discord-bots

[timber lotus]

i dig it bro.

[barren gyro]

😅

[timber lotus]

my favorite feature is explain. you can hightlight code and it will explain it. very useful when debugging

[barren gyro]

Oh, nice.

Alr, nvm. I give up. 1k+ lines ain't that much.

[timber lotus]

haha you got this!!!

[final iron]

Why are you manually adding commands to the bot

[timber lotus]

what do you mean?

[final iron]

Why are you manually appending commands to the bots command list

[timber lotus]

i dont understand what your asking? haha if im doing it, its because thats what i found when i was trying to figure out to do something

ohhh what you tagged, thats just what it said from the discord link i shared

this

or i read it wrong

[final iron]

and the guy left the server

great

[timber lotus]

To load this extension we call await bot.load_extension('hello'). ahh i see now haha

why did he leave the server? lol he got it working

[final iron]

Yes, but a whole lot of what you told him is poor practice

You shouldn’t be manually adding commands, especially in the on_ready event

[timber lotus]

ok and i said i was newto coding mutliple times

[final iron]

You think the on_ready event is something it isn’t

[timber lotus]

15 days bro

hahaha

[final iron]

Yeah, but you gave him advice and he took it

Now he’s going to have issues in the future

[timber lotus]

whoa now, i didnt give him advice. i clearly said i can tell him how i had to do it. which by the way, most of it i got from this discord

[final iron]

He’s using your code

[timber lotus]

my bad bro, ill shut up for now on

[final iron]

Even if you have no intention of giving him advice, he clearly took it

[final iron]

I’m not telling you to shut up, just in the future you need to ensure your code doesn’t have any major flaws before offering it as an example

!d discord.on_ready

[unkempt canyon]

discord.on\_ready

discord.on_ready()```
Called when the client is done preparing the data received from Discord. Usually after login is successful and the [`Client.guilds`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client.guilds) and co. are filled up.

Warning

This function is not guaranteed to be the first event called. Likewise, this function is **not** guaranteed to only be called once. This library implements reconnection logic and thus will end up calling this event whenever a RESUME request fails.

[final iron]

Is this solved?

[timber lotus]

you tell me, i never had an issue

[final iron]

Read this

Intents.all() is generally discouraged as it causes a large amount of unnecessary caching

No, and it’s generally discouraged as well

Cogs are just classes, they have nothing to do with files/folders

[timber lotus]

so all these nots are doing it wrong using / as the command prefix?

[final iron]

they’re not using those as a command prefix

Dyno uses a question mark or whatever

[timber lotus]

bro.. you see the slash command prefix in the picture...

and dyno

[final iron]

Command prefixes have nothing to do with slash commands

They’re independent

[weary copper]

I found a way to make it work yeah

i basically followed the code that someone had on their repo

sec i'll post here

from discord import Intents
from env import BOT_TOKEN
from discord.ext import commands
from pathlib import Path
import os

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self, command_prefix, description, intents):
        super().__init__(
            command_prefix=command_prefix,
            description=description,
            intents=intents
        )

    async def on_ready(self):
        print(f"Logged in as {self.user}.")

    async def load_cogs(self):
        cogs_dir = f"{Path(__file__).parent}/cogs"
        for file in os.listdir(cogs_dir):
            if file.endswith(".py"):
                extension_name = file[:-3]
                try:
                    await self.load_extension(f"cogs.{extension_name}")
                except Exception as e:
                    print(e)
                else:
                    print(f"{extension_name} loaded")

    async def setup_hook(self):
        """ Runs when the bot first starts up """
        await self.load_cogs()


def main():
    bot = MyBot(
        command_prefix="!",
        description="Test Bot",
        intents=Intents.all()
    )
    bot.run(BOT_TOKEN)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()```

this worked for me

didn't realise setup_hook was a thing. but it seems to let you define an async function that can load cogs (and whatever else you want to load when you first start the bot)

[final iron]

Yeah it’s pretty useful

[weary copper]

i still don't know why all the sample code on the internet doesn't work though

I presume load_extension has changed or something

because all the snippets I've seen treat it as a synchronous function

[final iron]

It used to be pre 2.0

[weary copper]

ohh I see. when was that?

oh aug 2022, i see

no wonder chatgpt wasn't helpful 😂

[shrewd vapor]

hey

if interaction.channel.id != id:
        embed_error = discord.Embed(title = "Wrong channel", description = "Please use the bot in channel", color = 0xFF0000)
        embed_error.set_image(url = "")
        await interaction.followup.send(embed = embed_error, ephemeral = True)```

I don't understand why with this the response is not ephemeral

[golden portal]

was your defer ephemeral?

[sick birch]

i don't think your followups can be ephemeral unless the original response is also

[drifting arrow]

Nope

They cant be.

However! The initial response will always be ephemeral, and you can then set the ones afterwards to be non-ephemeral if you want.

At least, that's what I believe is happening when I run my code and make mistakes lol

I would test, but that requires setting up an entire bot just to test.

[shrewd vapor]

Hmm ok ty

[drifting arrow]

I tested anyway

So now we know \o/

[drifting arrow]

I tested this as well

Only the initial followup follows the defers ephemeral settings

The more we know (:

@shrewd vapor Hope my tests have helped you

[shrewd vapor]

kk ty

[final iron]

!d discord.InteractionResponse.defer

[unkempt canyon]

discord.InteractionResponse.defer

await defer(*, ephemeral=False, thinking=False)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Defers the interaction response.

This is typically used when the interaction is acknowledged and a secondary action will be done later.

This is only supported with the following interaction types...

[final iron]

Indicates whether the deferred message will eventually be ephemeral.

Docs are your friend. Remember to check them out

[dense gyro]

when making discord modals, is it possible to allow mentions in the text box?

note: brackets are empty because there are no user or role mentions even though it contains the default text to mention. i have also tried <@userid> and that doesnt work either

[final iron]

no

Just use a user select

[dense gyro]

does that create a dropdown or something?

[final iron]

Yes

It’s a form of a dropdown

[dense gyro]

this is what you're referring to?

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html?highlight=user select#discord.ui.UserSelect

can it be epheremal?

i cannot do DMs for this, so i liked modals since they only appear to the user

[final iron]

Everything attached to an ephemeral message is also invisible

[dense gyro]

and i cant put a userselect in the modal instead of the TextInput?

[final iron]

no

[dense gyro]

damn, i just spent like 4 hours tryna get a modal to work and thats all useless now

[final iron]

You’ll still need it to get the team name

So it wasn’t wasted time

[dense gyro]

the only reason i would need a team name is if im registering a team, in which they need to mention their team members so i can assign roles and put IDs in my db

so i cant use it

[final iron]

?

You’re given Member object with a user select

You can get the roles and IDs with that object

[dense gyro]

yes but i cant use userselect with a modal, so the time spent trying to get a modal to work is useless

[midnight oracle]

I'm getting this when trying to install discord.py in my local machine

      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for multidict
Failed to build multidict
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

any idea what it is?

[dense gyro]

at least someone is having a worse day than me😂
try uninstalling discord.py if it is installed

[final iron]

Are you not going to allow the user to choose their team name?

[midnight oracle]

no, it's not install

new pc

[final iron]

Try this pip install -U --force-reinstall discord.py --extra-index-url https://abstractumbra.github.io/pip/

[dense gyro]

a userselect is in an embed right?

[final iron]

no

It’s a form of dropdown menu

[dense gyro]

well can it be in an embed?

i googled images of it to see if it would work

[final iron]

That isn’t in an embed

[dense gyro]

whats behind it is

oh, its under it completely

[midnight oracle]

Holly cow! You're like a wizard to me xd

[final iron]

Not my wheels, im just a messenger

[dense gyro]

either way if the modal isnt a one-stop everything submitted window, i may as well have all the entry boxes in the same message instead of making them do a modal and then a dropdown

[final iron]

Embeds, views, drop downs etc are all attached to messages

[dense gyro]

thanks for your help, i didnt know what the dropdown thing was called ive seen it before

sad that it cant be in a modal

[midnight oracle]

haha! thanks :D

[final iron]

iirc there was some glitch at the start where you could actually have a dropdown in one, but they patched it

They could be coming the future though

I believe that’s discords end goals with modals

[dense gyro]

it couldnt be that hard to implement right?

thanks for your help btw

[final iron]

Discord devs are very special

The amount of dumbass shit in their API would surprise you considering they're a multi billion dollar company

[dense gyro]

😂

[plain ravine]

yo currently working on a small bot that'll be used for a few servers but i came across a problem that i cant find a solution to online. right now, since im only working on the bot in a single server, i have each command use a constant guild id- however if im wanting the bot to be in multiple servers, how would i go about identifying the servers that the bot is in? its kinda hard to explain my problem here sorry yalls im relatively new to python, comin from lua

[karmic snow]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1191306093863899186

[fiery girder]

how is message a none type

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/WXCQ

[golden portal]

send_message doesnt return a message, hence it's None

!d discord.Interaction.original_response

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Interaction.original\_response

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

Fetches the original interaction response message associated with the interaction.

If the interaction response was a newly created message (i.e. through [`InteractionResponse.send_message()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.InteractionResponse.send_message) or [`InteractionResponse.defer()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.InteractionResponse.defer), where `thinking` is `True`) then this returns the message that was sent using that response. Otherwise, this returns the message that triggered the interaction (i.e. through a component).

Repeated calls to this will return a cached value.

[golden portal]

use that right after send_message to get the mesage

[fiery girder]

ok ill try that

[fiery girder]

thansk it worked

[golden portal]

welcoem

[fiery girder]

if i open a file with with open will it interfere with the async function or do i have to use async with open to open files

[golden portal]

well it will block but the "blocking" part is when you read the file, unless this is a large file with slow read, it wont really affect that much, but there is aiofiles if you still want async

[vapid parcel]

is sniping against discord tos?

like message sniping

[desert kiln]

what even is that

[vapid parcel]

Say you delete a message

the bot will put it in a list, you run /snipe

it gives you the last deleted message

you can also store it in a db, but you really have no reason to do so.

[desert kiln]

it's a 50/50 with discord

because they're logging bots, even Dyno has it, but it's a grey area

[vapid parcel]

well see

a friend said, most logs are in a staff area

but snipping can be ran by anyone

sniping*

[fiery girder]

i use to save messages in a db but i stopped

but it was for staff only

[vapid parcel]

Example video

[dreamy dune]

I don't think it's against tos/enforced but it's still an invasion of privacy

[fiery girder]

when i open with async i have to await all the file.write and read?

[vapid parcel]

Well there is a bot based on sniping, which is verified too

[golden portal]

yea https://pypi.org/project/aiofiles/

[vapid parcel]

Im mainly needing to know if its against tos tbh

[desert kiln]

Dyno, Carl-Bot, both are verified, and have full logging.

[dreamy dune]

why would you need that though

[vapid parcel]

For fun lol

like say a friend send a stupid message then deleted it

you could snipe it then bully them :)

[fiery girder]

jsut read the TOS

simple

[vapid parcel]

You think tos says everything 😭

[vale wing]

What is deleted was meant to be deleted

[fiery girder]

i have never read it in my life

[vapid parcel]

neither, n I never will

to much reading

[desert kiln]

It's against ToS, logging and message sniping.

[fiery girder]

my pc even agree with me i pulled up the tos and it just showign a black screen

[vapid parcel]

Logging too?

[desert kiln]

yeah.

[vapid parcel]

I thought logs like dyno n mee6 are fine?

[fiery girder]

loggings for staff perpose is legal

[vapid parcel]

yeah thats what i meant

Okay, sniping is deleted then, imma add logs tho later, for staff, been needing to do all of that ngl lol

[vapid parcel]

thats gpt bro

im not using a self bot

you realize that right 😭

[desert kiln]

it's more accurate than Discords website itself.

[vapid parcel]

this is part of a discord bot, not a self bot

[desert kiln]

"certain types of automation" includes bots too.

[vapid parcel]

See gpt doesnt even know bro 😭

'maybe'

[desert kiln]

you go with whatever floats your boat, but if you or your bot gets disabled for breaking ToS, I told you so.

[vale wing]

@vapid parcel sniping without user's consent is prohibited

[vapid parcel]

Okay okay, just wondering tho

how is this bot still up 😭

[vale wing]

Report it for breaking developer policy (but actually check their privacy policy aforehead cause they might state that)

[desert kiln]

because that bot has it's use stated, and if it's added, people can leave the server, but if you're making one, with the idealogy to "bully" that's against ToS.

[vapid parcel]

did you not remember me saying "friends"

dont twist it now 😭

[vapid parcel]

So easily stating it in my ToS/Privacy Policy, makes it allowed?

[vale wing]

Legal problems in discord bots are the hardest tbh 💀

[desert kiln]

wording here "bully"

[vale wing]

If discord checks that and they approve yes

[vapid parcel]

Nah when i mean bully, i mean like tease, not like actually bully bro

[fiery girder]

welcome to capatalism

[fiery girder]

i know i spelt that wrong

[vapid parcel]

'like say a friend'

just saying

[desert kiln]

Okay so, you don't understand correct english grammar.

[vapid parcel]

no way bro said that while having bad grammar 😭

[desert kiln]

whilst*

[fiery girder]

i think if you add a option to disable it and mention it on a server profile or smth if its turned on or not i thing it can work

[vapid parcel]

So basically, if I ask discord, they approve, then im fine?

[vale wing]

My bot has some grey area functionality, invite tracking to be precise, but I state that in privacy policy and also the ways to omit invite being saved to my db

[vale wing]

That's like the only way to resolve legal issues

[fiery girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1173617209893986324.gif?size=48&name=verified&quality=lossless

[vale wing]

Nobody here really knows since we're programmers and not lawyers

[vapid parcel]

cap

You are 100% a lawyer, you showed me your ID.. totally

[vale wing]

https://tenor.com/view/3d-saul-saul-goodman-adamghik-gif-23876766

[fiery girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/755167867422507119.gif?size=48&name=AmongStab&quality=lossless

[vapid parcel]

Well technically

i already state that we store messages

So i should be fine honestly, discord has already verified me, not like they actually fucking read the bots, they are to lazy, but i mean, i do state what i do.

[latent pier]

what can i do about this

[vapid parcel]

wait 60 seconds

we dont have magic powers 😭

[latent pier]

its been a hour

[vapid parcel]

its a command that is rate limiting you

what command is running a lot?

like example, role add, delete channels, add roles, mass delete roles..?

[latent pier]

i ran it after 20 hours

[vapid parcel]

if you do role add to 100 people

could cause rate limit

[fiery girder]

heck if you delete to many messages

[latent pier]

its testing bot i dont use it much

[vapid parcel]

Private host is a w ngl

ive never been rate limited ngl

cuz of private vps!!

[vapid parcel]

Well what command is running for a long time?

idk how else I could help without seeing some type of command or saying just add cool down

[latent pier]

theres no such command i have basics only

[vapid parcel]

name them.

[latent pier]

wait

test:
  test 
​No Category:
  av   Shows user avatar.
  help Shows this message
  slap .slap <user>

Type .help command for more info on a command.
You can also type .help category for more info on a category.

these are all

[vapid parcel]

what is your host?

or vps

[latent pier]

im using github codespace\

[vapid parcel]

never used it, idk how you could be getting rate limited then...

How many servers?

[latent pier]

thats what i dont understand

[latent pier]

of?

[vapid parcel]

is your bot in?

[latent pier]

4-5 maybe

or less

[vale wing]

Does that issue occur when using local machine

[latent pier]

i didnt try i use only codespace

[vapid parcel]

Fair point..

[vale wing]

Do you have ability to test it locally

[latent pier]

but i tried to change token and stilll same warning

[vale wing]

Because it's IP based

[latent pier]

i can try

[vale wing]

God knows what runs on gh codespaces

[latent pier]

gotcha ill change, thanks

[desert kiln]

Anyone have the issue of when hosting a bot locally, your ping is 100ms+?

[hardy geyser]

  File "/home/container/main.py", line 4, in <module>
    import discord, aiohttp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord'```

anyone know this ?

[slate swan]

did you install discord.py?

[hardy geyser]

how do in req.txt

[fiery girder]

it executes perfectly when i run the command but it fails whe my friends run it

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SDDQ

[slate swan]

Might be because you don't respond in 3 seconds

[fiery girder]

but it works fine for me

[slate swan]

If error appears then how can it work fine

[fiery girder]

when i run the command it works fine

when my friends runs it

it gives error

it only works for me and my alt

nothing else

[slate swan]

Then this is weird since I'd say you don't respond in 3 seconds

for sure sqlite3 is blocking so I'd consider using asqlite

https://github.com/Rapptz/asqlite

[fiery girder]

but how is it working when i or my alt do it not when my friend do it

[slate swan]

No idea

[fiery girder]

you can check the code

[fiery girder]

this is the code

[slate swan]

I did and thats why I don't have idea

[fiery girder]

pip install discord.py run this in the terminal @slate swan

[slate swan]

and what did it output after installing?

[fiery girder]

try
pip install discord.py --update

[slate swan]

pip install -U discord.py

[fiery girder]

this

[slate swan]

do you by any chance have few python versions installed?

[fiery girder]

what IDE u use?

[slate swan]

like lets say 3.11 with 3.10

do you have more than 1 python version installed?

[fiery girder]

in the botton there is a panel in there there should be one thing called python beside that should be a version tell that

[fiery girder]

hes on 2.13

oh 3.12

[slate swan]

!dashm

[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]

or be specific

[fiery girder]

yea i guess

[slate swan]

python3.12 -m pip install discord.py

uninstall it first tho

this should work yeah

and does it still say ModuleNotFound?

how do you run python file

i mean how do you run it

[final iron]

Could you show the interpreter you’re using?

[slate swan]

show the command it runs for you

[hushed galleon]

judging from these screenshots, vscode is running your virtual environment but discord.py was installed to your microsoft store python instead

normally opening the terminal in vscode will automatically activate the virtual environment, but since you're using a separate terminal, you have to activate it yourself before you're able to install packages to the virtual environment: ps1 PS C:\> cd C:\path\to\my_project PS C:\path\to\my_project> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted PS C:\path\to\my_project> .\.venv\Scripts\activate (.venv) PS C:\path\to\my_project> pip install ...

(if you no longer see the PS prefix you've probably switched from the powershell terminal to command prompt, in which case you don't need Set-ExecutionPolicy)

[plain ravine]

was that directed for me? If so, It says unknown

[final iron]

Are you using prefixed commands?

[plain ravine]

im using @tree.command, which has a guild parameter. what i wanna know is how do i set that guild id for it to work with mulitple servers, opposed to just one.

[final iron]

Could you show an example of how you’re using the guild ID?

[plain ravine]

guild = 0 # The guild ID

@tree.command(name = "join", description = "Joins the selected Military.", guild=discord.Object(id=guild))

also during the on_ready, the tree.sync also syncs it with the guild id

[final iron]

Do you need the ID of every server the bot is in?

[plain ravine]

id assume so, if im wanting it to work for multiple servers

[slate swan]

if you want it to work for every server you don't
have to specify the guild in commands and syncing

[plain ravine]

oh

ill try it out, cheers

[plain ravine]

so this works, but now all the commands are doubled (the bot is now in two servers)

[compact ruin]

Quick question i am using buttons inside a cog. How do i run checks to only allow the button to work if the person who pressed it is the same as the person who used the command?

[slate swan]

try

bot.tree.clear_commands(guild=None)

and sync after it

[slate swan]

discord.ui.View has an interaction_check method

You can pass the author of the command to that view
and compare if user who used the command is the one
who tries to interact with it

[plain ravine]

in the on_ready?

[slate swan]

Usually it's recommended to implement custom
command that sync but if you want to really do
that automatically then consider using setup_hook

Downsides can be ratelimits so if you want to
create a command then consider looking at this

[compact ruin]

Where can i find the documentation for this if i may ask as i am not to familiar with buttons

[slate swan]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html#discord.ui.View.interaction_check

[compact ruin]

Thanks a bunch!

[slate swan]

[slate swan]

Oh with buttons, here you have some examples:
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/tree/master/examples/views

For the UI docs take this
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html#bot-ui-kit

[compact ruin]

Thanks Bud i got it all working now, One thing i couldnt find is there a way to add a custom server emoji to the button?

[shrewd apex]

yeah just add it normally like !pithink

just like how u would add default emojis

[compact ruin]

I did try that but i got the actual string rather than the emoji

[shrewd apex]

!d discord.ui.Button.emoji u set for this?

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.Button.emoji

property emoji```
The emoji of the button, if available.

[shrewd apex]

also u sure emoji was valid?

can u give an example code of how u set it

[compact ruin]

O-

@shrewd apex Thanks i got it

[final iron]

you’re going to need to give a lot more information than that if you want a partner

[compact ruin]

Does anyone know why when i click a button to edit my embed which has new buttons it auto interacts and fails before i can actually use the new buttons

[clever heart]

Hi everyone ! I’m 25M, just started learning python last year, currently working on an IT automation course. I’ve been working alone and think I could benefit from some collaboration now. If anyone is willing to mentor me or work on projects together let me know. My goal is to treat this like I’m a junior engineer and do similar tasks/work flows

[final iron]

Show your code

[compact ruin]

Can i DM it to you if you don't mind?

[final iron]

Why

[compact ruin]

Am i allowed to send code outside of a help channel?

[final iron]

Yes…

[compact ruin]

Oh....

Lol alr one sec

Apologies took me awhile never used the pastebin for python lol

The issue i have is when it edits the embed to the 2nd one

it starts an interaction right away which fails

after that it works fine

[trail maple]

any good libraries to use for components in my bot?

[slate swan]

@trail maple how did u learn py?

[final iron]

Literally every fully fledged wrapper that's half popular supports components

[vapid parcel]

'maximum number of slash commands exceeded 100 globally'?

You can only have 100 slash commands??

[final iron]

That's what it says...

[vapid parcel]

But like, ive seen bots with way more?

[final iron]

You can have more subcommands

[vapid parcel]

yeah

was just informed

Time to make a lot of sub commands

[vital axle]

Im new to decorators and decided to become familiar with that. Im trying to code a discord bot with interactions.py.

def require_login(func):
    async def wrapper(ctx: SlashContext, *args, **kwargs):
        # print(args, kwargs)
        user_account = await DatabaseWrapper.retrieve_account(ctx.author.id)
        if user_account is None:
            await ctx.send("You need to login first")
        else:
            await func(ctx, account, *args, **kwargs)
    return wrapper

@slash_command(name="set_profile_picture", description="Set your profile picture")
@slash_option(name="picture", description="Picture you want to set as profile picture", required=True,
              opt_type=OptionType.ATTACHMENT)
@require_login
async def my_command(ctx: SlashContext, account, picture: Attachment):
    await ctx.defer()
    picture_url = picture.url
    await ctx.send(picture_url)

I get this error
TypeError: my_command() missing 1 required positional argument: 'picture'
when trying the command.

[pale zenith]

your decorator basically obliterates the annotations that discord.py relies upon

I've never used interactions.py but I bet it's similar to how you create slash commands in discord.py, read their docs. There must be a way to define checks for a command, rather than doing it through a normal decorator (well, it'd still be a decorator, but done in the discord.py way)

unfortunately, normal decorators and discord.py do not mix well

alternatively, you can use the @functools.wraps(func) function above wrapper to fix this (make it inherit the annotations)

[vital axle]

but I do pass all args and kwargs i get from decorators over it

[vital axle]

Ill check that out

[pale zenith]

Thing is, discord.py looks at ctx: SlashContext, account, picture: Attachment and uses it to define the command's parameters. If you give it *args, **kwargs it's just gonna say nah wtf is this? nothing useful here! and no parameters get defined

[vital axle]

ohh makes sense

[green quest]

WHy wont it respond to my command

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.messages = True # Add more intents as needed

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
print(f'{bot.user.name} has connected to Discord!')

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
if message.author.bot:
return # Ignore messages from other bots

if 'music' in message.content.lower():
    channel = message.author.voice.channel
    voice_channel = await channel.connect()

    voice_channel.play(discord.FFmpegPCMAudio('https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/codeskulptor-demos/DDR_assets/Kangaroo_MusiQue_-_The_Neverwritten_Role_Playing_Game.mp3'))

    while voice_channel.is_playing():
        await discord.ext.tasks.sleep(1)

    await voice_channel.disconnect()

await bot.process_commands(message)

bot.run('')

[final iron]

You need the message_content intent

[green quest]

could you please tell me where to place it? 😭

[final iron]

!d discord.Intents.message_content

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Intents.message\_content

Whether message content, attachments, embeds and components will be available in messages which do not meet the following criteria:

• The message was sent by the client

• The message was sent in direct messages

• The message mentions the client

This applies to the following events...

[coral mirage]

I keep getting error 429

[latent jay]

@app_commands.choices() can I check which was chosen by using the value provided?

[gray mantle]

can someone tell me why my discord bot not registering commands and not showing debug errors aswell -_- im irritated bruh

[shrewd fjord]

Provide code

Slash command or prefix?

If slash command then make sure you have invited your bot with applications.command scope enabled and synced commands
If prefix command, make sure you dont have a on_message with @bot.event deco

[shrewd fjord]

Yes

Its Choice.value

[gray mantle]

prefix

[gray mantle]

import os
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import Activity, ActivityType
import traceback
import discord
# Define all intents
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
cogs_to_load = [
    'cogs.general',
    'cogs.antinuke',
    'cogs.autoresponders',
    'cogs.errorhandler',
    'cogs.fun',
    'cogs.moderation',
    'cogs.owner',
    'cogs.help.cog',
    'cogs.music',
    'cogs.pythonshell'
]

# Create an instance of the bot with intents
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=".", intents=intents)
bot.remove_command('help')

async def load_cogs():
    for cog in cogs_to_load:
        try:
            bot.load_extension(cog)
            print(f"Loaded extension: {cog}")
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"Failed to load extension {cog}: {e}")

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"Logged in as {bot.user.name} ({bot.user.id})")
    print("Bot is ready!")
    activity = Activity(type=ActivityType.listening, name=".help")
    await bot.change_presence(activity=activity)
    await load_cogs()

# CommandNotFound error handling
@bot.event
async def on_command_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.CommandNotFound):
        return  # Ignore unknown command errors
    traceback.print_exception(type(error), error, error.__traceback__)
    raise error

# Run the bot with your bot token
bot.run("token")

pls tell me how to fix

[fiery girder]

you dont even have commads than how will it register

oh cogs

[gray mantle]

-_-

[fiery girder]

await bot.load_cog(cog)```

you have it wrong

[gray mantle]

in on_ready event ?

[fiery girder]

no

wait a sec

in setup_hook

async def setup_hook(self):
        self.add_view(Invite())
        
        print(f"Loaded Views For {self.user}")
        
        await self.add_cog(setup.Setup(self))
        await self.add_cog(admin_commands.AdminCommands(self))
        await self.add_cog(tickets.Tickets(self))
        await self.add_cog(ban.Ban(self))
        await self.add_cog(warn.Warn(self))
        await self.add_cog(usercommands.UserCommands(self))
        await self.add_cog(embed.EmbedBuilder(self))
        await self.add_cog(hangman.Hangman(self))
        
        print(f"Loaded Cogs For {self.user}")
        await self.tree.sync()
        print(f"Synced slash commands for {self.user}.")

[gray mantle]

setup_hook ?

[fiery girder]

yes

[gray mantle]

should i add this in main file ?

[fiery girder]

yes

[gray mantle]

hm wait

[fiery girder]

its a bot.event i think

i have it on my class so i dont need to add @bot.event

[fiery girder]

and why the fk cogs a string

cogs need to be a Class

!d discord.ext.commands.Cog

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Cog

class discord.ext.commands.Cog(*args, **kwargs)```
The base class that all cogs must inherit from.

A cog is a collection of commands, listeners, and optional state to help group commands together. More information on them can be found on the [Cogs](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/cogs.html#ext-commands-cogs) page.

When inheriting from this class, the options shown in [`CogMeta`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CogMeta) are equally valid here.

[vale wing]

💀

[fiery girder]

and you dont even import your cogs so how r you gonna add them

[vale wing]

You don't need to import cogs, stop misleading

Strings are extensions

[gray mantle]

bro i dont think tht's a cog issue i can see terminal output all cogs are getting loaded

[vale wing]

And are loaded via load_extension

[gray mantle]

ik

[fiery girder]

i import all my cogs and have them import

[vale wing]

Cogs are added in setup() function in extension

[vale wing]

Yeah I'm explaining that to @fiery girder

[vale wing]

Wrong way

[gray mantle]

@vale wingcan u fix my issue pls?

[vale wing]

Yeah in a moment

[fiery girder]

from handlers import setup
from commands import admin_commands, tickets, ban, warn, usercommands, embed
from handlers.views import *
from games import hangman
``` bruh moment

[gray mantle]

np thnks buddy

[gray mantle]

u can use load_extention method to load cogs

[fiery girder]

bruh

how

[vale wing]

@fiery girder https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/extensions.html

[fiery girder]

this is like my 4th bot

and i am knowing this now

[vale wing]

"Registering commands", do you mean your cogs contain slash commands?

[gray mantle]

lol bro

[gray mantle]

nope its prefix commands

but didnt respondiong to any cmds

[desert kiln]

Cogs is a way to have bot command sections, on seperate files, and such, they need to be in a class, and loaded on the main bot.py file, and they are loaded on the bot setup hook.

[vale wing]

@gray mantle first of all, do not ignore command not found errors

Either respond that such command doesn't exist or log

[gray mantle]

i am not getting any errors i am debugging my code but terminal not getting any errors

[desert kiln]

1. Check your code, check for errors.
2. Check your indentation.
3. Is your cog loading?

[vale wing]

Second, please show one of your extensions (a small one so I can see what I need)

[gray mantle]

kk let me show u my one extension

[vale wing]

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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[gray mantle]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/5P2Q

@vale wing `

[fiery girder]

i need a setup function in my cog and then i just load all the cogs?

[gray mantle]

yeah

[fiery girder]

well

[desert kiln]

Use this, as an example.

https://gist.github.com/pinheaded/ac880263084a65b8d2f769c1fa46a3d7

[desert kiln]

Note: if you had all your commands in 1 file, all of your commands will need changing when using cogs, as you need to use self, as at the top of a cog, it needs to bring the bot class in, so the commands work, you will see what I mean in the example

[vale wing]

In your extension

[fiery girder]

can i load a whole package of modules of cogs at once?

[desert kiln]

you need to define each cog file, in the load part.

[vale wing]

Okay extension seems alright, lemme see

[vale wing]

Not necessarily, can put them into a dir and just glob through it

[naive briar]

Do it in the __init__.py file in your extension folder or something similar 🤷

[fiery girder]

i alr got the cogs setup but i was actually importing all the cogs and using self.add_cog

[gray mantle]

hm every time when i switches from nextcord to discord.py that fckin event happens -_-

[desert kiln]

wdym? my extensions are all loaded by using multiple load functions

[desert kiln]

self.load_extentsiom

[naive briar]

Who would expect that you need to do things differently when changing to a different library

[vale wing]

Average dpy experience

[desert kiln]

Do not, use replit.

[gray mantle]

@vale wingbro are u on replit ? i can share my whole srccode with u there

[naive briar]

That comma

[gray mantle]

not am using vs rn

[vale wing]

for p in Path("./cogs").glob("*.py"):
    await self.load_extension(p.as_posix()[:-3].replace("/", ".")

[gray mantle]

caught me 😂

[desert kiln]

bruh, someone told me, in this server that you couldn't do that.

[vale wing]

I also remember some libs had recursive load_extensions

[fiery girder]

it says that the load_extension is a corontine

[vale wing]

Probably some "recommendation" because apparently "some modules might not need to be enabled" (trust me that never happens with good module management)

[gray mantle]

wdym

[fiery girder]

that you need to await it

[vale wing]

Ok not in dpy

[fiery girder]

not the s

[vale wing]

!d disnake.ext.commands.Bot.load_extensions

[unkempt canyon]

disnake.ext.commands.Bot.load\_extensions

load_extensions(path)```
Loads all extensions in a directory.

New in version 2.4.

[vale wing]

Disnake my beloved ☺️

[desert kiln]

well thank you, because that helps out a tonne.

[vale wing]

Ok now to @gray mantle issue

[gray mantle]

what i do with that fcking dpy bro

[fiery girder]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.load_extension

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.load\_extension

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

Loads an extension.

An extension is a python module that contains commands, cogs, or listeners.

An extension must have a global function, `setup` defined as the entry point on what to do when the extension is loaded. This entry point must have a single argument, the `bot`.

Changed in version 2.0: This method is now a [coroutine](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-coroutine).

[vale wing]

Comment out your error handler

[fiery girder]

this function is a corountine

[gray mantle]

that error handler extention ?

[vale wing]

@fiery girder you're next on queue wait please ☺️

[desert kiln]

yes because it needs to awaited.

[vale wing]

The event

[vale wing]

Here

[fiery girder]

but he is not awaiting it

[gray mantle]

i'm not getting any errors

[gray mantle]

can u give me an edited code ? so i can inspect where i am doing wrong

[desert kiln]

he is loading them differently to you.

[fiery girder]

ok anyways

[vale wing]

Damn typing code on phone with one eye closed is inconvenient af

[desert kiln]

I'm losing my brain cells

[desert kiln]

I coded my entire bot on mobile

[gray mantle]

but why tf u are doing that 💀

[gray mantle]

💀 bro how

[desert kiln]

by typing on my phone keyboard, funnily enough.

[desert kiln]

show me your code

!paste

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[fiery girder]

cogs = [
    'handlers.setup',
    'commands.ban',
    'commands.embed',
    'commands.warn',
    'commands.tickets',
    'commands.admin_commands',
    'commands.usercommands',
    'games.hangman',
    'games.tictactoe',
]



class Bot(Bot):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(intents=Intents.all(), help_command=None, command_prefix="!")
        self.testing_guild = discord.Object(id=1169236151467511822)        

    async def setup_hook(self):
        self.add_view(Invite())
        print(f"Loaded Views For {self.user}")
        
        for cog in cogs:
            await self.load_extension(cog)
            
        print(f"Loaded Cogs For {self.user}")
        await self.tree.sync()
        print(f"Synced slash commands for {self.user}.")

    async def on_ready(self):
        activity = discord.Game(name="/help | Made By FedxD", type=3)
        await self.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=activity)

        print(f"Logged in as {self.user}.")

    async def on_command_error(self, ctx, error):````

[desert kiln]

that code, For me is un readable

[vale wing]

from pathlib import Path

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    async def setup_hook(self):
        for p in Path("./ext").glob("*.py"):
            await self.load_extension(p.as_posix()[:-3].replace("/", "."))

bot = MyBot(...)

@fiery girder @gray mantle solution to your both problems actually. Just make sure to put your extensions into ext directory 😀

And make sure your extensions have

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

At the end

[fiery girder]

def setup(bot: Bot): bot.add_cog(Setup(bot))

[gray mantle]

kk let me try

[fiery girder]

in handlers.setup

[vale wing]

Nah it's async since some version

In dpy

[gray mantle]

hmm isee

[vale wing]

One of reasons I hate dpy real hard 😡

https://tenor.com/view/mundo-feliz-onetreehsll-world-if-gif-14071235670792471304

Society if everyone used disnake

[fiery girder]

cog it running

the async was the problem

[vale wing]

You see I got a stupid eye inflammation called chalazion, this annoying mf been interfering with my well being for half a year now and the treatment is somewhat special

[vale wing]

I started with mobile coding. This is masochistic compared to normal pc coding

[naive briar]

I'm already used to it

[vale wing]

👄👁️👄

[vale wing]

I can't even wear lens 😭

@gray mantle was your problem solved

[vapid parcel]

How to do double sub?

[naive briar]

!d discord.app_commands.Group - the parent argument, set it to a another group

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.Group

class discord.app_commands.Group(*, name=..., description=..., parent=None, guild_ids=None, guild_only=..., nsfw=..., auto_locale_strings=True, default_permissions=..., extras=...)```
A class that implements an application command group.

These are usually inherited rather than created manually.

Decorators such as [`guild_only()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.guild_only), [`guilds()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.guilds), and [`default_permissions()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.default_permissions) will apply to the group if used on top of a subclass. For example:

```py
from discord import app_commands

@app_commands.guild_only()
class MyGroup(app_commands.Group):
    pass
```...

[gray mantle]

@vale wingbro here it comes this error

[vapid parcel]

you can also load cogs a different way if you wanted.

[vale wing]

You sure BlackWolfAi inherits from Cog

Error is not that hard to read

[vapid parcel]

Reset your token btw

[naive briar]

Some just are too afraid to

[vapid parcel]

you kinda just showed your whole token.

[vale wing]

Mm are you combining nextcord and discord.py 💀

[gray mantle]

ik i'll do it later thats a test bot

[naive briar]

You're using both nextcord and discord.py?

[gray mantle]

oh fckin jesus 😂 i didnt noticed

[vapid parcel]

Nextcord isnt good..

[vale wing]

Uninstall it

[vapid parcel]

best out of all wrappers is like pycord maybe

[vale wing]

No it didnaek 😡😡

Disnaek best lib!1!1!1!

[vapid parcel]

[vale wing]

Rating of discord.py and forks

1: disnake
∞: nextcord
∞ + 1: pycord
∞^∞: discord.py

[vapid parcel]

disnake is poop

[fiery girder]

is it good to sync all app command to a single guild first for development than syncing it globally?

[naive briar]

I'd just make a completely different bot for testing

[fiery girder]

but doesnt it take time to sync app commands in discord i heard

[vale wing]

That's exactly what we have in Bobux except we have like 10 different bots

[naive briar]

It's pretty much instant now iirc 🤷

[fiery cairn]

Any idea how I can fix this error? ```

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\PROJECTS\james-util-bot\bot.py", line 2, in <module>
from discord import app_commands
File "C:\Users\rscdo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands_init_.py", line 12, in <module>
from .commands import *
File "C:\Users\rscdo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 51, in <module>
from ..enums import AppCommandOptionType, AppCommandType, ChannelType, Locale
ImportError: cannot import name 'AppCommandOptionType' from 'discord.enums' (C:\Users\rscdo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\enums.py)```

I've reinstalled discord.py fully

[naive briar]

Do you have multiple Discord wrappers installed?

[fiery cairn]

Possibly

How do I check / uninstall any that is not discord.py?

[naive briar]

Use pip freeze to see your installed packages and remove the unused Discord libs

[fiery cairn]

oK

[gray mantle]

thanks alot bro u fixed my issue @vale wing

[vapid parcel]

I was abt to say

I didnt do anything lol

I only said nextcord is bad lol

[fiery cairn]

I don't seem to have any other discord packages...

discord==2.3.2
discord.py==2.3.2

[naive briar]

Try uninstalling discord

[fiery cairn]

nvm I got pycord

[vale wing]

Create a venv and install discord.py only

[naive briar]

[fiery cairn]

Ok

[vapid parcel]

How to get sub commands in a help command?

[pale zenith]

From the HelpCommand.send_group_help method you will have access to group.commands

!d discord.ext.commands.HelpCommand.send_group_help

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.HelpCommand.send\_group\_help

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

Handles the implementation of the group page in the help command. This function is called when the help command is called with a group as the argument.

It should be noted that this method does not return anything – rather the actual message sending should be done inside this method. Well behaved subclasses should use [`get_destination()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.HelpCommand.get_destination) to know where to send, as this is a customisation point for other users.

You can override this method to customise the behaviour.

[fiery girder]

Why is my Cog.listener not working
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/DKTQ

[naive briar]

You're overriding your on_message listener by defining a new function with the same name as the function the listener is using

[fiery girder]

huh?

[fiery girder]

you can name the function anything as long as you provide the decorater with the function you want

so how is this making it not work

[naive briar]

Maybe I wasn't clear, you overrode your on_message listener's function (method)

[fiery girder]

how

i only have one on_message

oh

[naive briar]

!e

class A:
    def b(self):
        print(1)
    def b(self):
        print(2)

A().b()

[unkempt canyon]

@naive briar :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

2

[fiery girder]

i got it

[naive briar]

Sign

[fiery girder]

thanks

[old vine]

how to make a command that would work like this:

if subject_code == "0417" and ranses == "w" and paper_number == "2" or "3" and ranyear == "2019":```

i want it to proceed only if all the conditions are accepted

[fiery girder]

!d discord.app_commands.check

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.check

@discord.app_commands.check(predicate)```
A decorator that adds a check to an application command.

These checks should be predicates that take in a single parameter taking a [`Interaction`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.Interaction). If the check returns a `False`-like value then during invocation a [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CheckFailure) exception is raised and sent to the appropriate error handlers.

These checks can be either a coroutine or not.

Examples

Creating a basic check to see if the command invoker is you...

[fiery girder]

here

for appcommand

!d discord.ext.commands.check

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.check

@discord.ext.commands.check(predicate)```
A decorator that adds a check to the [`Command`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Command) or its subclasses. These checks could be accessed via [`Command.checks`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Command.checks).

These checks should be predicates that take in a single parameter taking a [`Context`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Context). If the check returns a `False`-like value then during invocation a [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CheckFailure) exception is raised and sent to the [`on_command_error()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error) event.

If an exception should be thrown in the predicate then it should be a subclass of [`CommandError`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CommandError). Any exception not subclassed from it will be propagated while those subclassed will be sent to [`on_command_error()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.discord.ext.commands.on_command_error).

[fiery girder]

for prefix/hybrid command

[fiery girder]

you can use these or just make an if statement on the start of your code

[gray mantle]

@cyan pumice

!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.

[gray mantle]

!paste

[stark nexus]

How suppose i fix this?

@client.hybrid_command(description="Check the status of Minecraft server")
async def minecraft_server(interaction : discord.Interaction, server_ip : str):
    server = JavaServer.lookup(server_ip)
    try:
        status = server.status()
    except:
        status = "Not found"
    try:
        latency = server.ping()
    except:
        latency = "Not found"
    try:
        query = server.query()
        query_name = query.players.names
    except:
        query_name = "Not found"
    
    
    embed = discord.Embed(title=f"Server name : {server_ip}", description = f"Status : \n•Online players : {status.players.online}\nLatency : {status.latency}\nServer : \n•Latency : {latency}\nPlayers : \n{', '.join(query_name)}", color = 0xfc9803)
    embed.set_thumbnail(url="https://cdn.icon-icons.com/icons2/2699/PNG/512/minecraft_logo_icon_168974.png")
    
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed)```

attributeerror: 'context' object has no attribute

[golden portal]

hybrid gets a Context object, not interaction, just rename your interaction to ctx and use ctx.send instead to send messages

[stark nexus]

K

[golden portal]

welcome

[stark nexus]

I edited to this

@client.hybrid_command(description="Check the status of Minecraft server")
async def minecraft_server(ctx, server_ip : str):
    server = JavaServer.lookup(server_ip)
    try:
        status = server.status()
    except:
        status = "Not found"
    try:
        latency = server.ping()
    except:
        latency = "Not found"
    try:
        query = server.query()
        query_name = query.players.names
    except:
        query_name = "Not found"
    
    
    embed = discord.Embed(title=f"Server name : {server_ip}", description = f"Status : \n•Online players : {status.players.online}\nLatency : {status.latency}\nServer : \n•Latency : {latency}\nPlayers : \n{', '.join(query_name)}", color = 0xfc9803)
    embed.set_thumbnail(url="https://cdn.icon-icons.com/icons2/2699/PNG/512/minecraft_logo_icon_168974.png")
    
    await ctx.send(embed=embed)```

Unknown interaction error

(error code : 10062)

[golden portal]

you should start sending the full error because it's quite vague

an interaction require you to respond within 3 seconds, more than that you get an unknown interaction if you try to send a message, its possible that your lookup/ping method there is more than 3 seconds, so you can use await ctx.defer() before you do the lookup so you have more time to respond

[stark nexus]

*sry I can't copy them so i only can send screenshot

[golden portal]

i see, yea i guessed it correctly, you would have to defer first so you can respond longer than 3 seconds

[stark nexus]

How suppose i use defer on ctx?

[golden portal]

await ctx.defer()

[stark nexus]

And ctx.followup.send()?

[golden portal]

no, just use ctx.send

[stark nexus]

K

[slate swan]

im getting some import errors, how do i fix?

[sick birch]

depends on the import error

[slate swan]

this one

might be software related

it also shows me this when deleted so there could be more

and everyones favorite

undefined variables

ping with answers if anyones got em

ty

oh btw everything was coded in replit and it didn't work and nothing showed up as an error there so when i moved it to vsc to try and debug it more this started happening.

[shrewd apex]

• u have discord.py and nextcord for some reason which is causing some name space conflicts
• as for undefined variables its as python says ctx dosent exist

[slate swan]

wait i thought nextcord was compatible with py

[shrewd apex]

no? they are different libraries

[slate swan]

nuts

well how about the ctx?

Uninstall the forks and nextcord first

and then add a ctx param

gotcha

so im going to have to rewrite most of my code aint i?

[slate swan]

so its not uninstalling

I keep getting 'WARNING: Skipping nextcord as it is not installed.'

even tho it keeps telling me to uninstall discord

[final iron]

Which are you trying to use, nextcord or discord.py

[slate swan]

I was going for both, but i didn't know they were incompadible

now i think im too far in

[slate swan]

whats the purpose?

why would you use 2 libraries designed to do the same thing

[final iron]

They both cover the entirety of the API. There’s no reason to use both

[slate swan]

im an idiot for this but, i didn't know how to make a bot to do what i wanted. i looked up multiple yt tutorials, found some that used discord and others nextcord.

lesson learned

they get out of date quickly too

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/741590910361403454.gif?size=48&quality=lossless

[vale wing]

There's also disnake and pycord

And hikari but we don't talk about that here

[vale wing]

Anyways here's the rating of discord.py and forks ☺️

[slate swan]

Now i gotta reorg and recode several functions, break out the caffine this is gonna be a long one

[final iron]

I might do a pros/cons about forks

Their features and such

[slate swan]

so should i use nextcord or discord.py?

witch is better?

[final iron]

It’s mainly preference for the features

[slate swan]

nextcord

[final iron]

Nextcord and discord.py are pretty similar

[slate swan]

[final iron]

Tutorials shouldn’t be a factor in your choice

[slate swan]

alright

[final iron]

I’d probably be looking at:
Stability
Implementations of items like components and application commands
Documentation
Ease of use

Stability: Both Nextcord and discord.py are very stable and update quickly
Components/Application Commands: They both have all of discords available items, but have differing implementations
Documentation: Very similar documentation style
Ease of use: Very similar structure with a few large style differences

[umbral spear]

Could someone please lend a hand by testing the commands of my Discord bot in the server? Feel free to send me a direct message for the invitation. Thank you

[winged linden]

Does anyone know any good APIs for gathering cryptocurrency data for usage within a discord bot?

[final iron]

What does “data” entail

[final iron]

Why can’t you just test them yourself

People aren’t really going to join your server and do allat. You’ll have better luck creating an alt and testing with it

[winged linden]

like the current rates of cryptocurrency to usd

I want to be able to convert different crypto amounts to usd and different usd amounts to crypto

[final iron]

You can just make a Google search with requests and they have a widget for it

[winged linden]

how would I go about doing that?

I have never made a google search using the APIs before

[old vine]

ok so, i am trying to use requests and get if the website exists or not... if the site doesn't exist.. it should send the message Paper not found with ephemeral=True but if the site exists, it should send a embed with ephemeral=False

[sick birch]

what seems to be the issue? this seems relatively simple

[old vine]

it doesn't ephemeral

[sick birch]

can you show us your code?

[old vine]

give me a sec

[final iron]

You just make a request with the search URL

There’s definitely some API you can find online though

Shouldn’t have to resort to using Google

[old vine]

@sick birch

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/CW2Q
line 96 onwards

[sick birch]

oh, this is nextcord. I can't help with that, sorry

[old vine]

isn't it similar?

[sick birch]

Not sure. Never used it so I can't tell

[old vine]

its similar

https://docs.nextcord.dev/

[drifting arrow]

What's a good or recommended way to sanitize a users input or message?

[sick birch]

Sanitizing for what? Is it going into an SQL query?

[drifting arrow]

No.

it's for the on_message function.

I want to ensure nobody is sending anything that can mess with my bot

[sick birch]

how, exactly?

[drifting arrow]

So when someone sends a message in chat.. the bot reads it and sends a message back

if you're asking for "How exactly they can fuck with the bot" - NFI that's why im here.

[hushed galleon]

if there was some string input that could lead to remote code execution just by itself (as in assuming your code isn't bugged), that would be a pretty serious, undiscovered security flaw in the library

[drifting arrow]

I don't think so?
The user messages the bot, and the bot then takes that message and sends it to a channel.

[hushed galleon]

and do you think your code does something poorly while manipulating the user's string?

[drifting arrow]

I just take it and stick it into an embed and yeet it.

[final iron]

Can you repaste it

Safari says it can’t connect

[old vine]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/XLPA

[final iron]

!d nextcord.InteractionResponse.defer

[unkempt canyon]

nextcord.InteractionResponse.defer

await defer(*, ephemeral=False, with_message=False)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Defers the interaction response.

This is typically used when the interaction is acknowledged and a secondary action will be done later.

[drifting arrow]

_ DEFERENCE _

I love a good deferral

[hushed galleon]

well ig make sure you don't have infinite loops, excessive string multiplication, or whatever, but afaik there isn't a standard procedure to prevent security bugs in any program

[final iron]

huh

[final iron]

So when the embed sends it’s not ephemeral when it should be?

[drifting arrow]

well I guess I'll address any issues when they pop up ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drifting arrow]

well. anywhere he replies he either has ephemeral set to false or not at all (by default it's false).
Except for line 112

[old vine]

nono.. so i defered the message cuz i was using requests and i wanted it to ephemeral the message "We are sorry, but the paper you are looking for is not available. Perhaps you can try a new search." becuz the page doesn't exist and it returned 404. if it returns 200, then it should send the embed without ephemeral

[tiny coyote]

im having alot of issues importing discord.

[final iron]

I’m aware

[final iron]

And what issue are you having?

[tiny coyote]

im having issues INSTALLING discord

No suitable Python runtime found
Pass --list (-0) to see all detected environments on your machine
or set environment variable PYLAUNCHER_ALLOW_INSTALL to use winget
or open the Microsoft Store to the requested version.

What do i do

[drifting arrow]

It seems the only difference between each of those pdf urls is _qp_ and _ms_ and _in_
Couldn't you just chuck all of them into a dictionary or function somewhere? or something to minimize the need for re-writing the text multiple times?

[final iron]

What command did you run

[strong scarab]

import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print("Logged on as {0}!".format(self.user))
    async def on_message(self, message):
        print("Message from {0.author}: {0.content}".format(message))


client = MyClient()
client.run('my bot token')

  File "c:\Users\Usuário\Documents\discord.py\meu_bot.py", line 10, in <module>
    client = MyClient()
             ^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: Client.__init__() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'intents'

why its happening this

im beginner

[final iron]

!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.

[tiny coyote]

py -3.6 -m pip install -U discord.py

[final iron]

discord.py doesn’t support 3.6, but this is a separate issue

First install a supported version, 3.9-3.12

Then we’ll work from there

[drifting arrow]

always the latest version.

[tiny coyote]

i did it says i have 3.12 version when i enter py --list

[old vine]

it is not sending both in the format ephemeral or its sending both

[tiny coyote]

-V:3.12 *        Python 3.12 (64-bit)

[final iron]

Okay, but you’re specifying 3.6

So it’s installing into your 3.6 environment, which it says doesn’t exist

[hushed galleon]

imo i suggest using Python 3.11.7 for discord.py, it's the newest version that doesn't have the same package compilation "issues" that 3.12 currently has (although workarounds do exist if you really want 3.12)

[strong scarab]

i got another problem aa

[tiny coyote]

 py -3.12 pip install -U discord.py
C:\Users\Naseer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\\Users\\Naseer\\pip': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[final iron]

You missed the -m flag

You need to specify pip as a module or python thinks it’s a file

[tiny coyote]

ngl i want

[final iron]

@tiny coyote This was directed at you

Miss-ping

[tiny coyote]

yh ik

[tiny coyote]

thanks m8

[final iron]

It installed properly?

Multidict should be throwing an error

[tiny coyote]

still installing

[final iron]

It’ll error

[tiny coyote]

   check.warn(importable)
      copying multidict\__init__.pyi -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      copying multidict\py.typed -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-312\multidict
      running build_ext
      building 'multidict._multidict' extension
      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for multidict
Failed to build multidict
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[hushed galleon]

you can tack on --extra-index-url https://abstractumbra.github.io/pip/ with the install command, it provides prebuilt wheels just for discord.py's dependencies

[final iron]

Multidict is missing wheels for 3.12, so you can fix it two ways:
Install using umbras wheels: pip install -U --force-reinstall discord.py --extra-index-url https://abstractumbra.github.io/pip/

Downgrade to Python 3.11.7

Two options

[hushed galleon]

or if you don't trust their index but still want 3.12, you can follow the link in that error message to install the C++ build tools yourself

[final iron]

Keep in mind Umbra is a moderator in the discord.py server and a heavy contributor to discord.py

Danny has also recommended using the wheels as a fix, so he trusts them

[tiny coyote]

C:\Users\Naseer>pip install -U --force-reinstall discord.py --extra-index-url https://abstractumbra.github.io/pip/
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.```

[final iron]

Prefix it with what you used to install discord.py before

[final iron]

You’ll receive help if you share the issue

[tiny coyote]

finished

do i install discord now

[final iron]

That did install discord

[tiny coyote]

alr installed got it thanks btw

how do i get sqlite now 😅

[final iron]

sqlite3 is installed by default, but you’ll want to use an asynchronous version

asqlite can be installed from GitHub

[tiny coyote]

github huh

alr

[unkempt canyon]

aiosqlite v0.19.0

asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module

[paper cipher]

context.py

from discord import Color, Embed, Message
from discord.ext import commands

import config

class Context(commands.Context):
    async def neutral(
        self, content: str, color: int = config.Color.neutral, emoji: str = "", **kwargs
    ) -> Message:
        return await self.send(
            embed=Embed(
                color=color,
                description=f"{emoji} {self.author.mention}: {content}",
            ),
            **kwargs,
        )

information.py

from discord import Embed, Color
from discord.ext.commands import Cog, Command, Group, command

from time import time

from helpers.rogue import Rogue
from helpers.utilities.human_timedelta import human_timedelta
from helpers.variables import colors
from helpers.managers.context import Context

import config

class Information(Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot : Rogue):
        self.bot: Rogue = bot 

@command(
        name="uptime"
    )
    async def uptime(self, ctx: Context):
        """
        View the bot's uptime
        """
        
        return await ctx.neutral(
            f"**{self.bot.user.display_name}** has been up for: **{human_timedelta(self.bot.uptime, suffix=True)}**",
            emoji=":alarm_clock:"
        )

config.py

class Color:
    neutral = 0x5f9ea0 # cadetblue
    approve = 0x9acd32 # yellowgreen
    deny = 0xdc4747 # failurered
    warn = 0xffa500 # orange
    
class Emoji:
    approve = "✅"
    deny = "❌"
    warn = "⚠"

when i run my bot, and run the uptime command, why do i get this error?:
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'neutral'

my file tree (rogue.py stores my bot class, main.py runs it):

[fiery girder]

simple thing is the discord donot returns that Context it returns the normal commands.Context

[shrewd apex]

did u override get_context?

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    async def get_context(self, message: discord.Message, *, cls=CustomContextHere):
        return await super().get_context(message, cls=cls)

[midnight oracle]

I organize my commands in cogs inside of a "cogs" folder and then loading them automatically using the code bellow but, if I wanted to separate my cogs in folders inside of the cogs folder. Would this way I'm using go through each folder inside of the cogs folder and load each .py file inside correctly?

@bot.event 
async def on_ready():
    for cog_file in settings.COGS_DIR.glob("*.py"):
        if cog_file.name != "__init__.py":
            await bot.load_extension(f"cogs.{cog_file.name[:-3]}")

[paper cipher]

tysm

[shrewd apex]

yes given ur path and loops are set correctly ultimately ur just required to pass in the path to the cog file relative the root directory where the bot is in

[finite salmon]

You haven't separated the values in the list with a comma

app_commands.Choice(name="⭐️", value="one")
Is one element and app_commands.Choice(name="⭐️⭐️", value="two") is another element. Since they're in an array each element here needs to be separated by a comma

[true vector]

I just ran into this, how would I go about editing this ?

[pale zenith]

https://gist.github.com/InterStella0/b78488fb28cadf279dfd3164b9f0cf96

[true vector]

thanks

[slate swan]

Hi, it's been a few days since python reads me anymore the fivem library, can anyone tell me how to do it? I redid the "pip install FiveM" but it doesn't work anymore

[shrewd apex]

!pypi fivem

[unkempt canyon]

fivem v1.1

A Python wrapper for the FIVEM API.

[shrewd apex]

what exactly dosent work and how?

[slate swan]

It's always worked, but not anymore

[shrewd apex]

in terminal run

py -0

[shrewd apex]

thats weird does the bot run?

also did ur pip install command work?

[slate swan]

PS C:\Users\stefa\Desktop\BotPython\Bot\botiii> pip install fivem
Requirement already satisfied: fivem in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from fivem) (2.31.0)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from requests->fivem) (3.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from requests->fivem) (3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from requests->fivem) (2.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in c:\users\stefa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from requests->fivem) (2023.7.22)

[brazen geyser]

hey guys, is there any way to make error handler for all commands in Group?

[slate swan]

this is a error @shrewd apex

[shrewd apex]

are you able to run the bot?

[slate swan]

no

[shrewd apex]

whats the traceback u get when running it

[slate swan]

It won't let me start, and that's the error that comes out

[slate swan]

PS C:\Users\stefa\Desktop\BotPython\Bot\botiii> & C:/Users/stefa/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python311/python.exe c:/Users/stefa/Desktop/BotPython/Bot/botiii/HADES[RP].py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\stefa\Desktop\BotPython\Bot\botiii\HADES[RP].py", line 26, in <module>
from fivem import FiveM
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fivem'
PS C:\Users\stefa\Desktop\BotPython\Bot\botiii>

[final iron]

Have you installed it?

[slate swan]

What do I need to install?

[final iron]

Whatever you’re trying to import

[vale wing]

Try using venv

!venv

[unkempt canyon]

Virtual environments

Virtual environments are isolated Python environments, which make it easier to keep your system clean and manage dependencies. By default, when activated, only libraries and scripts installed in the virtual environment are accessible, preventing cross-project dependency conflicts, and allowing easy isolation of requirements.

To create a new virtual environment, you can use the standard library venv module: python3 -m venv .venv (replace python3 with python or py on Windows)

Then, to activate the new virtual environment:

Windows (PowerShell): .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
or (Command Prompt): .venv\Scripts\activate.bat
MacOS / Linux (Bash): source .venv/bin/activate

Packages can then be installed to the virtual environment using pip, as normal.

For more information, take a read of the documentation. If you run code through your editor, check its documentation on how to make it use your virtual environment. For example, see the VSCode or PyCharm docs.

Tools such as poetry and pipenv can manage the creation of virtual environments as well as project dependencies, making packaging and installing your project easier.

Note: When using PowerShell in Windows, you may need to change the execution policy first. This is only required once per user:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

[vale wing]

Although the path of packages and py executable seems the same it's likely cause of path issues

[hushed galleon]

this question is better suited for #1035199133436354600, but i dont think you have the right project because that package doesn't declare any FiveM class, as per their source code

the hours= parameter in your loop is set to 23, did you mean to write 24?

[polar slate]

Is there someone that is good with / command and using discord.py that could guide me on how to make my bot and help me if I struggle on things here pls ?

[hushed galleon]

well if they trigger at the same time asyncio event loop will simply run both tasks concurrently

also if you happen to be using discord.py>=2.0, there's a time= parameter which lets you specify one or more datetime.time()s to run the loop on

[hushed galleon]

discord.py is well known in this community so there's likely someone that can answer when you ask here

[polar slate]

Okay, why the documentation is bad ?

And do you know how I could make simply a leaderboard command for my EXP system (it's made) but with buttons to change the pages of the leaderboard

I struggle with the buttons

[hushed galleon]

if by bad you mean why aren't there official guides on slash commands, iunno, their dpy guide has been in development for a while now (see Rapptz/discord.py#7654 )

[lament depot]

GitHub

[discord.py] #7654 The discord.py Guide

[hushed galleon]

regardless there are official examples on the dpy repository, and third party guides to them:
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/tree/v2.3.2/examples/app_commands
https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/slash-commands/

[polar slate]

Ty

[hushed galleon]

well, if you start at 12AM and then sleep 23 hours, the next iteration is going to be at 11PM

[polar slate]

I will read that when i'll be rested a bit

[desert kiln]

good afternoon everybody

[timber lotus]

what does mod mail do?

is like a support ticket bot or something?

[desert kiln]

When you DM a bot, it will contact the server moderation team, in that server.

via, a private channel, Or something similar

[timber lotus]

oh i gotcha, so if im createing a bot for my server thats a probably a good feature to install eh? sounds easy

[desert kiln]

yeah, it's a good thing to make, as long as it's hosted all the time, for your server members.

it can be a good project to work on too

[timber lotus]

it is. yea thats what im thinking. dont sound too difficult. i dont know anything about bots recieving dms but probably just sent it up so if anyone sends a dm to that bot it posts a message in the mod channel?

[pale zenith]

A good modmail feature is slightly harder than you think

[timber lotus]

bro hello world was hard for me hahah, but it doesnt sound out of my league is what i meant. not like some of the stuff that gets talked about in here. completely over my head

[desert kiln]

Steps:

Once the user DMS a bot, enter a confirmation code, and then once confirmed to contact the mods, send a message as To who you would like to report, reason, user ID, etc, and send that message, to a channel, and lay it out nicely with an embed.

and make the bot return a confirmation message, with a report ID, that can be used to refer To, as the reporter, Or admin etc

[timber lotus]

i dig it, thanks bro. i screenshotted and will use that as my blueprint

[desert kiln]

print("hello world")```
![epp_trollge](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/941292674118459392.webp?size=128 "epp_trollge")

[timber lotus]

hahaha i overexaggerated slightly but you got my point haha

[slate swan]

It doesn't resolve

[desert kiln]

If you need anymore help, I would gladly assist with any questions you have.

[pale zenith]

I mean, this is just opinions. I prefer a simple forum channel lol

[desert kiln]

He wanted a mod mail, discord bot.

[pale zenith]

like:

[timber lotus]

thanks bro. i have some other things i want to do first but i added it to my list. i just finished some giveaway commands and going to work on history comamnds.

[desert kiln]

seems like more work

[pale zenith]

yes, but it's more organized

[desert kiln]

true

[timber lotus]

whatchat mean forum channel? i saw the mailbot and was curioous what it does. but definitely need some sort way to message the mods i assume, for my server

[hushed galleon]

there's also the git repo you can check out, but at a glance their source code is quite complex
https://github.com/python-discord/modmail
their readme has a summary of what it does:

When a member sends a direct message to the bot, Modmail will create a channel or "thread" into a designated category. All further DM messages will automatically relay to that channel; any available staff can respond within the channel.

[pale zenith]

that's a valid point

my modmail needs database stuff and everything (source code for context)
That's why I said modmail is slightly less easy than it may seem haha

[timber lotus]

git repos confuse me haha

i tried look at sir lancelot code and cant even figure that out hahah

[hushed galleon]

any codebase is hard to tackle all at once, but you can try focusing on one feature at a time when you're exploring their source

regardless you have a lot of ways to implement a modmail, so have fun with it

[timber lotus]

thanks!

[vale wing]

What doesn't resolve? You made the venv?

[slate swan]

I can't install Venv

[vale wing]

Why

[polar slate]

We agree that to make a discord bot I dont need anything else than VS code, I don't need something like django or else ?

[loud junco]

@vale wing is this tutorial a bit too old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EIy0bw7s-s

[vale wing]

Django is web framework, completely unrelated

[polar slate]

that's what i thought I don't know the frameworks tho

[vale wing]

To develop a discord bot in python you need python interpreter >=3.9 or smth I forgor what libs support

Vscode is merely a code editor

If you are skilled enough you can use notepad

And actually if you're skilled enough

Nvm I thought of something so epic matrix servers exploded

[hushed galleon]

(discord.py, disnake, nextcord, and pycord still support 3.8 too, though it'll be EOL in 10 months)

[vapid parcel]

Anyone know a good spot to just see a lot of idea commands based on Presence Intent?

[languid sequoia]

Is it possible to edit things on my own account with a bot?

[final iron]

no

[languid sequoia]

Is it possible in general?

[final iron]

wdym in general

Messages can only be edited by their owners

[drifting arrow]

I forgot how much you can fit into a single embed description lol.
quite a lot it turns out.

[timber lotus]

can you do that so the bot also posts a picture? without a url tho, like the user just drops and drags?

[drifting arrow]

There's 2 ways I know of to do that. Grabbing the image URL and sending it as an embed image
Or doing that discord file download thingy.

[timber lotus]

discord file download? is that how we just click and drag for images to create forum posts? not having to upload and get a url first would be preferred

[drifting arrow]

Using a discordbot, the only 2 ways I know of how to send an image a user has sent is to either temporarily download it and send it, or to grab the image URL and send it as part of an embed

there may be other better more ideal ways

[timber lotus]

ok let me clarify tho, my original question was about bot the modmail bot and the one guy let me know they can also create forum posts. well i want to adapt that for commands to create forum posts which wold be added to a database for some other reasons. so it wouldnt be through dm if that makes a difference, it would be though commands. can i add an image that way, the same way if i was just doing it?

[drifting arrow]

I've never worked with forum posts, most servers I operate within refuse to update to include forums, mostly coz their communities cannot be trusted..
So I dont know specifically how forums work, I would assume they work the same as any channel and you just need a channel ID and you can send to that specific channel.

As for the rest of what you said, it confused me so I didnt comment on it lol

[timber lotus]

lol..... i dont want to have to upload an image before posting, but i think you already answered my question. i just need to research the discord download thingy and see if that is what im talking about

[timber lotus]

thank you so much for you help!!

[timber lotus]

you know when you doing commands and if an option is channel, it shows up with all the channels, how do you that with custom options? like if the option was sport, how do i get the pop window to show the different sport names instead of having to write it in?

[final iron]

Annotate the argument with GuildChannel

If you want a text channel specifically you just annotate it with TextChannel

[final breach]

hi there i want to use choices in slash commands but the choises are in database how to make the bot get the choices and add them to the command

[shrewd apex]

use autocomplete

[final breach]

thx for helping

[hardy geyser]

how to define?

[shrewd apex]

define what?

[hardy geyser]

satureafkon

[hardy geyser]

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: NameError: name 'satureafk' is not defined

[shrewd apex]

make command with that name then

[hardy geyser]

what

def satureafkon(): right ?

[shrewd apex]

no

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

u should probably do through the documentation

[hardy geyser]

mm

[shrewd apex]

discord.py

!d discord.ui.button

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.button

@discord.ui.button(*, label=None, custom_id=None, disabled=False, style=<ButtonStyle.secondary: 2>, emoji=None, row=None)```
A decorator that attaches a button 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), the [`discord.Interaction`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.Interaction) you receive and the [`discord.ui.Button`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.ui.Button) being pressed.

Note

Buttons with a URL cannot be created with this function. Consider creating a [`Button`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.ui.Button) manually instead. This is because buttons with a URL do not have a callback associated with them since Discord does not do any processing with it.

[dawn lion]

Nextcord good

[golden portal]

eh nextcord is a copy paste of discord.py when it comes for button/view implementation, without the newer discord.py's features within view and probably still have the view memory leak problem

[naive briar]

Is there any thing that nextcord does better than discord.py?

[pale zenith]

In my humble opinion no, they're mostly the same lol

Only pet peeve for me is that a Cog.cog_(un)load method(s) can't be async in nextcord

Plus (afaik) nextcord doesn't have the new discord.ui.DynamicItem class (unsure)

[nimble plume]

while being rate limited. we get token ratelimit or ip ratelimit?

or its the same thing

[shrewd apex]

token its bot based

[high apex]

@t.command(name="balance", description="Check your current balance.")
async def balance(interaction, member: discord.Member = ):

how do i make the member argument optional?

discord.py 2.3.2

[slate swan]

set default value to None

[high apex]

it says

Expression of type "None" cannot be assigned to parameter of type "Member"
  Type "None" cannot be assigned to type "Member"

[slate swan]

this is only a typing error but if you wanna fix it you can annotate it as union of Member and None

[high apex]

ok

thanks

[stray cliff]

Assalamun Alaykum Warahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

I know that it probably is some stupid issue from my side but when i run my discord bot it just simply says that there is no module called discord.

This is what i have imported so far: discord.py, discord.ext and requests

Thanks in advance for any help 😀

[west holly]

what is the coding to avoid chat spam?

[stray cliff]

Sorry i didnt understand what you meant?

import discord.py
from discord.ext import commands
import requests

Is this what you mean?

[west holly]

Anti spam code

[stray cliff]

Ohh nvm i thought you meant something else

[west holly]

!custom-cooldown

[unkempt canyon]

Cooldowns in discord.py

Cooldowns can be used in discord.py to rate-limit. In this example, we're using it in an on_message.

from discord.ext import commands

message_cooldown = commands.CooldownMapping.from_cooldown(1.0, 60.0, commands.BucketType.user)

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    bucket = message_cooldown.get_bucket(message)
    retry_after = bucket.update_rate_limit()
    if retry_after:
        await message.channel.send(f"Slow down! Try again in {retry_after} seconds.")
    else:
        await message.channel.send("Not ratelimited!")

from_cooldown takes the amount of update_rate_limit()s needed to trigger the cooldown, the time in which the cooldown is triggered, and a BucketType.

[final iron]

That’s really not enough information to understand what you want

[final iron]

Run py -0 and show the output

[stray cliff]

Alr one moment please

[stray cliff]

It says the command py does not exist

[fiery girder]

if i defer and interaction the time i answer the interaction do i do interaction.response.send_message or interaction.followup.send

[final iron]

You can only respond to an interaction once

[final iron]

Which OS are you using

[fiery girder]

so i followup to it ?

[final iron]

Yes

[fiery girder]

ok thanks

[stray cliff]

Windows 11

[crude flame]

@ashen notch I can't talk 💀

I forgot I am not active in this server

Wrong channel

[final iron]

Can you show the entire error

[fiery girder]

is it worth switching to python 3.12 for discord bot coding?

[stray cliff]

It would be better if i showed you the "error" that shows up when trying to install the discord module: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/BBHQ

[livid roost]

everytime I try pip install discord.py it gives this error:

  ERROR: Failed building wheel for multidict
Failed to build multidict
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects``` any fixes?

[final iron]

pip install -U --force-reinstall discord.py --extra-index-url https://abstractumbra.github.io/pip/

@livid roost @stray cliff

[livid roost]

thanks! worked

[stray cliff]

Thank you it worked

[slate swan]

that depends on how badly you want the new features

[fiery girder]

depends on the features lol

[slate swan]

I'd read up on the 3.12 changes then if I were you

[fiery girder]

nah i prefer watching a vid on a features

any of you fimilar with Merriam-Webster dictionary api
i want to make a defind function but i dont know which list have the synonyms and its a huge json mess

[final iron]

Then find it yourself

[fiery girder]

yea i will

[paper cipher]

whenever i run the avatar command,

async def avatar(self, ctx: Context, *, member: Member | User = None): 
        member = member or ctx.author
           
        gif = member.avatar.with_format("gif") if member.avatar.is_animated() else "" 
        jpg = member.avatar.with_format("jpg")
        png = member.avatar.with_format("png")
        webp = member.avatar.with_format("webp")
        
        
        return await ctx.send(
            embed = Embed(
                title=f"{member.name}'s avatar",
                url=((gif if member.avatar.is_animated() else png) or member.default_avatar),
                description=f"[[jpg]]({jpg}) [[png]]({png}) [[webp]]({webp})" + ((f" [[gif]]({gif})") if member.avatar.is_animated() else "")
            ).set_image(url=(member.avatar or member.default_avatar))
        )```
and i dont supply a valid member from the server, it gives this error:
```discord.ext.commands.errors.BadUnionArgument: Could not convert "member" into Member or User.```
how can i handle this and return an error message with ctx.send()? i've tried some stuff but it always returns the same error

[final iron]

Do you know how to create command specific error handlers?

[paper cipher]

no i don't

i thought for this one it would be better to make a specific error? since i want to make it say something like "could not find user or id" and not something general just for that error

[final iron]

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

Line 38-48

!d discord.ext.commands.Command.error

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Command.error

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

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

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

[paper cipher]

ahh thanks

[pale zenith]

What you usually do is to have 2 views

Sure,
https://github.com/DuckBot-Discord/DuckBot/blob/master/cogs/info.py

[pale zenith]

[ashen river]

Can someone let me know that do we need intents to get our discord bot working or we can do without it as well

like the presence or guild one should not be used unless you are looking for welcome and leaving activity of a user or their status whether they are online or offline