[tawny junco]

Do I need to sign up with credentials?

[crimson mauve]

Ya, kinda useless without the full traceback telling us where it went wrong.

[upbeat otter]

^

show the code where you send the message

[tawny junco]

Right. Perfect since my credentials expired

Replit keeps installing dependencies everytime I run my code. So annoying.

[upbeat otter]

It's discord.Colour/discord.Color

discord.color is a file

[pulsar kettle]

Attempting a timeout command for my bot, and I know I've definitely got some things wrong. Can anyone help out please?

@bot.tree.command(name='timeout', description='Times out a member')
@discord.app_commands.checks.has_permissions(moderate_members=True)
async def timeout(interaction: discord.Interaction, member: discord.Member, time: int=None, reason: str=None):
    if reason == None:
        reason = "No reason provided"
    guild = interaction.guild
    await member.send(f"You have been timed out in: ***{guild.name} for {time}*** | {reason}")
    await member.timeout(time, reason=reason)
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'***{member} has been timed out for {time}*** | {reason}'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)```
Error: ``discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'timeout' raised an exception: TypeError: expected None, datetime.datetime, or datetime.timedelta not int``

[crimson mauve]

Whos code is this? Who did you copy it from?

await send_message(message, user_message, is_private=True)

[upbeat otter]

the errors says it as much

[upbeat otter]

are you trying to get the number of seconds?

average

[pulsar kettle]

I want to be able to input smth like 5s for 5 second or 24h for 24 hours but idk how to do convertors or apply them in discord.py itmeouts

[crimson mauve]

ofc?

[upbeat otter]

they copied it from youtube

[crimson mauve]

ofc stand for of fucking course right?

OFC was the channel then?

Either way, your code is a mix of stuff from now and from years ago.

[unkempt canyon]

Rules

1. Follow the Python Discord Code of Conduct.

[crimson mauve]

???

[upbeat otter]

?

slangs?

[crimson mauve]

What?

You ok?

[upbeat otter]

[crimson mauve]

ok?

[pulsar kettle]

Isn't ofc just shortened version of "of course"

[crimson mauve]

What's that got to do with anything?

[upbeat otter]

A better way would be to just have different arguments for them

[pulsar kettle]

I'm relativel ynew to coding so how would I go about doing that?

[crimson mauve]

But back to the real topic, your code ain't going to work because it's a mix of versions.

[upbeat otter]

def command_(self, interaction, days, hours, minutes...)

like that, easy stuff

[crimson mauve]

await send_message(message, user_message, is_private=True) has not been used in like, 3 years?

[upbeat otter]

There was a converter library the way you're wanting to do but I forgot the library name
got it -> https://pypi.org/project/HumanTime/

[crimson mauve]

And it no longer works that way.

Kinda.

Welcome to coding.

If you do it right.

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html?highlight=on_message#why-does-on-message-make-my-commands-stop-working

[amber ether]

Hello, Im currently new to python and asking how are indentations work? i have been having problems

[crimson mauve]

My bad, I'll be sure to not say anything from now on then.

[upbeat otter]

good luck

[maiden fable]

!Indent

[unkempt canyon]

Indentation

Indentation is leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) at the beginning of a line of code. In the case of Python, they are used to determine the grouping of statements.

Spaces should be preferred over tabs. To be clear, this is in reference to the character itself, not the keys on a keyboard. Your editor/IDE should be configured to insert spaces when the TAB key is pressed. The amount of spaces should be a multiple of 4, except optionally in the case of continuation lines.

Example

def foo():
    bar = 'baz'  # indented one level
    if bar == 'baz':
        print('ham')  # indented two levels
    return bar  # indented one level

The first line is not indented. The next two lines are indented to be inside of the function definition. They will only run when the function is called. The fourth line is indented to be inside the if statement, and will only run if the if statement evaluates to True. The fifth and last line is like the 2nd and 3rd and will always run when the function is called. It effectively closes the if statement above as no more lines can be inside the if statement below that line.

Indentation is used after:
1. Compound statements (eg. if, while, for, try, with, def, class, and their counterparts)
2. Continuation lines

More Info
1. Indentation style guide
2. Tabs or Spaces?
3. Official docs on indentation

[upbeat otter]

what just happened
I do think I provided the solution in the very beginning
but ok
idc

[maiden fable]

He is just thanking you dude

[upbeat otter]

assuming genders in 2023

[maiden fable]

Knew u were gonna say that

[crimson mauve]

Indents are how python tracks flow logic
four spaces show that the code under something is meant to run when something is done, such as a successful test or a function call.

[amber ether]

I've fix that but now i've encountered this, upto 4 spaces its still the same but different error its exepected expression or unexepected unident

[crimson mauve]

!Indent

[unkempt canyon]

Indentation

Indentation is leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) at the beginning of a line of code. In the case of Python, they are used to determine the grouping of statements.

Spaces should be preferred over tabs. To be clear, this is in reference to the character itself, not the keys on a keyboard. Your editor/IDE should be configured to insert spaces when the TAB key is pressed. The amount of spaces should be a multiple of 4, except optionally in the case of continuation lines.

Example

def foo():
    bar = 'baz'  # indented one level
    if bar == 'baz':
        print('ham')  # indented two levels
    return bar  # indented one level

The first line is not indented. The next two lines are indented to be inside of the function definition. They will only run when the function is called. The fourth line is indented to be inside the if statement, and will only run if the if statement evaluates to True. The fifth and last line is like the 2nd and 3rd and will always run when the function is called. It effectively closes the if statement above as no more lines can be inside the if statement below that line.

Indentation is used after:
1. Compound statements (eg. if, while, for, try, with, def, class, and their counterparts)
2. Continuation lines

More Info
1. Indentation style guide
2. Tabs or Spaces?
3. Official docs on indentation

[upbeat otter]

ok

[pulsar kettle]

Another attempt at a timeout slash command, now I get the error discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'timeout' raised an exception: TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta minutes component: NoneType. Any ideas on how to fix/optimize this?

@bot.tree.command(name='timeout', description='Times out a member')
@discord.app_commands.checks.has_permissions(moderate_members=True)
async def timeout(interaction: discord.Interaction, member: discord.Member, reason: str=None, days: int=None, hours: int=None, minutes: int=None, seconds: int=None):
    if member.id == interaction.user.id:
        await interaction.response.send_message("You can't timeout yourself!")
        return
    if member.guild_permissions.moderate_members:
        await interaction.response.send_message("You can't do this, this person is a moderator!")
        return
    duration = timedelta(days = days, hours = hours, minutes = minutes, seconds = seconds)
    if duration >= timedelta(days = 28): #added to check if time exceeds 28 days
        await interaction.response.send_message("I can't mute someone for more than 28 days!", ephemeral = True) #responds, but only the author can see the response
        return
    if reason == None:
        await member.timeout_for(duration)
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"<@{member.id}> has been timed out for {days} days, {hours} hours, {minutes} minutes, and {seconds} seconds by <@{interaction.user.id}>.")
    else:
        await member.timeout_for(duration, reason = reason)
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"<@{member.id}> has been timed out for {days} days, {hours} hours, {minutes} minutes, and {seconds} seconds by <@{interaction.user.id}> for '{reason}'.")```

[bright wedge]

for first look

duration = timedelta(days = days, hours = hours, minutes = minutes, seconds = seconds)
if duration >= timedelta(days = 28): #added to check if time exceeds 28 days
  await interaction.response.send_message("I can't mute someone for more than 28 days!", ephemeral = True) #responds, but only the author can see the response

else:
  reason = reason if reason != None else None
  await member.timeout_for(duration, reason = reason)
  await interaction.response.send_message(f"<@{member.id}> has been   timed out for {days} days, {hours} hours, {minutes} minutes, and     {seconds} seconds by <@{interaction.user.id}> for '{reason}'.")

[crimson mauve]

Where are you defining minutes at?

I see

[bright wedge]

you can make the time in total seconds

[crimson mauve]

You are defaulting it to none and not passing anything through for it when you call the function.

[pulsar kettle]

So how would I go about fixing the code? (I'm new to discord.py so smoothbrain)

[crimson mauve]

This ain't a discord.py thing, it's basic python function call.

[amber ether]

Fixed it all but why am i getting this? This code was just working earlier?

[pulsar kettle]

Sorry should have also specified, my discord bot is my first project in coding ever, so I'm learning everything as I go with no prior experience aha

[crimson mauve]

You are calling for a variable before telling the computer what that variable is.

[crimson mauve]

Ya, you and 90% of the people that come though here. Everyone wants to fly before then can even crawl ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pulsar kettle]

Yeah makes sense

[crimson mauve]

So when you call timeout, what more do you say when calling the command?

[amber ether]

So you want me to call

    mines = int(mines)
    spots = int(spots)```
after the assignment?

[crimson mauve]

You kinda have to, that's how coding in python works.

[amber ether]

then im getting this :/

im so used to on js lol

[crimson mauve]

Welcome to compiled vs interpreted.

[amber ether]

ye

Ohh my gosh aahh, im so confused where to put this.

[crimson mauve]

Why the list?

[amber ether]

not the spots = int(spots)

cuz without that not_good wouldnt work.

[crimson mauve]

I mean, what is the list for, what are you doing with it?

[amber ether]

its for a game

[crimson mauve]

Because you still need to define what spots is.

your list is calling for spots, not defining it.

[amber ether]

its already defined it was working fine earlier, after i put this mines int etc wouldnt work anymore

[crimson mauve]

Your traceback is flat out saying that spots is not defined.

It's not me saying that, it's your computer.

[amber ether]

Now it works i put mines int etc at top ey

[crimson mauve]

Also, you don't need to define data types in python like you do in other languages.

Int = 89734598734
String = "34905835"

[light violet]

L

[crimson mauve]

You going to survive?

[white perch]

Hi!
What's the best way to carry out scheduled events in a discord bot?
For example, every day at 12 am the bot should be posting a message in a channel...
I know a while loop can be run and compared with the current datetime and the scheduled datetime, but is this an efficient method to do it? Any suggestions?

[crimson mauve]

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/examples/background_task.py

[white perch]

Hm yeah, but can those be scheduled at a specific time?

[cloud dawn]

!d discord.ext.tasks.Loop.time

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.tasks.Loop.time

property time```
Read-only list for the exact times this loop runs at. `None` if relative times were passed instead.

New in version 2.0.

[crimson mauve]

yes

[white perch]

Oh

[light violet]

Whot

[crimson mauve]

You just had a big L, you going to be ok?

[cloud dawn]

!d datetime.timedelta @white perch

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.timedelta

class datetime.timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)```
All arguments are optional and default to `0`. Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.

Only *days*, *seconds* and *microseconds* are stored internally. Arguments are converted to those units...

[white perch]

Oh i just realized that tasks have a time parameter

[crimson mauve]

No worry Mike.

[cloud dawn]

Was the before or after I send the docs lol.

[white perch]

How to handle this in case our bot is customizable?
Like any server can set any time for sending the message

[white perch]

after

[crimson mauve]

Work with databases yet?

[cloud dawn]

!d discord.ext.tasks.Loop.change_interval

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.tasks.Loop.change\_interval

change_interval(*, seconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, time=...)```
Changes the interval for the sleep time.

New in version 1.2.

[cloud dawn]

You'd need to create a new class with a loop inside that is customizable.

[white perch]

Oh um

I'll try coding that, will ask if i don't manage to logically get the code right

[light violet]

Lmao its so big that it touches the ceiling now.

[crimson mauve]

See ya later then Mike.

[light violet]

By da way which L are you talking about

[crimson mauve]

This one

[upbeat otter]

what?

[light violet]

Which one

[crimson mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/ernie-sesame-street-smh-shaking-my-head-dismay-gif-18210872

[light violet]

I just randomly typed it that time btw what did you mean

[slate swan]

How can i have the same @commands.group() in 2 cogs. Can someone help? @crimson mauve im back xD

[light violet]

[upbeat otter]

why two cogs

[cloud dawn]

You can use the start multiple times on a loop. It just differs on how you want to customize their data. The hardest part also would be to let's say; what if the bot restarts? Etc..

[crimson mauve]

No idea, I never use groups.

[upbeat otter]

based

[slate swan]

bc i want 2 cogs

:D

[white perch]

Yeah thats the thing

Idk how Dyno handles this

[upbeat otter]

Have all commands of one group in one cog, that's the best practice too

[white perch]

Dyno & carl bot, etc they somehow do it customizably for each server

[cloud dawn]

It's a decorator so.. yes? Not too sure what you are doing here.

[cloud dawn]

By saving data in a database most likely.

[white perch]

Yes saving into database part is not difficult

[crimson mauve]

Ash is right, if it's all for the same stuff the best idea is to put all that into the same cog.

[slate swan]

im here bc im getting the error The command ... is already an existing command or alias.

[light violet]

https://tenor.com/view/hawkeye-clint-barton-i-know-all-of-you-gif-23942065

Her name was l

[white perch]

How to evaluate the event logically at the time without using a while loop is difficult according to me

[slate swan]

its not for the same stuff, they just have the same group name

[white perch]

A while loop would take too much cpu resource

[crimson mauve]

How new are you to coding?

[cloud dawn]

Well what do you have trouble understanding then? If you use a database you're basically half way there.

[white perch]

I started python in December 2019

[cloud dawn]

Wdym by while loop? You're using tasks.

[white perch]

Um yeah tasks i meant but still I think it's going to be little difficult to get the code right logically

[cloud dawn]

How so?

[white perch]

If it's only for one server then it's easy to get it coded

Anyway i will try to code it now- let's see if it goes well

[cloud dawn]

Why is it easier for one server? If you use a database any server can execute it.

[sudden nacelle]

Finished my server lockdown command which correctly locks every channel and sends the embed, however idk why it still says "Bot is thinking..." even though the command is complete. Any thoughts? (no error messages in VSC)

@bot.tree.command(name='lockdown', description='Puts server into lockdown')
@discord.app_commands.checks.has_permissions(manage_channels=True)
async def lockdown(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    embed = discord.Embed(title=(f'The server is now on lockdown'), color=0xf6ff00)
    await interaction.response.defer()
    for channel in interaction.guild.channels:
        await channel.set_permissions(interaction.guild.default_role, send_messages=False)
    await interaction.channel.send(embed=embed)```

[cloud dawn]

Use follow-up.

!d discord.Interaction.followup

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.followup

Returns the follow up webhook for follow up interactions.

[sudden nacelle]

Works now, I must have copied the interaction.channel.send from the wrong bit of my code, thx for the help

[shrewd apex]

just edit the original response lol

[cold sonnet]

do y'all go to the gym

[crimson mauve]

Popcorn.gif

[cold sonnet]

that's a no

start that

[crimson mauve]

lol

[cold sonnet]

it's funny to be jacked as a programmer

[crimson mauve]

Cool story bro.

[cold sonnet]

do you know where I am rn

[cloud dawn]

!ot

[unkempt canyon]

Off-topic channel: #ot2-never-nester’s-nightmare

Please read our off-topic etiquette before participating in conversations.

[cold sonnet]

!topic

[unkempt canyon]

Off-topic channels

There are three off-topic channels:
• #ot0-psvm’s-eternal-disapproval
• #ot1-perplexing-regexing
• #ot2-never-nester’s-nightmare

The channel names change every night at midnight UTC and are often fun meta references to jokes or conversations that happened on the server.

See our off-topic etiquette page for more guidance on how the channels should be used.

[cold sonnet]

what

[crimson mauve]

In the wrong server? lol

[cold sonnet]

oh .topic

[cold sonnet]

Ashley wannabe

.topic

[lament depot]

**What feature would you be the most interested in making?**

Suggest more topics here!

[crimson mauve]

You ok? having a bad day? need to talk to someone?

[cold sonnet]

still voice receiving

[cold sonnet]

beautiful day!

[crimson mauve]

Then what's wrong?

[cold sonnet]

nobody's typing in the channel

so

you're welcome

[crimson mauve]

if this is all you have to say, I would prefer the silence.

[cold sonnet]

did you know discord.py still doesn't have voice receiving

[crimson mauve]

So?

I don't see much of a use for it anyway.

[cold sonnet]

but I do

[crimson mauve]

Such as?

[cold sonnet]

voice commands

when you're in-game

[crimson mauve]

At that point why do you need Discord?

[cold sonnet]

no relation whatsoever

[sick birch]

I wonder if voice reception events get triggered by on socket raw receive

[crimson mauve]

I mean, Speech to text is fun and all but unless you have to time/recourses to toss at it you are just going to be upset with the results.

Even Google and Amazon still suck at it.

[cold sonnet]

do discord.py perfect voice receiving and get a job at google

[crimson mauve]

No, I would be leasing my tech, not giving it away.

[cold sonnet]

also smart

[crimson mauve]

But ya, you need any help?

[cold sonnet]

I always like a challenge

no

🤨

[cold sonnet]

just to be clear this was a sentence starter and the followup would've been that I might as well try implementing it but didn't finish it

[young dagger]

How can I get this code work?

@modlogs.error
async def modlogs_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.MemberNotFound):
        await ctx.send(f"I could not find the user {error.member_str}")```

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'MemberNotFound' object has no attribute 'member_str

[sick birch]

It's error.argument

[young dagger]

Oh that makes sense, thanks

[white perch]

can embeds be stored in database directly as discord.Embed object and later re loaded directly?

[crimson mauve]

I try not to ask this.
But why?

[white perch]

Customizable Embeds feature

[crimson mauve]

But why would you store them and not make them as you need them?

[white perch]

1. embed elements input by user
2. embed stored in database with some user inputted name
3. user does $load_embed {name}
4. bot sends their embed

That's what im upto

[crimson mauve]

Ok, I get you now.

Depends on the DB, but generally they don't work well with custom objects like that. You would have to break it up into parts.

[white perch]

Ah

Alr

[shrewd apex]

mongo allows storage of dict structures convert the embed to dictionary and store it

[white perch]

Hmm

Is there a built-in way to convert an embed to a dict or any readymade remedy?

[white perch]

Just to be sure that i'm not wasting my time writing all that code manually

[crimson mauve]

The more you fail, the more you learn.

[white perch]

Rightly said

[cold sonnet]

!d discord.Embed or you look at the api reference to get your answer

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed

class discord.Embed(*, colour=None, color=None, title=None, type='rich', url=None, description=None, timestamp=None)```
Represents a Discord embed.

len(x) Returns the total size of the embed. Useful for checking if it’s within the 6000 character limit.

bool(b) Returns whether the embed has any data set.

New in version 2.0.

x == y Checks if two embeds are equal.

New in version 2.0...

[white perch]

aight

[crimson mauve]

Find it?

[white perch]

found it man

[crimson mauve]

Awesome

[white perch]

embed.to_dict
and embed.from_dict

thank you

[crimson mauve]

Any time Mike.

[cloud dawn]

So does sql by saving it as a string

Then eval it lol

[shrewd apex]

u know a free sql host?

[fading marlin]

sqlite

[cloud dawn]

Random old laptop in a drawer

[cold sonnet]

u can afford to host a bot but not sql?

[cloud dawn]

Tru

[shrewd apex]

i never said could either

lol

[cold sonnet]

heh

[cloud dawn]

Just host a vps with a postgresql

[shrewd apex]

internet

latency be like

[cloud dawn]

Or a docker container

[cold sonnet]

raspberry pi

💪

[cloud dawn]

Pregnancy test cpu

🙄

I mean it ran doom

[crimson mauve]

I'm looking forward to the first person that gets their hands on alien tech also gets it to run doom as a proof of concept.

[abstract owl]

am i doing smth wrong? the appeared one works fine the congratulations doesn't

[cloud dawn]

!global

[unkempt canyon]

When adding functions or classes to a program, it can be tempting to reference inaccessible variables by declaring them as global. Doing this can result in code that is harder to read, debug and test. Instead of using globals, pass variables or objects as parameters and receive return values.

Instead of writing

def update_score():
    global score, roll
    score = score + roll
update_score()

do this instead

def update_score(score, roll):
    return score + roll
score = update_score(score, roll)

For in-depth explanations on why global variables are bad news in a variety of situations, see this Stack Overflow answer.

[cloud dawn]

Whats wrong?

Btw python v4.12 mans from the future

[crimson mauve]

If one then not the other.

When that first if statement goes though, the elif is ignored and not even checked.

[abstract owl]

the bot version 😭

[abstract owl]

should i change to if?

[crimson mauve]

Wait, I'm just being dumb and only seeing what I'm thinking about

[abstract owl]

what's the sol

[crimson mauve]

You are going to want to look into __contains__
https://www.askpython.com/python/string/python-string-contains

[abstract owl]

marvelously fixed it

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @onyx rapids!

It looks like you tried to attach a Python file - please use a code-pasting service such as https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[onyx rapids]

So I just started with my bot, host is setup but my bot is not responding. Anyone able to help? https://paste.pythondiscord.com/yeporazifi

[crimson mauve]

on_message

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html?highlight=on_message#why-does-on-message-make-my-commands-stop-working

[onyx rapids]

wait, where do I put that then?

[crimson mauve]

where it shows you.

[crimson mauve]

Figure it out?

[onyx rapids]

didnt work

[crimson mauve]

Ah crap, what did I say this time?

[onyx rapids]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ositaqarix

[onyx rapids]

still doesnt work

[steep wedge]

@client.event
async def on_message(message):```

[crimson mauve]

Can't have 2 functions with the same name.

I'm only one person.

So what? lol, dude I'm spending my time here helping people for nothing but my time.

[steep wedge]

you aren't doing an amazing job at it to be honest

[steep wedge]

If you're gonna help people then help people

[crimson mauve]

And? you think programming is my job, I went to school for this?
This is what I do for fun, and people like you make it not fun.

[abstract owl]

tfym atleast he comes here everyday helping at as best as he can 😭

[steep wedge]

Have you ever considered that "figure it out" isn't helpful? If you do this for fun then you should realise that might be why others are here xD

[crimson mauve]

then step the fuck up and HELP.

[steep wedge]

flippin ChatGPT is better help than that

[abstract owl]

+1

[cloud dawn]

Could you guys take this to #ot2-never-nester’s-nightmare?

[steep wedge]

i came in here to ask a question then figured the answer out myself

[crimson mauve]

I'd rather just ignore it all and act like it never happend.

[onyx rapids]

That one there was a violation 💀

[cloud dawn]

That's ok too, It's a public server, try to keep it cool here.

[crimson mauve]

You want to take over for a bit panda? I think I'm going to work on my own stuff for a bit now.

[cloud dawn]

I just keep this channel on my second screen and coding a long the side :3
Keeps my mind busy and doing something else on ever now and then to avoid doing the same for 10 hours straight.

[crimson mauve]

But as for your question, you put the listeners at the end, take out the event you are already using.

[onyx rapids]

So which one do I have to remove?

[steep wedge]

is there a point using a vps for a private bot in a 20 member server

[abstract owl]

no. if its for commercial use aimed to get bigger then yes

[steep wedge]

no it's just for this one server

[abstract owl]

then no use host on repl or local machine

[cloud dawn]

If we're still talking about https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ositaqarix.py; then you need to also apply listener to the event below. However since you are using discord.Client you don't have listeners. As Zippy pointed out as well you can't have 2 functions with the same name in the same file.