discord-bots

[vocal snow]

nextcord supports slash commands

[old ibex]

!followup

[slate swan]

sir, can you tell me how can i make a new file in vs code for data storage?

.........

[slate swan]

@slate swan ]

🙂 expecting i will not get ignored

can u explain sir? pls

to make my code organised can i make another file in the main.py folder for data storage by the use of mysql

ty for replying sir

[opaque elk]

Why doesn’t my pip install work on python windows?

[slate swan]

u are new?

[opaque elk]

Not really, I already created multiple bots but I always installed modules by doing -py -3 -m install (module)

[slate swan]

ic

[slate swan]

!dashmpip

[unkempt canyon]

Install packages with `python -m pip`

When trying to install a package via pip, it's recommended to invoke pip as a module: python -m pip install your_package.

Why would we use python -m pip instead of pip?
Invoking pip as a module ensures you know which pip you're using. This is helpful if you have multiple Python versions. You always know which Python version you're installing packages to.

Note
The exact python command you invoke can vary. It may be python3 or py, ensure it's correct for your system.

[slate swan]

help sir?

not gonna ping this time

[fiery hare]

anyone know how to make purge command

[slate swan]

its not about me ignoring you its about me not having time to answer when i have time i look into this channel no need to ping me

[slate swan]

man u asking to spoon feed code

[slate swan]

ummm sir if u have time now can u explain

[slate swan]

try how it says: python -m pip install your_package

[hushed galleon]

the >>> prompt means you're in the python interpreter, not your regular terminal

[opaque elk]

Ohhh mb mb

[hushed galleon]

ctrl+z then enter to exit the interpreter, then run your py command

[slate swan]

oh did not see that

right

[opaque elk]

Ty guys

[slate swan]

sry for wasting ur time sir

[slate swan]

explain what?

[opaque elk]

Im also wondering how I can separate my stuff between multiple files

I never really done that before. I got a like 500 lines code

[slate swan]

in a discord bot?

[slate swan]

.

[opaque elk]

discord.py

[slate swan]

use cogs

[opaque elk]

Alright imma check that out ty

[slate swan]

why not

how tho

[slate swan]

i dont know what exactly you mean

what you want to separate

database logic?

like there is the main code for strt command but when i want to make my data storage code in vs code in a diffrent file

what do you mean by data storage

show code or example maybe i will understand

[fiery hare]

what should i put in 'config'

[twilit grotto]

delete this, you exposed your token

[slate swan]

for sure not your token

[slate swan]

theres no code tho

leave ty for ur time sir

[twilit grotto]

i assume you're trying to create malware so im not even gonna bother to help u

[hushed galleon]

cogs/extensions are discord.py's helper features for separating commands, but they build upon python's module system so you should learn how to write them correctly - afterwards it becomes easy to refactor into different files
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html

[slate swan]

what is the point of creating the config file to not show your token in the code and still put it as default value

[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.

[twilit grotto]

whats the detection on the antivirus

[slate swan]

ty for giving ur time in writing so much for me

[twilit grotto]

what are you compiling your python file into an exe with, pyarmor?

[slate swan]

Mind explaining how that is related to the channel's topic

[twilit grotto]

^

bad channel to ask ur question in tbf

[slate swan]

good one

By asking in the correct channel first

E.g. #1035199133436354600

[old ibex]

Command 'clear' raised an exception: InteractionResponded: This interaction has already been responded to before

    @app_commands.command()
    async def clear(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, amount: int) -> None:
        await interaction.response.defer(thinking=True) 
        cleared = await interaction.channel.purge(limit=amount, bulk=True)
        clearembed=discord.Embed(
            title="",
            description=f"Successfully cleared {cleared} message(s).",
            color=0x313338
        )
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=clearembed)```

hmmmmm

[slate swan]

interaction.followup.send

You don't use interaction.response.send_message after deferring a message

[old ibex]

Command 'clear' raised an exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10008): Unknown Message

hmmmm

[slate swan]

God these 'hmmmm' are so superfluous

[old ibex]

mhmm

[slate swan]

sir how can i store data in my bot

@slate swan

wht is help cooldow btw

[earnest swift]

Is there a way i can do my own commands like instead of greet i can do greet {user}or something

[opaque elk]

I just did a leveling bot (really basic) but when I do my =lvl command, nothing shows up. not even an error message. my script = https://paste.pythondiscord.com/lamaxebiga

[polar scroll]

can someone help?

[slate swan]

slash_command

There's no "s"

[polar scroll]

oh ok, thanks

[polar scroll]

why is it giving me interaction error ._.

[slate swan]

send_message not send

Consider at least reading the docs https://docs.disnake.dev/en/stable/ext/commands/slash_commands.html

[opaque elk]

someone help?

[polar scroll]

which one is better? disnake nextcord or discord.py?

[earnest swift]

discord.py imo

[opaque elk]

Same

[earnest swift]

!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...

[hushed galleon]

you might find more help with discord.py here, but online guides are lacking for dpy's newer features afaik, particularly app_commands

[opaque elk]

I just did a leveling bot (really basic) but when I do my =lvl command, nothing shows up. not even an error message. my script = https://paste.pythondiscord.com/lamaxebiga

[earnest swift]

How do i make the bot send sever emojis like this in a discord embed?

[polar scroll]

type \ before the emoji and paste the emoji on the embed

[earnest swift]

!rival_check like this

[sick birch]

yup

[polar scroll]

i undestand, but i cant seem to replicate this, with discord.py, as it looks WAY more easier than the normal use

[polar scroll]

yas

[hushed galleon]

equivalent: ```py
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="whyisthisstillneeded", intents=...)

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description="This is a hello command")
async def test(interaction: discord.Interaction):
"""This is a hello command"""
# ^ A docstring can be used instead of description=
await interaction.response.send_message("Sup")

@bot.event
async def setup_hook():
# Sync global commands on startup
await bot.tree.sync()```

[polar scroll]

that is such a big line of code for no reason

[slate swan]

Not really "for no reason"

[hushed galleon]

well did you want me to give 0 context instead? for the goal of defining a slash command within the same file as your bot definition, it looks almost identical to disnake py @bot.slash_command(name="hello", description="This is a hello command") async def test(interaction: disnake.ApplicationCommandInteraction): await interaction.response.send_message("Sup") py @bot.tree.command(name="hello", description="This is a hello command") async def test(interaction: discord.Interaction): await interaction.response.send_message("Sup")

although disnake has interaction.send() which simplifies followup messages, so its got that going for it

[polar scroll]

instead of that, can i use description?

and if green line is equal to red line, whats the point of that

[slate swan]

It's called proper documentation

[polar scroll]

so i can use description and it will be ok?

[slate swan]

Try it and see

[polar scroll]

its giving me this error

[hushed galleon]

docstrings are a standard way of documenting functions so i would recommend using it

plus, dpy can parse google/sphinx-style parameter descriptions from the docstring too

[polar scroll]

why do we need to use command_prefix if its outdated

[hushed galleon]

dunno, if you really want to disable it then use an on_message event that doesnt call process_commands()

[honest shoal]

that's bad

[hushed galleon]

personally i use slash and prefix commands but with commands.when_mentioned() to allow @mentioning the bot, it'll still work regardless of message content

[polar scroll]

i see, but if in case i wanna do it like you, commands.when_mentioned() how wold that work?

[slate swan]

command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned()

[hushed galleon]

command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned, without the parentheses

[slate swan]

without?

[hushed galleon]

ya i forgot you didnt need them

!d discord.ext.commands.when_mentioned

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.when\_mentioned

discord.ext.commands.when_mentioned(bot, msg, /)```
A callable that implements a command prefix equivalent to being mentioned.

These are meant to be passed into the [`Bot.command_prefix`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.command_prefix "discord.ext.commands.Bot.command_prefix") attribute.

>   Changed in version 2.0: `bot` and `msg` parameters are now positional-only.
> 
>

[hushed galleon]

nice formatting

[slate swan]

oh this is taken as the callback you can create on your own

[polar scroll]

[slate swan]

[fiery hare]

guys help
PS C:\Users\Sakura\Discord Bot> & C:/Users/Sakura/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python3.10.exe "c:/Users/Sakura/Discord Bot/bot.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\Sakura\Discord Bot\bot.py", line 43, in <module>
os.chdir(r'C:\Users\Sakura\Discord Bot\bot.py')
NotADirectoryError: [WinError 267] The directory name is invalid: 'C:\Users\Sakura\Discord Bot\bot.py'

[glad cradle]

the space

[hushed galleon]

naw the filename

[polar scroll]

im wondering about how would the bot behave with that command

[slate swan]

file is not a directory

[fiery hare]

oh

thxz for explaining

[hushed galleon]

like any other prefix, if your message starts by mentioning the bot, it tries to parse the rest of your message as a command

[polar scroll]

so it would be like @polar scroll hello

[hushed galleon]

@lament depot how you doing

[polar scroll]

[hushed galleon]

also a good idea to have an error handler for catching commands.CommandNotFound, usually to do nothing but lancelot tried autocompleting the command

[polar scroll]

also, another question that i wanted to ask, is about cogs.
ive seen people using cogs to organize their code, but i cant seem to undestand classes in python (yes ik its basic), do you have another way that i could do so?

[hushed galleon]

technically you can define standalone commands in separate files and manually add them to your bot, but cogs will still be more convenient to write

[opaque elk]

I just did a leveling bot (really basic) but when I do my =lvl command, nothing shows up. not even an error message. my script = https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ihopotakis

[hushed galleon]

here's a pretty minimal example:
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/cogs.html
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/extensions.html ```py

main.py

bot = commands.Bot(...)

@bot.event
async def setup_hook(): # called exactly once after your bot logs in
await bot.load_extension("path.to.my_extension") py

path/to/my_extension.py

from discord import app_commands

class MyCog(commands.Cog):
@app_commands.command()
async def my_command(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
await ctx.send("Hello world!")

the setup() here gets called when load_extension() is used

async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(MyCog())``` see also online guides to object-oriented programming so you can make the most out of classes
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTsqhIuOqKhwlXsIBIdSeYtc
https://realpython.com/python3-object-oriented-programming/

[hushed galleon]

code seems fine, does your bot have permissions to read messages in the channel you're in?

[opaque elk]

Yes that’s why I find it weird

[hushed galleon]

can you try printing the message content when your on_message event receives it?

[opaque elk]

It doesn’t

I tried with 3 different print messages

[hushed galleon]

and your bot shows up as online right after you run your script?

or rather idle in your case

[opaque elk]

Yep and both "Bot is ready" and "Bot is online" print shows up

Im not really familiar with using extensions like sqlite 3 but maybe I can show you the database inside when I try sending a message and you tell me what’s wrong

[hushed galleon]

if you put a print right on top of on_message but it didnt run, aiosqlite probably isnt your issue

[opaque elk]

I see

[hushed galleon]

unless aiosqlite is somehow blocking your event loop, but you can check that by terminating it early with ctrl+c and looking for a traceback

[opaque elk]

Yes ok I see, when I send an introduction message, which is on_message i little bit further into my code, it doesn’t work either now

It used to work but it doesn’t anymore

Do you want to see my integrate code?

[opaque elk]

Wait so I just run my code and do ctrl+c?

[opaque elk]

chat gpt said Based on the code you provided, it seems that the use of aiosqlite is not blocking the event loop. The code properly uses async with statements and awaits all database operations, which is the recommended way to handle asynchronous I/O operations in Python.

That might be because I have 2 times the on_message event in my script?

[hushed galleon]

oh thats definitely the cause

[opaque elk]

So I should put the introduction on message in my other event

[hushed galleon]

only the last on_message applies if you're using the @bot.event decorator

combine them together or use @bot.listen("on_message") instead

[hushed galleon]

that by itself is an incorrect statement to make, because what actually matters is whether the source code for aiosqlite is implemented correctly - seeing that they are awaited implies that they would cooperate and yield to the event loop, but that doesnt mean their implementation will do that

though tbf chatgpt said "it seems" that way so its not overconfident about that answer

[opaque elk]

Na still even with the bot.listen doesn’t work

Let me send my full code

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ewuhenuluh

[hushed galleon]

@bot.listen is not how that decorator's meant to be used, and you also dont need to use process_commands() if all your on_message handlers are listeners

see also https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#why-does-on-message-make-my-commands-stop-working

for example: ```py
@bot.listen("on_message")
async def on_message_experience(message):
async with bot.db.cursor() as c:
...

@bot.listen("on_message")
async def on_message_introduction_thread(message):
...```

[opaque elk]

Alright cool that worked thx! My other concern is that now, my second bot.listen doesn’t work anymore ->

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/redajodowi

[slate swan]

it's @bot.listen()

you're missing the braces, also the argument there should be a message not ctx for the sake of naming

[opaque elk]

Oh woops ty

[polar scroll]

how can i do a /ping and the the answer in ms

[slate swan]

!d discord.Client.latency

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Client.latency

property latency```
Measures latency between a HEARTBEAT and a HEARTBEAT\_ACK in seconds.

This could be referred to as the Discord WebSocket protocol latency.

[slate swan]

multiply it with 1000 to get in ms

[unkempt canyon]

Bot variables

Python allows you to set custom attributes to most objects, like your bot! By storing things as attributes of the bot object, you can access them anywhere you access your bot. In the discord.py library, these custom attributes are commonly known as "bot variables" and can be a lifesaver if your bot is divided into many different files. An example on how to use custom attributes on your bot is shown below:

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")
# Set an attribute on our bot
bot.test = "I am accessible everywhere!"

@bot.command()
async def get(ctx: commands.Context):
    """A command to get the current value of `test`."""
    # Send what the test attribute is currently set to
    await ctx.send(ctx.bot.test)

@bot.command()
async def setval(ctx: commands.Context, *, new_text: str):
    """A command to set a new value of `test`."""
    # Here we change the attribute to what was specified in new_text
    bot.test = new_text

This all applies to cogs as well! You can set attributes to self as you wish.

Be sure not to overwrite attributes discord.py uses, like cogs or users. Name your attributes carefully!

[thin raft]

guys how could I make so the bot var gets type hinted on cogs?

[hushed galleon]

use a bot subclass and define them as instance attributes, then typehint with your bot subclass

[glad cradle]

you can typehint them in your Bot subclass

from discord.ext import commands

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    a_bot_var: bool

    def __init__(self):
        ...
        self.a_bot_var = True

[thin raft]

hmm

[hushed galleon]

although it will be a bit inconvenient with Context/Interaction since their bot/client attribute assumes a regular bot/client

[thin raft]

i mean

if I type self.bot.config

it auto detects that is from the Config class

[hushed galleon]

ya thats one workaround

[thin raft]

it does the job I wanted

ill leave it like that

[hushed galleon]

at least with Context you could set the generic typevar yourself, or make a subclass that fills in the generic typevar: py class Context(commands.Context[MyBot]): ... but with dpy's app_commands.command() decorator your type checker would complain if you tried writing discord.Interaction[MyBot]

[white citrus]

Hey @hushed galleon can i ask you something about mysql
I know this stuff must be placed in #databases but you give the best answers

[hushed galleon]

why me

plus it sounds more appropriate for #databases, just ask whatever question you have there

[polar scroll]

can someone help?

im trying to get the bots latency, but i cant seem to get it to work

[slate swan]

bot.latency

Just like magic

[polar scroll]

it didnt work

how exactly should i use it?

[slate swan]

bot.latency, like that

[polar scroll]

its giving me a big number, how do i sort it out

[slate swan]

Multiply by 1000 and you get the ms, then round that

[polar scroll]

if im not mistaken is it something like {:2f}

[slate swan]

You end up with

round(bot.latency*1000)

[polar scroll]

i did smth like this

but it didnt work

[slate swan]

I also have something not working on my screen, maybe you can help me without knowing the error :)

hey can someone help me out. I'm a beginner in python. I have learnt the basic stuffs. I was tryna create a discord which can stream music in order to learn about the discord.py module. But it wont run for some reason. Please help me out.

[polar scroll]

i could help

[slate swan]

My point is, give the error

https://pastecode.io/s/dmhgmccr this is the main file

https://pastecode.io/s/w1hrfckj this is the cog file

[slate swan]

the error its showing is it doesnt have the command "play"

[slate swan]

That's not the error, the error is in your console

[slate swan]

!ytdl

[unkempt canyon]

Our youtube-dl, or equivalents, policy

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)

[slate swan]

?/

[slate swan]

TL;DR you're breaching YouTube's Terms of Services and won't be getting help for doing it

[slate swan]

You're using + with string and integer

[slate swan]

you are trying to add int and str

Use f-strings or convert your integer to a string

!e "hi" + 5

[unkempt canyon]

@slate swan :x: Your 3.11 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "/home/main.py", line 1, in <module>
003 |     "hi" + 5
004 |     ~~~~~^~~
005 | TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

[slate swan]

!f-strings

[unkempt canyon]

Format-strings

Creating a Python string with your variables using the + operator can be difficult to write and read. F-strings (format-strings) make it easy to insert values into a string. If you put an f in front of the first quote, you can then put Python expressions between curly braces in the string.

>>> snake = "pythons"
>>> number = 21
>>> f"There are {number * 2} {snake} on the plane."
"There are 42 pythons on the plane."

Note that even when you include an expression that isn't a string, like number * 2, Python will convert it to a string for you.

[polar scroll]

Great, i forgot. Thanks

[polar scroll]

how do i use slash commands with this? (discord.py)

[smoky sinew]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.hybrid_command

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.hybrid\_command

@hybrid_command(name=..., with_app_command=True, *args, **kwargs)```
A shortcut decorator that invokes [`hybrid_command()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.hybrid_command "discord.ext.commands.hybrid_command") and adds it to the internal command list via [`add_command()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.add_command "discord.ext.commands.Bot.add_command").

[polar scroll]

wat

[slate swan]

Max app commands are 100 or 50? Can't find on the docs

[opaque elk]

so my =lvl enable and =lvl disable isnt working and I have no idea why. here's my code = https://paste.pythondiscord.com/onehikexun

and here's the error = https://paste.pythondiscord.com/eguvevenun

[slate swan]

"Member "enable" not found."

[opaque elk]

Yep that’s my error

[wicked atlas]

An app can have the following number of commands:

100 global CHAT_INPUT commands
5 global USER commands
5 global MESSAGE commands

https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application-commands#registering-a-command

[slate swan]

I mean it basically told you whats wrong

[slate swan]

❤️

[opaque elk]

I dont get what I have to change tho both enable and disable are defined

Its my first time dealing with this error

[wicked atlas]

whats happening is that when you run your command, it'

s running the lvl command. You have a seperate handler for lvl enable, but the way you made it, the bot thinks you're trying to run the lvl command and passing in 'enable' as an argument for the member

[opaque elk]

Oh so if I switch lvl enable to enable it will work?

[wicked atlas]

I'd suggest taking a look at command groups

I don't remember where the docs for them are though 💀

[opaque elk]

Will do, its my first time dealing with them ngl

[wicked atlas]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/api.html?highlight=group#discord.ext.commands.group

[opaque elk]

Oh ty!

[gusty flax]

Groups are super useful for grouping togther related commands.

[polar scroll]

are there any good new hosting sites?

[gusty flax]

I would recommend using Oracle or AWS 😄

[slate swan]

TypeError: CommandTree.command() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

I'm trying to use

    @app_commands.tree.CommandTree.command()
    @app_commands.describe()

inside a class ClassName(commands.Cog)
I pass self, in the initializer and super initializer, but i still get the error? 🤷‍♀️

[fading marlin]

use @app_commands.command() instead of the tree thingy you've got going

[slate swan]

ty!

then would it still be

async def function(self, bot)
    self.tree = app_commands.CommandTree(self)
    await self.tree.sync()

[gusty flax]

No need.

Write your own syncing command, so you don't have to rely on any of that.

I can send you one.

Whereas for the command, it shld be: py @app_commands.command(name="play", decsription="A command that plays games") async def play(interaction: discord.Interaction) -> None: ...

[smoky sinew]

don't make the tree yourself

[slate swan]

but they need to be synced to be registered. no?

[smoky sinew]

yes but you're syncing in the command

just use jishaku's sync

@commands.is_owner()
@commands.command()
async def sync(self, ctx: commands.Context) -> None:
    await self.bot.tree.sync()
    await ctx.send("Synced the command tree.")

or write something like this

[slate swan]

ohhhh and sync via command

ok ty

[gusty flax]

Yes. I can send you a good sync comamnd if you like.

Having control over global and local syncing.

[opaque elk]

I have a question about something. The command I set earlier in my group was =lvl enable and =lvl disable. I just changed them to =enable and =disable and it says Command "enable" is bot found.

And the old one gives me an error code

Even after restarting my file and creating a new db

[gusty flax]

Can you send code?

[opaque elk]

Sure

[opaque elk]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/odesafuyid

[slate swan]

AttributeError: 'TestSlashCommands' object has no attribute 'http' I'm not passing http? or is it because my bot's being passed as discord.ext.commands.bot.Bot?

[gusty flax]

You should be using discord.ext.commands.Bot for ur bot.

[gusty flax]

!traceback Can you send full traceback?

[unkempt canyon]

Traceback

Please provide the full traceback for your exception in order to help us identify your issue.
While the last line of the error message tells us what kind of error you got,
the full traceback will tell us which line, and other critical information to solve your problem.
Please avoid screenshots so we can copy and paste parts of the message.

A full traceback could look like:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "my_file.py", line 5, in <module>
    add_three("6")
  File "my_file.py", line 2, in add_three
    a = num + 3
        ~~~~^~~
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

If the traceback is long, use our pastebin.

[opaque elk]

You don’t under my problem

Command used to be =lvl enable and =lvl disable

I changed it to =enable and =disable

[gusty flax]

If you are getting aerror, there should be a traceback.

[gusty flax]

What is the equal sign?

[opaque elk]

Prefix

[sick birch]

Prefix probably

[gusty flax]

Oh

[opaque elk]

The new command doesn’t work

Its not recognized

The old ones are tho,

[gusty flax]

No traceback, no nothing?

[opaque elk]

But I changed them

[opaque elk]

Oh ye lemme send

Mb

No traceback only error

[gusty flax]

If you just want =enable, why do you have slvl.comamand()?

[opaque elk]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ekiwutuqan

[slate swan]

#main.py
class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        intents = discord.Intents.all()
        self.bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)
        super().__init__(command_prefix="!", intents=intents, *args, **kwargs)

this is how i set up my bot.

[slate swan]

no it's ok, ty tho.

[gusty flax]

You could just do @bot.command().

[opaque elk]

Lemme test

So no group, no nothing?

[gusty flax]

Yup.

If you just want =enable, don't provide a group.

A group is for grouping commands.

[opaque elk]

I want =disable too

[gusty flax]

Then do @bot.command() for that as well.

[opaque elk]

Alright lemme test

Ok someone help me, Idk but that’s not supposed to happen

[gusty flax]

Well, now it's being triggered.

Seems like levelsys[0] isn't None.

Is ur db reset?

[opaque elk]

Ye

[gusty flax]

Ur sure there isn't anything there?

[opaque elk]

Lemme try to reset again

[gusty flax]

R u using smth like db browser.

Wait, print what is returend @opaque elk

Print the type, and whatever value.

[gusty flax]

print(type(levelsys[0]))

[opaque elk]

No

[gusty flax]

R u using sqlite?

[opaque elk]

aiosqlite ye

[gusty flax]

I would download db browser.

You can visually see if there is anything in ur db.

[slate swan]

or the dbviewer in vscode

[gusty flax]

https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/

[opaque elk]

I can see it with an extention

[gusty flax]

And is there anything there?

[opaque elk]

I see the xp stuff

But I dont see where enable/disable is located

Ok wait

There’s also this

Im pretty sure we need the second one

[slate swan]

it shows 0 instead of true/false? o.O

[mighty pilot]

Anybody in here familiar with payment methods for premium discord bots? Wondering if any particular one is better than others

[opaque elk]

I sent them

[sick birch]

Discord offers built in support for that

[mighty pilot]

Thought that was just premium discord servers?? I missed that update I guess

[gusty flax]

Isn't that restricted to selective bots?

[sick birch]

I dunno. I like the way the button looks.

[gusty flax]

IIRC it is very restricted.

[mighty pilot]

It looks to be available to verified bots only

[gusty flax]

You can't just be verified.

[mighty pilot]

I'm aware lol

Guess I'll compare and contrast the bigger name api like patreon and PayPal for my stuff

[opaque elk]

Ig patreon and ko-fi are good options for you

[sick birch]

Stripe is also pretty common, they have a nice API for developers

[opaque elk]

Yes but you cant use paypal

[mighty pilot]

Someone mentioned that when I asked in general chat. Gonna look into stripe as well

[opaque elk]

what's wrong with my code? https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ugayisiyev

[slate swan]

What's the best way to make a giveaway command? (with buttons)

[mighty pilot]

I plan to open source my giveaway bot once I make buttons for it. Right now it uses reactions but doesn't require a database

[slate swan]

I'm trying to just make a ,giveaway command but with buttons. I'm not sure what would be the best approach

[gusty flax]

Check what value is getting returned.

[opaque elk]

How

This? print(type(levelsys[0]))

[mighty pilot]

Make a /giveaway command which takes arguments for whatever you want. Put those arguments in an embed, create a View for your buttons and what they do. I recommend putting a counter in the embed so people can see it increase when they hit it

[gusty flax]

I am curious what the type is. Print that. Also, the object that we will see should have some attribute for data.

[slate swan]

Will it need to have a database?

[gusty flax]

Not necessarily. It will all be during runtime. I don't think counter information will be useful after the fact. If you really want a database, you could use something like ReDis.

[mighty pilot]

It makes it easier but it's not required. You can set a sleep function then at the end check the users

[opaque elk]

Where should I put that in my script? Sorry I lost myself TwT

[gusty flax]

In ur enable and disable callbacks.

[opaque elk]

No no I know that

Do I put it right before cursor.fetchone() ?

Or its the wrong positionnement

[gusty flax]

Put it in ur if statement where it is saying it is already enabled.

[opaque elk]

Alright

On both commands?

[gusty flax]

Just enable for now.

[opaque elk]

ok so by doing enable, I got <class 'int'> printed

[slate swan]

so... which of these, or whatever solution, would fix this?

class MyBot(commands.AutoShardedBot):
    def __init__(
        self,
        *args,
        initial_extensions: List[str],
        db_pool: asyncpg.Pool,
        web_client: ClientSession,
        testing_guild_id: Optional[int] = None,
        **kwargs,
    ):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.db_pool = db_pool
        self.web_client = web_client
        self.testing_guild_id = testing_guild_id
        self.initial_extensions = initial_extensions

class MyBot(Client):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        intents = discord.Intents.all()
        super().__init__(command_prefix="!", intents=intents, *args, **kwargs)

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        intents = discord.Intents.all()
        self.bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)
        super().__init__(command_prefix="!", intents=intents, *args, **kwargs)

[opaque elk]

@gusty flax

[smoky sinew]

second one

but Client should be commands.Bot

and you don't need *args and **kwargs

[opaque elk]

Hey mud you got like 5-10 mins for me after?

[smoky sinew]

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__(
            intents=discord.Intents.all(),
            command_prefix="!",
            ...
        )

@slate swan

then you can do your database stuff as an argument in MyBot.init

[opaque elk]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ugayisiyev.py there's something wrong

[slate swan]

ty!

[smoky sinew]

your code is littered with queries

make a helper function instead

async def _is_leveling_system_enabled(self) -> bool:

[slate swan]

one more question. how would i pass the bot into context for the main.py? like for loading and unloading extensions?

[smoky sinew]

what does your main.py look like

[slate swan]

    #@commands.is_owner() 
    @commands.has_any_role(settings.OWNER_ROLE, settings.ADMIN_ROLE, settings.MODERATOR_ROLE)
    @commands.command(name="load", aliases=["l"], hidden=True,)
    async def load(self, ctx, *, module):
        """Loads a module."""
        try:
            self.bot.load_extension(module)
            await ctx.send(f"Loaded {module}.")
        except Exception as e:
            await ctx.send(f"Failed to load {module}:\n{e}")


    async def load_modules(self):
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk("cog_extensions"):
            root = os.path.normpath(root)
            for file in files:
                if file.endswith('Cog.py') and file != '__init__.py':
                    module_name = file[:-3]
                    module_path = f"cog_extensions.{os.path.relpath(root, 'cog_extensions').replace(os.sep, '.')}.{module_name}"
                    try:
                        await  self.load_extension(module_path)
                        print(f"\n[{module_name}]( now loaded.)")
                    except Exception as e:
                        print(f"\n[{module_name}]( failed to load: {e}")
                    await asyncio.sleep(0.1)

i have these. commands for the cogs and then a for loop to autoload each.

[smoky sinew]

what

load_extension needs to be awaited but where are you using load_modules

[gusty flax]

Hm, not sure. You may need to ask someone more experienced with DBs.

[slate swan]

as an event in on_ready

[smoky sinew]

no you shouldn't load extensions in on_ready

load them in setup_hook instead

[slate swan]

then run it in the main()?

but again, don't i need to pass in self.bot in the init?

[smoky sinew]

what

pass bot to the init of bot?

[slate swan]

wouldn't this error? await self.bot.load_extension(module)

if it's not passed?

yeah cause it gives me AttributeError: 'MyBot' object has no attribute 'bot'

[smoky sinew]

mybot is extending bot though

so you would just use self.load_extension

[slate swan]

then how would I get rid of these traceback issues?
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ixebuyifes

[smoky sinew]

you're doing change_presence before your bot has started

pass activity and status to super().__init__ instead

[slate swan]

won't they need to be awaited? i put them in the hook?

[smoky sinew]

what hook

no you put it it init

[slate swan]

ohhh its not asyncronous

im dumb 🤣

[smoky sinew]

no.. that's not what i said

[smoky sinew]

coroutine means it's asynchronous

but you don't need to use change_presence

[slate swan]

so... to use it.. How would that go in the init? cause the init is syncronous. I'd have to await it right?

[smoky sinew]

no you don't use change_presence

creating an instance of a class is not asynchronous

and that's all you need to do

super().__init__(
    ...,
    activity=discord.Game("..."),
    status=discord.Status.dnd,
)

[slate swan]

like i made a function for the change presence and put that in the on_ready originally.

    async def set_profile(self):
        activity = (discord.Streaming(
        ...
        )
        )
        await self.change_presence(activity=activity)

ohhh.. ok.
so define it prior

activity = (discord.Streaming(
...
)
)  
super().__init__(
    ...,
    activity=activity,
)

then passing into the super would just initialize it when the bot starts.

ok. awesome. that solves that... now i just need to go back to figuring out why my cog for slash commands errors 'TestSlashCommands' object has no attribute 'http'

[smoky sinew]

you don't need to

just define discord.Streaming inline

and you don't need the extra paranthesis around it

[gilded oxide]

    state = self._connection
    if state._activity is not None or state._status is not None:
        payload["d"]["presence"] = {
            "status": state._dnd,
            "game": state._activity,
            "since": 0,
            "afk": False,
        }``` am i doing something wrong w/ the status?

[smoky sinew]

what

why are you accessing _connection

[gilded oxide]

my friend did this not me

[gilded oxide]

import json  # For json
from pathlib import Path  # For paths
import discord  # For discord
from discord.gateway import DiscordWebSocket # For Discord Mobile
from utils.data import Bot # This loads the cogs
import logging # Shows important information of something goes wrong in the connection

cwd = Path(__file__).parents[0]
cwd = str(cwd)
print(f'-----')

async def identify(self):
    payload = {
        "op": self.IDENTIFY,
        "d": {
            "token": self.token,
            "properties": {
                "$os": "Discord iOS",
                "$browser": "Discord iOS",
                "$device": "iOS",
                "$referrer": "",
                "$referring_domain": "",
            },
            "compress": True,
            "large_threshold": 250,
        },
    }

    if self.shard_id is not None and self.shard_count is not None:
        payload["d"]["shard"] = [self.shard_id, self.shard_count]

    state = self._connection
    if state._activity is not None or state._status is not None:
        payload["d"]["presence"] = {
        "status": state._dnd,
        "game": state._activity,
        "since": 0,
        "afk": False,
        }

    if state._intents is not None:
        payload["d"]["intents"] = state._intents.value

    await self.call_hooks(
        "before_identify", self.shard_id, initial=self._initial_identify
    )
    await self.send_as_json(payload)


DiscordWebSocket.identify = identify

bot = Bot(
    intents=discord.Intents.all(),
    command_prefix=',',
    case_insensitive=True,
    owner_id=924820612545916948
)

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
config_file = json.load(open(cwd + '/config/config.json'))
bot.config_token = config_file['token']

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"-----\nlogged in as: {bot.user} : {bot.user.id}\n-----")

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(msg):
  if "@crisp sail" in msg.content:
    await msg.channel.send('my prefix is `,`')


bot.run(bot.config_token, reconnect=True)```

[old ibex]

    @app_commands.describe(
            amount="The amount of messages to clear."
    )
    @app_commands.checks.has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
    @app_commands.command()
    async def clear(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, amount: int) -> None:
        await interaction.response.defer(thinking=True) 
        cleared = await interaction.channel.purge(limit=amount, bulk=True)
        clearembed=discord.Embed(
            title="",
            description=f"Successfully cleared {cleared} message(s).",
            color=0x313338
        )
        await interaction.response.send_message(embed=clearembed)```

How I make worky

[vocal snow]

it already works

[smoky sinew]

what is the issue with my code

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

[smoky sinew]

!d discord.Interaction.followup

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.followup

Returns the follow up webhook for follow up interactions.

[gaunt spear]

skidded

[glad cradle]

hi

[smoky sinew]

who are you

[vocal snow]

do you think its a reincarnation of bozo

[smoky sinew]

it is definitely kai

[vocal snow]

oh yes 100%

[eternal shuttle]

so this is my ban command, and i cant use it somehow

here's the traceback that i got

2023-05-08 14:04:29 ERROR discord.ext.commands.bot Ignoring exception in command ban
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 229, in wrapped
ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\user123\Desktop\Akairo Project\bot.py", line 39, in ban
await member.ban(reason=reason)
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\member.py", line 736, in ban
await self.guild.ban(
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\guild.py", line 3467, in ban
await self._state.http.ban(user.id, self.id, delete_message_seconds, reason=reason)
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 738, in request
raise Forbidden(response, data)
discord.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 1350, in invoke
await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 1023, in invoke
await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs) # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 238, in wrapped
raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions

[smoky sinew]

you should be using these checks instead:

@commands.bot_has_permissions(ban_members=True)
@commands.has_permissions(ban_members=True)

also make sure this is true before banning the user:

if (
    ctx.author.top_role > member.top_role
    and ctx.guild.me.top_role > member.top_role
):

[eternal shuttle]

alrighty thankss

[rugged shadow]

you forgot to add directx support

[gilded cedar]

Do we really have to use bot instead of client and commands when using dotenv?

[slate swan]

nooo

[gilded cedar]

When i try to do it the code needed str i went on several tutorials but nothing what am i doing wrong?

[slate swan]

no lmao

dotenv just loads your token in a file

[formal basin]

how can a bot detect pictures

or images

[slate swan]

message.attachments

[distant hare]

Пон

[blissful notch]

This is a soft ban right?

[slate swan]

This means the token you gave is of type None

Whereas it should be a string

[eternal shuttle]

why does all of my kick, ban, and unban command doesn't work?

here's my code

[slate swan]

my code is returning an error "discord.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions"

https://pastecode.io/s/bgzwg4zh

This is the code

Error says it all

Missing Permissions

how do u turn on permission

i have turned on almost everything in server

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/206029707-Setting-Up-Permissions-

Thank you sm bro i was sending the command in the wrong channel i just noticed it.

[slate swan]

Still looks like a #databases issue

[tawdry marsh]

Hello bot tamers, is there any way to extract the user's timezone from the interaction? I've seen something about locale but it's no use. I need this for a event scheduler and I currently do time management relative to the server's timezone by specifying to the user the timezone needed. I would like to have access to the user's timezone, so the setup is relative their time.

[formal basin]

Thanks

[formal basin]

Could I use it in a list?

[naive briar]

Yes?

[formal basin]

Would this work?

Nope

I got this error

[slate swan]

!d discord.Message.attachments

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.attachments

A list of attachments given to a message. 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.

[eternal shuttle]

why does all of my kick, ban, and unban command doesn't work?

here's my code

so this is my ban command, and i cant use it somehow
Image
here's the traceback that i got

2023-05-08 14:04:29 ERROR discord.ext.commands.bot Ignoring exception in command ban
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 229, in wrapped
ret = await coro(args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\user123\Desktop\Akairo Project\bot.py", line 39, in ban
await member.ban(reason=reason)
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\member.py", line 736, in ban
await self.guild.ban(
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\guild.py", line 3467, in ban
await self._state.http.ban(user.id, self.id, delete_message_seconds, reason=reason)
File "C:\Users\user123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 738, in request
raise Forbidden(response, data)
discord.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 1350, in invoke
await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 1023, in invoke
await injected(ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs) # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\User123\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 238, in wrapped
raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions

[slate swan]

it litrally tells you Missing Permissions

[eternal shuttle]

how do u fix it

[slate swan]

give bot the desired permissions

[eternal shuttle]

i gave the bot all the ban and kick permission

[formal basin]

Is the bot a high role?

[eternal shuttle]

i tried giving it the administrator perm but still it doesn't work

[eternal shuttle]

yeah

its role is already on top of all roles

[tawdry marsh]

Check your intents in client setup

Default can't ban or kick if I remember correctly

[formal basin]

how can i delete images using this

[eternal shuttle]

alr imma check it rq

[slate swan]

!d discord.Message.remove_attachments

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.remove\_attachments

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

Removes attachments from the message.

New in version 2.0.

[slate swan]

You give the attachments to delete

await message.remove_attachments(...)

Where ... are the attachments to delete

[formal basin]

but don’t it need to detect attachments first

[slate swan]

Then do it.

[formal basin]

how?

it need to detect it first then delete it?

[slate swan]

Think

Most of the time coding is about thinking about not being given the answer to every question and getting spoonfed

Try things, fail, try again

[formal basin]

ok

[eternal shuttle]

how do you make a !warn command?

[formal basin]

well you need a database

[elder kettle]

huh

no

[formal basin]

for warning yeah\

[elder kettle]

warn command aint need a db

[formal basin]

how does it store warns

[elder kettle]

oh for that

[vocal snow]

If you're planning on storing the warns, then yes

[elder kettle]

yea for storing you need

db

[eternal shuttle]

oh welp

[tawdry marsh]

I don't recommend using discord.Intents.all() as it can throw errors sometimes, start with default() and build upon it as necessary. In your case, if I understood your bot's scope correctly, you might want to start with this:

intents.bans= True
intents.moderation= True```

[vocal snow]

intents are not permissions

[elder kettle]

i prefer .all()

to not get error

[slate swan]

Intents are not about errors

[elder kettle]

ik

[slate swan]

You won't face errors as you won't get the event you need

That's about it

[elder kettle]

oh

[slate swan]

And using .all() is most of the time absolutely useless and will consume more resources for nothing

Haven't seen any bot that requires all intents to be abled at all

[slate swan]

default already has all intents enabled without 3 ones needed to be enabled on the dev site

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/discord/flags.py#L727-L736

thats what it does in source code

[unkempt canyon]

discord/flags.py lines 727 to 736

@classmethod
def default(cls: Type[Intents]) -> Intents:
    """A factory method that creates a :class:`​Intents`​ with everything enabled
    except :attr:`​presences`​, :attr:`​members`​, and :attr:`​message_content`​.
    """
    self = cls.all()
    self.presences = False
    self.members = False
    self.message_content = False
    return self```

[slate swan]

for fetching messages and guild data for role reacts, what function would I need to use in a slash command?

[vivid axle]

i have this for my code

@commands.hybrid_group(with_app_command=True)
async def test(self, ctx: commands.Context):
  await ctx.reply('test group')

@test.command(with_app_command=True)
async def hello(self, ctx: commands.Context):
  await ctx.reply('test hello command')
``` i use await self.tree.sync() in the setup hook but /test doesnt show only /test hello

[slate swan]

That's how slash commands work

[vivid axle]

how do i get the test command then

[slate swan]

You don't

Discord doesn't let you do that, deal with it

[vivid axle]

no need to be rude

[slate swan]

I just told you that it's how slash commands work before

Can't do magic and say that now it's no longer how they work

[hushed galleon]

dpy should allow you to specify a fallback command name which implicitly adds another subcommand used to invoke your parent command
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.HybridGroup.fallback

the reason it exists is for what krypton said, discord doesn't perceive the root command as one you can use
https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application-commands#subcommands-and-subcommand-groups

Using subcommands or subcommand groups will make your base command unusable. You can't send the base /permissions command as a valid command if you also have /permissions add | remove as subcommands or subcommand groups

[vivid axle]

ok

[viscid wren]

Why my bot are not registering commands in a cog?

[vocal snow]

perhaps you aren't adding the cogs

[viscid wren]

yes i do

[vocal snow]

show how

you're loading the cogs after you sync the tree

[viscid wren]

🤦‍♂️

thanks

[slate swan]

helppppp

[vocal snow]

this is the python server

[slate swan]

this is not python ?

;-;

[vocal snow]

jesus christ man

consider learning a language inside of just copy pasting from the internet

it will be much faster and much more worthwhile

[glad cradle]

lmaoooo

[cold sonnet]

this a different level already

[glad cradle]

you should update this graph now #1076673191143034911 message

as of today it's negative

[vocal snow]

lmao

steeper than a cow's face

[glad cradle]

nice simile

[north kiln]

I am trying to set autocomplete to show first few items from a list if the user didn't input anything and using this code

if len(current) == 0:
   return [Choice(name=l, value=l) for l in name_list][::3]

but it always show 10 choices for some reason

[vocal snow]

how many names are in name_list?

[north kiln]

like a hundred

[vocal snow]

why not slice name_list instead of making a new list and then slicing that?

[vocal snow]

what are you expecting [::3] to do?

[north kiln]

oh I am stupid

🙃

got one more :

[formal basin]

wdym the attachments cant i put nothing in there?

how do i detect the messages

[tepid siren]

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix = '/', intents=intents)

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))


@client.command()
async def test(ctx):
    await ctx.send('test')

client.run('')```
hi could someone please explain to me why when i type /test the discord autocompleting thingy doesnt appear?

[slate swan]

cause those what you are talking about are slash commands not prefixed commands

[tepid siren]

oh

how can i make it a slash command?

[slate swan]

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

example how to create slash command

[tepid siren]

ty

[slate swan]

im getting this error when im trying to sync my slash commands.?
AttributeError: 'TestSlashCommands' object has no attribute 'client'
await self.bot.tree.sync()

this is in a cog btw^

did you set self.bot to bot? in __init__?

yup.

class TestSlashCommands(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
        self.bot = bot
        super().__init__()

[slate swan]

show code then

class TestSlashCommands(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
        self.bot = bot
        super().__init__()
    
    @app_commands.command(name='test', description='Test command')
    @app_commands.describe(arg1='Test')
    async def test(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, arg1: Optional[str]) -> None:
        await self.bot.tree.sync()
        if arg1 is not None:
            await interaction.response.send_message(f'Test command with arg1 {arg1}')
        else:
            await interaction.response.send_message('Test command')
    @commands.command(name='sync', description='Sync the commands')
    async def sync(self, ctx: commands.Context) -> None:
        await self.bot.tree.sync()
        await ctx.send(f'{self.bot.latency}Synced!')

tried it in the slash command and in a normal command. i get the same error. :/

can you show full traceback?

AttributeError: 'TestSlashCommands' object has no attribute 'client'
ERROR      - discord.app_commands.tree : Ignoring exception in command 'test'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 841, in _do_call
    return await self._callback(self.binding, interaction, **params)  # type: ignore
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\cog_extensions\commands\slashcommandCog.py", line 184, in test
    await interaction.response.send_message('Test command')
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\interactions.py", line 778, in send_message

doesnt look like full error traceback tho

try removing the super().__init__()

ERROR      - discord.ext.commands.bot : Ignoring exception in command None
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "sync" is not found
ERROR      - discord.app_commands.tree : Ignoring exception in command 'test'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 841, in _do_call
    return await self._callback(self.binding, interaction, **params)  # type: ignore
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\cog_extensions\commands\slashcommandCog.py", line 179, in test
    await interaction.response.send_message('Test command')
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\interactions.py", line 778, in send_message
    await adapter.create_interaction_response(
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\webhook\async_.py", line 219, in request
    raise NotFound(response, data)
discord.errors.NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\tree.py", line 1248, in _call
    await command._invoke_with_namespace(interaction, namespace)
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 867, in _invoke_with_namespace
    return await self._do_call(interaction, transformed_values)
  File "E:\!python\Kirakota\.venv\lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 860, in _do_call
    raise CommandInvokeError(self, e) from e
discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'test' raised an exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction

this the error you were looking for @slate swan

[slate swan]

looks like other error

do you load the cog?

it autoloads

i've reloaded the bot several times, i went through and got the slash command to work yesterday, but no luck getting the sync tree to.

[buoyant quartz]

Im trying to count all my commands but print(len(bot.commands)) only counts the commands that dont use / (im using nextcord)

[naive briar]

What do you mean by commands that dont use

[buoyant quartz]

it only counts commands that arent slash commands

[slate swan]

you use discord.Client or commands.Bot ?

[naive briar]

That should be correct

[buoyant quartz]

it counts @bot.command() but not @bot.slash_command()

[glad cradle]

!d nextcord.ext.commands.Bot.get_all_application_commands

[unkempt canyon]

nextcord.ext.commands.Bot.get\_all\_application\_commands

get_all_application_commands()```
Returns a copied set of all added `BaseApplicationCommand` objects.

[slate swan]

commands.Bot
this is my class for my main.py

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__(
            intents=discord.Intents.all(),
            command_prefix="!",
            activity=activity,
            
            # ...
        )

[buoyant quartz]

that gets me 0

print(len(bot.get_application_commands()))

[slate swan]

get_**all_**application_commands()

[buoyant quartz]

what would i do to get the subcommands? Because it just shows the main things and i split my commands into subcommands

[slate swan]

no idea tbh

you may want to ask at nextcord server discord.gg/nextcord

[slate swan]

I want to increase this timeout is there any way to do that?

in discord py v2

[slate swan]

except modifying source code i dont think so

[vocal snow]

why is it taking you longer than a minute to connect to the gateway?

[slate swan]

oh alright

[slate swan]

yeah but sometimes cuz my internet is slow

[vocal snow]

you know you have to send heartbeats to the gateway to keep the connection alive

how are you going to do that?

[sick birch]

if your internet takes any longer than 45 seconds-ish to send a packet you unfortunately will not be able to use the discord API

[spiral spoke]

hey.. i need help

i want to create an event when a member join to the server but don't work

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member, ctx):
    channel = client.get_channel(1105137318253301770)  # welcome channel id
    message = f'Welcome to the Tree House, {member.mention}!'
    unverified_role = ctx.member.guild.get_role(
        1105137365095288884)  # unverified role id
    await member.add_roles(unverified_role)
    await channel.send(message)

message not send and role not applied

[vocal snow]

have you enabled member intents?

[spiral spoke]

yeah and this in my code

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

[vocal snow]

you haven't enabled member intents

[spiral spoke]

thanks

[analog condor]

i want a bot to run a function that returns a variable constantly, and then send the variable in a channel if its not empty, but i cant get it to work

does anyone know how to do this?

[glad cradle]

!d discord.ext.tasks.loop

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.tasks.loop

@discord.ext.tasks.loop(*, seconds=..., minutes=..., hours=..., time=..., count=None, reconnect=True)```
A decorator that schedules a task in the background for you with optional reconnect logic. The decorator returns a [`Loop`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/tasks/index.html#discord.ext.tasks.Loop "discord.ext.tasks.Loop").

[slate swan]

trying to use the discord api to retrieve all the reactions from a specific message but im not sure how so im trying to do it with a bot. and i get this error

2023-05-08 20:29:21 WARNING discord.state Member list scraping failed for 1085055846301573152 (Failed to automatically choose channels; please specify them manually).

heres my code py message = bot.get_channel(channel_id).fetch_message(message_id) for reaction in message.reactions: print(reaction)

[naive briar]

A bot? Why would it need to scrape a member list

Sounds more like selfbot things

[slate swan]

im not trying to scrape a member list lmao

thats why im confused

just tryna recieve a list of reactions

[naive briar]

Discord would already provide that data

What library are you using

[slate swan]

discord.py

[naive briar]

You sure?

[slate swan]

100% lol

[plucky sun]

@app_commands.describe(message="Type your text here to send the announcement !")
@commands.has_permissions(manage_messages=True)
async def say(interaction: discord.Interaction, message: str, tag: str):
    await interaction.message.delete()
    await interaction.send(f'{tag}')
    embed = discord.Embed(
        title='Ново Съобщение • MetaverceCraft',
        colour= discord.Colour.dark_purple()
    )
    image_path = os.path.abspath("static.png")
    embed.set_thumbnail(url=f"attachment://{os.path.basename(image_path)}")
    embed.add_field(name=f' **{message}** ', value='')
    embed.set_footer(text=f'{datetime.datetime.now()}')
    await interaction.send(embed=embed, file=discord.File(image_path))``` how to make slash commands

[vivid axle]

how can i add a view with two buttons to send?

[slate swan]

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/tree/master/examples%2Fviews

[vivid axle]

thanks

[tall temple]

how to add slash command cooldown and ctx.respond for this cooldown

like i set 60s cooldown for command and i used it 2 times in 30s, i want to receive an error

[slate swan]

Define error handler and handle CommandOnTimeout exception or smth like that

!d discord.app_commands.CommandOnCooldown

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.CommandOnCooldown

exception discord.app_commands.CommandOnCooldown(cooldown, retry_after)```
An exception raised when the command being invoked is on cooldown.

This inherits from [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CheckFailure "discord.app_commands.CheckFailure").

New in version 2.0.

[slate swan]

!d discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.checks.cooldown

@discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown(rate, per, *, key=...)```
A decorator that adds a cooldown to a command.

A cooldown allows a command to only be used a specific amount of times in a specific time frame. These cooldowns are based off of the `key` function provided. If a `key` is not provided then it defaults to a user-level cooldown. The `key` function must take a single parameter, the [`discord.Interaction`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.Interaction "discord.Interaction") and return a value that is used as a key to the internal cooldown mapping.

The `key` function can optionally be a coroutine.

If a cooldown is triggered, then [`CommandOnCooldown`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandOnCooldown "discord.app_commands.CommandOnCooldown") is raised to the error handlers.

Examples

Setting a one per 5 seconds per member cooldown on a command:

[slate swan]

@tall temple

[tall temple]

thanks

[eager portal]

Hello! I'm using discord.ui.View and select I want to know how I can create a ticket system that the user presses a Open ticket button then a drop down menu shows what the ticket reason is for

is this possible?

[eager portal]

anyone>

[earnest swift]

Yes

Show code

[eager portal]

import discord
from discord import app_commands, utils

id = discord.Object(id=1092591199300370473)

class ticket_launcher(discord.ui.View):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__(timeout = None)

    @discord.ui.button(label="Create a Ticket", style= discord.ButtonStyle.blurple, custom_id='openTicket')
    async def createticket(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button):
        ticket = utils.get(interaction.guild.text_channels, name = f"{interaction.user.name}-{interaction.user.discriminator}-ticket")
        if ticket is not None: await interaction.response.send_message(f"{interaction.user.mention}, You already have a ticket open! {ticket.mention}", ephemeral=True)
        else:
            overwrites = {
                interaction.guild.default_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = False),
                interaction.user: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, attach_files = True, embed_links = True),
                interaction.guild.me: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, read_message_history = True)
            }
            channel = await interaction.guild.create_text_channel(name = f"{interaction.user.name}-{interaction.user.discriminator}-ticket", overwrites=overwrites, reason=f"Ticket Opened for: {interaction.user}")
            await channel.send(f"{interaction.user.mention}, I have created a ticket for you!")
            await interaction.response.send_message(f"I've opened a ticket for you at {channel.mention}!", ephemeral=True)




class aclient(discord.Client):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(intents=discord.Intents.all())
        self.synced = False
        self.added = False
    async def on_ready(self):
        await self.wait_until_ready()
        if not self.synced:
            await tree.sync(guild=id)
            self.synced = True
            print("Synced")
        if not self.added:
            self.add_view(ticket_launcher())
            self.added = True
        print("Online.")


client = aclient()
tree = app_commands.CommandTree(client)

@tree.command(name="ticket", guild=id, description="Open a ticket!")
async def ticket(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    embed = discord.Embed(
        title="BotBean | Tickets",
        description="To open a ticket, click the button below!",
        color=discord.Color.green()
    )
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed, view = ticket_launcher())
    await interaction.response.send_message("Tickets set!", ephemeral=True)

client.run(f"")
``` I have the basic command working, I just want to add my drop down menu from my other bot so the user has an option of ticket type

@earnest swift

[smoky sinew]

just create a select menu

and why are you creating your own command tree

[earnest swift]

Do you know how to add a image in a embed

[smoky sinew]

yes

[earnest swift]

Can u help me with it

[smoky sinew]

idk

[earnest swift]

??

[eager portal]

wheres that link gone

[smoky sinew]

his link was useless

[earnest swift]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html

[smoky sinew]

that's the api reference, which won't show anything related to buttons/select menus

@eager portal which part are you having trouble with

[earnest swift]

Can someone help me add a image to my embed

[eager portal]

merging a button with a dropdown select menu

[smoky sinew]

just add it

!d discord.ui.select

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.select

@discord.ui.select(*, cls=discord.ui.select.Select[+ V], options=..., channel_types=..., placeholder=None, custom_id=..., min_values=1, max_values=1, disabled=False, row=None)```
A decorator that attaches a select menu to a component.

The function being decorated should have three parameters, `self` representing the [`discord.ui.View`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.ui.View "discord.ui.View"), the [`discord.Interaction`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.Interaction "discord.Interaction") you receive and the chosen select class.

To obtain the selected values inside the callback, you can use the `values` attribute of the chosen class in the callback. The list of values will depend on the type of select menu used. View the table below for more information.

[eager portal]

can u give me an example?

nvm duck got it

cheers

[eager portal]

why are my overwrites not working

        overwrites = {
                interaction.guild.default_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = False),
                interaction.user: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, attach_files = True, embed_links = True),
                interaction.guild.me: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, read_message_history = True)
        }
        if select_item.values[0] == "support":
            channel = await support.create_text_channel(name = f"{interaction.user.name}-{interaction.user.discriminator}-ticket", overwrites=overwrites, reason=f"Ticket Opened for: {interaction.user}")

anyone able to help me out

[smoky sinew]

i don't know what not working means

[surreal summit]

Hey, is there an efficient way to make responses to commonly asked "questions" where the bot reads a message, and if the words "help" or "how" etc are in the sentence, it then checks the context such as "bot" or "commands" or something else and then response with some answer?

I know I can do that "if ["how"] in message.content: if ["bot"] in message.content:" and so on to get the context of the person needing help and what to specifically help with, but is there a better way of doing this?

This is just a personal project I would like to make, and if I can I want to include my own pretrained "ai" to answer since these questions could be server specific that (for example) the chatgpt couldnt answer

[sick birch]

You can but the chances of it giving the wrong answers is pretty high considering how ambiguous the English language is

[surreal summit]

i understand that

[sick birch]

AI LLMs like ChatGPT aim to solve this very issue, not sure how much luck you'd have with a rule-based pattern matcher

[surreal summit]

thats why I was thinking of hardcoding commonly based words for questions

like "how to enable this feature"

[sick birch]

If you're sure you want to do it, the code itself isn't all that difficult - just a bunch of if statements that are nested

[surreal summit]

i want to avoid that tbh

[sick birch]

usually it's atypical to do this so there's not much of an alternative

[surreal summit]

yea

thank you for the help though

[sick birch]

There are services like AWS Comprehend that use neural networks to extract keywords out of sentences: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/features/

I've used it in the past and it did it's job pretty well for what I wanted it to do

[ember glen]

use-
embed.set_thumbail (for small image)
embed.set_image (url="url_here")
embed.set_icon (url="url")

tho that icon, one will set the image in the footer and will be really small. If you want the biggest image size then use set_image

[glad cradle]

set_icon?

[ember glen]

oh my bad
icon_url

[naive briar]

That's from set_author

[ember glen]

it will be inside the footer tho

[glad cradle]

yeah

!d discord.Embed.set_author

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_author

set_author(*, name, url=None, icon_url=None)```
Sets the author for the embed content.

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

[ember glen]

yeah this one

i made a lil mistake before, sorry 💀

Btw is there anything to check whether the interaction user has certain permissions or not?

[glad cradle]

!d discord.ext.commands.has_permissions

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.has\_permissions

@discord.ext.commands.has_permissions(**perms)```
A [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.check "discord.ext.commands.check") that is added that checks if the member has all of the permissions necessary.

Note that this check operates on the current channel permissions, not the guild wide permissions.

The permissions passed in must be exactly like the properties shown under [`discord.Permissions`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions "discord.Permissions").

This check raises a special exception, [`MissingPermissions`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.MissingPermissions "discord.ext.commands.MissingPermissions") that is inherited from [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CheckFailure "discord.ext.commands.CheckFailure").

[glad cradle]

iirc you can use this

[ember glen]

alright, thanks dude

[glad cradle]

you're welcome

[smoky sinew]

interaction user

[glad cradle]

I am myself an interaction

one that never expires

[vocal snow]

The Holy Interaction

[glad cradle]

every interaction descends from me

[swift acorn]

I'm trying to create a button but it's saying inconsistent use of tabs and indentations
Even though all tutorials do it like that

[shrewd apex]

lmfao

[shrewd apex]

u haven't coded before right?

what that means is u cant use both tabs and spaces for indentation

pick one

[swift acorn]

got it thanks

from typing import Optional
import discord
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import app_commands
from discord.ui import button, Button, View

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{bot.user.name} has connected to Discord!')
    try:
        synced = await bot.tree.sync()
        print(f"Synced {len(synced)} command(s)!")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Sync Failed! {e}")
        

class applybutton(View):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(timeout=None)
        
    @button(label="Apply", style=discord.ButtonStyle.blurple)
    async def creatorapply(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: Button):
        await interaction.response.defer(ephemeral=True)
        category: discord.CategoryChannel = discord.utils.get(interaction.guild.categories, id=1105378615299948575)
        for ch in category.text_channels:
            if ch.topic == f"Ticket for ID:{interaction.user.id}":
                await interaction.followup(f"{interaction.user.mention} You already have an active ticket!")
                return
                
        channel = await category.create_text_channel(
            name=interaction.user,
            topic=f"Ticket for ID:{interaction.user.id}"
        )
        await channel.send(
            embed=discord.Embed(
                title="Thanks for applying!",
                description="A staff member will be with you shortly."
            )
        )
        await interaction.followup(f"Your ticket has been created! Please head over to {channel.mention}")

        

@bot.command(name="creatorapply")
@commands.has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def creatorapply(ctx):
    await ctx.send(
        embed = discord.Embed(
        title="Click to apply",
        description="A ticket will open for your application"
        ),
        view = applybutton()
    )

bot.run(Token)

For some reason whenever I click the button it says interaction failed, the bot had admin perms and I do as well, and there's no errors in the terminal, does anyone know what the problem might be?

[naive briar]

You simply did not respond to the interaction

And interaction.followup is a property, not method

[swift acorn]

Oh so then I should use like, interaction.followup.send() ?

Even after that it says interaction failed, and it doesn't create the channel or anything

[smoky sinew]

show your code now

[swift acorn]

from typing import Optional
import discord
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import app_commands
from discord.ui import button, Button, View

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{bot.user.name} has connected to Discord!')
    try:
        synced = await bot.tree.sync()
        print(f"Synced {len(synced)} command(s)!")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Sync Failed! {e}")
        

class applybutton(View):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(timeout=None)
        
    @button(label="Apply", style=discord.ButtonStyle.blurple)
    async def creatorapply(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: Button):
        await interaction.response.defer(ephemeral=True)
        category: discord.CategoryChannel = discord.utils.get(interaction.guild.categories, id=1105378615299948575)
        for ch in category.text_channels:
            if ch.topic == f"Ticket for ID:{interaction.user.id}":
                await interaction.followup.send(f"{interaction.user.mention} You already have an active ticket!", ephemeral=True)
                return
                
        channel = await category.create_text_channel(
            name=interaction.user,
            topic=f"Ticket for ID:{interaction.user.id}"
        )
        await channel.send(
            embed=discord.Embed(
                title="Thanks for applying!",
                description="A staff member will be with you shortly."
            )
        )
        await interaction.followup.send(f"Your ticket has been created! Please head over to {channel.mention}", ephemeral=True)

        

@bot.command(name="creatorapply")
@commands.has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def creatorapply(ctx):
    await ctx.send(
        embed = discord.Embed(
        title="Click to apply",
        description="A ticket will open for your application"
        ),
        view = applybutton()
    )

[smoky sinew]

it doesn't create the channel and no errors

name=interaction.user

probably this part

[swift acorn]

Alr let me just try a random name

channel = await category.create_text_channel(
            name="name",
            topic=f"Ticket for ID:{interaction.user.id}"
        )

Changed it to this but same problem

[vocal snow]

Maybe add some print statements and see where the code is freezing

[smoky sinew]

print statement is the best debugger

[vocal snow]

Ideally your logger should be functional but

[swift acorn]

Yeah I did and it seems that none of the button code is working

[smoky sinew]

oh

are you reusing the same message

your view isn't persistent

[swift acorn]

yeah

[smoky sinew]

well that's why

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

[swift acorn]

Okayy, what does that mean sorry 😅

[smoky sinew]

it means it doesn't keep working after your bot reloads

[slate swan]

does*

Oh isn't persistent

🗿

My bad

[vocal snow]

It's ok ur allowed to blame it on mudkip

[smoky sinew]

no

[slate swan]

[swift acorn]

Thank you guys so much!

[smoky sinew]

[vocal snow]

He likes diet coke more than coke zero can you believe

[slate swan]

[swift acorn]

I tried with a new message and that works, I'll try and figure out how to do the persistent thing now

[smoky sinew]

it tastes better

and better than regular coke too

[vocal snow]

There's an example in discord.py docs iirc

[slate swan]

No

[swift acorn]

Normal coke is better

[smoky sinew]

it's creamy 😋

[vocal snow]

Not docs in GitHub

[smoky sinew]

you just have to set timeout to none, make sure your elements have a custom_id and then use add_view

[slate swan]

There is one on GitHub

[smoky sinew]

it's an example though not docs

[empty fable]

yo can i ask if where to put a bot to stop swearing and a helpful bot in one python script would it work?

[empty fable]

nah i rather do it on my own

i rather learn to make it then using the given bots is more fun

[robust fulcrum]

Guys can user token be used for login in discord.py?

[vocal snow]

No, that's selfbotting which is not allowed by discord

[empty fable]

anyone help me pls

[vocal snow]

What help do you need specifically

[empty fable]

to merge 2 bots

into 1 script

i just want to learn

[vocal snow]

So you have two existing discord bots which you want to merge?

[empty fable]

both

[vocal snow]

Are both of your bots written with discord.py?

[empty fable]

i want to merge the moderation bot to the helpful bot

yeah in python

[vocal snow]

Then that should be possible

[empty fable]

tq so much man so i just need to change the async right?

[vocal snow]

Just use one instance of commands.Bot or discord.Client

For all commands and events

[empty fable]

OK TQ 😄

[robust fulcrum]

Do using user token to login means self bot?

[glad cradle]

yes

[stuck geode]

How do I get stream permission in this server?

[empty fable]

@vocal snow can you help at discord bot problem

[vocal snow]

Yes

[empty fable]

at python problem the third one

it is me

[empty fable]

fourth sorry

[stuck geode]

Can anyone help me?

[vocal snow]

You wish to stream in the voice channels?

[stuck geode]

Yes

Zeffo

[vocal snow]

Ask this in #community-meta , this channel is for making discord bots

[stuck geode]

Oh ok thanks

[slate swan]

is there a way to extract a string from a message a user sent in discord using the command thingy
like( !vote "discord") i want to extract discord from this but i don't wanna use the on_message function. Is there any way for this?

[naive briar]

Command arguments

[ember glen]

Are u using ctx (discord.py)?

If u have ctx then, just add a variable in function. For eg -

async def abc(ctx, word:str) :
    print("word")
    await ctx.send("Hello") 

Here the "discord" will be extracted and assigned to variable named "word" and u can do further what u like

[eager portal]

everyone can see the channel still

[vivid axle]

im trying to make an api to interact with my discord bot, just to get how many guilds, channels & users it has, how would i start this. im using dpy

[north kiln]

how could you setup logging such that my extension files that contain commands logs to the same file as my main bot entry file?

I added
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
but it doesn't log anything when I do logger.debug

[vivid axle]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/logging.html

if thats what u are looking for

[north kiln]

that's not

[vivid axle]

idk then

[north kiln]

and it was my main config

    logger = logging.getLogger("discord")
    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
        filename="./logs/discord.log", 
        encoding="utf-8", 
        maxBytes= 16 * 1024 * 1024,
        backupCount=2
    )
    dt_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
    handler.setFormatter(
        logging.Formatter('[{asctime}] [{levelname:<8}] {name}: {message}', dt_fmt, style='{')
    )
    logger.addHandler(handler)

[slate swan]

Ok thanks

[abstract kindle]

Heyo, so I'm kind of copying the file structure for this servers discord bot, and there is a directory called bot and then a file in that directory called bot.py. When I try to import the bot module in my main and the bot file file, it doesn't like it because it thinks its a circular import, and it gets fixed by changing the name of the bot.py file. How does this bot avoid that issue?

[sick birch]

Circular import errors generally indicate faulty design structure - you should extract out common components into their own modules so everything isn't importing everything else

The bot is laid out in such a way that this does not happen

[abstract kindle]

Yeah, but I copied the file structure and the files exactly, with the same imports

[sick birch]

So you have your own instance of @unkempt canyon running?

Did you git clone?

[abstract kindle]

No, just the couple of files (main.py, bot.py)

Let me get the error

[sick birch]

Do you have this uploaded to a github or something I can take a look at?

[abstract kindle]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ellalbrys/CodingProjects/Python/coconut-capitalist/bot/__main__.py", line 13, in <module>
    import bot
  File "/Users/ellalbrys/CodingProjects/Python/coconut-capitalist/bot/bot.py", line 7, in <module>
    from bot import exts
ImportError: cannot import name 'exts' from partially initialized module 'bot' (most likely due to a circular import) (/Users/ellalbrys/CodingProjects/Python/coconut-capitalist/bot/bot.py)

Yeah, let me push the changes real quick

[abstract kindle]

Wait sike, its private. Is there any way I can add you to view it?

[sick birch]

Yeah my GitHub username is Robin5605

[abstract kindle]

@sick birch also changes havent been pushed yet one sec

[sick birch]

👍

Reason I wanted to look at the git repo is I'd like to be able to see all the files, what's importing what, and the file structure

@abstract kindle would not recommend putting your commands in __main__.py

__main.py__ should be only for creating the bot constructor and starting the event loop

https://github.com/python-discord/bot/blob/main/bot/__main__.py notice how there's no command here

[abstract kindle]

Yep, that's one change I'm working on. When I was trying to copy this bot's structure, I wasn't sure how to move those commands elsewhere and still have them work

Also, the changes are on the testing branch

[sick birch]

Yup found them

[sick birch]

Should be in cogs. A "core" cog for instance

Ideally cogs shouldn't be importing each other

[abstract kindle]

Got it. And core implies functionality that is necessary for the bot to run?

[sick birch]

Indeed

Stuff like your sync and cog management systems can go in there

[abstract kindle]

Okay. Those commands have been there since I made the bot, so it's definitely time for them to move

And what if the cogs aren't loading properly? How would I check if the "core" cog itself isn't loading?

I'm trying to switch over to the BotBase from the pydis_core library so that I can just run load_extensions in the setup_hook method, but I haven't got that all down yet

[sick birch]

Bot core is pretty great yeah. Use it in many of my own bot projects

[sick birch]

You'll usually be able to tell because it'll tell you something like Command "sync" is not recognized

But generally you'd also add logging to say "Extension X was loaded"

[abstract kindle]

Right. I really want to get logging down. I've been using print statements for too long. I was looking at the logging library and it seems pretty self explanatory. For the different levels of logging though, would I have to setup the format and everything for each file? I know that the common logging setup is log = getLogger(__name__), but where would I define the default configuration for the logger?

[abstract kindle]

Also, if I'm loading all extensions with the BotBase's load_extensions method, how would I setup debugging for that?

[sick birch]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/logging.html see here for a guide on logging

[abstract kindle]

Sorry for all the questions lol, I am just so eager to learn GOOD development practices (file structure, modularizing, etc.) and I rarely get a chance to just ask away. Really appreciate it~~

[sick birch]

Yup. People overlook that aspect of bot development all too many times and the resources are quite limited

This sort of stuff you're asking is what takes you from a mediocre developer to an advanced software engineer 😄

[abstract kindle]

YESSS! Good to hear

This bot has been a project for about 2 years now, and it is absolutely giving me so many skills. Project management, I'm getting somewhat good at Github, I'm learning about user feedback from my friends who use the bot, etc. Looks great on a resume.

I'm hoping to learn Docker this summer so I can stop running my bot in a minimized terminal window on my PC and so that I can streamline development from my osx laptop and my windows pc

[sick birch]

With Docker comes a whole another field: devops

You can set up pipelines to automatically lint, test, and deploy pushes to github

[abstract kindle]

So much more to learn

Gets overwhelming sometimes, but its all good

[sick birch]

I've been doing this for a few years now and it's still overwhelming at times, if that's any consolation

[abstract kindle]

Definitely. Especially since I see you in here all the time helping so many different people. Still can make an impact even if you don't know everything

[wary moat]

If I have a discord bot which makes API calls, what's the recommended way to let the functions in the different cogs in separate files access the API key?

[sick birch]

Secrets like environment variables should be defined in an .env and loaded that way (or just exported to environment variables)

[wary moat]

do I then need to call os.getenv in each cog?

how does this work

[sick birch]

Sure I don't really see anything necessarily wrong with it

[wary moat]

OK, it just seems a bit inefficient

[sick birch]

You could also build a aiohttp.ClientSession subclass that automatically adds the authorization headers and base URLs and stuff for the specific API you're using, that way you don't need to worry about auth in your cogs

[wary moat]

sure

well, in my case I'm using an API wrapper in Python, so it would be a bit different, but yeah

[north kiln]

anyone could help with my question

[potent spear]

this doesn't have much to do with discord bots, you'll get better and faster help regarding your question in #❓｜how-to-get-help

[slate swan]

which function would edit any message the bot sends? if I want to put in the channel and the message id? discord.Message.edit()?

[potent spear]

you'd need the message object and call the .edit method on it

[slate swan]

so how would that work? lets say i pass the param message_id 1105512935746445312 with my bots message for ex. would i do something like
message = discord.Message(id=message_id) and it gets the object?

[potent spear]

close

there's a getfetch_message method

which is a method of a channel object

so you can get a message from a specific channel by its ID

[slate swan]

so i need to use discord.Channel first? or is it this Client.get_message

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#discord.abc.Messageable.fetch_message

[potent spear]

so your order of doing things would be:

• get a channel object
• get a message object from that channel object by using getfetch_message
• call the edit method on the message you just got

[slate swan]

so i'd need to use guard clauses to figure out which channel type first for the right channel object. ok

or wait..

[potent spear]

you could fetch a message from a user / channel / ...

[slate swan]

!d discord.Message.channel

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.channel

The TextChannel or Thread that the message was sent from. Could be a DMChannel or GroupChannel if it’s a private message.

[potent spear]

they all have that method

[slate swan]

hmmm ok.

think i got it. ty

[ember glen]

Is there a method to send dm to a user through bot?

[thin raft]

!d discord.User.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.User.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**.

[north kiln]

looks like enabling the root logger in bot_run solves it but now my logs is filled with a bunch of other messages

from the discord api I suppose

[shrewd apex]

there is a 28 day period too no?

[potent spear]

Not sure what you mean by that

[shrewd apex]

for editing or deleting a message

or was that for channel purge

[potent spear]

28day period and then what?

[shrewd apex]

like u cant delete messages more than 28 days old or something wait a sec lemme check

[potent spear]

That wouldn’t make sense tbh

[gleaming shore]

Im trying to add chat gpt to my discord bot but im running into several issues, can someone take a quick look at my code ?

[vocal snow]

please send it here, along with the full traceback (if there is one)

!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.

[potent spear]

If you manage to get ChatGPT working outside a bot first, then I’d move on to integrating it in your bot

[shrewd apex]

hmm i think confused it with something else mb

[white citrus]

Can i add at search_targets a description?

[eternal shuttle]

how do i change the style of this original help command?

[slate swan]

define your own

[ember glen]

Create ur own

[unkempt canyon]

Custom help commands in discord.py

To learn more about how to create custom help commands in discord.py by subclassing the help command, please see this tutorial by Stella#2000

[eternal shuttle]

so i make a new command?

[slate swan]

look at the tutorial above its all explained

[eternal shuttle]

alrighty

thank you

[ember glen]

What are webhooks 💀

[slate swan]

Webhooks are a form to send messages to channels in Discord without a bot user or authentication.

from the docs ^

[thin raft]

wait what

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/api.html#paginator
there's a paginator

[ember glen]

Ok, thanks a lot ❤

[slate swan]

yeah there is

[ember glen]

Btw is there any module or something by which I can play music just by link or searching, in premium like sound quality

[thin raft]

yeah

use discord.py[voice] iirc

[ember glen]

Thank u :D

[thin raft]

python3 -m pip install -U discord.py[voice]

[ember glen]

Thanks buddy
Much appreciated

[thin raft]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=voicechannel#discord.VoiceClient

you will need to use that after it

[thin raft]

np

[gleaming shore]

is chat gpt API key free to use in a discord bot?

[honest shoal]

It's getting highlighted, I just want red font

[slate swan]

#discord-bots message

[honest shoal]

according to that, it shouldn't highlight unless I add another value using ;

[slate swan]

Solid

you cant use bold looks like

when you do normal format it works

@honest shoal ^

[honest shoal]

oh got it

ty

[terse orchid]

hello, how would I send a message to a channel at a particular time everyday? I've tried a few things using @tasks.loop but I haven't found a solution yet

[vocal snow]

A cron job with a webhook

[slate swan]

Can't you just use tasks and set a time for the next iteration and then change the interval to the next date once it get executed

E.g. initialize the task with the date and time to run set to tomorrow at 6pm

then once the task gets executed, change the interval and set the next date and time to run the day after tomorrow at 6pm

[slate swan]

There's a free trial for 3 months ig which is like 18$ worth. After that u need to pay

[vivid axle]

im trying to make an api to interact with my discord bot, just to get how many guilds, channels & users it has, how would i start this. im using dpy

[tall temple]

how to get guild id by server name in bot joined servers pls ?

[eager portal]

anyhelp the everyone role can still see the channel

[slate swan]

trying to use the embed.add_field(name='',value=self.value)
if I want the data to show

compact like this
whats the best
method...?

right now...

it sends like this :/

        for key, value in insert_list: 
            self.value += f"> {key}\n"

[vale wing]

If the time can be hardcoded there's even time kwarg

[vale wing]

Does the time need to be hardcoded or bot users can set it

[eager portal]

cant you do ```py
for key, value in insert_list:
embed.add_field(name=name, value=value, inline=True/False)

[eager portal]

.

[slate swan]

that would make new fields for each

it would give the same result

[eager portal]

        overwrites = {
                interaction.guild.default_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = False),
                interaction.user: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, attach_files = True, embed_links = True),
                interaction.guild.me: discord.PermissionOverwrite(view_channel = True, send_messages = True, read_message_history = True)
        }
        if select_item.values[0] == "support":
            channel = await support.create_text_channel(name = f"{interaction.user.name}-{interaction.user.discriminator}-ticket", overwrites=overwrites, reason=f"Ticket Opened for: {interaction.user}")
``` Any one help, default role can still see new channel

[vale wing]

Iterate over servers and compare names ig? Even if there's a builtin function for that its principle shouldn't differ much

[tall temple]

okay

[full lily]

could I employ someone to take a look at this slash command and traceback please? https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1105595418663981087

[tall temple]

that's what i thinked about but i thought there is simpler method :/

[terse orchid]

hardcoded. i believe ive managed to figure something out though

[vale wing]

Done 👍

[full lily]

super

[slate swan]

both methods. yours and mine currently return something like this... instead of compact results like this ...