discord-bots

[vocal snow]

"path/to/my/image.png" is the filepath of your file

[slate swan]

nope

[vocal snow]

what nope

[slate swan]

its not the path of my fie

[vocal snow]

...

I know it's not

[slate swan]

so?

[vocal snow]

I'm saying you have to change it

[slate swan]

ya but am asking abt url thing

[vocal snow]

what part about it do you not understand

just change the filename

[slate swan]

url

[vocal snow]

please read the article

[slate swan]

and keep attachment thing?

[slate swan]

i did sir

[vocal snow]

everything is very clearly described there

[slate swan]

.

[slate swan]

bruh nothing is clear

[vocal snow]

To do so, upload the image normally with abc.Messageable.send(), and set the embed’s image URL to attachment://image.png, where image.png is the filename of the image you will send.

[slate swan]

ic

[vocal snow]

I repeated verbatim from the article

what part of that is unclear

[slate swan]

heh?

verbatim means?

[vocal snow]

i copied it exactly as it was written in the article

[slate swan]

ya ic

sry

file = discord.File("C:\Users\Dell\Downloads\FotoJet(1).png", filename="FotoJet(1).png")

its showing error here

@vocal snow

[vocal snow]

escape your backslashes

or use a raw string literal

[slate swan]

k

@vocal snownow the whole command is not working oof

[slate swan]

what is ignoring exception on message

....

sir

[vocal snow]

what?

[slate swan]

.

[vocal snow]

Presumably it's ignoring an exception raised in on_message

[slate swan]

heh?

[vocal snow]

do you know what an Exception is?

[slate swan]

n

[naive briar]

Doesn't seem like it

[vocal snow]

right, well I'm not going to be able to help you further

[slate swan]

lol wait leeme find it

[vocal snow]

knowing python basics is an unfortunate prerequisite of discord.py

[slate swan]

sry

[slate swan]

.

[slate swan]

i actually know how it works but didnt knew the name sry

i really want to learn help sir

[vocal snow]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[vocal snow]

lots of free books and resources to learn basic python

[slate swan]

i read it

[slate swan]

i did read

[vocal snow]

which book/course did you do?

Seems like you must've skipped quite a lot

[slate swan]

a course on yt

[naive briar]

That explains it

[vocal snow]

that would do it

[slate swan]

heh?

[lyric halo]

hi guys what's up

[slate swan]

#ot0-psvm’s-eternal-disapproval

[lyric halo]

what

[slate swan]

its not general tho

[lyric halo]

hmm ur right my bad

[slate swan]

Oof it sucks

[slate swan]

help?

...

..

.

@slate swansay yes or no wen

with?

[slate swan]

file = discord.File("C:\Users\Dell\Downloads\FotoJet(1).png", filename="FotoJet(1).png")
its showing error here

[slate swan]

then show the error

[slate swan]

it could not find image

your path is wrong

[slate swan]

i copy pasted

[naive briar]

The error doesn't lie

[slate swan]

copy pasted what

copy as path

try moving the image to your project directory and using relative path

ok

[mighty sun]

hello all, @limpid holly beware, he asks for money, pretends to code and then scams you

[vocal snow]

you might want to send this to @novel apex

[slate swan]

u gave money?

lol

[mighty sun]

yes..

I can't do it. 😦

[slate swan]

ic

[slate swan]

how much?

[mighty sun]

30..

[slate swan]

30 dollars?

[mighty sun]

yes

it relieves me I find to help me... 😦

[slate swan]

bruhh

[slate swan]

oof

use intents

!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.

[slate swan]

see this

[slate swan]

async def banner(ctx, Member: discord.Member):
  banner_url = User.banner.url
  if banner.url:
    await ctx.send(User.banner.url)
  else:
    await ctx.send("This user does not have a banner.")```

could you help me

[slate swan]

leeme see if i can cuz am new as well tho

okay

[slate swan]

how much lines of code??

[slate swan]

the whole thing?

[slate swan]

y

89

[slate swan]

your varriable is named Member not User

'-'

[slate swan]

OH

[slate swan]

ic

[slate swan]

it still doesnt work :V

[slate swan]

what doesnt work now

bruh

[slate swan]

same error

what did you change in code

[slate swan]

i changed member->User

show updated code

async def banner(ctx, User: discord.User):
  banner_url = User.banner.url
  if banner.url:
    await ctx.send(User.banner.url)
  else:
    await ctx.send("This user does not have a banner.")```

okay first of all you define varriable banner_url right?

[slate swan]

at first I did that

but then you dont use it you do something like banner.url which does not exist

. . .

use the varriable you defined

Ok wait

[slate swan]

Ignoring exception in command banner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/FloralwhiteValuableStringweres/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 85, in wrapped
ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
File "main.py", line 81, in banner
banner_url = User.banner_url
AttributeError: 'Member' object has no attribute 'banner_url'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/FloralwhiteValuableStringweres/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/bot.py", line 939, in invoke
await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/runner/FloralwhiteValuableStringweres/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 863, in invoke
await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)
File "/home/runner/FloralwhiteValuableStringweres/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 94, in wrapped
raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'Member' object has no attribute 'banner_url'

[mighty sun]

!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.

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member

class discord.Member```
Represents a Discord member to a [`Guild`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Guild "discord.Guild").

This implements a lot of the functionality of [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.User "discord.User").

x == y Checks if two members are equal. Note that this works with [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.User "discord.User") instances too.

x != y Checks if two members are not equal. Note that this works with [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.User "discord.User") instances too.

hash(x) Returns the member’s hash.

str(x) Returns the member’s name with the discriminator.

[slate swan]

you changed the wrong part

the User.banner.url is good

wha

but your if condition is wrong

async def banner(ctx, User: discord.User):
  banner_url = User.banner_url
  if banner.url:
    await ctx.send(User.banner_url)
  else:
    await ctx.send("This user does not have a banner.")```

like this?

no i just said

User.banner.url is correct

but then in your if condition use varriable you define

u r using both bot and client why tho??

aaaaaa

read the error they even gave you a link to follow

async def banner(ctx, User: discord.User):
  banner_url = User.banner.url
  if User.banner_url:
    await ctx.send(User.banner.url)
  else:
    await ctx.send("This user does not have a banner.")```

no

you define varriable banner_url not User.banner_url

no, not at all

nope

u are hopping on bot too early

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[slate swan]

read this ig

async def banner(ctx, User: discord.User):
  banner_url = banner_url
  if User.banner_url:
    await ctx.send(User.banner.url)
  else:
    await ctx.send("This user does not have a banner.")```

yo like this??

[slate swan]

may i ask you do you know basics of python?

if no the discord bot is not the best project for the first one

[slate swan]

this question hurts allot

[slate swan]

oh '-'

[slate swan]

it is just u should be passionate

to read

oh

[slate swan]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[slate swan]

wht is tht basic knowledge??

here is explaination between the Bot and Client difference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51234778/what-are-the-differences-between-bot-and-client

if u r thinking only knowing wht is int and str is enough then u r wrong

lol same here

learn pyhton

i know both python and c# and there is a lot between those 2 languages

ya lol

[slate swan]

damn

@slate swanisnt this is how path looks like?

[slate swan]

this is how path looks like but it does not mean the photo is at this location

[slate swan]

but i copied it from there

from photo

[vague zephyr]

they're both 2 different universes

[slate swan]

thats what im sayin

No such file or directory: 'C:\Users\Dell\Downloads\FotoJet(1).png'
wht this tho

[slate swan]

ya fax

means that there is no such file

[slate swan]

bruh

[vague zephyr]

that file doesn't exist

go into your downloads folder

and see for yourself

if it exists or not

[slate swan]

lol worked

[vague zephyr]

well then good for you

[slate swan]

but now the embed not showing only picture is visible

[slate swan]

down

....

@vague zephyris tht aki in ur pfp?

[vague zephyr]

idk

[slate swan]

heh?

[vague zephyr]

my friends just told me to put it

[slate swan]

ic

thts an anime charachter

[vague zephyr]

i think it's from chainsaw man or something idk

[slate swan]

ya

@slate swan

anyone help?

anyone help

What

my embed message is not been shown

becz i embeded an image

now tht image covered it whole

but commands are working

.

@slate swan

Ur token is none

Try printing it , will return none

[slate swan]

any idea@slate swan??

[slate swan]

Can u show ss?

of code?

Of what u get

i mean the embed

one sec

Already told you

async def test(self, inter, hey: Option(str, choices=['one', 'two', 'three'])):```
how can i provide some context to the options

@slate swanur code is diffrent then

Ur token is none bro

enter toke in client.run

💀

Don’t share token

[slate swan]

@slate swan

Remove os.getenv

Not for you

send it in client.run tho

[slate swan]

What’s the issue

thats not how to use env varriables

[unkempt canyon]

Using .env files in Python

.env (dotenv) files are a type of file commonly used for storing application secrets and variables, for example API tokens and URLs, although they may also be used for storing other configurable values. While they are commonly used for storing secrets, at a high level their purpose is to load environment variables into a program.

Dotenv files are especially suited for storing secrets as they are a key-value store in a file, which can be easily loaded in most programming languages and ignored by version control systems like Git with a single entry in a .gitignore file.

In python you can use dotenv files with the python-dotenv module from PyPI, which can be installed with pip install python-dotenv. To use dotenv files you'll first need a file called .env, with content such as the following:

TOKEN=a00418c85bff087b49f23923efe40aa5

Next, in your main Python file, you need to load the environment variables from the dotenv file you just created:

from dotenv import load_dotenv()

load_dotenv(".env")

The variables from the file have now been loaded into your programs environment, and you can access them using os.getenv() anywhere in your program, like this:

from os import getenv

my_token = getenv("TOKEN")

For further reading about tokens and secrets, please read this explanation.

[slate swan]

He prob copied code from replit

[slate swan]

there is a embed of strings but it is not being shown

by the image

i dont know env var either

[slate swan]

U want text in image?

[slate swan]

nope one sec

Ikr

it was supposed to be like this then the image at the end

wait am i supposed to use footer?

Ye..

ic

Try?

sry for wasting ur time

[slate swan]

Nah im free lol

async def test(self, inter, hey: Option(str, choices=['one', 'two', 'three'])):```
how can i provide some context to the options

[slate swan]

@slate swan

it's pycord

out of my reach sry

okey

[slate swan]

can you not ping me whenever somebody needs help, thanks

[slate swan]

Can u be a little brief .. im confused

[slate swan]

sorry

[slate swan]

really sorry

but caan i get hep pls?

?

help*

[slate swan]

code is same for image tho

!d discord.Embed.footer

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.footer

property footer```
Returns an `EmbedProxy` denoting the footer contents.

See [`set_footer()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Embed.set_footer "discord.Embed.set_footer") for possible values you can access.

If the attribute has no value then `None` is returned.

[slate swan]

what do you need help with

[slate swan]

use icon_url=

[slate swan]

the embed image took the place of embed message

[slate swan]

i want to add some description to the options

[slate swan]

i dont understand

[slate swan]

Resize it?

[slate swan]

@slate swan

[slate swan]

heh?

[slate swan]

you want it as embed image ?

[slate swan]

ya

show code then

[slate swan]

cause you pass it inside .send as file argument

also you override your embed creating a new one

[slate swan]

that discord.file?

no when sending

file = file?

yes

i have to remove tht?

in docs it was given so i did

!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**.

[slate swan]

you pass file when you want to send image if you want to add it to embed you do embed.set_image()

[slate swan]

i did it at up

in third last line

now its like this oof

[slate swan]

ah sorry i made a mistake

the file=file was correct

ic

but then it will remain same again like tht so wht is wrong in the code??

you override embed

[slate swan]

override?

yes you redefine it

[slate swan]

but tht redefined one is under comment na?

u mean by embed = discord.embed()

yes

??

ic

you straight copied it from the docs and dont know what it does to code

remove this line

[slate swan]

lol

sry

[young pendant]

Hey Guys
Is there any way, I can run this script (obviously with renamed variables and commands) multiple times? https://paste.pythondiscord.com/aninahoveq
For example.
I would like to run that script through my bot.
But what do I need to do, to run 2 or 3 of these scripts?

[slate swan]

@slate swanbut the image is too big how can i make it small can i write code for like resize or smth??

[slate swan]

the image size is determined by discord

but there are a few ways to attatch image to embed

image is the biggest one

[slate swan]

huh?

you can use thumbnail but then it will be located on the top right

if i want it at bottom?

footer?

then you need to use image

footer will be just a small icon

as you see in image

[slate swan]

i was using it right now with set_imgae

riight?

you can try changing size of image you have locally but i dont know if it will change something

[slate swan]

yes

[slate swan]

but its size is big

wait

i am sending one ss

how can i do like this??

..

wht is the * in the code?

in what code

set_thumbnail(*, url)

here?

and from where did you get it

[slate swan]

docs

[slate swan]

dont look at the definition look at params list below

[slate swan]

heh?

params?

parameters?

yes

the * in this indicates that all parameters after are keyword only

[slate swan]

ic

[slate swan]

@slate swan

like this

ig

so you cant do embed.set_thumbnail("some url") you need to do embed.set_thumbnail(url="some url")

[slate swan]

what like this

[slate swan]

image at the botum

[slate swan]

yes and what about it

[slate swan]

how can i do so cuz mine come really way to big and not in embed

no idea

ic

[young pendant]

Hey, can you help me maybe with a question?

I got this script
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/aninahoveq

It has a feature that I would like to run multiple times through one bot.

I would like to have that feature maybe 3-4 times

[left dew]

am i allowed to ask a question about a bitcoin transaction confirmation checker?

[uneven hearth]

how can i create collapsible messages?

[glad cradle]

wdym? do you mean ephemeral messages?

[slate swan]

how can i keep my image under the embed

??

is ubuntu better as a vps than windows

[thin raft]

I mean

in the vast majority of cases yeah

[thin raft]

wdym by that

[thin raft]

wdym by that x2

[thin raft]

!d discord.ext.tasks

!d discord

[unkempt canyon]

discord

Similar names: discordpy.discord, nextcord.discord

[slate swan]

how can i make this image

[thin raft]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/tasks/index.html

[slate swan]

like this?

@thin raft

[thin raft]

!d discord.Embed.set_image

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_image

set_image(*, url)```
Sets the image for the embed content.

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

[thin raft]

@young pendant

[slate swan]

i did it it dont come under embed tho

[thin raft]

probably didn't did that

[slate swan]

.

[thin raft]

.

[slate swan]

i have used the set_image comand but in this code i wrote humbnail

[slate swan]

.

[thin raft]

u are confusing me

[slate swan]

sry

[thin raft]

you ask how to do something, I tell you how to do it

and you use another method

[slate swan]

how can i make my image come inside the embed like this?

[slate swan]

this is mine

[thin raft]

!d discord.Embed.set_image

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_image

set_image(*, url)```
Sets the image for the embed content.

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

[slate swan]

embed.set_thumbnail(url="attachment://FotoJet(1).png")

embed.set_image(url="attachment://FotoJet(1).png")

[thin raft]

?

[slate swan]

i have to do this right?

[thin raft]

try it and see

[slate swan]

tried

its same

[thin raft]

you aint doing something right

embed.set_image

[slate swan]

i did bro

[thin raft]

sets the image

you didn't, computers do not get confused

[slate swan]

oof

i did this

[thin raft]

you are checking for different images

FotoJet (1).png

name the image right

[glad cradle]

oof why set_image isn't accepting a file kwarg in d.py

[slate swan]

i named it ight

thts its name

the output i get

@thin raftsry for disturbance

[slate swan]

can u plss tell wht is kwarg

[glad cradle]

mmm didn't you have to put the full Path to the file instead of a name?

[thin raft]

message.channel.send(file = file, ...)

[glad cradle]

discord.py doesn't support it

[thin raft]

it will send the file :o

[slate swan]

i did it bruh

[slate swan]

wdym?

[glad cradle]

no you didn't, that's the filename that you setted in discord.File

sigh let me check disnake internals

[uneven hearth]

hm, you know when you send a long code/message, discord automatically changes it into some sort of a file, that's what i meant

[slate swan]

it c: thing there ig

[thin raft]

you can't it's managed by Discord

[young pendant]

I don't get it

[uneven hearth]

can't program it?

[thin raft]

you have code snippets

[slate swan]

i know bro thts hard for me tho

[young pendant]

How, I never did that

[young pendant]

i saw that site, but I'm to stupid to understand that

[thin raft]

Then I think you should get better at python

dw it's a common thing, it also happened to me

[slate swan]

message.channel.send(file = file, embed=embed)

u mean right?

..

[thin raft]

name the file right first

[slate swan]

the name of it in properties is its name right?

@thin raft

[thin raft]

name the file right

remove the (1)

[slate swan]

but there is a flie name if i remove the 1

like it was renamed

[thin raft]

name them correctly

or have you seen twins called Jake and Jake1

[slate swan]

ic

[glad cradle]

yeah it should be this

[slate swan]

heh?

done

??

[glad cradle]

try with attachment://yourfilepathhere

[slate swan]

where?

but in docs it says path

oof

[glad cradle]

!d discord.Embed.set_image

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_image

set_image(*, url)```
Sets the image for the embed content.

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

[slate swan]

path/to/my/image.png

[glad cradle]

ah then it should work

[slate swan]

but it is not

working

[glad cradle]

mm

[slate swan]

bro u r god

[slate swan]

lul it worked

[thin raft]

it's like wondering why "9aghdpañowu0g`0.png" is written wrong

[slate swan]

lol sry

[thin raft]

nah dw

[slate swan]

so r we not supposed to use number in .png??

[glad cradle]

btw why d.py always choose discutibile designs

[thin raft]

ur suposed to name things right

[slate swan]

ic

[thin raft]

idk it always works fine for me

[slate swan]

which database do u use??

[thin raft]

sqlite or mysql depending on the project

[slate swan]

depending on the project?

[glad cradle]

yeah but why it require the user to build the url manually when it could be done without much pain by the lib

[thin raft]

yeah?

you can use relative path iirc

[slate swan]

means on wht factors it depend on

[glad cradle]

postgres >> :)

[thin raft]

how big it needs to be and if I need more than 1 connection at a time

[slate swan]

do u use reppel it to make ur bot online?

[thin raft]

reppel?

[glad cradle]

replit

[thin raft]

I have my own dedicated server

replit 💀

[slate swan]

ic

[thin raft]

not that

[hushed galleon]

tacking on attachment:// you mean? i guess an is_attachment parameter would be fine, but if they automatically did it then you'd never be able to upload an attached image separate from the embed's image

though you can argue the other way around that its easy enough for the user to do it manually

[left dew]

await cembed.delete()
error: AttributeError: 'Embed' object has no attribute 'delete'

[thin raft]

check this

[slate swan]

me?

[thin raft]

yeah

[thin raft]

!d discord.Embed.delete

[unkempt canyon]

Not likely.

No documentation found for the requested symbol.

[hushed galleon]

it is as the error says, perhaps you meant to call delete() on a message object instead?

[thin raft]

!d discord.Embed

[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...

[left dew]

i just want the embed to delete after something confirms

[hushed galleon]

as in you have a message with an embed, and you want to only remove the embed?

[left dew]

no, its just an embed

i just want to delete the embed

[glad cradle]

mh? that's not true (I'm not sure if I understood what you're saying)

I'm saying why they let the user do

file = discord.File("hi", filename="lol")
embed.set_image("attachment://...")

when it could be

file = discord.File(...)
embed.set_image(file=file)

[thin raft]

!d discord.Message.edit

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.edit

await edit(*, content=..., embed=..., embeds=..., attachments=..., suppress=False, delete_after=None, allowed_mentions=..., view=...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Edits the message.

The content must be able to be transformed into a string via `str(content)`.

Changed in version 1.3: The `suppress` keyword-only parameter was added.

Changed in version 2.0: Edits are no longer in-place, the newly edited message is returned instead.

Changed in version 2.0: This function will now raise [`TypeError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError "(in Python v3.11)") instead of `InvalidArgument`.

[thin raft]

then set supress to True

message.edit(supress = True)

[left dew]

what does that do

[thin raft]

will remove the embeds

[hushed galleon]

that doesnt make any sense, embeds mean nothing to the discord API without them being associated with a message

[left dew]

this

that is my embed

and i want to delete it

[thin raft]

message.delete

[left dew]

delete the message

[hushed galleon]

feels a bit too tightly coupled of a feature to implement, but the syntax does look nice

[glad cradle]

I think it can't be implemented rn in d.py

it requires some discord.Embed and discord.File rewrite

and it should be edited for other things too, to be consistent

this is how it's actually implemented in disnake

[hushed galleon]

does it? i would imagine storing the files as an attribute of embed then having the send() method extract those files to be uploaded

by coupling i just mean that an embed is basically a JSON object with some string values so it doesnt make sense to make it responsible for file objects

[glad cradle]

I think this would have been possible if Discord.py didn't handled files so strangely

[hushed galleon]

oh sure enough disnake does the same thing i described
https://github.com/DisnakeDev/disnake/blob/master/disnake/embeds.py#L828-L832
https://github.com/DisnakeDev/disnake/blob/master/disnake/abc.py#L1599-L1602

[unkempt canyon]

disnake/embeds.py lines 828 to 832

if file:
    if file.filename is None:
        raise TypeError("File must have a filename")
    self._files[key] = file
    return f"attachment://{file.filename}"```
`disnake/abc.py` lines 1599 to 1602
```py
for embed in embeds:
    if embed._files:
        files = files or []
        files.extend(embed._files.values())```

[hushed galleon]

how so? whats different between it and disnake

[glad cradle]

no file handling is not that different between d.py and disnake

[glad cradle]

ah you meant this thing

[young dagger]

How can I make this task to start every third day at 00:00 am?

@tasks.loop(hours=24 * 3)
async def update_elo_ratings():```

[thin raft]

import datetime
from discord.ext import commands, tasks

utc = datetime.timezone.utc

# If no tzinfo is given then UTC is assumed.
times = [
    datetime.time(hour=8, tzinfo=utc),
    datetime.time(hour=12, minute=30, tzinfo=utc),
    datetime.time(hour=16, minute=40, second=30, tzinfo=utc)
]

class MyCog(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        self.my_task.start()

    def cog_unload(self):
        self.my_task.cancel()

    @tasks.loop(time=times)
    async def my_task(self):
        print("My task is running!")```

[young dagger]

Can't I just do this?

@tasks.loop(hours=24*3, start_time=datetime.time(hour=0))```

[hushed galleon]

use before_loop and sleep until 12am

[thin raft]

where did you get start_time

[hushed galleon]

afterwards dpy will keep it synced to the correct interval

[young dagger]

So this won't work as well?

@tasks.loop(hours=24*3, start_time=datetime.time(hour=0))```

[hushed galleon]

what akex said, start_time doesnt exist

or at least not in discord.py

[blissful badge]

does anyone know if the current discord.py functionality supports publishing an embed?

if so does anyone have any examples of an idea of how that would work following the

await channel.send(embed=embed)

[thin raft]

publishing an embed?

[blissful badge]

For some reason cannot get it to work

[blissful badge]

yeah, the publish function in an announcements channel

[hushed galleon]

!d discord.Message.publish

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.publish

await publish()```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Publishes this message to the channel’s followers.

The message must have been sent in a news channel. You must have [`send_messages`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.send_messages "discord.Permissions.send_messages") to do this.

If the message is not your own then [`manage_messages`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.manage_messages "discord.Permissions.manage_messages") is also needed.

[thin raft]

since when is that smt

[hushed galleon]

store the message object returned by send() and you can call publish() on it

[young dagger]

Can you give me an example of this please?

[blissful badge]

oh thats not too bad

[hushed galleon]

@tasks.loop(hours=24 * 3)
async def my_loop():
    ...

@my_loop.before_loop
async def before_my_loop():
    await asyncio.sleep(<seconds_until_12am>)``` as for calculating the seconds, figure out the next due date then subtract the current time (datetime is probably the easiest to use for this)

[blissful badge]

i am struggling a bit because its an embed and I am still getting used to those a bit.

how would I store the object in this case?

[hushed galleon]

send() returns a Message object, by storing it i mean assigning the result to a variable so you can do things with that message object

message = await ctx.send("Hello...")
await message.edit(content="...world!")```

[blissful badge]

ohhhhhhhh ok, and in this case publish is an attribute of message so I should be able to just put it as

await message.publish()

right?

[hushed galleon]

yup

[blissful badge]

In response to that its throwing me this

code I have is

        channel = self.bot.get_channel(int(dest.content))
        message = await channel.message.send(embed=embed)
        await message.publish()

[hushed galleon]

yeah what the error says, channel.message doesnt exist

[thin raft]

message.channel.send

[blissful badge]

ahh

why would it have worked fine before though?

[thin raft]

or channel.send in your case

[blissful badge]

okok

asking so I know for next time, still learning a lot of this.

appreciate the help.

[hushed galleon]

if it was working earlier, i dont think that code was what your bot was running

[blissful badge]

it was working just like that minus the publish bit

no joke

with that code

[young dagger]

Can't I just do something simple as:

# Set the desired start time
start_time = datetime.time(hour=0)

@tasks.loop(hours=24 * 3, time=start_time)
async def update_elo_ratings():
    # Code here```

[hushed galleon]

have you tried it? you'll see your answer

(its also answered in the docs)

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/tasks/index.html#discord.ext.tasks.loop

[hushed galleon]

i still have my doubts about that because its like if a person said "spiders have 2 legs" and then they showed a picture of a spider with two legs
the picture affirms their statement, but you know it objectively doesnt make any sense

what "message" could channel.message possibly refer to? there's thousands to choose from

that being said i dont know enough about how the bot reacted for me to make any clear judgement, but my assumption would be something more simple like accidentally changing the original channel.send() to channel.message.send(), then forgetting to save until the publish() line was added

[blissful badge]

that is entirely possible in fairness, but i dont believe i had edited that line in a while. who knows, regardless the solution provided did help, thank you 🙂

[blissful badge]

ALLOWED_ROLES = (893639927928062032, 159107041896562688, 712725199161786429, 759773665575043073, 829569153136066572,)
bot.add_check(lambda ctx:
any([r in ctx.author._roles for r in ALLOWED_ROLES]))

is this not the right format for limiting what roles it uses? I thought it was working fine but seems to be acting up now and allowing anyone to use it

[idle palm]

Hello,

In a slash command i have an argument to input a discord.Role but it only allows the user to enter one role

How can i allow the user to input 5 optional roles (They must at least input 1 role and 5 is the max they can input)

[fading marlin]

you can have multiple arguments for the different roles, but besides that there's not much else you can do

[meager chasm]

Maybe u can use a view with 5 select menus :P

[fading marlin]

or just 1 and have a maximum selection of 5 🤷

[blazing flint]

Try removing the comma after the last role, and remember you are using role ids and not objects. Also change the any() statement to any(role.id in allowed_roles for role in ctx.author.roles) hope this helps 🙂

[blazing flint]

Do you want there to be five individual inputs? One way I like to do this is by just making the singular option a string and having users mention the roles they want, and separate them by commas. Then you can use python’s built in split() function.

[shrewd thistle]

Can any1 help me with the skycrypt api/hypixel api and how to retrieve info and convert it from a list to just the data dm me plz

[smoky sinew]

this is not related to discord bots

[shrewd thistle]

Yes it is

[smoky sinew]

just because it involves a discord bot doesn't mean you should post it here because not everyone works with the hypixel api

[shrewd thistle]

Cause I’m making a hypixel bot with custom commands

Fair enough okay

Sorry

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @slate swan!

You either uploaded a .txt file or entered a message that was too long. Please use our paste bin instead.

[smoky sinew]

have you tried seeing what user_answer is?

[smoky sinew]

yes but what actually is it

aren't you trying to use float on a list there anyways?

[blissful badge]

If I wanted to have a command cancelled based on a specific response from an if statement, is it "exit" that would be used? Or something else

Like if I used "next" but instead wanted it to just stop the command entirely

exit isn't working is why im asking

[uneven hearth]

i forgot how to do it - how do i change the direction of the selection options once clicked? because once i click it, it goes down.

[smoky sinew]

return??

[blissful badge]

thought that could only be used in a loop??

[smoky sinew]

no that's what continue/break is for

[blissful badge]

ohhh

got them flipped then

appreciate you

thats not doing it

getting the code

        await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        await ctx.send(f"Tagging @{role_message}.")
        await ctx.send(f"Sending to #${dest}.")
        await ctx.send('**Last Chance**, does all this look correct? Yes or No.')
        confirmation_message = await self.bot.wait_for("message", check=lambda m: check(m) and any([
        "yes" in m.content.lower(),
        "no" in m.content.lower()
        ]))
        if "yes" in confirmation_message.content.lower():
            next
        if "no" in confirmation_message.content.lower():
            await ctx.send("The embed has been succesfully cancelled, please try again.")
            return       

it seems to be ignoring return?

[smoky sinew]

what does "next" mean

!d next

[unkempt canyon]

next

next(iterator)``````py

next(iterator, default)```
Retrieve the next item from the [iterator](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-iterator) by calling its [`__next__()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#iterator.__next__ "iterator.__next__") method. If *default* is given, it is returned if the iterator is exhausted, otherwise [`StopIteration`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#StopIteration "StopIteration") is raised.

Similar names: pdbcommand.next, 2to3fixer.next

[smoky sinew]

this is probably not what you wanted

[blissful badge]

I thought next is what I would use to move on in the command

[smoky sinew]

no you don't need that if statement at all

where did you get this information from

[blissful badge]

uhhh

nowhere just taking my own stab at writing my own if statement lol

clearly its going well

[uneven hearth]

does anybody knows?

[marble current]

if i do
from FILE_NAME import FUNCTION can i just use that command from the main file? or do i have to run the other one or sum

[slate swan]

guys now i want create a file in a folder that the running file of python run in.

and ofc with os.listdir()

[unkempt canyon]

The for-else block

In Python it's possible to attach an else clause to a for loop. The code under the else block will be run when the iterable is exhausted (there are no more items to iterate over). Code within the else block will not run if the loop is broken out using break.

Here's an example of its usage:

numbers = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11]

for number in numbers:
    if number % 2 == 0:
        print(f"Found an even number: {number}")
        break
    print(f"{number} is odd.")
else:
    print("All numbers are odd. How odd.")

Try running this example but with an even number in the list, see how the output changes as you do so.

[north kiln]

hi I was trying to sync new slash command I made to a specific test guild but the commands I synced before made shows up twice in the test guild if I specify the guild when using tree.sync. Not sure what I have to do here

so I think I solved this issue now 😅

[tight fog]

hey I have a question

if I want to prevent people with Discord roles that are too low from using a certain bot command, how do I do that

[blazing flint]

how do I use this bot

await interaction.edit_original_response(content="Audio downloaded successfully.", file=discord.File('./audio.mp4'))```

is my code, and I am getting an error that edit_original_response does not have a "file" argument

bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

!d discord.Interaction

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction

class discord.Interaction```
Represents a Discord interaction.

An interaction happens when a user does an action that needs to be notified. Current examples are slash commands and components.

New in version 2.0.

[vale wing]

Not clearly specified what you need, however here are 2 possible solutions

1. If you want to restrict users with roles or your bot is multiserver with different configured roles, you need to use custom check (see @commands.check in docs)
2. If your bot is single guild and you want users only with certain roles to be allowed to use command, use @commands.has_roles or @commands.has_any_role.

[blazing flint]

?

I was asking how to use the python bot

[vale wing]

!d discord.Interaction.edit_original_response

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.edit\_original\_response

await edit_original_response(*, content=..., embeds=..., embed=..., attachments=..., view=..., allowed_mentions=None)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Edits the original interaction response message.

This is a lower level interface to [`InteractionMessage.edit()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.InteractionMessage.edit "discord.InteractionMessage.edit") in case you do not want to fetch the message and save an HTTP request.

This method is also the only way to edit the original message if the message sent was ephemeral.

[blazing flint]

!d discord.Attachment

[blazing flint]

@vale wing can you just help me with my problem pls

I know there are multiple things that I am doing wrong here

but I don't know how to fix them

[smoky sinew]

attachments=[discord.File("./audio.mp4")]

could you not just look at the docs to see all the arguments

[slate swan]

i am creating a discord command to repeat what i say, the command is returning a error

the command

`import bot

@bot.command()
async def say(ctx, , arg):
await ctx.send(f"{arg}/n)"
"* **/n"
f"{ctx.author.mention}/n")

if name == 'main':
bot.run_discord_bot()`

The error it is giving me

AttributeError: module 'bot' has no attribute 'command'

Can someone tell me how i could fix this issue?

im extremely new to coding, lol.

[smoky sinew]

what is import bot

and bot.run_discord_bot

[vocal snow]

I would really recommend learning some basic python first; it looks like you're just gluing together random code

[slate swan]

💀

because i kinda am, LOL

[smoky sinew]

you need to import discord.py first, then create a bot instance and register commands using it

[vocal snow]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[vocal snow]

Bunch of free courses and books here

[slate swan]

ty

[smoky sinew]

e.g. ```py
from discord.ext import commands
import discord

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

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

@bot.command()
async def my_command(ctx):
...

[slate swan]

ty

can anyone help me out with this ?

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/unabibovur

main.py ☝️

[slate swan]

@smoky sinew pls help

[shrewd fjord]

currently opencv or cv2 whatever u say doesnt work on replit

[stable raptor]

any tips on how to learn discord bot python?

[meager chasm]

Are you comfortable with basic python and some indermediate python like classes?

[slate swan]

f..

then it won't run @shrewd fjord ?

[meager chasm]

Did you save the file? Can u show the full code

[unkempt canyon]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @patent lark until <t:1680586269:f> (10 minutes) (reason: newlines rule: sent 12 consecutive newlines in 10s).

The <@&831776746206265384> have been alerted for review.

[cerulean geyser]

!unmute 647261111841980418

[unkempt canyon]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: pardoned infraction timeout for @patent lark.

[cerulean geyser]

For longer code snippets please use a paste site

otherwise our bot will mistake you for a spammer

[patent lark]

got it

[shrewd fjord]

nope

[upbeat otter]

it doesnt?

I think it did before

[patent lark]

https://pastebin.com/4HJAvQZW

[patent lark]

anyone?

[glad cradle]

Have you saved the file?

[patent lark]

yes

i was able to fix my issue, user error. :/

[slate swan]

someone pls help me resolve this

:/

[shrewd fjord]

actually i am totally not sure about now, but like about 6 months ago it didnt work for me

[slate swan]

send code

[slate swan]

main.py?

[slate swan]

ya

[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/unabibovur

wht u want the bot to do?

[slate swan]

snipe cards on a server

its an anime game

[slate swan]

out of my reach

[slate swan]

oh np

[slate swan]

lol am making it as well somehow

[slate swan]

for karuta ?

[slate swan]

n

[slate swan]

oh ohk

how am i supposed to save the user data?

[vale wing]

In a database

[slate swan]

am u supposed to code in sql as well?

[vale wing]

Yeah unless it's non-sql database like mongo

[slate swan]

am supposed to learn sql as well then??

[vale wing]

It's a valuable skill

And it's easy to learn

So definitely

[slate swan]

ic

oki

[jolly prism]

can someone help me with it

[lyric halo]

is anyone here i need help

[jolly prism]

even i need help :/

[naive briar]

Don't ask to ask, just ask

[slate swan]

command " python.execlnTerminal-icon" not found

i am having this error in vs code

[slate swan]

how do i do a fricken button 😦

i have been trying for 3 hours now

import discord
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
from discord.ext.commands import Bot, Context
from discord.ui import Button


intents = discord.Intents.all()
intents.bans = True
intents.dm_messages = True
intents.dm_reactions = True
intents.dm_typing = True
intents.emojis = True
intents.emojis_and_stickers = True
intents.guild_messages = True
intents.guild_reactions = True
intents.guild_scheduled_events = True
intents.guild_typing = True
intents.guilds = True
intents.integrations = True
intents.invites = True
intents.messages = True # `message_content` is required to get the content of the messages
intents.reactions = True
intents.typing = True
intents.voice_states = True
intents.webhooks = True
intents.members = True
intents.message_content = True
intents.presences = True


prefix = "."
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=prefix,intents=intents, description="Desc", help_command=None)

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(name=f"{prefix}help"))
    print("Bot has successfully logged in as: {}".format(bot.user))
    print("Bot ID: {}\n".format(bot.user.id))


@bot.event
async def on_message(message: discord.Message) -> None:
    if message.content == ".button":
        view = discord.ui.View()
        button = discord.ui.Button(label="Click me!")
        view.add_item(button)
        await message.channel.send("Hello!", view=view)
        
        def check(m):
            return m.channel == message.channel

        try:
            interaction = await bot.wait_for("button_click", check=check, timeout=30)
            await interaction.response.send_message("You clicked the button!")
        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
            await message.channel.send("You didn't click the button in time!")
bot.run(token="token")

it spawns the button and will get the timeout error and send the msg but it wont get if i click the button

[merry cliff]

my guy

discord.Intents.all() should be fine, you don't need to manually enable all of them

for the button, you must create a callback function for it to do anything when pressed

I will demonstrate 1 in a class (for more complicated stuff) and one inside a command

class CustomButton(discord.ui.Button):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(style=discord.ButtonStyle.red, label="LABEL")

    async def callback(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        await interaction.response.edit_message("you pressed the button!")

class CustomView(discord.ui.View):
    def __init__(self):
         self.add_item(CustomButton(0, 0))

then in your command, just add view=CustomView() when you send it

I just yoinked some of my code from me making a game if ur wondering about the variables

and here is a button made INSIDE a command:

(this was inside a cog)

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ocaxutovil

I heavily recommend NOT defining the buttons inside a command as you are unabke to use them in different commands and it is less efficient overall.

@slate swan

[slate swan]

normal imports ???

[merry cliff]

if you are using my recommended method of using classes, you will need from discord.ui import Button, View

no wait you dont

it calls from the discord library

my bad @slate swan

[brisk edge]

Sorry for interrupting a convo, just wanted to know if slash commands are exclusive to the client side of discord.py, and if not how can I use them with cogs?

[merry cliff]

wdym by client side

a bot cannot interact with other bots if that's what ur wondering

[brisk edge]

Meant to say @client.event thingy (I'm sorry I don't know how this is called)

My bot uses @bot.event for reference

[brisk edge]

Not this

[merry cliff]

to make a slash command?

[brisk edge]

yep that

I just want them to pop like this on the chat

[merry cliff]

those are slash commands, or what discord.py calls app_commands

to make them in your main.py file (not a cog), do @bot.tree.command(args) , and in cogs, do @app_commands.command(args) where you usually put @commands.command()

[slate swan]

its its not to much effort could you quickly do a small example of a button and the interaction within the button ?

just like a simple "button pressed"

[merry cliff]

this should work fine

as an example

[brisk edge]

So if I were to have this

class CommandHandler(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot

    @commands.command(name='test')
    async def test_command(self, ctx):
        """Says hello"""
        await ctx.send('Hello!')```

It'd be this?

```python
class CommandHandler(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot

    @app_commands.command(name='test')
    async def test_command(self, ctx):
        """Says hello"""
        await ctx.send('Hello!')```

[merry cliff]

buttons are interactions, so they don't take context (ctx)

interaction: discord.Interaction

instead of ctx: discord.Context

[slate swan]

async def on_message(message: discord.Message) -> None:
    if message.content == ".button":
        button = CustomButton()
        await message.reply("this is a button", view=button)

how do i do this 😦

[merry cliff]

same thingwith slash commands

[slate swan]

im using the class

[merry cliff]

why are you making commands with on message

[vale wing]

You don't

[slate swan]

im just testig

[vale wing]

Use commands framework

And for buttons check examples on repo

If you need links tell me

[slate swan]

i have tried for hours on end multiple libs

tried all there examples

[merry cliff]

how did u first learn discord.py?

[vale wing]

Best is disnake! (in my honest opinion)

[merry cliff]

cringe

discord.py > disnake

[slate swan]

can you provide a link to the example of the discord button example ?

[vale wing]

Objects of type module do not support > comparison

[merry cliff]

MY BAD

[vale wing]

First I copied stuff from random site "how to make discord bot" then docs and this channel

[merry cliff]

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

[vale wing]

I didn't even know OOP when I started

[merry cliff]

same

but its so helpful

[vale wing]

Bot development was a great entrypoint for me

[slate swan]

how is that not int

[vale wing]

It's too big for discord default integer type

[slate swan]

should i use str ?

[vale wing]

Iirc you can somehow increase the limit but I am not sure and can't tell you how exactly

str will work but that method might be better

What library do you use?

[slate swan]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application-commands#application-command-object-application-command-option-type

I dont see i docs the type for snowflake or bigger int

[slate swan]

pycord, i achieved it with string. but now i have to check it it's a valid id

[vale wing]

I just remember disnake having that in comnands.Param, apparently it serialises as string but lib converts to integer

!d disnake.ext.commands.Param

[unkempt canyon]

disnake.ext.commands.Param

disnake.ext.commands.Param(default=Ellipsis, *, name=None, description=None, choices=None, converter=None, convert_defaults=False, autocomplete=None, channel_types=None, lt=None, ...)```
A special function that creates an instance of [`ParamInfo`](https://docs.disnake.dev/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#disnake.ext.commands.ParamInfo "disnake.ext.commands.ParamInfo") that contains some information about a slash command option. This instance should be assigned to a parameter of a function representing your slash command.

See [Parameters](https://docs.disnake.dev/en/latest/ext/commands/slash_commands.html#param-syntax) for more info.

[vale wing]

There's large kwarg

[slate swan]

Ah okay so not at discord side

[brisk edge]

it worked, thanks

[whole shoal]

How.do you import
discord-py-slash-command

[merry cliff]

don't, discord.py has slash command support now

[whole shoal]

Hm

Docs on slash commands?

[naive briar]

!d discord.app_commands.CommandTree

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.CommandTree

class discord.app_commands.CommandTree(client, *, fallback_to_global=True)```
Represents a container that holds application command information.

[whole shoal]

Alr ty

[whole shoal]

Anyone know how can I add an optional param in slash commands

[hushed galleon]

you give it a default value the same way you would with a regular function

[unkempt mauve]

how do I get bot uptime?

[deft quartz]

Start a time variable in on_ready and substract it from the time when the command for uptime is sent

[unkempt mauve]

u meant to save a variable on the on_ready and subtract it from the command sent time?

[hushed galleon]

or if you want to be a bit more fancy, store a list of timespans of when your bot is online

[unkempt mauve]

I am ok with relative time

[hushed galleon]

datetime + bot vars would be most convenient for implementing either option

[blissful badge]

having a bit of trouble with an if statement seeing if anyone can steer me in the right direction....

        await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        await ctx.send('Does this look correct? Yes or no.')
        confirmation_message = await self.bot.wait_for("message", check=lambda m: check(m) and any([
        "yes" in m.content.lower(),
        "no" in m.content.lower()
        ]))
        if "yes" in confirmation_message.content.lower():
            next
        if "no" in confirmation_message.content.lower():
            await ctx.send("The embed has been succesfully cancelled, please try again.")
            exit

it accepts both yes and no but if you say no it still says it cancelled the embed but it continues on with the rest of the command.

For context this is inside of a multi step embed command where the user sets the individual parts of the embed by responding to the bot. Everything works except for this loop part so I know its just my if statement thats messed up

it still sends the "the embed has been succesfully cancelled, please try again" but doesnt exit the command

[hushed galleon]

next and exit are just functions, both of which you likely dont want to call

generally an exception or return statement is how you'd terminate a function early

[unkempt mauve]

how do I access the variable that saves the bot uptime time from the on_ready?

[uneven hearth]

is it possible to dm someone with components?

[blissful badge]

I could leave the "yes" lines the way they are and just modify the "no" lines, yes?

[hushed galleon]

thats what the bot var is for: ```py
bot.last_connected = None

@bot.event
async def on_connect():
bot.last_connected = datetime.datetime.now()

@bot.command()
async def uptime(ctx):
# calculate here using bot.last_connected```

[unkempt mauve]

oh thank you. I didnt read your message clearly

[hushed galleon]

i guess sure, or you can remove the yes entirely - if its not no then you know its a yes

[blissful badge]

Oh and it'll just move on in response to yes because of the check

that makes sense

[blissful badge]

that fixed it 🙂

also, confused on what I am doing wrong in this code bit py await ctx.send(f"Sending to: <#${dest}>.")
that its outputting it as this

Sending to: <#$<Message id=1092811984937943172 channel=<TextChannel id=1065685023853920258 name='bot-testing-zone' position=7 nsfw=False news=False category_id=1065685023853920256> type=<MessageType.default: 0> author=<Member id=288522211164160010 name='ian' discriminator='5555' bot=False nick=None guild=<Guild id=1065685023283499118 name="Ian's Workshop" shard_id=0 chunked=True member_count=7>> flags=<MessageFlags value=0>>>.

I know I have gotten this to work before and from my research that is the right format for that, I just cant figure it out

"dest" being a channel ID

[hushed galleon]

well apparently dest is a message object

if you want to mention the channel of that message you'd use <#{message.channel.id}> (no $ sign), or the convenient property {message.channel.mention}

[blissful badge]

So that makes sense but how would I convert the "dest" object over to "message.channel.id"? just using an "=" statement above?

[hushed galleon]

dest is your message, so to access its channel you would write dest.channel

i mean if you want to alias it (set it to a variable) before writing your f-string sure

but you're free to write the entire expression within your f-string

[blissful badge]

ahhhh so I just append dest

I forget I can do that to objects sometimes

[blissful badge]

doing dest.channel is just saying the channel the command is being used in, not what dest actually is which is the announcements channel its going to

[hushed galleon]

then do you have the channel object for that announcement channel?

[blissful badge]

Unsure how to answer that tbh

        await ctx.send('What channel should I send this in? Please provide me with the channel ID.\n- #sc-news: 569635458183856149\n- #general-news: 803341100618219540\n- #sc-patch-notes: 585952222853201941')
        dest = await self.bot.wait_for('message', check=check)

this is how I'm getting announcement channel id

[hushed galleon]

oh thats you meant by "dest being a channel ID", the message content contains the actual ID

imo this is what you want to use a channel select menu for, but regardless you'll want to get the channel object using that ID

!d discord.Guild.get_channel

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Guild.get\_channel

get_channel(channel_id, /)```
Returns a channel with the given ID.

Note

This does *not* search for threads.

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

[blissful badge]

Hey if I knew how to make a channel select menu right now I'd do it, but thats a project for another day.

So I could instead do get_channel(dest, /)

and then use the channel.id I get from that for the await.send()?

[hushed galleon]

remember that dest is a Message object, not a string

[sick birch]

Use the channel you get from that

[hushed galleon]

thats why you got this messy output earlier, you didnt reference the actual content of that message

[sick birch]

Not the channel.id

[blissful badge]

that part definitely stumps me a bit, trying to either turn it to a string or access the content

[blissful badge]

ah ok good note ty

[slate swan]

@blissful badgehi

[blissful badge]

hello

[hushed galleon]

there are several different data types you'll need to work with to work towards sending that announcement: ```py
message = await bot.wait_for("message", ...)

^ Message object

message.content

^ a string, which presumably looks like '569635458183856149'

int(message.content)

^ an integer, which would look like 569635458183856149

channel = ctx.guild.get_channel(int(message.content))

| ^ the current guild

= the GuildChannel object that would be your #sc-news channel

(or possibly None)

await channel.send(f"This is an announcement to {channel.mention}")

#sc-news```

[blissful badge]

thats right "int"

mudkip has been reminding me of that so much

ok ty cracks lemme try to implement that

[slate swan]

huh?

[blissful badge]

?

[slate swan]

can i ask which type of bot u r trying to make

[blissful badge]

Well its actually already made, just tinkering with some features but...its an embed bot

[slate swan]

like carl bot ig its the name

[indigo basalt]

Is it possible to edit a embed with a button click
e.g. after a button click your name shows up in the embed?

[slate swan]

bruh

[slate swan]

do u have a server for ur bot?

[blissful badge]

similar functions i think to its embed functions yeah

[slate swan]

oh

[blissful badge]

its in a test server yeah but its mostly used in the r/starcitizen discord

[slate swan]

ic

[mighty sun]

Hello, when I want to put my bot online I have this problem that appears ... possible to help me solve it? thank you in advance

[blissful badge]

@hushed galleon I actually got it to do exactly what I wanted with just this line

        await ctx.send(f"Sending to: <#{dest.content}>.")

ignore additional screenshot

which is weird because it knows what "dest" is, but then when I try to do

await ctx.send(f"Tagging: <@&{role_message}>.")

it doesn't know what "role_message" is

"role_message" just being another identifier like "dest"

[naive briar]

If the message content is a channel ID, then it will

[blissful badge]

yeah which it is, so to me it makes sense that it works

just from what cracks said it seemed like it needed more

so just clarifying

[slate swan]

it couldnt find relay_bot module show your file tree

[slate swan]

broo can u tell should i make diffrent files for diffrent types of code?

[mighty sun]

yes, but on my site I can't add a folder, so I took out the relay of the folder, that's why? but then I have to mark what in the .main file?@slate swan

[slate swan]

like for strt commands diffrent

[blissful badge]

like groups of commands in a different file?

I would recommend doing so using cogs and extensions yeah

[slate swan]

ya but..

[slate swan]

bruh cogs and extenions?

[mighty sun]

i openmain.py and i whrite just "import relay" ?

[slate swan]

i am doing in vs code

[mighty sun]

ok

[blissful badge]

Its a lot easier then it seems.

Here is an example cog file

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

class Responses(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        self._last_member = None

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, message: discord.Message) -> None:
        if self.bot.user.mentioned_in(message):
            print("SCNewsBot has been mentioned.")
            await message.channel.send("test")

    @commands.command(name='commands')
    async def send_data(self, ctx):
        await ctx.send("test")
        channel = self.bot.get_channel(1086293466054656100)
        author = ctx.author.name
        await channel.send(f"Command list access by {author}")

    @commands.command()
    async def ping(self, ctx):
        await ctx.send("Hello! I am here.")


async def setup(bot):
    await bot.add_cog(Responses(bot))

[mighty sun]

from os import environ as env

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from relay_bot import RelayBot

load_dotenv()

def main():
relay_bot = RelayBot(
env.get('SOURCE_CHANNEL_ID'),
(
env.get('PRIORITY_DESTINATION_CHANNEL_ID'),
env.get('FALLBACK_DESTINATION_CHANNEL_ID')
),
env.get('ROLE_ID')
)
relay_bot.run(env.get('BOT_TOKEN'))

if name == 'main':
main()

this is my main.py

[blissful badge]

and then here is what you need in your main file to import a cog

extensions = ("embed","responses","formats")

[slate swan]

is there any docs for cogs??

[blissful badge]

yes let me grab it

[slate swan]

bruhhhhh

[blissful badge]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/cogs.html

[mighty sun]

@slate swan 'from os import environ as env

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from relay_bot import RelayBot

load_dotenv()

def main():
relay_bot = RelayBot(
env.get('SOURCE_CHANNEL_ID'),
(
env.get('PRIORITY_DESTINATION_CHANNEL_ID'),
env.get('FALLBACK_DESTINATION_CHANNEL_ID')
),
env.get('ROLE_ID')
)
relay_bot.run(env.get('BOT_TOKEN'))

if name == 'main':
main()'

[slate swan]

ty

[slate swan]

??

[mighty sun]

since I took my relay file out of the folder I have to write at the top of the hand ? just import relay ?@slate swan

[smoky sinew]

load an extension* example extension file*

remember they're not the same

[blissful badge]

huh?

[smoky sinew]

extensions can be loaded without any cogs, and cogs can be added without being in an extension

[blissful badge]

this is all thats in my main file for my extensions

ohhhh

ur correcting my terminology

thank you

[blissful badge]

any idea why this is working

        await ctx.send(f"Sending to: <#{dest.content}>.")

dest being defined earlier in the code

but this isn't working

await ctx.send(f"Tagging: <@&{role_message.content}>.")

it says discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'role_message' where it is not associated with a value

[slate swan]

code?

[blissful badge]

yesssssss one second

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @blissful badge!

You either uploaded a .txt file or entered a message that was too long. Please use our paste bin instead.

[blissful badge]

Oops

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ehefudijot

[slate swan]

what when this if is False if "yes" in tag_confirmation.content.lower():? then the varriable role_message wont be defined

and you encounter this error

[smoky sinew]

why are you using the next thing again

[blissful badge]

forgot to remove that from our previous convo, fixing

oh yeah cause it does this

[slate swan]

cause you need to do something when this if is True

[blissful badge]

I do

[slate swan]

you cant just define if something and do nothing

[blissful badge]

oh

outside of defining I have to do something

but theres nothing else i need it to do lol

[slate swan]

so why do you check for that

if you dont need it

[blissful badge]

What?

[slate swan]

if you dont need this if remove it

[blissful badge]

I do need the if statement, it has to define role_message

[smoky sinew]

you just return

[slate swan]

else:

[blissful badge]

but I thought return stops it?

[smoky sinew]

delete the whole if "yes" part

[smoky sinew]

which one did you want

[blissful badge]

this isn't for the preview

[smoky sinew]

then remove the if statement entirely for if "no"

[blissful badge]

        await ctx.send('Do I need to tag someone? Yes for single post or final in a set, no for first if you need a second embed.')
        #role_message = await self.bot.wait_for('message', check=check)
        tag_confirmation = await self.bot.wait_for("message", check=lambda m: check(m) and any([
        "yes" in m.content.lower(),
        "no" in m.content.lower()
        ]))
        if "yes" in tag_confirmation.content.lower():
            await ctx.send('What role should I tag? Please provide me with the role ID.\n- scnews: 620025828079697920\n- gennews: 803343410794594385\n- patchnotes: 620025894559547412')
            role_message = await self.bot.wait_for('message', check=check)
            whototag = role_message

            await ctx.send('What is the tag preview?')
            tag_preview = await self.bot.wait_for('message', check=check)
        if "no" in tag_confirmation.content.lower():

ah ok

thats kinda where i was getting cause cracks and I talked about something similer earlier

ok so here is where that issue is presenting itself again which @slate swan you pointed out earlier

for this section that pulls said "role_message" if I say no to needing to tag anyone it fails cause role_message has no content to it

        await ctx.send(f"Tagging: <@&{role_message.content}>.")

so trying to figure out how to get it to not error out the whole command if I say no to the earlier question that defines role_message

[smoky sinew]

just send the tag in the if statement

you should really use a converter instead of manually tagging the id

[blissful badge]

but it needs to be sent later.

it gets defined early on, but then gets sent again during the preview of the embed before it gets sent

So I can't send it in the if statement

[blissful badge]

sorry just proud of myself, i fixed it myself with an if statement on the first try!!!!

[blissful badge]

mh yes math

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.channel.type == discord.ChannelType.news:
        await message.publish()
        return

having some issues making this instead work with specific channels vs ALL news channels.

I've tried the usual things like calling out the channel and publishing any messages in the channels but its not doing it.

any ideas?

[slate swan]

hello, i am doing a custom timezone command and i need help converting an UTC offset to a timezone name with whatever lib, i tried searching online for some results but none worked for me

[thin raft]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4563272/how-to-convert-a-utc-datetime-to-a-local-datetime-using-only-standard-library

[left dew]

astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)

error:
AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'timezone'

[slate swan]

!d datetime.timezone

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.timezone

class datetime.timezone(offset, name=None)```
The *offset* argument must be specified as a [`timedelta`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta "datetime.timedelta") object representing the difference between the local time and UTC. It must be strictly between `-timedelta(hours=24)` and `timedelta(hours=24)`, otherwise [`ValueError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#ValueError "ValueError") is raised.

The *name* argument is optional. If specified it must be a string that will be used as the value returned by the [`datetime.tzname()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.tzname "datetime.datetime.tzname") method.

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.7: The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.

[slate swan]

not datetime.datetime.timezone

[left dew]

huh?

[smoky sinew]

you're using from datetime import datetime in your code

[left dew]

yea

[smoky sinew]

that's the problem

[left dew]

do i just need import datetime?

[smoky sinew]

yes, and switch the rest of your code to use datetime.datetime instead

[left dew]

ok

ty

[left dew]

im using an api to get when something confirmed, but it returns the time as 2023-04-04 02:28:25+00:00 is there anyway i can make this more readable/look nicer?

confirm_time = datetime.strptime(res["confirmed"], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ").replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

[potent spear]

like this?

[smoky sinew]

!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...

[potent spear]

<t:1680630195:f>

[left dew]

yea

[smoky sinew]

or just use a nicer format in strptime

[potent spear]

you can use the util mentioned above

[left dew]

im not really sure how i'd implement it within my code?

[potent spear]

nicely_formatted_date = discord.utils.format_dt(<your_datetime_object>)

[left dew]

<t:{}:F>

but what do i put in the {}

[potent spear]

that would be doing it manually, that's why you want to use a util...

that does it FOR YOU

by giving it a datetime object, it "converts" it into discord's sexy format

[left dew]

ohh

confirm_time = datetime.strptime(res["confirmed"], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
            nicely_formatted_date = discord.utils.format_dt(confirm_time)```

like that?

[potent spear]

looks good to me, now you can choose a style too (via the style parameter)

<t:1680630573:f>
<t:1680630573:F>
<t:1680630573:R>

[left dew]

dayum

how do i edit style? style= ...

[potent spear]

check the docs what options you can pick from

[potent spear]

.

[left dew]

style = <t:{confirm_time}:F> ?

[potent spear]

no man

..... = .....format_dt(<your_datetime_obj>, style="F")
for example

[left dew]

oh

i see

[slate swan]

doesnt work for me, i spend to long trying to find a solution, im just gonna use unix timestamps now

anyways why is the the hex code 0xfff shown as blue in an embed?

[potent spear]

#discord-bots message

[left dew]

that worked tysm

[potent spear]

gl!

[slate swan]

what?

[potent spear]

link is your answer

[slate swan]

i asked why 0xfff is shown as blue because originally its white

i didnt even use ansi

[waxen summit]

Guys I want to mirror a telegram channel into discord. How would I do it without being an admin ?

[still obsidian]

How do I add parameters/arguments to an application command?

in discord.py