discord-bots

[shrewd apex]

then repeat

[latent harness]

ok done

[shrewd apex]

output

[latent harness]

Python 3.11.6

[shrewd apex]

good

[latent harness]

yep

[shrewd apex]

now if u already have vscode opened close it

open the folder for your bot in file explorer

once u did that right click and select open in terminal option

[latent harness]

okkk

[shrewd apex]

type code . enter

then keep following the tutorial

[latent harness]

alright

[latent harness]

ok so changing to powershell for coding?

[shrewd apex]

once u type code . it will open vscode

[latent harness]

oohk

[shrewd apex]

and the folder will become the workspace/project

[latent harness]

it does yes

[latent harness]

alright

@shrewd apex The thing is - rn I wam following the tutorial. I don't actually know the meaning of any of the code. In future, If I wunna do it agian, ofc i can access the tutorial. But I own't be able to do it on my own since I barely know any of these codes

[shrewd apex]

you only learn with familiarity u can copy once, twice but its necessary to understand before copying third time u will be able to partially write it yourself atleast

u can go through the documentation too and read along and refer parts of the tutorial its not all code a large chunk of it is explanation as well

[latent harness]

I understand. I really wanted to code, but am unable to find the proper tutorial, and lose interest. This has hppnd a lot of times. I don't want that to hppn agn

[shrewd apex]

imho discord bots are somewhat of a more advanced endeavour without some python basics down no matter how good a tutorial is its like a building on clouds u still need a foundation

[latent harness]

lel yeh

i just know basic python

Thnx for all the help!!! Expect more help needed coming up! JK JK

What's a virtual Environment though?

what went wrong here

[shrewd apex]

u have to enable running scripts for windows its a pretty common error

[latent harness]

Oh? How do I do that?

[shrewd apex]

set-executionpolicy remotesigned

run this in power shell

[shrewd apex]

think of it as an isolated space for all ur project related libraries/packages

[latent harness]

ooohk

[latent harness]

Ohh. ok. Then what is the actual terminal that i open

without running a code for ve

Lol getting so many errors

[shrewd apex]

there 2 terminals windows cmd (command prompt) and other is powershell

[latent harness]

feels nice

[shrewd apex]

u can search it in taskbar

[latent harness]

Ok...

[shrewd apex]

powershell and run it

[latent harness]

sure

[shrewd apex]

open powershell as administrator

[latent harness]

aight

That it?

[shrewd apex]

yeah

now in vscode close the existing terminal and open a new one run the command

[latent harness]

Oh. I did in the same one

it worked though?

[shrewd apex]

it worked?

[latent harness]

Yess

[shrewd apex]

yeah then thats fine

[latent harness]

Nice

Is it not necessary it will?

[shrewd apex]

some changes require new terminal to apply

[latent harness]

Ohh ok

makes sense

[shrewd apex]

thats why some programs after settings change also ask u to restart them

[latent harness]

oooh ok

Ok
Now i did pip install discord.py

and it showed a rlly long output

At end and in between it shows error

[shrewd apex]

show

[latent harness]

Its rlly long

[shrewd apex]

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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[latent harness]

oke

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/OPIQ

@shrewd apex

[shrewd apex]

yeah 1 sec

[latent harness]

oke

[shrewd apex]

i think ik why u got the error just to confirm once btw run python --version in vscode terminal and tell me output

[latent harness]

ok

new terminal?

[shrewd apex]

same where ur running commands

[latent harness]

oke

OOOOH

[shrewd apex]

yeah thats 1 issue

[latent harness]

damnnnn

[shrewd apex]

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

this is second one

[latent harness]

yh new terminal then

[shrewd apex]

delete the old venv folder

[latent harness]

so many new installations

[latent harness]

ooohk

[shrewd apex]

thats why i also asked to remove old terminal instances

[latent harness]

done

[shrewd apex]

just make sure of versions this time when following steps

[latent harness]

oooh yh got it now sry abt tht

[latent harness]

yup

[shrewd apex]

try with 3.11 this time if u get same error install the other stuff

[shrewd apex]

.

[latent harness]

oohk

[latent harness]

??

[shrewd apex]

the visual c++ tools

[latent harness]

So... Shoiuld i install it?

[shrewd apex]

first install discord.py

[latent harness]

oke

[shrewd apex]

if it errors out then install

[latent harness]

aight

yh

gives an error

should i install then?

[shrewd apex]

yep

[latent harness]

aight

[shrewd apex]

show the traceback once tho

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

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[latent harness]

oke

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/UZWQ

[shrewd apex]

yeah install the tools

just .start() again

[latent harness]

Lmao it's taking 17.5 gb

nvm

What all do i need to install?

[shrewd apex]

1

[latent harness]

1st one only?

[shrewd apex]

yeah

[latent harness]

aight

@shrewd apex Just asking, Have you made any bots?

[shrewd apex]

yeah a few

[latent harness]

Ohh wow. nice

Names?

[shrewd apex]

i made pokemon bot sometime ago

[latent harness]

WOW. Nice!!

I saw your website! It's pretty awesome! Also that pokedex site you created - AWESOME!!

[shrewd apex]

ty

[latent harness]

Lol I have been stuck on just creating and setting up discord.py for an hour.
Not even gotten to writing the actual code

ok installed @shrewd apex

[shrewd apex]

all pokemons as in?

[final iron]

Try it and see

You’ll get a more definitive answer running the code than asking

[shrewd apex]

i think its likely it will just spawn another task in parallel

here is a demo altho bot is ded now

[latent harness]

@shrewd apex Its installed, the tools

[shrewd apex]

continue with the discord.py installation

[latent harness]

Sure

in vs right?

[shrewd apex]

yeah

[latent harness]

ok

OK. No errors now @shrewd apex

[shrewd apex]

nice

[latent harness]

Ok thnx for all the help @shrewd apex

[heavy tundra]

I need some help with regex

I'm using discord.py to get user messages but I want to remove the user ID before the message

I think this regex should match everything except for what's inside the <@...>

^((?!<@.*>).)*$

but it isn't working

this might be super stupid tbh

[latent harness]

@shrewd apex I have done this much

is this good?

[shrewd apex]

u exposed ur token

[latent harness]

or ami doing smth wrong?

[shrewd apex]

💀

[latent harness]

OMG sry

shi-

[shrewd apex]

reset it

[latent harness]

reset then

ok nvm i resetted

[shrewd apex]

and u can directly do

bot.run(os.getenv("TOKEN"))

[latent harness]

now, is smth wrong?

[latent harness]

well i was following the tutorial so

[shrewd apex]

also make sure to replace the resetted token in .env file

[latent harness]

yup

[shrewd apex]

yeah u dont need to add the TOKEN in the code

[latent harness]

ooooh ok makes sense!!

[shrewd apex]

u add it in the .env file

and its fetched from it based on how u named it

[latent harness]

yuppp thats why i get it!

[latent harness]

Okk

and the next code is in python

the main code. Do i put token in there too?

so i can let "TOKEN" be?

[shrewd apex]

no just "TOKEN"

the string

[latent harness]

Yeah thats what. In python I shpuld let that be right?

[shrewd apex]

yep

[latent harness]

oke

thnx!!

@shrewd apex Do you know any other places to code like python (it's killing my eyes)

[shrewd apex]

what?

[latent harness]

What I meant was, I have seen other places where I can code in python. Where do you code? Like the proper IDLE? Ik my question is very vague but still?

[shrewd apex]

pycharm or vscode

i dont get what u mean by killing ur eyes tho

[shrewd apex]

idle aint proper at best its classic for like very small programes

if u dont like the theme u can change it

[latent harness]

ooh yh thats waht i was askingg

[latent harness]

i can? how?

[shrewd apex]

go to extensions in vscode

look up any theme

[latent harness]

the light color although my pc is at dark mode

[shrewd apex]

or for inbuilt ones press cntrl+shift+p to open command pallete then type theme

[latent harness]

So for coding in vscode do i need to open a new file in the same folder?

[latent harness]

ooh ok

[latent harness]

?

[lethal hemlock]

does anybody know how to fix this [{
"resource": "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py",
"owner": "generated_diagnostic_collection_name#0",
"code": {
"value": "reportMissingImports",
"target": {
"$mid": 1,
"path": "/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/configuration.md",
"scheme": "https",
"authority": "github.com",
"fragment": "reportMissingImports"
}
},
"severity": 4,
"message": "Import "discord_slash" could not be resolved",
"source": "Pylance",
"startLineNumber": 10,
"startColumn": 6,
"endLineNumber": 10,
"endColumn": 19
}]

i was trying to install discord slash commands

[shrewd apex]

yeah

[shrewd apex]

use discord.py no?

it supports slash commands

[lethal hemlock]

I use discord py

[magic folio]

Uhm, anyone have a clue please?
I'm trying to make a discord bot and trying some shit out
I'm a beginner

[shrewd apex]

discord_slash

[shrewd apex]

u need intents

!intents

[unkempt canyon]

Using intents in discord.py

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

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

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

from discord import Intents
from discord.ext import commands

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

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

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

[magic folio]

ty

[latent harness]

so if i want to have a command give the result in an embed, what do i do?

[shrewd apex]

check the embeds page in the guide

[latent harness]

I did, it doesn't include that

[shrewd apex]

huh?

[lethal hemlock]

Help please [{
"resource": "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py",
"owner": "generated_diagnostic_collection_name#0",
"code": {
"value": "reportMissingImports",
"target": {
"$mid": 1,
"path": "/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/configuration.md",
"scheme": "https",
"authority": "github.com",
"fragment": "reportMissingImports"
}
},
"severity": 4,
"message": "Import "discord_slash" could not be resolved",
"source": "Pylance",
"startLineNumber": 10,
"startColumn": 6,
"endLineNumber": 10,
"endColumn": 19
}]

[final iron]

What is this

[lethal hemlock]

Im trying to install slash commands

[shrewd apex]

look at overview

[shrewd apex]

how

[final iron]

Is this an error thrown in the console?

[lethal hemlock]

no in the terminal

[latent harness]

Ok 👍

[final iron]

Could you take a screenshot?

You’re throwing us a random array with 0 context

[lethal hemlock]

What should i take screenshot of

[shrewd apex]

how are u installing?

[final iron]

The error

Just the entire console

[lethal hemlock]

It didnt send anything

[final iron]

what

[lethal hemlock]

Yh

[final iron]

take a screenshot of the error

[lethal hemlock]

I said wrong

[final iron]

You’re being incredibly confusing right now

[shrewd apex]

oh lmao

[final iron]

Those are warnings from your IDE, not exceptions

[lethal hemlock]

What does that mean?

[final iron]

Discord.py have natively supported slash commands, so there’s 0 reason to be using discord_slash

[shrewd apex]

no idea what is even the package

[lethal hemlock]

So I should just add the slash.slash command

[final iron]

No. discord.py natively supports slash commands, there’s no reason to use any extensions.

https://gist.github.com/AbstractUmbra/a9c188797ae194e592efe05fa129c57f
This is a guide on how to create them

[hushed galleon]

#discord-bots message

[shrewd apex]

!pypi discord-py-slash-command

[unkempt canyon]

discord-py-slash-command v4.2.1

Easy, simple, scalable and modular: a Python API wrapper for interactions.

[shrewd apex]

just found it

they renamed themselves to discord-interactions

btw guys anyone free to review https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/slash-commands/ ty 🙏

this and hybrid commands pages

[hushed galleon]

oh for a second i thought they had three different packages hosting the same code, but discord-interactions looks like a different project

[shrewd apex]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67502375/how-can-i-get-easily-started-with-discord-slash-python-module not sure my source is this stackoverflow answer

[latent harness]

!paste

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[lethal hemlock]

So guys how do i fix this problem?

[shrewd apex]

pip install discord-py-slash-command run this in ur terminal

[hushed galleon]

ah, discord-interactions is the subdomain for their old docs site... so we have discord_slash, discord-interactions, discord-py-slash-command, interactions.py, and discord-py-interactions which have all been used by the same library, albeit for different versions

[latent harness]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/GZWA - This is given on the tutorial site. It is for using slash and prefix commands at once. I am very confused as to how this works. If someone would be kind enough to tell me I would be very grateful!!

[shrewd apex]

[lethal hemlock]

just send this Requirement already satisfied: discord-py-slash-command in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (4.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp>=3.8.1 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from discord-py-slash-command) (3.8.6)
Requirement already satisfied: frozenlist>=1.1.1 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=17.3.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (22.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: multidict<7.0,>=4.5 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (6.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: async-timeout<5.0,>=4.0.0a3 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (4.0.3)
Requirement already satisfied: yarl<2.0,>=1.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: aiosignal>=1.1.2 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4.0,>=2.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (3.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from yarl<2.0,>=1.0->aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (3.4)

[shrewd apex]

thats hybrid commands

what u sent is only the bot class so far

[latent harness]

?

[hushed galleon]

discord-py-slash-command==3.0.3 is the latest version of discord_slash, but they've since moved on to interactions.py which no longer monkeypatches discord.py

[magic folio]

Thanks for your help, I've now got it working. Hoorah!

[shrewd apex]

cool

[lethal hemlock]

'

[shrewd apex]

aight

[lethal hemlock]

Asher it sent this when i runned the pip Requirement already satisfied: discord-py-slash-command in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (4.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp>=3.8.1 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from discord-py-slash-command) (3.8.6)
Requirement already satisfied: frozenlist>=1.1.1 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=17.3.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (22.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: multidict<7.0,>=4.5 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (6.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: async-timeout<5.0,>=4.0.0a3 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (4.0.3)
Requirement already satisfied: yarl<2.0,>=1.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: aiosignal>=1.1.2 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (1.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4.0,>=2.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (3.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.0 in /home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from yarl<2.0,>=1.0->aiohttp>=3.8.1->discord-py-slash-command) (3.4)

[shrewd apex]

pip install discord-py-slash-command==3.0.3 as gamecracks sent

[lethal hemlock]

It still says i have problems

[shrewd apex]

This bot template can be used for both slash commands and regular commands or hybrid commands.

can be used for .

[latent harness]

Yh. So I don't need to know it completely?

[lethal hemlock]

no it went away

[latent harness]

nvm i'll see that

[shrewd apex]

to add a simple ping command u can add as the following

@bot.tree.command()
async def ping(inter: discord.Interaction) -> None:
    """Gets bot latency!"""
    await inter.response.send_message(f"> Pong! {round(bot.latency * 1000)}ms")

[shrewd apex]

u can take a look at hybrid commands and slash commands page

[latent harness]

Ok!

[lethal hemlock]

When i runned the bot it sent this cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)
File "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py", line 10, in <module>
from discord_slash import SlashCommand, ButtonStyle
ImportError: cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)

[white citrus]

https://pastebin.com/3Qex6DB9

My Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\ui\modal.py", line 268, in _scheduled_task
    await self.callback(interaction)
  File "c:\Discord\Maja Projekt\Maja-Beta\modules\ticket_system\view.py", line 529, in callback
    await message.edit(view=self)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\message.py", line 1533, in edit
    data = await self._state.http.edit_message(self.channel.id, self.id, **payload)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\http.py", line 399, in request
    raise HTTPException(response, data)
nextcord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In components.0.components.0: Value of field "type" must be one of (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8).```

*I want to edit the buttons after the modal

[latent harness]

Can anyone tell me what all i have to replace her? I'm a little confused

[grizzled yew]

Hello, I'm working on a bot called vision and our aim is to make a simple non-dashboard easy to setup and use bot for medium sized servers of the range 200-5000 members and I'm kind of looking for some people to help me develop it and advise with the embeds etc, if you're looking to join please hit me up!

[latent harness]

Anyone?

[slate swan]

somewhere in your code you are trying to add a component that is not available in this context

available ones are (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8) meaning button, select

[white citrus]

So how can i edit them in after the modal

[hushed galleon]

the chapter looks neat, pretty comprehensive, and well organized
some suggestions:

• at the start, "client-integrated interactions" could be written as application commands for consistency
• the starting note about global/guild-specific commands becomes redundant in the following sections
• in "Creating a Slash Command" i would clarify between locally defining a slash command and creating the command on discord, and then also move the bits about syncing from the last section so the explanation is more cohesive
• a sentence about using docstrings for describing parameters would be helpful, otherwise readers would only be aware of it if they clicked the tab to reveal the docstring example
• doc links for each d.py function/class introduced like app_commands.describe() would be nice
• in "Sending Responses" the warning style seems a bit superfluous and could be omitted for readability
• in "Sending Followups" the warning block could be merged into the above paragraph, something like "Once an interaction has been responded to, you can only send followup messages by ..."
• in "Slash Command Parameters" the annotations like "A string parameter" are redundant and can be omitted
• as per the discord API docs, i would rename the "User Menus" and "Message Menu" sections to "User Commands" and "Message Commands" respectively
• in the "Localization" section, i suggest mentioning that programs are usually translated by hand with stuff like project fluent or gettext (of which i have a repository to teach its usage in dpy)
  as for hybrid commands, i would talk about it after slash commands so you can cross-reference that chapter and avoid repetitive information

[shrewd apex]

ty time to read thru 🙏

[latent harness]

I want to replace the hello with a command. Should i put the prefix before it or no? Should i send the code?

[latent harness]

@shrewd apex ?

!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 Paste! button in the bottom left, or by pressing CTRL + S. After doing that, you will be navigated to the new paste's page. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[latent harness]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/BMPQ

in case needed

[shrewd apex]

ah fair for localization i was looking more towards like one time translation and dumping

[latent harness]

?

[lethal hemlock]

I need help when i runned the bot it sent this cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)
File "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py", line 10, in <module>
from discord_slash import SlashCommand, ButtonStyle
ImportError: cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)

[final iron]

@lethal hemlock

[lethal hemlock]

Yh

i downloaded smth else but how do i fix this problem

cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)
File "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py", line 10, in <module>
from discord_slash import SlashCommand, ButtonStyle
ImportError: cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)

[latent harness]

@hushed galleon Could you pls tell me this? I desperately need to move from here

[slate swan]

Send it in not a screenshot also no u would define the prefix seperately

[latent harness]

Ohh ok thnx!!

also how do i start my bot?

I want to see of it atleast replies to 1 command

[slate swan]

Where sre you hosting it?

Are you just hosting in on your computer?

[latent harness]

In my private server

[latent harness]

?

[slate swan]

Alright well you’d run the bots code no?

In your private server

[latent harness]

uhmm how? Like i just click run in VS?

[slate swan]

You’d create a file named something like ‘Discord bot’ inside will be your discord code and in the language like python for example run the main.py which will run the bot

[latent harness]

Ok

[slate swan]

If you want 24/7 hosting you need to use webhosting or vps server. If you are just testing its fine to just run in and temporarily have the bot online running in locally

[latent harness]

this is howing up when i hit run

@slate swan

[slate swan]

Can u copy and paste it

Rather screenshot srry

[latent harness]

the code? sure

[slate swan]

The error

[latent harness]

thats all it shows when i run it

[slate swan]

I meant copy and paste it here

Import os

#like this

load_dotnev()

[latent harness]

ooh ok

`import os

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready() -> None:
print(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")

bot.run(TOKEN)`

@slate swan

[slate swan]

Oh thanks can you do the same with the error maybe

[latent harness]

sure

“(venv) PS C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot> & "c:/Users/udayg/Documents/Stardew bot/venv/Scripts/python.exe" "c:/Users/udayg/Documents/Stardew bot/bot.py" 2023-11-25 01:42:08 INFO discord.client logging in using static token Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\bot.py", line 31, in <module> bot.run(TOKEN) File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 860, in run asyncio.run(runner()) File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 194, in run return runner.run(main) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 118, in run return self._loop.run_until_complete(task) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 664, in run_until_complete return future.result() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 849, in runner await self.start(token, reconnect=reconnect) File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 777, in start await self.login(token) File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 609, in login raise TypeError(f'expected token to be a str, received {token.__class__.__name__} instead') TypeError: expected token to be a str, received NoneType instead (venv) PS C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot> “

[slate swan]

Okay so u have a .env ?

[latent harness]

Yup

[slate swan]

It could be 1 of 3 things ill start with the first thing

The .env isnt in the correct location

The .env should be in same directory as ur script right?

[latent harness]

It's in the folder

[latent harness]

yup, same folder

[slate swan]

Do u have a line similar to this in there?

TOKEN=. The os.getenv("TOKEN")

[latent harness]

I have this:

TOKEN=<the actual token>

like that

[slate swan]

Okay thats right

3/3 guess is that the .env isnt being loaded

[latent harness]

?

[slate swan]

See if load_dotenv() function is being called before os.getenv("TOKEN").

[latent harness]

yup

@slate swan

[acoustic kernel]

How do I get a username from a users ID?

[slate swan]

Put this below the load_dotenv line

print(os.environ)

[latent harness]

oooh ok

done

[potent light]

You need to get the user object with the user ID then get the username from the object.

[latent harness]

now should i run it?

[slate swan]

fetch_user method maybe?

[slate swan]

yeah try it should check if the environment variable is being set correctly by printing out the value of os.environ after calling load_dotenv().

[latent harness]

ok

[acoustic kernel]

How does one do that?

[latent harness]

!padte

!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 Paste! button in the bottom left, or by pressing CTRL + S. After doing that, you will be navigated to the new paste's page. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[final iron]

!d discord.Client.fetch_user

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Client.fetch\_user

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

Retrieves a [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.User) based on their ID. You do not have to share any guilds with the user to get this information, however many operations do require that you do.

Note

This method is an API call. If you have [`discord.Intents.members`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Intents.members) and member cache enabled, consider [`get_user()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client.get_user) instead.

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

[slate swan]

Something like this

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
   user_id = 1234567890 # Replace this with the user's ID
   user = await bot.fetch_user(user_id)
   username = user.name
   print(username)

[latent harness]

@slate swan https://paste.pythondiscord.com/7LXQ

[acoustic kernel]

Oh awesome thank you!

[slate swan]

Check its formatted like this ur env

   TOKEN=your-bot-token-here

And it should be setup correctly really? You could tru doing both of these

pip uninstall python-dotenv
pip install python-dotenv

[final iron]

Can you share your entire code?

[potent light]

Show me the code you have then i'll guide you.

[acoustic kernel]

I figured it out thank you though

[left dew]

why does nothing work after this line, i am trying to add something to an empty file but nothing wroks after this
alldata2 = ast.literal_eval(cont.decode('utf-8'))

[final iron]

!d ast.literal_eval

[unkempt canyon]

ast.literal\_eval

ast.literal_eval(node_or_string)```
Evaluate an expression node or a string containing only a Python literal or container display. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, `None` and `Ellipsis`.

This can be used for evaluating strings containing Python values without the need to parse the values oneself. It is not capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving operators or indexing.

[left dew]

yea?

[final iron]

What is cont

[left dew]

cont = await file.read()

[final iron]

Is there an error?

[left dew]

nopejust nothing happens

i tried doing an exception and got this
An error occurred: invalid syntax (<unknown>, line 0)

[final iron]

What are the contents of the file

[left dew]

nothing

[final iron]

what

Do you what ast.literal_eval() does

I have a suspicion you think it does something it doesn't

[slate swan]

[left dew]

ive just sent an empty file to a channel and i want to insert smthn into it

[final iron]

.

[slate swan]

so where did literal_eval come from?

[left dew]

uhh i cant remmeber ive just come back to some code from a while ago

but i have the exact same code and it works

but this version doesnt

i think the file shouldnt be empty

[slate swan]

so you are saying you use literal_eval to insert text into a file?

[final iron]

So if you don't know what it does, why is it there

[left dew]

ive used it before and it works

[final iron]

But you don't know what it does

[slate swan]

if you know it works why you ask us

[left dew]

i want to know why this version of the same code doesnt work

[slate swan]

..

[final iron]

Read this

[slate swan]

!d ast.literal_eval

[unkempt canyon]

ast.literal\_eval

ast.literal_eval(node_or_string)```
Evaluate an expression node or a string containing only a Python literal or container display. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, `None` and `Ellipsis`.

This can be used for evaluating strings containing Python values without the need to parse the values oneself. It is not capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving operators or indexing.

[slate swan]

Evaluate an expression node or a string containing only a Python literal or container display.

[final iron]

First, learn what it actually does

[left dew]

okay

ive read it

[slate swan]

what makes you think its for inserting text into file

[left dew]

i domt know

[slate swan]

nor do i

[final iron]

So why do you think it does that?

[left dew]

cuz its worked in the same copy of my other code

[final iron]

It obviously doesn't write to files

[slate swan]

thats not even related to discord bots

[final iron]

Share the full code

[left dew]

@bot.command()
@commands.cooldown(1, 2, commands.BucketType.guild)
async def loa(ctx, userID=None, amt_time=None):
    support = ctx.guild.get_role(SUPPORT_ID)
    if support in ctx.author.roles:
        if userID is None or amt_time is None:
            await ctx.reply(f"Invalid usage.\n*`usage: {PREFIX} userID time in days`*")
            return
        else:
            try:
                print(1)
                dbchannel = bot.get_channel(1155888521840693359)
                messages = [message async for message in dbchannel.history(limit=1)]
                print(2)
                while len(messages) == 0:
                    print(3)
                    messages = [message async for message in dbchannel.history(limit=1)]
                messages = messages[0]
                print(4)
                file = messages.attachments[0]
                print(5)
                cont = await file.read()
                print(6)
                alldata2 = ast.literal_eval(cont.decode('utf-8'))
                print(7)
                alldata2.append({"userID": userID, "time": amt_time})
                print(8)
                await loa_logs(alldata2, messages, dbchannel)
                await ctx.reply(f"Successfully added <@{str(userID)}> to the database.")
            except Exception as e:
                print(f"An error occurred: {e}")```

[final iron]

Is this your code?

[left dew]

yes it is my code

[final iron]

I'd assume loa_logs is writing the file

Though it's your code, so I'm a bit confused how you don't know where it's occuring

[left dew]

i know

async def loa_logs(data, messages, dbchannel):
  buffer = io.StringIO()
  buffer.name = "loa.py"
  buffer.write(str(data))
  buffer.seek(0)
  await messages.delete()
  await dbchannel.send(file=discord.File(buffer, 'loa.py'))```

this is loa logs

i know ur gonna comment on stringio

[final iron]

Well yeah, it's a very hacky way to do it

That's not the issue at hand though

[left dew]

how do i send a file with something in?

[final iron]

You're already doing it

[left dew]

but atm its empty

so im wondering if it needs to have smthn in

for it to append

[final iron]

The issue isn't with sending the file though

The file you're getting from the message is empty

So when you try to evaluate the content it throws an error

[left dew]

oh i see

[final iron]

                dbchannel = bot.get_channel(1155888521840693359)
                messages = [message async for message in dbchannel.history(limit=1)]
                print(2)
                while len(messages) == 0:
                    print(3)
                    messages = [message async for message in dbchannel.history(limit=1)]
                messages = messages[0]
                print(4)
                file = messages.attachments[0]
                print(5)
                cont = await file.read()
                print(6)
                alldata2 = ast.literal_eval(cont.decode('utf-8'))
                print(7)
                alldata2.append({"userID": userID, "time": amt_time})

This whole block is also incredibly hard to read

Lots of spaghetti code

[left dew]

huh?

[final iron]

The while statement is redundant

[left dew]

oh

[final iron]

Why are you using literal_eval in the first place

A dropdown would be a way better representation for all the messages

[left dew]

i just want to know how i can fix nothing appending

[final iron]

Let's start from the beginning. What is the purpose of literal_eval

[left dew]

to evaluate the content

[final iron]

Okay, can you show an example content from the file

[left dew]

the file is empty

[final iron]

It shouldn't be empty though, correct?

[left dew]

yes

[final iron]

Could you show an example of what should be in the file?

[left dew]

[{"userID": 1037772222145765406, "time": 3}]

[final iron]

Okay, and what effect does literal_eval have on the content? Why are you using it?

[left dew]

tbh im not really sure

[final iron]

So if you don't know what it does, and why you're using it, you should remove it

[left dew]

but i know it works

[final iron]

It obviously doesn't work if it's giving an error

[left dew]

it works fine in my other copy

[final iron]

Okay, but it's not working now

You literally do not know what it's doing

It shouldn't be there

[left dew]

what do i replace it with

[final iron]

Nothing

[left dew]

and use cont.append?

instead of alldata.append

[final iron]

append wont work on a str

What even is this setup

Are you saving database files in a channel and then accessing them?

[left dew]

ye

[final iron]

why...

Why not just have a database file

[left dew]

wdym

[final iron]

Like an actual .db file

Why do it through a channel

It just makes everything more difficult

[left dew]

no

its fine

we've not got anywhere with solving my question

[final iron]

It's definitely not

[left dew]

it is

[final iron]

It's the whole reason we're here, and you've asked many previous questions on fixing issues regarding it

It's caused a ton of issues and restrictions

[left dew]

it hasnt its been fine throught my whole 4k lines of code, its just now when ive decided to make the same replica of another part of my code that it doesnt work

and i think its because the file shouldnt be empty

[final iron]

I'm not going to help with this further. Storing database files in a channel, especially as a txt or json comes with major disadvantages, drawbacks and complications

[left dew]

okay fine, its not like we were getting anywhere anyway

[nova vessel]

Not braining moment: a bool is false or true right?

[golden portal]

yea

[latent harness]

The main.py?

[final iron]

Yes

[latent harness]

Ok, I'll send

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

print(os.environ)

TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready() -> None:
    print(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")

bot.run(TOKEN)```

For sure? But I followed this tutorial - https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/creating-a-bot/#prerequisites

[latent jay]

what's your issue

[latent harness]

The bot isn't starting when I run the code

[latent jay]

where's your .env file

[latent harness]

In the folder itself

[latent jay]

is it in the root directory where your main.py file is?

[latent harness]

Yup

[latent jay]

can you screenshot your current directory

[latent harness]

Do the folder right?

[latent jay]

where main.py is, yes

[latent jay]

And what's in your .env?

obviously blur out your actual token

[latent harness]

TOKEN = <MY TOKEN NAME>

[latent harness]

yes

[latent jay]

TOKEN=bot_token_here

[latent harness]

yes

[latent jay]

And you've ran

pip install discord.py python-dotenv

[latent harness]

As I said, I just followed this guide here. and it just did pip instal discord.py

[latent jay]

Can you pip install python-dotenv

[latent harness]

sure

done

[latent jay]

and then add a print(TOKEN) under the variable TOKEN

[final iron]

Is it the same error as before?

As in, you haven't changed any code, correct?

[latent harness]

Yes. The bot isn't starting up

[latent harness]

Yup

[latent jay]

Are you sure you've enabled the intents at the discord developer portal?

[latent harness]

Yes I have

[latent jay]

What's the error you are actually getting?

[final iron]

Yes, but it's still the received None type instead of str stuff, correct?

[latent harness]

Yes!

The same error

[final iron]

According to 6 hours ago

(venv) PS C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot> & "c:/Users/udayg/Documents/Stardew bot/venv/Scripts/python.exe" "c:/Users/udayg/Documents/Stardew bot/bot.py"
2023-11-25 01:42:08 INFO     discord.client logging in using static token
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\bot.py", line 31, in <module>
    bot.run(TOKEN)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 860, in run
    asyncio.run(runner())
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 194, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 118, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 664, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 849, in runner
    await self.start(token, reconnect=reconnect)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 777, in start
    await self.login(token)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 609, in login
    raise TypeError(f'expected token to be a str, received {token.__class__.__name__} instead')
TypeError: expected token to be a str, received NoneType instead
(venv) PS C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot>

[latent harness]

Yes this

[latent jay]

can you print token

[latent harness]

Where?

[latent jay]

just print(TOKEN) under the line where you do TOKEN= in the main.py

[latent harness]

oh ok

[latent jay]

it should print the token you put in the .env file

[final iron]

And you're using discord.py, right

[latent harness]

Yes

I'm pretty sure I am

Ok so now I run it?

[latent jay]

Yes

[latent harness]

Ok

[final iron]

The issue is, the token being passed is None

It has nothing to do with the bot at the moment

[latent harness]

Shows the same error

[final iron]

That's not the goal

[latent harness]

Should I reset it?

[final iron]

It has nothing to do with the bot at the moment

[final iron]

When the token was printed, was your actual token printed or None?

[latent harness]

Oh ok

[latent jay]

the code looks right, I think your .env file is incorrect

[latent harness]

I wasn't printed

[final iron]

Nothing was printed at all?

[latent jay]

Comment out the bot.run(TOKEN) line by putting a # in front of it

[latent harness]

The token wsn't printed and it game the same nonetype error

[latent harness]

Ok sure

[latent jay]

We want to see if it's getting the token correctly

[final iron]

Was None printed to console?

[final iron]

As said earlier

We're trying to figure out why it's not being properly passed

[latent harness]

It does give bot.run (TOKEN) in the 3rd line of output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\main.py", line 20, in <module>
    bot.run(TOKEN)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 860, in run
    asyncio.run(runner())
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 194, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 118, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 664, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 849, in runner
    await self.start(token, reconnect=reconnect)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 777, in start
    await self.login(token)
  File "C:\Users\udayg\Documents\Stardew bot\venv\Lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 609, in login
    raise TypeError(f'expected token to be a str, received {token.__class__.__name__} instead')
TypeError: expected token to be a str, received NoneType instead```

[final iron]

I don't think you quite understand what we're trying to do

Could you share the current code?

[latent harness]

I don't. Actually i'm just beginning to code like this (I just know basic python)

[latent harness]

ok

[latent jay]

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")
print(f"Token: {TOKEN}\nType: {type(TOKEN)}")

Could you create a new Python file in the same directory and run this.

[latent harness]

ok

[latent jay]

Just name it test.py or something, it's just a test.

[latent harness]

CURRENT CODE:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

print(os.environ)

TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")

print(TOKEN) #bot.run(TOKEN)

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready() -> None:
    print(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")

bot.run(TOKEN)```

[latent harness]

Yes, I'm gunna do that

@latent jay

[latent jay]

screenshot your current screen

you typed it in wrong

[latent jay]

Just copy and paste this code into the test.py

[latent harness]

Ok wait maybe

There isn't any typing mistake

[latent jay]

and when you run it?

[latent harness]

Gives this

[latent jay]

that doesn't even make sense? @final iron

[latent jay]

import os
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

print(os.environ)

TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")

print(TOKEN)

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready() -> None:
    print(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")

#bot.run(TOKEN)

do this

My guess is your .env file is not being saved and/or accessed

which is why it's showing as NoneType

So i'd double check that.

@latent harness

[latent harness]

Ok and how do i do that? Save it properly or smth?

[latent jay]

Press the .env file from the left tab in Visual Studio Code and press CTRL S

[latent harness]

Ok i did that

[latent jay]

then run this

[latent harness]

ok

omg

[final iron]

Could you show the entire console?

[latent harness]

I think it worked

[latent jay]

Did it print your token at the bottom?

[latent harness]

It did!

yes and the bot is online

Thanks!

[latent jay]

import os
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()


TOKEN = os.getenv("TOKEN")

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


@bot.event
async def on_ready() -> None:
    print(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")


bot.run(TOKEN)

Just change your code to this then.

[latent harness]

So the only problem was me not saving the .env file?

pretty dumb of me

[latent jay]

Yes, you weren't saving it after typing into it

[latent harness]

Lol

ok thanks!!!

[latent jay]

if you see this, it means 1 file is not saved in your directory

[latent harness]

ooooh ok

[latent jay]

If you ever edit your env file again, make sure to save it.

[latent harness]

I can delete test.py right?

[latent jay]

Yup

[latent harness]

And also, Do i run the main code too?

[latent jay]

you should be running main.py

[latent harness]

Ok so no need?

[latent jay]

no need for what?

you should have only .env and main.py in your directory

You only run main.py

[latent harness]

I also have anotehr file named bot.py for the actual code

[latent jay]

you should run whatever your main file is

[latent harness]

Ok!

[latent jay]

I don't know what's in your bot.py

[latent harness]

ohk

I am really new to this (trying to make my first bot)

So I'm rlly sorry if I disturbed you in anyway

[latent jay]

You should learn some more Python before continuing creating your Bot though. Most of the stuff we were asking you to do for testing was pretty low leveled.

[latent harness]

THNX! @latent harness

[latent harness]

Ooh ok, I'll look into it

[latent jay]

without some more basic python knowledge you're going to be running into errors very frequently

[latent harness]

hmm

[latent jay]

But good luck

[latent harness]

I am doing @bot then ping. Why doesn't it work?

It doesn't give me anything back

[final iron]

Did you save and rerun your code?

[latent harness]

yes

[final iron]

You're sure?

Both are very important

[latent harness]

Yes I'm pretty sure. I did CTRL + S then I ran it

?

It works when I do just Hello

as it's and event

but commands won't work

[latent harness]

ok it works nvm

[latent harness]

I have seen thatCommands are case sensitive

How do i make to non sensitive to case?

[rugged shadow]

!d discord.ext.commands.command

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.command

@discord.ext.commands.command(name=..., cls=..., **attrs)```
A decorator that transforms a function into a [`Command`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Command) or if called with [`group()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.group), [`Group`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Group).

By default the `help` attribute is received automatically from the docstring of the function and is cleaned up with the use of `inspect.cleandoc`. If the docstring is `bytes`, then it is decoded into [`str`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str) using utf-8 encoding.

All checks added using the [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.check) & co. decorators are added into the function. There is no way to supply your own checks through this decorator.

[rugged shadow]

@bot.command(case_insensitive=True)

[meager rock]

If you want all your commands to be case insensitive you can use the same argument in commands.Bot

[latent harness]

Ooh ok

[latent harness]

ok thanks!!

so here?

[meager rock]

Yessir

[latent harness]

oke!!

thnx!

Also. I am amaking a bot that will include lots of sprites (like armour weapons crops adn other stuff) So should I make them first and the continue to put commands?

[meager rock]

if you have a basic idea about how and where you're gonna use the sprites, and the path to their files you can just use a placeholder for them and continue your code

[latent harness]

Actually, I don't have any idea XD. I don't know how i can register them in

[rough shuttle]

You can use a database.

[latent harness]

What's a database?

[rough shuttle]

A database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system.

So to say it easily,

It can help you organize the amounts of sprites (armors and stuff) each user has.

Using databases can also save progresses.

[latent harness]

Ohh ok makes sense

[latent harness]

hmmm nice!!

So is taht how bots like tatsu, OwO work?

[rough shuttle]

Yes.

[latent harness]

Oh ok. How do I make a database then?

[rough shuttle]

Do you want to go to DM's or should I explain here?

[latent harness]

Any would work, but i would prefer DMs since its a bit convenient

[meager rock]

i personally would make my own CDN to store the sprites

[latent harness]

What's a CDN?

[meager rock]

You mean the images for them right

or just the amount of items and stuff

[latent harness]

Yes. naming them, introducing in code etc.

[meager rock]

CDN is like a image hosting service that stores images on a web endpoint instead of a file on your computer

[meager rock]

How many sprites do you have

I've worked on a project with over 1000 sprites stored in my computer

the storage it used was insane

[latent harness]

I haven't started making them although I will have around 200 atleast (my estimate)

[meager rock]

you can save them locally then

Assuming they're not too large in size

as for how to start, just use a placeholder file instead of the actual sprite

[latent harness]

they might be in mbs sometimes. Wait they need to be .jpeg or .jpg right?

[meager rock]

.png works too

[latent harness]

yh tht asw

Ok, now I am creating a database for sprites in sqllite3. Any easy way to do it would be appreciated!! Although I am following a guide!

[final iron]

Keep in mind you should be using an asynchronous driver like asqlite

Tutorials are also flawed for these purposes so it's generally discouraged to use them

[latent harness]

Whats a driver?

[final iron]

sqlbolt is an excellent learning resource

[latent harness]

sqlbot?

[final iron]

Library that allows you to interface with the database

[final iron]

website

[latent harness]

ok

got it. This sees=ms like a rlly big task. Adding sprites etc

[latent harness]

im using sqllite3

[final iron]

asqlite is an asynchronous wrapper of sqlite3 as it's blocking

[latent harness]

Lol I won't be able to understand that

nvm

[final iron]

Not using an asynchronous driver is not an option

It's a requirement

Sooner or later you'll start receiving errors and the bot will start breaking

Better to do it properly now then have to find, and migrate your entire code later on

[latent harness]

Ok so what exactly do i have to do?

I did this much(I just knew lil bit of actual sql)

[final iron]

View the example on the asqlite github

[faint charm]

@glacial sail Look I really hope I'm on topic here but WoC's hogging all the Singapore E-Girls and you're just letting them and if you could tell them to unban me that would be great 'cause I rep EECS 'cause they can actually code

And I wasn't quite done yappin' don't put discord bots on your apps BTW I'll reject you myself if I see it

As an intern I'll reject you

[glacial sail]

!ban 1052944961722654851 Seems like you're just here to rant incoherently

[unkempt canyon]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied ban to @faint charm permanently.

[glad cradle]

hi, is there someone who is developing a Bot that uses oauth2 functionalities? i need some feedbacks for my extension design (tho everything is still not documented)

[lethal hemlock]

does anybody know the issue with this cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)
File "/home/abal10001/discord bot/main.py", line 10, in <module>
from discord_slash import SlashCommand, ButtonStyle
ImportError: cannot import name 'InvalidArgument' from 'discord' (/home/abal10001/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/init.py)

[shrewd apex]

discord_slash is a third party library and even the version you are using is very outdated as such it's hard for anyone to help you

its recommended to use the latest discord.py

!pypi discord.py use this to rewrite your code

[unkempt canyon]

discord.py v2.3.2

A Python wrapper for the Discord API

[lethal hemlock]

Does anybody know how to make a ticket code? so you click a button and then it opens for you?

[white citrus]

So how can i edit them in after the modal

[vocal snow]

Are you using discord.py?

[white citrus]

https://pastebin.com/3Qex6DB9

My Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\ui\modal.py", line 268, in _scheduled_task
    await self.callback(interaction)
  File "c:\Discord\Maja Projekt\Maja-Beta\modules\ticket_system\view.py", line 529, in callback
    await message.edit(view=self)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\message.py", line 1533, in edit
    data = await self._state.http.edit_message(self.channel.id, self.id, **payload)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\http.py", line 399, in request
    raise HTTPException(response, data)
nextcord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In components.0.components.0: Value of field "type" must be one of (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8).```

*I want to edit the buttons after the modal

[slate swan]

How to properly get value out of modal to select component creating it and then out of the dropdown to the view

problem:
i have a config represented in a dataclass for example:

@dataclass
class GuildConfig:
    prefix: str
    something: int

now i want to create a dropdown with all available things to change and then when selcted modal pops up where you enter new value for setting

im kind of stuck how to retrieve this new value to the original GuildConfig class and then save changes to database when button clicked

maybe im overcomplicating it but thanks for any help

[lethal hemlock]

Yh

[slate swan]

me when delete and send again

[nova vessel]

My bot is not showing or allowing me to make slash commands to it. Asked GPT to check my script to see if there were any errors, it said not. Wondering what nexts steps in troubleshooting would be.

[shrewd apex]

reading acutal documentation and tutorial on how to do so

did u sync ur commands

[nova vessel]

Yes.

[shrewd apex]

https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/slash-commands/ these two https://gist.github.com/AbstractUmbra/a9c188797ae194e592efe05fa129c57f are good sources to get started the discord.py repo has examples as well

[nova vessel]

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


class General(commands.Cog):
    group = app_commands.Group(name="utility", description="Utility commands")

    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
        self.bot = bot

    @group.command(name="ping", description="Get the bot's latency")
    async def ping(self, inter: discord.Interaction) -> None:
        await inter.response.send_message(f"Pong! {round(self.bot.latency * 1000)}ms")

    @app_commands.command(name="echo", description="Echo a message")
    async def echo(self, inter: discord.Interaction, message: str) -> None:
        await inter.response.send_message(message)


async def setup(bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
    await bot.add_cog(General(bot))

With the commands.Cog class above, how would this look when I run the index.py

Still trying to work on my logic behind building my scripts so need a hand every now and then lol

[shrewd apex]

u would loads the cogs from setup_hook in ur bot class

[nova vessel]

How'd that look? Is there an example?

[shrewd apex]

https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/creating-a-bot/#making-an-advanced-bot

[nova vessel]

Would I also need a client.py file or should I just have it all in my index.py?

[shrewd apex]

cogs/
  - general.py (ur cog code)
main.py (ur bot code)
.env (file for storing token)

python main.py to run

[white citrus]

Hey @shrewd apex can you mayby help on my problem to edit buttons after a modal?

[shrewd apex]

lemme take a look

[white citrus]

My first attemp

https://pastebin.com/3Qex6DB9

My Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\ui\modal.py", line 268, in _scheduled_task
    await self.callback(interaction)
  File "c:\Discord\Maja Projekt\Maja-Beta\modules\ticket_system\view.py", line 529, in callback
    await message.edit(view=self)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\message.py", line 1533, in edit
    data = await self._state.http.edit_message(self.channel.id, self.id, **payload)
  File "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nextcord\http.py", line 399, in request
    raise HTTPException(response, data)
nextcord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In components.0.components.0: Value of field "type" must be one of (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8).```

[shrewd apex]

u mean the .disabled right?

[white citrus]

Yeah

[shrewd apex]

await message.edit(view=self)

self is a modal here no?

[white citrus]

Ig yes

[shrewd apex]

it is

u need to edit with the view

[white citrus]

But i want to edit the 3 buttons from the other class

After the modal

I tried it but the buttons are not peristent anymore

[shrewd apex]

1 is wait for modal to complete in the view and then edit

2 is pass the view to the modal or make it an attribute

[white citrus]

How can i do it?

[shrewd apex]

!d discord.ui.Modal.wait

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.Modal.wait

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

Waits until the view has finished interacting.

A view is considered finished when [`stop()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.ui.Modal.stop) is called or it times out.

[white citrus]

I thought it was only there for views

    @nc.ui.button(label="Close Ticket", style=nc.ButtonStyle.red, row=1, emoji=config.a_lock)
    async def close_ticket(self, button: nc.ui.Button, inter: Interaction):

        if await self.check_staff_permissions(inter):
            
            modal = TicketCloseReason()
            await inter.response.send_modal(modal=modal)

            await modal.wait()```

So right?

[shrewd apex]

yeah

[white citrus]

        if await self.check_staff_permissions(inter):
            
            modal = TicketCloseReason()
            await inter.response.send_modal(modal=modal)

            await modal.wait()

            if modal.value is None:
                return
            
            elif modal.value: 
                button.disabled = True
                self.delete_ticket.disabled = False
                self.open_ticket.disabled = False
                await inter.response.edit_message(view=self)```

So should it work

[shrewd apex]

yeah

[white citrus]

But it dont edit it

[shrewd apex]

print(modal.value)

also i am not sure how nextcord editing works

in dpy its await inter.edit_original_response()

[white citrus]

Nothing happens

[shrewd apex]

i meant whats modal.value?

[white citrus]

nothing was printed

[shrewd apex]

are u setting it in the modal?

show code

[white citrus]

    @nc.ui.button(label="Close Ticket", style=nc.ButtonStyle.red, row=1, emoji=config.a_lock)
    async def close_ticket(self, button: nc.ui.Button, inter: Interaction):

        if await self.check_staff_permissions(inter):
            
            modal = TicketCloseReason()
            await inter.response.send_modal(modal=modal)
            print(f" Test 1 {modal.value}")
            print(f" Test 2 {modal.values}")

            await modal.wait()

            if modal.value is None:
                return
            
            elif modal.value: 
                button.disabled = True
                self.delete_ticket.disabled = False
                self.open_ticket.disabled = False
                await inter.response.edit_message(view=self)```

[shrewd apex]

after wait()

u need to print

[white citrus]

After wait() it prints nothing

[shrewd apex]

also where are u setting value?

show modal code

[white citrus]

class TicketCloseReason(nc.ui.Modal):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(f"Closing Ticket")

        self.reason = nc.ui.TextInput(label="Reason", placeholder="Enter the reason for closing the ticket here")
        self.add_item(self.reason)
    
    async def callback(self, inter: Interaction):

        info = Embed(title=f"{config.a_lock} Ticket closed!", description=f"{inter.user.mention} has closed this Ticket. The ticket can now be deleted or reopened.\n\n __Reason__\n{self.reason.value}", colour=config.red)
        await inter.response.send_message(embed=info)```

[shrewd apex]

u need to set attribute value / values in the modal

if not u will get attribute error

[white citrus]

Where do i have to put the value attribute

[shrewd apex]

class TicketCloseReason(nc.ui.Modal):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(f"Closing Ticket")
        self.submitted = False
        self.reason = nc.ui.TextInput(label="Reason", placeholder="Enter the reason for closing the ticket here")
        self.add_item(self.reason)
    
    async def callback(self, inter: Interaction):
        info = Embed(title=f"{config.a_lock} Ticket closed!", description=f"{inter.user.mention} has closed this Ticket. The ticket can now be deleted or reopened.\n\n __Reason__\n{self.reason.value}", colour=config.red)
        await inter.response.send_message(embed=info)
        self.submitted = True

    @nc.ui.button(label="Close Ticket", style=nc.ButtonStyle.red, row=1, emoji=config.a_lock)
    async def close_ticket(self, button: nc.ui.Button, inter: Interaction):
        if await self.check_staff_permissions(inter):
            modal = TicketCloseReason()
            await inter.response.send_modal(modal=modal)
            await modal.wait()
            if modal.submitted: 
                button.disabled = True
                self.delete_ticket.disabled = False
                self.open_ticket.disabled = False
                await inter.response.edit_message(view=self)
           else: 
                return

[white citrus]

I try it

[white citrus]

Still no edit

[shrewd apex]

add print statements to debug where its going wrong

[white citrus]

Okay

[white citrus]

await modal.wait()

will not be performed

[shrewd apex]

oh yeah i forgot to tell u need to include self.stop() in last line of the modal callback

[nova vessel]

C:\Users\admin\Desktop\The-MP>python client.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "client.py", line 79, in <module>
    main()
  File "client.py", line 74, in main
    bot.run(config["botkey"])
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 860, in run
    asyncio.run(runner())
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 44, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 616, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 848, in runner
    async with self:
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 298, in __aenter__
    await self._async_setup_hook()
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 204, in _async_setup_hook
    await super()._async_setup_hook()  # type: ignore
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 551, in _async_setup_hook
    self.http.loop = loop
AttributeError: 'Client' object has no attribute 'http'

Keep getting this error when attempting to run 'python client.py'.

I've added self.client = aiohttp.ClientSession() to the setup_hook function.

Also imported aiohttp.

[shrewd apex]

whats ur discord.py version?

wait try renaming the file to main.py and run

[nova vessel]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 79, in <module>
main()
File "main.py", line 74, in main
bot.run(config["botkey"])
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 860, in run
asyncio.run(runner())
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 44, in run
return loop.run_until_complete(main)
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 616, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 848, in runner
async with self:
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 298, in aenter
await self._async_setup_hook()
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 204, in _async_setup_hook
await super()._async_setup_hook() # type: ignore
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 551, in _async_setup_hook
self.http.loop = loop
AttributeError: 'Client' object has no attribute 'http'

[nova vessel]

Done that.

[shrewd apex]

!paste ur bot code here

[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 Paste! button in the bottom left, or by pressing CTRL + S. After doing that, you will be navigated to the new paste's page. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[magic folio]

I'm a beginner so please be patient if I'm being stupid but what does this mean?

[nova vessel]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/U6BQ

[shrewd apex]

class Client(commands.Bot):
    client: aiohttp.ClientSession
    def __init__(self, prefix: str, ext_dir: str, *args: typing.Any, **kwargs: typing.Any) -> None:
        intents = discord.Intents.default()
        intents.members = True
        intents.message_content = True
        self.logger = logging.getLogger(self.__class__.__name__)
        self.ext_dir = ext_dir
        self.synced = False

        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs, command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned_or(prefix), intents=intents)

u forgot this line

[shrewd apex]

response.text is not a valid json format

[magic folio]

Ah, thank you I'm following a YouTube tutorial and it worked so I'm guessing it's outdated or something?

[nova vessel]

Done, bot starts but commands haven't registered.

[shrewd apex]

assuming commands are in a cog u havent loaded the cogs either

[nova vessel]

I thought:

async def setup(bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
await bot.add_cog(Whitelist(bot))

would load the cogs?

[shrewd apex]

where does response come from here?

    async def _load_extensions(self) -> None:
        if not os.path.isdir(self.ext_dir):
            self.logger.error(f"Extension directory {self.ext_dir} does not exist.")
            return
        for filename in os.listdir(self.ext_dir):
            if filename.endswith(".py") and not filename.startswith("_"):
                try:
                    await self.load_extension(f"{self.ext_dir}.{filename[:-3]}")
                    self.logger.info(f"Loaded extension {filename[:-3]}")
                except commands.ExtensionError:
                    self.logger.error(f"Failed to load extension {filename[:-3]}\n{traceback.format_exc()}")

in ur main bot class

the setup function is fetched and used to load the cog

[shrewd apex]

and call it in setup_hook

[magic folio]

It came from the exact code I wrote:
await channel.send(json.loads(response.text)['content'])

I'm just copying from the YouTube tutorial as I've never done much stuff before but it worked perfectly fine for the guy so a little puzzled haha

[shrewd apex]

no i meant where are u getting this response variable from

are u requesting some data from an api?

[magic folio]

Oh, my bad.

Yep, I'm using an API https://rapidapi.com/LemmoTresto/api/joke3

[nova vessel]

Succes when loading the cog and syncing but still cannot see the command.

No error messages either.

[shrewd apex]

import requests

url = "https://joke3.p.rapidapi.com/v1/joke"

headers = {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "SIGN-UP-FOR-KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "joke3.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

try this

[nova vessel]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/I3UA

main.py and whitelist.py

[shrewd apex]

u have the rapid api key right

[nova vessel]

Think I setup the command wrong possibly but can't see anything obviously wrong.

[latent harness]

So I need my bot to display a lot of items and pictures like these. How can i actually do that?

@shrewd apex Should i first do that or first make the commands?

[shrewd apex]

make a simple ping command to test try reloading discord once if it doesn't show up

[magic folio]

Thanks, but I get the same errors sadly

But I did use await channel.send(response.json()) as it's meant to send a joke to a channel

[shrewd apex]

print(response.status, response.content)

i think its likely the request fails

[shrewd apex]

embeds

and markdown

[magic folio]

Thank you but the same errors occur and if I remove the previous line of code and replace it with that the erros stop but they say "response object has not attribute status"

[shrewd apex]

just print (response.content)

i think its response.status_code tho does ur idr not autocomplete?

[magic folio]

Same errors for some reason

[magic folio]

wdym sorry?

[shrewd apex]

can u show what is printed in the console

[shrewd apex]

like when u use . and type something do u not get a popup list on suggestions?

[latent harness]

Oh yeah. But what if I want to send an emoji after a sentence

[magic folio]

When I type it after response nothing comes up, no

[magic folio]

Sure

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\deanb\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 971, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1776.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\json_init_.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1776.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1776.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\deanb\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 441, in _run_event
await coro(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\Users\deanb\Downloads\Discord Bot\discordbot", line 55, in on_member_join
await channel.send(response.json())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\deanb\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 975, in json
raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)
requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[naive briar]

The response's content is empty

[magic folio]

What does that mean, please? I'm a noobie

[naive briar]

It means that you cannot get the JSON data from the response, since its content is empty

[magic folio]

oh, i see

thank you

[slate swan]

!d discord

[unkempt canyon]

discord

Similar names: discordpy.discord, nextcord.discord

[plucky sun]

@slate swan Hello, can you help me for vbox7 system?

async def vbox7_stream(ctx, video_url):
    loading_embed = discord.Embed(title='Изчакайте докато видеото зареди...', color=0xFFD700)
    loading_message = await ctx.send(embed=loading_embed)

    vbox7_embed = await get_vbox7_embed(video_url, ctx)

    await loading_message.edit(embed=vbox7_embed)

async def get_vbox7_embed(video_url, ctx):
    vbox7_embed = discord.Embed()
    vbox7_embed.title = 'Vbox7 Live Stream'

    try:
        response = requests.get(video_url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

        # Print the entire HTML to the console for inspection
        print(soup.prettify())

        # Check if the meta tag is found
        meta_tag = soup.find('meta', attrs={'property': 'og:video'})
        if meta_tag:
            video_id = meta_tag.get('content')
            vbox7_embed.set_image(url=f'https://vbox7.com/play:{video_id}')
            vbox7_embed.description = f'Видео: {video_url}'

            # Simulate sending the video to Discord
            await send_video_to_discord(video_url, ctx)
        else:
            raise ValueError("Meta tag 'og:video' not found on the page.")

    except Exception as e:
        vbox7_embed.title = 'Грешка'
        vbox7_embed.description = f'Неуспешно извличане на данни от Vbox7: {str(e)}'

    return vbox7_embed
async def send_video_to_discord(video_url, ctx):
    # Placeholder for sending the video to Discord
    # In practice, you may need to download the video and send it as a file
    # Example using a placeholder file path, adjust it based on your actual implementation
    file_path = 'path_to_video.mp4'
    await ctx.send(file=discord.File(file_path))```

[latent harness]

Hi! I want to transfer from discord.py to disnake. This shows up when i try to uninstall it

[shrewd apex]

u installed dpy in the venv

[latent harness]

ook

[shrewd apex]

u can either activate the venv and uninstall it or delete the venv and create a new one

[white citrus]

?

[latent harness]

Why is this happening? Im using Disnake btw

[shrewd apex]

i am gonna be honest u should probably learn some python switching libs wont help at all even rn the current issue is u didnt do pip install python-dotenv

[latent harness]

i did

[shrewd apex]

vscode says otherwise

u probably did it yesterday in the venv

[shrewd apex]

are u sure u have selected the correct interpreter

in vscode u seem to now be installing packages in global environment

[latent harness]

ohh i need tchange the environment

yh could you walk me through it?

[shrewd apex]

i am busy sorry

[smoky patrol]

is it possible to select multiple values for the input value:

async def channels(interaction: discord.Interaction, mode: discord.app_commands.Choice[str], input: discord.TextChannel):

on my server i can only select one

[cunning briar]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1178051361791811656 help pls

[smoky patrol]

does someone know?

[shrewd apex]

not in slash commands

its possible for channel select iirc

[smoky patrol]

is there any good alternative

[shrewd apex]

.

!d discord.ui.ChannelSelect

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.ChannelSelect

class discord.ui.ChannelSelect(*, custom_id=..., channel_types=..., placeholder=None, min_values=1, max_values=1, disabled=False, row=None, default_values=...)```
Represents a UI select menu with a list of predefined options with the current channels in the guild.

Please note that if you use this in a private message with a user, no channels will be displayed to the user.

New in version 2.1.

[vapid parcel]

Question, im like 100% this is not possible, but wanna make sure.

So the role when a bot joins the server is that bots role. You can't delete it or give it to anyone else. Only time it goes away is if the bot leaves or is kicked.

Now when a bot joins the server, is there a way to make that role be a different color? like soon as the bot joins?

Or would this not be possible because of how discord does roles? Or maybe discord did a special way of bots being able to edit their own role? But im pretty sure its not possible but thats why I am asking.

[sick birch]

!d discord.Guild.self_role

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Guild.self\_role

property self_role```
Gets the role associated with this client’s user, if any.

New in version 1.6.

[vapid parcel]

So you would just make the bot edit the role?

[sick birch]

yeah

[vapid parcel]

Is that possible?

Cuz its the bots role... so the role hierarchy that discord does... i didnt think you could do that..?

Unless bots can just bypass that?

[sick birch]

oh i see what you mean

[vapid parcel]

yeah

[sick birch]

it's just a normal role, so you'd need role edit permissions

i think, at least

[vapid parcel]

But im wanting the bot to do it

when it joins a server.

change its own role, which normal user accounts cant do that? the role they have they cant edit they can only edit roles below them?

[sick birch]

you would have to do some testing, i'm not 100% sure if discord treats it too differently

[vapid parcel]

I will test it right now.

i doubt it will work tho

that would just be the event on_guild_join right?

[sick birch]

right

[vapid parcel]

okay.

"Bot does not have permission to edit roles in Testing?"

yeah. Its not gonna work sadly

The bot was given admin on join, so i dont think its possible.

Well that kinda sucks, would be cool if they could :/

[sick birch]

unfortunate

[vapid parcel]

Yep

only if discord allowed bots to edit their own role you know

that would be cool

But had limits to it... like only the color or something, not like perms n other stuff

[cloud dawn]

Issue with that is that people would abuse it.

[vapid parcel]

How so?

if you can only change the color or name of the role you cant really abuse that lol

Bot owners wouldnt abuse that power imma be real

[cloud dawn]

Rainbow colors that sort of stuff. But you can already do that so it doesn't quite matter but still.

[vapid parcel]

That would be way to many API request, and like i said, it would only be when the bot joins.

after they bot joins, they cant change it, they only get 1 change, after that then the owner can change it or admin

[cloud dawn]

The only thing I want is slash command content regex matching for correct input and custom error messages ;-;

[vapid parcel]

You dont have custom error messages...?

thats so easy 😭

[cloud dawn]

I meant like before invoking the command.

[vapid parcel]

like uh

Like this? but for interaction/slash commands?

[cloud dawn]

Like this

[vapid parcel]

Ohhh

thats already a thing?

[cloud dawn]

Plus the content regex to let the used know what hey did wrong.

[cloud dawn]

No?

[vapid parcel]

Yes?

you can do that lol

[cloud dawn]

How so?

[vapid parcel]

Mee6 does it, carl, dyno

Personally i dont do it because mine are all options or just common sense.

[cloud dawn]

Example?

[vapid parcel]

Idk, ive done it in JS not py

Cant help in PY

[cloud dawn]

I can read JS it's fine just need prove that it can work lol

Then I will go to the dark depths of the raw API to do it.

[hushed galleon]

yeah it doesnt look like they provide any kind of client-side validation beyond the type and min/max_value/length
if it did exist you'd most likely find it here https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/application-commands#application-command-object-application-command-option-structure

[cloud dawn]

Hmm this could be it https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#error-messages

[hushed galleon]

oh thats just API error messages, not the red text you're looking for

[nova vessel]

[2023-11-25 20:11:59] [ERROR   ] discord.ui.view: Ignoring exception in view <ApprovalView timeout=180.0 children=1> for item <Button style=<ButtonStyle.success: 3> url=None disabled=False label='Approve' emoji=None row=None>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\ui\view.py", line 427, in _scheduled_task
    await item.callback(interaction)
  File "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\The-MP\cogs\whitelist.py", line 29, in approve_button
    await interaction.response.send_message(f'Whitelist request approved for {self.user_id}.', ephemeral=True)
AttributeError: 'Button' object has no attribute 'response'
[2023-11-25 20:11:59,365] ERROR: Ignoring exception in view <ApprovalView timeout=180.0 children=1> for item <Button style=<ButtonStyle.success: 3> url=None disabled=False label='Approve' emoji=None row=None>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\discord\ui\view.py", line 427, in _scheduled_task
    await item.callback(interaction)
  File "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\The-MP\cogs\whitelist.py", line 29, in approve_button
    await interaction.response.send_message(f'Whitelist request approved for {self.user_id}.', ephemeral=True)
AttributeError: 'Button' object has no attribute 'response'

Error in my bot, assuming it is something to do with the response I am trying to make?

[cloud dawn]

Honestly it would be so cool with the regex 'n stuff.. then it would finally feel like proper command integration.

[cloud dawn]

[vapid parcel]

Code?

[hushed galleon]

i would guess you have your parameters ordered as (button, interaction) instead of (interaction, button)?

[nova vessel]

class ApprovalView(ui.View):
    def __init__(self, user_id, gamertag):
        super().__init__()
        self.user_id = user_id
        self.gamertag = gamertag
        self.counter = 0

    @ui.button(label='Approve', style=discord.ButtonStyle.green)
    async def approve_button(self, button: ui.Button, interaction: discord.Interaction) -> None:
        self.counter += 1
        
        if self.counter >= 1:  # Set the number of clicks required for approval
            conn = sqlite3.connect("rmc.db")
            cur = conn.cursor()
            cur.execute("UPDATE user_data SET game_name = ? WHERE discord_id = ?", (self.gamertag, self.user_id))
            cur.execute("UPDATE user_data SET whitelisted = 1 WHERE discord_id = ?", (self.user_id,))
            conn.commit()
            conn.close()
            database[self.user_id] = self.gamertag

            await interaction.response.send_message(f'Whitelist request approved for {self.user_id}.', ephemeral=True)
            self.stop()
        else:
            await interaction.response.send_message(f'Approval count: {self.counter}', ephemeral=True)

[vapid parcel]

Ye

[nova vessel]

Can you explain why that would cause an error? (Just curious)

[cloud dawn]

Because that button object doesn't have the same attributes and functions as the interaction object.

[hushed galleon]

dpy calls your function using positional arguments, so if you don't have them in the same order, you're going to have those arguments assigned to the wrong parameters

[nova vessel]

Ah, I understand, thank you both

[cold oyster]

have fun :)

I don't know why I engaged in this...

[vapid parcel]

shut yo goofy ass up

i know metolix

[cold oyster]

he does sadly ||help he harrases me, also sorry for off topic convo here||

[cloud dawn]

It's okay, it's #discord-bots, known for OT and.. barely legal conversations about coding.

[vapid parcel]

Please stay on topic ma'am...

[cold oyster]

Do not assume my gender bro am not LB barbe q

[vapid parcel]

||Time to go harras him in dms now||

[cold oyster]

😭

[vapid parcel]

Mods, ban em

Get em outta here!

[cold oyster]

no u

[drifting arrow]

it's interaction.response correct?

[hushed galleon]

uhh correct as in its a thing that exists

[drifting arrow]

lol

[hushed galleon]

!d discord.Interaction.response

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.response

Returns an object responsible for handling responding to the interaction.

A response can only be done once. If secondary messages need to be sent, consider using followup instead.

[drifting arrow]

i've been using defer for so long that I forgot how to do a standard response xD

[hushed galleon]

!d discord.InteractionResponse.require_premium

[unkempt canyon]

discord.InteractionResponse.require\_premium

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

Sends a message to the user prompting them that a premium purchase is required for this interaction.

This type of response is only available for applications that have a premium SKU set up.

[hushed galleon]

wtf when was this a method

[drifting arrow]

lol

[hushed galleon]

well anyway .send_message() is what you'd want

[drifting arrow]

ty

knew it had to be something simple

[final iron]

It's new

[drifting arrow]

I'm updating a silly discord bot.

[final iron]

I think at least

[drifting arrow]

and the horrors. Original author is using a json file as a database that's constantly opening and closing ;-;

[hushed galleon]

ah i didnt realize the bot used latest docs instead of stable

[final iron]

Honestly I feel like that's something they should look into

[drifting arrow]

Did you hear me?! HE'S USING A JSON FILE AS A DATABASE ;-;

[final iron]

Sometimes using the master branch is a bit misleading as most users use the stable

[hushed galleon]

are you enjoying the technical debt? 🥴

[drifting arrow]

what im going to enjoy is when I finish updating this damn bot, releasing it publicly to publicly shame the original author who actually demanded money for this nonsense and stopped maintaining it

[rugged shadow]

i also assume it's not linted, unformatted and is a 800 line main.py file

[drifting arrow]

lol

!paste

Lemme show u his code

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/4WVQ

[rugged shadow]

what the hell?

[drifting arrow]

he's using the interactions package

which idk if that even works anymore

so I have to migrate it all to discordpy lol

[rugged shadow]

    with open('configs/lfg_config.json', 'w') as f:
        json.dump(d, f, indent=4)

why are they prettifying it

[drifting arrow]

Want me to just send the entire bot? lol

u can have the horrors urself

[rugged shadow]

oh god no

d['black_listed_players'].append(int(discord_id))
they put an UNDERSCORE between blacklisted?????

[drifting arrow]

Anyway, here's my remade version.
I cbf making a proper database lol
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SCOQ

[rugged shadow]

    def __init__(self, client):
        print("[Cog] LFGMonitor has been initiated")
        self.client = client

    with open("configs/json/lfg_config.json", "r") as f:
        config_options = json.load(f)
        f.close()
        
    roles = config.lfg_blacklist_command_perms

ermmm

[drifting arrow]

wot

[rugged shadow]

i assume you meant to put it inside the init function, not outside, right?

[drifting arrow]

no, outside

I dont see how it matters