discord-bots

[ashen river]

i don't get the messsage_content one

[final iron]

It's self explanatory

[final iron]

You don't receive the messages content unless it's enabled

[ashen river]

does this intent affect your slash command messages if it is disabled?
Like my bot does this function you attach a .mp4 file to it and it then does transcription for it. Will disabling it affect my command in any way?

[final iron]

Which slash command messages

[ashen river]

2024-01-04 22:02:47 WARNING discord.ext.commands.bot Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected.
2024-01-04 22:02:47 | WARNING | discord.ext.commands.bot | Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected.

i see this on screen

[final iron]

That is a warning, yes

[ashen river]

so i should have it enabled then?

[final iron]

Not unless you need it

[ashen river]

read the second line that's how my command works

so that does not require it?

[hushed galleon]

you can see the various exceptions in the API docs:
https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#message-content-intent

Apps without the intent will receive empty values in fields that contain user-inputted content with a few exceptions:

• Content in messages that an app sends
• Content in DMs with the app
• Content in which the app is mentioned
• Content of the message a message context menu command is used on
  in short, the message content intent only affects messages your bot sees from other users, so if your slash command takes an Attachment parameter it won't be affected by the intent

[final iron]

Slash command invocations are not messages

You won't need the messages content to invoke them

[ashen river]

oh i read a few documentation and it was a bit confusing stating that bot will receive empty values so i thought it was necessary for my bot

i understand it now thanks guys

[ashen river]

in other words just to develop an understanding of the intent, it might be useful in case if a bot monitors users message to see any racial or harmful words and then takes actions like banning or time out

Also one more thing my hosting server memory goes beyond its limit when i run my bot like it is 75/52 GB RAM and then bot crashes and i have to restart again

i've searched on internet and it is maybe called as memory leak

anyone can recommend any solution for this?

[final iron]

Do you mean MB?

[final iron]

Is that a question sorry?

Phrasing just confused me a bit

[ashen river]

Yea i'm asking if i made a correct logic out of it. My english is not that good so i appologize

[final iron]

That could be a way to learn it, but in my opinion it’s a bit overkill

It’s pretty straightforward

[final iron]

Honestly I don’t know how to interpret this. I doubt you have 52GB of memory unless you’re paying hundreds, or even thousands of dollars a month

Could you show the entire screenshot

[ashen river]

that's a gpu server on hourly basis from vast.ai

[final iron]

Are you sure that’s the memory reading?

[ashen river]

if you hover on it says Sys RAM used / Max

[final iron]

Are you paying 0.405/hour?

[ashen river]

yes

[final iron]

That’s almost $300 monthly

[ashen river]

yup

[final iron]

Why

[thin vector]

When you have money, you can do whatever you want

[ashen river]

the discord bot is not the main usage on it, its being used for some other stuff as well

[final iron]

Are you sure the bot is using up the 36GB of memory?

And it’s not another program?

[ashen river]

the bot keeps on increasing the usage memory i've also tested it on another cloud server

and it gradually increases it by 2 GB after each usage

[final iron]

Sounds like a memory leak

Do you know the part of the code that’s causing it?

If not, there’s some profilers you can use

[ashen river]

not yet thats what i'm trying to identify

[final iron]

cProfile is a good option

https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html

[ashen river]

ok ill check it rn

[final iron]

Actually, it might be CPU calls only

I’m not sure if it will show memory utilisation

[hushed galleon]

yeah cprofile is more for checking performance, in your case you might be interested in memray
https://github.com/Bloomberg/memray

[ashen river]

https://pypi.org/project/memory-profiler/

this can work?

[final iron]

Looks fine

Memray seems to be more extensive though

[ashen river]

alright

[acoustic kernel]

How can I run a command that deletes the message before it before responding?

[tender bobcat]

Look nice until I read it doesn't support Windows and I cannot afford another computer 💀

[final iron]

huh

You want to delete the message invoking the command?

[acoustic kernel]

no I just want to delete the message before any command then the response is stull visible

im using / commands too

[final iron]

Slash commands don’t have invocation messages

[acoustic kernel]

no heres what I want to do.

1. RANDO test I want to delete
2. Command/response

I want to delete 1. the rando text in the channel before the response

[final iron]

Oh

Which part are you asking for help with

[acoustic kernel]

how do I fetch the message then delete it

[final iron]

!d discord.TextChannel.history

[unkempt canyon]

discord.TextChannel.history

async for ... in history(*, limit=100, before=None, after=None, around=None, oldest_first=None)```
Returns an [asynchronous iterator](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-asynchronous-iterator) that enables receiving the destination’s message history.

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

Examples

Usage...

[final iron]

You’d want to have a limit of 2

On the second one you’ll call

!d discord.Message.delete

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.delete

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

Deletes the message.

Your own messages could be deleted without any proper permissions. However to delete other people’s messages, you must have [`manage_messages`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.manage_messages).

Changed in version 1.1: Added the new `delay` keyword-only parameter.

[acoustic kernel]

awesome thanks

[languid sequoia]

How can I add pictures to an embed in discord.py?

[final iron]

set_image method

Or set_thumbnail

[languid sequoia]

Okay

[silent flame]

how to execute some code when the server logs in new participant?

[latent jay]

How could I create a certain amount of buttons without knowing beforehand?

[latent jay]

!d discord.on_member_join

[unkempt canyon]

discord.on\_member\_join

discord.on_member_join(member)```
Called when a [`Member`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Member) joins a [`Guild`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Guild).

This requires [`Intents.members`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Intents.members) to be enabled.

[silent flame]

Thanks

[latent jay]

@final iron sorry for ping but you got an idea?

[final iron]

Loop through a list of x amount of times creating instances of the buttons and append them to a list. Loop through that list and add them to a view

Should be pretty straightforward

I have a system to do the same thing for modals

[latent jay]

can you show an example Im a bit slow

[final iron]

Honestly I can't be bothered to create a whole example right now

https://mystb.in/ReaderRecommendsEyes
This is my code I was talking about

self._modals = [InformationModal(chunk) for chunk in chunked_inputs]

This is the relevant part for you

InformationModal is my discord.ui.Modal subclass

You would then loop through that list, in my case self._modals and use

!d discord.ui.View.add_item

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.View.add\_item

add_item(item)```
Adds an item to the view.

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

[final iron]

To add them to a view

[languid sequoia]

Does anybody have documentation for discord.py slash commands?

[pale zenith]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html#discord-app-commands
and some examples too, and a guide: https://about.abstractumbra.dev/dpy

[languid sequoia]

Thank you

[pale zenith]

(more examples https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/tree/master/examples/app_commands)

[strong scarab]

can someone explain WHY

[latent jay]

discord.py already support slash commands why use that library

[final iron]

fyi #1192663208109023272

[latent jay]

what's the difference between Modal and View?

[hushed galleon]

also see #discord-bots message

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

so for new bots, you should either use discord.py 2.0's native slash commands (example, API reference), or switch to the successor of discord_slash

[final iron]

Do you know what a modal is

[latent jay]

never seen it no

[final iron]

See what it is

[latent jay]

oh modals are the list things you can choose from?

[sick birch]

those are selects

[final iron]

google what a modal is lol

[sick birch]

this is a discord modal

[latent jay]

ah I see it

I want to create a class that'll accept a list and create buttons for each item with a value of it's appropriate item, can someone lead me in the right direction?

[hushed galleon]

pep's earlier answer about add_item() is definitely what you want to use, but if it helps, you can think of a view as simply a list of buttons, and .add_item() is how you add a new button to that list

so the idea would be to loop through the values in your list, create buttons with the desired value, and add it to your view

[latent jay]

Could you give some sort of psuedocode?

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

        for line in resp_list:
            self.add_item(label=line, custom_id=f'button_{line}')

Something like this?

[hushed galleon]

almost, you instantiate a Button class with the parameters you want and use add_item() with that

e.g. ```py
class MyButton(discord.ui.Button):
def init(self, my_value):
super().init(label=f"Here is {my_value}", ...)
self.my_value = my_value

async def callback(self, interaction):
    await interaction.response.send_message(f"You clicked on {self.my_value}!")

class BtnInfo(discord.ui.View):
def init(self, resp_list) -> None:
super().init(timeout=None)

    for line in resp_list:
        button = MyButton(line)
        self.add_item(button)```

technically you could also write button = discord.ui.Button(label=...), but it doesn't have any way to define a callback function to run when the user clicks it, hence why its helpful to define your own Button subclass

[latent jay]

what're the other values for the button besides label again?

[hushed galleon]

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

[final iron]

Documentation is your friend

The docs also have a helpful search function if you can't remember the exact path

[latent jay]

yeah I just hope you guys have what Im asking memorized lol you guys are geniuses

[final iron]

It's a lot easier than you think

You'll eventually just intuitively learn discord.py's structure

Learning why something is how it is, is very helpful

[latent jay]

I've only memorized some of it

is there a limit for label characters?

[hushed galleon]

yes https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/message-components#buttons

label? string Text that appears on the button; max 80 characters

[latent jay]

thanks

[final iron]

@hushed galleon I'm currently building a table to showcase the different implementations of features across different libraries, what features do you think I should cover? Currently Im looking to do Views(Buttons, Selects, Modals), App Commands (Slash and Context), Documentation, Support community, coverage of the API, Voice Support and updates

[drifting arrow]

[Stands around ominously]

[drifting arrow]

Work on those for now and come back later.

[final iron]

fairs

those will take a bit

currently I'm just going to do discord, nextcord, pycord and disnake

[drifting arrow]

why is there so many versions?!

discordpy best imo

and not because I am biased or anything.

[final iron]

Oh there's much more

[drifting arrow]

Lets be real tho.

Discordpy best one.

[final iron]

forks = [
    "nextcord",  # fork of dpy
    "py-cord",  # fork of dpy
    "py-cord-dev",  # py-cord but updated on PyPi
    "interactions.py",  # another py bots library 
    "disnake",  # fork of dpy 
    "dislash",  # extension but then discontinued and replaced by "disnake"
    "dislash.py",  # extension but then discontinued and replaced by "disnake"
    "discord-py-slash-command",  # package pointing to "interactions.py"
    "discord.py-message-components",  # fork of dpy
    "enhanced-discord.py",  # discontinued fork of dpy
    "novus",  # fork of dpy
    "hata",   # another py bots library 
    "discord-interactions",  # official tool by discord to work with interactions
    "discord.py-self",  # self-bot lib
    "discord.py-self.embed",  # discontinued self-bot lib to send embeds
    "discord2",  # package that leads to "py-cord" but is not owned by them
    "python-discord",  # package pointing to a years old clone of dpy
    "discord_py_buttons",  # extension, was renamed twice and discontinued as "discord-ui"
    "discord_slash",  # extension, doesn't exist anymore(?)
    "discord.py",  # actually dpy
    "discord",  # official dpy package pointing to (a potential outdated version of) dpy
    "discord-ext-forms",  # discontinued extension to make a Modal
    "discord-ext-alternatives",  # discontinued extensions package by previous dpy regulars
    "dpy-appcommands",  # discontinued extension for app commands
    "discord-ext-slash",  # unmaintained(?) extension for slash commands
    "discord-buttons-plugin",  # discontinued extension for.. buttons
    "discum",  # self-bot lib
]

[novel apex]

This is not a Modmail thread.

[final iron]

That's forks alone, there's also other libraries like hikari

[drifting arrow]

everything else is just an extract or alteration of the OG

[final iron]

They're mainly forks

[final iron]

There were already a few forks, but when Danny ceased development many forks were created as alternatives

If we're being real though, nextcord is really the only competitor

All the other ones are way less popular than the two

[drifting arrow]

competitor is a strong word. considering it's free.

alternative?

[final iron]

competitor can still be used

[drifting arrow]

Alternative sounds better.

[final iron]

its not exclusive to paid products

[drifting arrow]

D:

[slate swan]

can someone help me with a bot please 🙂

[final iron]

#❓｜how-to-get-help

[slate swan]

ty

[drifting arrow]

So

what we all workin' on?

[hushed galleon]

hmm cant think of any other major differences, but perhaps you might want to include minor stuff like async cog/extension loading

[hushed galleon]

i remember when i used enhanced-discord.py, a bit odd that discord-interactions is included in that forks list given that its merely a 60 line module

[drifting arrow]

60 lines, the best 60 there is

[split onyx]

Failed to load extension cogs.SlashCommands.SCInfo.
ExtensionFailed: Extension 'cogs.SlashCommands.SCInfo' raised an error: AttributeError: module 'discord.ext.commands' has no attribute 'tree'

Yes it worked in the main.py but became a problem in a cog.```

its discord.py 2.0

[final iron]

Yes it worked in the main.py
It either didn't, or you manually created it

[split onyx]

Well it worked in the main.py

[drifting arrow]

but did it?

[final iron]

Legitimately impossible unless you modified the files

It does not exist

[naive briar]

What worked? discord.ext.commands.tree literally doesn't exist

[split onyx]

lmao it did

[drifting arrow]

I dont even know what scinfo is

[final iron]

Show it

[split onyx]

ok let me recreate it.

[drifting arrow]

recreate?

u mean u tried, got an error, deleted?

[split onyx]

I mean I deleted that main.py code and transfered it direcetly into a cog with the correct syntax changed

[drifting arrow]

Alright

[split onyx]

Got it...

[final iron]

Can we see your code?

[split onyx]

#!------Run These When Needed------
#? .venv\Scripts\activate



#!------Imports------#
import discord
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
import os
import asyncio
from itertools import cycle #For status
import random # For eightball
import json
#?LocalImports
from cogs.Utility import Utility


#!------Bot Prefix's------#

def get_server_prefix(bot, message):
    with open('prefixes.json', 'r') as f:
        prefixes = json.load(f)

    return prefixes[str(message.guild.id)]


#!------Essentials------#
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=get_server_prefix, intents=intents)

bot.remove_command('help')  # This line removes the default help command

utility = Utility(bot)
prefix = utility.get_server_prefix

#!------Guild Specific Event------!#
    #?------Sets Default Prefix, Allows 4 Custom Prefix------?#



#!------Status------#
bot_status = cycle(["type '!help' for help", "You can make a custom prefix!", "I :heart: Biscuits!"]) #Available Statuses

@tasks.loop(seconds=10) #Changes Status Every x Seconds (Can use minutes and hours too) 
async def change_status():
    await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(next(bot_status))) #Changes Status from bot_status

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    await bot.tree.sync()  # Syncs Slash Commands
    print('------------------------------------------------------------')
    print('Logged in as', bot.user.name)
    print('------------------------------------------------------------')
    change_status.start()
    


@bot.tree.command(name="ping", description="Returns the bot's latency.")
async def ping(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    bot_latency = round(bot.latency * 1000)
    await interaction.response.send_message(f'*Pong! __{bot_latency * 1000}ms__*')```

[final iron]

Where is the discord.ext.commands.tree?

[split onyx]

doesnt need to be their

[final iron]

Also, if you want to have a rotating status you should start the loop in the setup_hook event, not on_ready

on_ready isn't what you think it is

[split onyx]

k

[hushed galleon]

are you trying to define slash commands in a cog? if so, you want to use @discord.app_commands.command() as the decorator, rather than tree.command()

[split onyx]

yes that is what I am trying to do

[split onyx]

@discord.app_commands.command(name="ping", description="Returns the bot's latency.")```?

[hushed galleon]

sure

[split onyx]

sure?

what should I change here? I am unfamiliar with slash commands. py async def ping(self, interaction: discord.Interaction): bot_latency = round(self.bot.latency * 1000) await interaction.response.send_message(f'*Pong! __*{bot_latency * 1000}ms*__')

[final iron]

Looks fine

[split onyx]

ok

[final iron]

Just try it and see

[hushed galleon]

sure as in it would work, no sarcasm about that

though you'll see in the documentation that the app_commands module is usually imported directly using from discord import app_commands (or at least implied), making it a bit shorter to write out @app_commands.command(...)

[final iron]

Read through the error please. It'll be clear what the issue is

[split onyx]

The slash command isnt working in discord and no error messages are occuring.```py
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import app_commands

class SCInfo(commands.Cog):
def init(self, bot):
self.bot = bot

@commands.Cog.listener()
async def on_ready(self):
    print('[SC COGS] - SCInfo cog loaded successfully.')


@app_commands.command(name="ping", description="Returns the bot's latency.")
async def ping(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
    bot_latency = round(self.bot.latency * 1000)
    await interaction.response.send_message(f'*Pong! __*{bot_latency * 1000}ms*__')

async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(SCInfo(bot))```

[final iron]

Have you synced?

[split onyx]

yes

shit

[final iron]

Does it show in your servers integration tab?

[split onyx]

hold on

[split onyx]

yes it does

[final iron]

Restart your discord client

[split onyx]

ok

[split onyx]

Thank you very much. Everything is working.

😃

[final iron]

@hushed galleon This is how the current setup is, what do you think? I'm going to change the Buttons, those are just placeholders for now

[hushed galleon]

can voice support be subdivided into voice send/receive? also instead of doing the pseudo - sub-header, it might be easier to understand if the points were presented across many tables, e.g. ```md

Voice Support

Feature	discord.py	nextcord	pycord	disnake
Send	Yes	...
Receive	Yes (with an extension)	...

Buttons

...```

[final iron]

I was trying to format the Views and App Commands like that, but each heading would be too nested

ill try again tomorrow and see what i can do

[drifting arrow]

So discordpy can send audio? 🤔

[final iron]

With an extension, yes

[latent jay]

If a bot joins vc can it hear the other speakers, so in theory you could somehow record the vc no?

[torn sail]

whats the extension?

[final iron]

Recording the VC is possible and actually extremely easy

Whenever a bot is in a VC I always deafen it if I can because who knows what the owners are doing

[final iron]

https://github.com/imayhaveborkedit/discord-ext-voice-recv

[latent jay]

🤔 👀

[hallow kernel]

Ok i know it is possible to send slash command like that:
</command:469569755461925990263140>

But can is send like, with filled arguments, so it would be
/command arg1:value1

Ah

With positional is just space amd it works

Like that
</tag regex:123>

[shrewd apex]

nice

[final iron]

Oh that’s interesting

[hushed galleon]

uhh dpy had native send capabilities for a long time (see basic_voice.py from 7 years ago), but not receive

[final iron]

Oh I thought he said receive

My bad

[hushed galleon]

ah, fair enough

[paper cipher]

hey, i tried this this morning and implemented an on_command_error function in my main bot class file:

async def on_command_error(self, ctx: Context, error: Exception): 
        ignored = (
            commands.CommandNotFound,
            commands.NotOwner,
            commands.CheckFailure,
            commands.DisabledCommand,
            commands.UserInputError
        )
        if type(error) in ignored:
            return
        
        if isinstance(error, commands.MissingRequiredArgument):
            return await ctx.send_help()
        
        elif isinstance(error, commands.BadUnionArgument):
            if error.converters == (Member | User):
                return await ctx.warn(
                    "Unable to find that **member** or **ID**"
                )
        elif isinstance(error, commands.MemberNotFound):
            return await ctx.warn(
                "Unable to find that **member** or **ID**"
            )
        elif isinstance(error, commands.UserNotFound):
            return await ctx.warn(
                "Unable to find that **user** or **ID**"
            )

however now when i run the avatar command and supply a user that doesnt exist, i get no output from the bot and no output in my console? the other errors i have accounted for work fine (like in my ban command)

i thought it might have to do with the member: Member | User = None or member = member or ctx.author in my avatar command

[shrewd apex]

add an else statement also otherwise you're going to be eating your errors

[paper cipher]

ah i fixed it

had to make it if error.converters == (Member, User): instead of if error.converters == (Member | User):

[desert hollow]

dWZhaDQtcWZiYjMtd29hbGctaWFidWItbGFhNGEtdGJmbngtY3h4aWgtaTVzd3Item1rcjItZWlraWwtYnFlOlFYTE9XVkFF

[shrewd apex]

?

[frank whale]

Hello there

i start to build my own bot on discord and i get an error when i call the external command "XXX"

2024-01-05 09:22:25 ERROR    discord.ext.commands.bot Ignoring exception in command None
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "get_bitcoin" is not found```

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

# Initialisation des intentions
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.messages = True  # Assurez-vous que les intentions nécessaires sont activées
intents.typing = False
intents.presences = False

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

# Événement lorsque le bot est prêt
@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Connecté en tant que {bot.user.name}')
    extensions = ['commands.bitcoin', 'commands.direBonjour']
    for extension in extensions:
        try:
            bot.load_extension(extension)
            print(f'Extension {extension} chargée avec succès.')
        except commands.ExtensionError as e:
            print(f'Erreur lors du chargement de l\'extension {extension}: {e}')
   
# Démarrer le bot
load_dotenv()
bot.run(os.getenv("TOKEN"))

import requests
from discord.ext import commands

# URL de l'API CoinGecko pour obtenir le prix du Bitcoin en USD
bitcoin_api_url = "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd"

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

    @commands.command(name='get_bitcoin')
    async def bitcoin(self, ctx):
        response =  requests.get(bitcoin_api_url)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            data = response.json()
            bitcoin_price_usd = data["bitcoin"]["usd"]
            await ctx.send(f"Le prix du Bitcoin est actuellement de {bitcoin_price_usd} USD.")
        else:
            await ctx.send("Désolé, je ne peux pas obtenir le prix du Bitcoin en ce moment.")

def setup(bot):
    bot.add_cog(Bitcoin(bot))

/home/ubuntu/Dev/Bot_Discord_BlockchainSpot/init.py:21: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'BotBase.load_extension' was never awaited
  bot.load_extension(extension)
RuntimeWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the object allocation traceback
Extension commands.bitcoin chargée avec succès.
Extension commands.direBonjour chargée avec succès.

[shrewd apex]

async def setup in cogs

await bot.load_extension in bot

[frank whale]

yes i tried to do that but : ```

/home/ubuntu/Dev/Bot_Discord_BlockchainSpot/commands/bitcoin.py:23: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'BotBase.add_cog' was never awaited
bot.add_cog(Bitcoin(bot))

[shrewd apex]

.

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.add_cog

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.add\_cog

await add_cog(cog, /, *, override=False, guild=..., guilds=...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Adds a “cog” to the bot.

A cog is a class that has its own event listeners and commands.

If the cog is a [`app_commands.Group`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.Group) then it is added to the bot’s [`CommandTree`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree) as well.

Note

Exceptions raised inside a [`Cog`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Cog)’s [`cog_load()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Cog.cog_load) method will be propagated to the caller...

[shrewd apex]

u need to await the add_cog also btw

[frank whale]

yes 🙂 thanks @shrewd apex

ok so the good way is :

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

[fading yew]

Sorry for asking a question that's probably been asked a billion times, but what's the best library for making discord bots? (never made them before) It seems like discord.py is the most popular, but then some say it's been abandoned, but then it's had a comeback..¿ Is it currently maintained? Is it good, or would u recommend something else? Thx

[shrewd apex]

yeah discord.py is currently maintained and up to date with discords apis also has one of the largest communities out there
few other notable mentions are

• disnake
• hikari (kinda more advanced)
• nextcord/pycord

[naive briar]

I wonder why the last two are on the same line

[fiery girder]

how to make a global app_command_error handler like on_command_error

[slate swan]

Overwrite your CommandTree.on_error method

[fiery girder]

how?

[slate swan]

The approach I take is to subclass CommandTree, do what I want in there and then set tree_cls keyword argument in the Bot constructor to my new tree class

[fiery girder]

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}")
        self.tree.copy_global_to(guild=self.testing_guild)
        await self.tree.sync(guild=self.testing_guild)
        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}.")````

I have this

[slate swan]

Bot(Bot) 🤔
Another way could be to just make your own on_app_command_error method inside Bot and then something like self.tree.on_error = self.on_app_command_error inside Bot.__init__

[fiery girder]

ok

so i just link it to a function?

[slate swan]

Essentially yes
But I would read the docs on on_error to make sure your function has the correct signature and stuff

[fiery girder]

what should be the variables i take in my function

[slate swan]

Read through the link I sent, it'll answer your question

This is part of why I prefer the subclassing approach, many editors will warn you when a child class's overridden method signature is incompatible with that of the parent class

[vocal plover]

same, I dom't wanna be on the same line as pycord

[hasty pike]

Error:
Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'Shoya' object has no attribute 'top_role'

Shoya is my bot class

I tried self.client.top_role.position

[dreamy dune]

you need the member object

[hasty pike]

Uhh how can i?

Got it, nvm

[brazen geyser]

hey guys, can someone please tell me why this error handler isnt working?

[hasty pike]

Why don't you make universal error handler

[brazen geyser]

HOW CAN I DO THAT?

pls i need that

[hasty pike]

on_command_error

[hasty pike]

That's a event

[brazen geyser]

but how can i add event to app_commands Group?

[hasty pike]

That's how i handle errors

[hasty pike]

Events is not part of a command it's separate

[brazen geyser]

ohh, i forgot that its that cog listener ._.

[brazen geyser]

even after that im still getting this

2024-01-05 14:11:20 ERROR    discord.app_commands.tree Ignoring exception in command 'set'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\tree.py", line 1248, in _call
    await command._invoke_with_namespace(interaction, namespace)
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 849, in _invoke_with_namespace
    if not await self._check_can_run(interaction):
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 987, in _check_can_run
    return await async_all(f(interaction) for f in predicates)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\utils.py", line 703, in async_all
    for elem in gen:
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 987, in <genexpr>
    return await async_all(f(interaction) for f in predicates)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\checks.py", line 232, in predicate
    raise MissingRole(item)
discord.app_commands.errors.MissingRole: Role 1154457410677788732 is required to run this command.  

[hasty pike]

Unhandled error

[brazen geyser]

how can it be unhandled

[dreamy dune]

on_command_error is for message commands tree.error is for slash commands

[hasty pike]

Is that so?

I use hybrid so I'm not sure

[brazen geyser]

so like how can i fix that?

[fiery girder]

how many context menus can i add into my message

[warm totem]

is it ok if i post here ads? or nah

[fiery girder]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/VDQQ

idk why am igetting this error can someone tell code and error bot in the paste

[slate swan]

discord.Message is unsupported annotation in commands

[fiery girder]

but i have used it before

with hybrid commands

[fiery girder]

i have used Messaeg before with hybrid commands and it converted the message id auto to message

[fiery girder]

@bot.hybrid_command(name="reactionrole", description="Create a reaction role")
@commands.has_permissions(manage_roles=True)
async def reactionrole(
    ctx,
    message: discord.Message,
    role: discord.Role,
    emoji: discord.Emoji = "✅",
    limit=10000,
):
    db.execute(
        "INSERT INTO reaction_roles VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)",
        (
            ctx.guild.id,
            message.channel.id,
            message.id,
            role.id,
            emoji,
            limit,
            dt.datetime.now(),
        ),
    )
    main_db.commit()
    await message.add_reaction(emoji)
    await ctx.author.send(
        embed=Embed(
            title="Reaction Role",
            description=f"Reaction Role Created\nRole: {role}\nEmoji: {emoji}\nLimit: {limit}",
            color=Color.green(),
        )
    )
    main_db.commit()

One of my prevous commands

[golden portal]

hybrid converts unsupported annotations for slash into the regular converter, but plain app commands doesnt support it

[fiery girder]

so how do i do it

[golden portal]

you can't, for discord.Message annotation, only that is for context menus specifically

[fiery girder]

any other way i can get a message?

[final breach]

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

    async def send_embed(self, discord_id: str, embed_type: str = "login") -> None:
        channel_id = settings.PLAYERS_LOG_CHANNEL_ID
        if channel_id is None:
            return
        channel = self.bot.get_channel(int(channel_id))
        if embed_type == "login":
            embed = await login_embed(discord_id)
        elif embed_type == "logout":
            embed = await logout_embed(discord_id)
        await channel.send(embed=embed)
        logger.info(f"Message {embed_type} embed has been sent successfully")


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

i made this cog in cogs folder
how to get this function outside bot files
(i have function out side discord bot i need here to send embed message)

[golden portal]

either use a context menu or make a message transformer, convert them from str to Message

[fiery girder]

ok

[fiery girder]

cant i use int?

[golden portal]

no int is too small to contain a snowflake

javascript L issue

[fiery girder]

ok got t

[fiery girder]

you can only use it in cogs i think you need to create a seperate function or a @staticmethod

[golden portal]

if all you do is send a message, maybe use a webhook? you dont need the bot for that

[fiery girder]

webhooks are slow

[golden portal]

err i dont know about that, i mean webhook has it's own ratelimit independent of bot

[fiery girder]

is channel.get_partial_message corontine?

[golden portal]

no

[fiery girder]

ok

btw how many context menus can i make?

i alr have 3

1. Translate
2. Bookmark
3. Report

i want to make more but idk if i can

[fiery girder]

do you know the limit?

[golden portal]

no they are dynamic, but i've heard it's lower than bot's

[golden portal]

maximum of 5

[fiery girder]

oh thats low

can i have like 5 global and some other for guilds?

[golden portal]

that one i've no clue

[fiery girder]

ok

[fiery girder]

well what should i use then

[golden portal]

fetch_message, get_partial_message is only used for calling another method related to the message but they aren't filled with message values

[fiery girder]

ok

[fiery girder]

ok one more question how do i get to know who deleted the message in on_message_delete

[golden portal]

guild.audit_logs

Then get it by action message_delete

[fiery girder]

umm

!d discord.Guild.audit_logs

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Guild.audit\_logs

async for ... in audit_logs(*, limit=100, before=..., after=..., oldest_first=..., user=..., action=...)```
Returns an [asynchronous iterator](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-asynchronous-iterator) that enables receiving the guild’s audit logs.

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

Examples

Getting the first 100 entries:

```py
async for entry in guild.audit_logs(limit=100):
    print(f'{entry.user} did {entry.action} to {entry.target}')
```...

[fiery girder]

do i need the async for i the limit is only 1?

[golden portal]

ye

[queen pond]

any tutorials to get started with discord bots,i know the basics of python but all of the tutorials go straight to making a discord but none i found that thoroughly explain the discord module

[fiery girder]

i started by just asking/chatting with ppl and reading the docs

!d discord

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

[queen pond]

ty for sending this, i think it'll help tremendously

[fiery girder]

if you want any help you can ask me

or any one in this server they will help

[queen pond]

will do, thanks for the offer

the docs u sent actually explain the module

[fiery girder]

well there is a lot more

do you want prefix command or app_commands?

you can make prefix app and hybrid(both prefix and hybrid)

[queen pond]

for start, I would probably choose prefix commands

[fiery girder]

prefix is problem the easiest

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot

class discord.ext.commands.Bot(command_prefix, *, help_command=<default-help-command>, tree_cls=<class 'discord.app_commands.tree.CommandTree'>, description=None, intents, **options)```
Represents a Discord bot.

This class is a subclass of [`discord.Client`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client) and as a result anything that you can do with a [`discord.Client`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client) you can do with this bot.

This class also subclasses [`GroupMixin`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.GroupMixin) to provide the functionality to manage commands.

Unlike [`discord.Client`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client), this class does not require manually setting a [`CommandTree`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree) and is automatically set upon instantiating the class.

async with x Asynchronously initialises the bot and automatically cleans up.

New in version 2.0.

[queen pond]

yea that's why i would use it first but I would want to learn both after i get fairly good at it

[fiery girder]

and you will also need this

!d discord.Intents

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Intents

class discord.Intents(value=0, **kwargs)```
Wraps up a Discord gateway intent flag.

Similar to [`Permissions`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions), the properties provided are two way. You can set and retrieve individual bits using the properties as if they were regular bools.

To construct an object you can pass keyword arguments denoting the flags to enable or disable.

This is used to disable certain gateway features that are unnecessary to run your bot. To make use of this, it is passed to the `intents` keyword argument of [`Client`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client).

New in version 1.5.

[fiery girder]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.command

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.command

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

[fiery girder]

that should get you started

[queen pond]

ty a lot

[fiery girder]

np

[lean lark]

Is there any way to get the count of all the messages a user has sent in the server without looping through the ctx.channel.history(limit=None) async generator?

[winter coral]

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

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, *_):
        print('msg got')

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_ready(self):
        print('bot up')
```I have this cog. the `on_message` event runs, but the `on_ready` event does not. The cog is loaded from the bots `on_ready`, which I assume is the problem. Is there some on_cog_loaded event? Or should I move the bot ready notification (it will send a msg to a log channel) to the bot itself. I don't want to bloat the bot class too much.

[slate swan]

you should move your startup code to setup_hook event

[winter coral]

that sadly doesn't work, the bot uses entirely guild-specific slash commands - it only needs to work in one guild, and each add_cog is passed guild=bot.guilds[0]. This list seems to be empty if the cogs are loaded in setup_hook.

[slate swan]

isnt bot.guilds always the same guild hence can be hardcoded?

[pale zenith]

!d discord.ext.commands.Cog.cog_load

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Cog.cog\_load

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

A special method that is called when the cog gets loaded.

Subclasses must replace this if they want special asynchronous loading behaviour. Note that the `__init__` special method does not allow asynchronous code to run inside it, thus this is helpful for setting up code that needs to be asynchronous.

New in version 2.0.

[pale zenith]

and also cog_unload, it's sister method

[slate swan]

i would say easiest way would be to just len(list(ctx.channel.history(limit=None))) but actually i dont know if you can do that with async generators

[pale zenith]

(also you shouldn't do startup stuff in on_ready as it can fire many times lol, best to create_task a coroutine with a await bot.wait_until_ready() call as the first thing)

[winter coral]

then everyone who ever wants to develop the bot needs to configure a guild id somewhere, which seems remarkably avoidable seeing as the bot knows which guild it is in. It would be fine IG, just more annoying.

[slate swan]

how is the main on_ready event defined?

[winter coral]

we do already have a .env file, I will just add a bunch of sanity checks and call it a day

[winter coral]

it's more or less

await self.load_extension('cogs.reaction_utils')
```in a loop with various cogs.

[slate swan]

yeah but the actual on_ready definition

you use the @bot.event ?

[winter coral]

we have a subclass of the bot, so its

class CustomBot(commands.Bot):
    async def on_ready(self):
        pass

[slate swan]

ok actually i see the self here so i assume you subclass the Bot and override the method

[winter coral]

yup

[winter coral]

Oh wait, the guild id is already in here, just unused

yeah, I will just use that then.

ty

[lean lark]

it doesn't work

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hushed galleon]

if you're using discord.py, there's a utility for converting datetimes to timestamp markdown

!d discord.utils.format_dt

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.format\_dt

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

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

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hushed galleon]

you er, give it a datetime and the style that you want to show and it formats it into the correct string for showing the timestamp py my_time = datetime.datetime.now() timestamp = discord.utils.format_dt(my_time, "R") await ctx.send(timestamp) which results in <t:1704480462:R> (<t:1704480462:R>)

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[slate swan]

Doesn't discord py allow you to iterate over a single member's message history?

[hushed galleon]

its a bit confusing but the datetime module has a datetime class, so if you see in someone else's code that they write datetime.datetime, it likely means they're using import datetime rather than from datetime import datetime

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hushed galleon]

i believe member.history() iterates through their DMs rather than every channel in a server

afaik discord has no public API for retrieving all messages from a user efficiently, so the best choice for bots would be to track message counts for some time via gateway events

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hushed galleon]

markdown formatting gets ignored if you wrap it in backticks, so er don't use that

[slate swan]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[slate swan]

Makes sense, but the method feels slightly misleading to me in the specific case of Member objects

[slate swan]

trying to just send a message when the on_presence_update occurs to get a test message to go through for a possible logging channel setup. why doesn't this send a message?
i'm using a CHANNEL_ID and using the self.fetch_channel(CHANNEL_ID) I also tried self.get_channel(CHANNEL_ID)to get the discord channel to do channel.send, but it doesn't send a message? I'm using this as an example because I'm trying to make custom messages to be sent when events happen from outside discord api events. So I can log those in a certain channel.

if after.activity is not None:
            print(after.guild.id)
            channel_id = CHANNEL_ID
            channel = self.fetch_channel(channel_id)
            await channel.send(f"<t:{int(unix_time)}:T> After:\n{after.activity.type} || {after.activity.name}")

do I have to like... check and see if user is in that guild.id first, then use guild as my base? like this...?

        guild = self.get_guild(GUILD_ID)
        channel = guild.get_channel(CHANNEL_ID)

[hushed galleon]

does the print statement show up in your console? are there any errors as well?

if no to both, you might be missing the members/presences intent which are both needed to receive on_presence_update(), but otherwise get_guild()+get_channel() is the most optimal way to retrieve the channel

[slate swan]

I have intents.all on currently.
it's wrapped in my super().__init__()

would that be an issue?

[hushed galleon]

sounds fine... what about the print statement and errors?

[slate swan]

no errors.

i even did try/except catches

the cog is loaded.

[hushed galleon]

does the guild ID get printed though?

[slate swan]

yes

the guild id does, but nothing else.

[hushed galleon]

hmm, i would suspect that there was an error, but it got suppressed by either your try/except clause or an on_error handler

[slate swan]

probably on_error.

cause I setup all the cog listeners as tests in their own cog so I can import controllers later.

[hushed galleon]

(as a sidenote, client.get_channel() can be more convenient if you only have a channel ID, but dpy has to loop through all guilds to find the correct channel object; alternatively you can use get_partial_messageable() if you can't go the get_guild() route)

[hushed galleon]

what does your on_error handler look like?

[slate swan]

so pass the bot through as client instead of commands.Bot?

class OnError(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot) -> None:
        self.bot= bot
        self.message = None
    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_error(self, event, *args, **kwargs):
        """ Usually when an event raises an uncaught exception, a traceback is logged to stderr and the exception is ignored. If you want to change this behaviour and handle the exception for whatever reason yourself, this event can be overridden. Which, when done, will suppress the default action of printing the traceback.
            The information of the exception raised and the exception itself can be retrieved with a standard call to sys.exc_info().
            Changed in version 2.0: The traceback is now logged rather than printed.
            Parameters
                event (str) – The name of the event that raised the exception.
                args – The positional arguments for the event that raised the exception.
                kwargs – The keyword arguments for the event that raised the exception."""
        print(f"On Error: \nEvent: {event}\nArgs: {args}\nKwargs: {kwargs}")
        pass
async def setup(bot: commands.Bot):
    await bot.add_cog(OnError(bot))
    print('OnError loaded')

legit bare minimum right now lol

[hushed galleon]

commands.Bot already inherits discord.Client so you don't have to change anything about that

actually based on their source code and docs, on_error doesn't support listeners so the cog doesn't have any effect

if you didn't define on_error in your Bot subclass, it's likely using the default handler which logs the exception according to the logging configuration

how do you start your bot, using bot.run() or await bot.start()?

if it's the latter and you haven't already set up logging yourself (docs), you should call discord.utils.setup_logging() before starting it, otherwise it won't print any exceptions from your on_presence_update()

[slate swan]

await bot.start(settings.DISCORD_API_TOKEN, reconnect=True)

[slate swan]

I tried to setup logging, but I'm assuming I did it wrong in the setup_hook.

    async def setup_hook(self) -> Coroutine[Any, Any, None]:
        await self.load_modules()

        discord.utils.setup_logging(
            level=logging.INFO,
            handler=MyFileHandler('D:\\Discord\\Logs\\info_discord.log'),
            formatter=logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s')
        )
        discord.utils.setup_logging(
            level=logging.DEBUG,
            handler=MyFileHandler('D:\\Discord\\Logs\\debug_discord.log'),
            formatter=logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s')
        )
        discord.utils.setup_logging(
            level=logging.WARNING,
            handler=MyFileHandler('D:\\Discord\\Logs\\warning_discord.log'),
            formatter=logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s')
        )
        discord.utils.setup_logging(
            level=logging.ERROR,
            handler=MyFileHandler('D:\\Discord\\Logs\\error_discord.log'),
            formatter=logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s')
        )
        discord.utils.setup_logging(
            level=logging.CRITICAL,
            handler=MyFileHandler('D:\\Discord\\Logs\\critical_discord.log'),
            formatter=logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s')
        )

        print(f"Bot is online.")
        return await super().setup_hook()

[hushed galleon]

uhh the lowest level captures everything above that level, so debug_discord.log would contain INFO, WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL logs

but regardless that should write any on_presence_update errors to your log files...

[hushed galleon]

are you still running the event handler with try/except blocks? if so, can you show that part

[slate swan]

        if after.activity is not None:
            print(after.guild.id)
            print(after.guild.name)
            print(after.activity)
            if after.guild.id == GUILD_ID:
                channel_id = CHANNEL_ID
                channel = self.fetch_channel(channel_id)
                if channel is None:
                    channel = self.get_channel(channel_id)
                print(channel)
                if channel:
                    try:
                        await channel.send(f"<t:{int(unix_time)}:T> After:\n{after.activity.type} || {after.activity.name}")
                    except Exception as e:
                        print(e)

[hushed galleon]

seems okay for debugging purposes, what did it print for the channel?

[slate swan]

also .fetch_channel always returns the channal as it calls the api .get_channel on the other hand looks in cache and if not found then returns None so you swaped the methods

[hushed galleon]

oh i didnt notice you were attempting to use both methods at the same time

self.fetch_channel() is an asynchronous function, so not awaiting it merely gives you a coroutine object rather than None

[slate swan]

oh yeah you need to await the fetch_channel

[hushed galleon]

ah thats why it didnt error, you unintentionally invoked coroutine.send() which is a valid method

[slate swan]

ohhhhhhhhhh

[hushed galleon]

i suggest sticking with get_channel() because once your bot is ready, all guilds/channels should already be cached (except if you use AutoShardedBot or you turn off the guilds intent, in which case it's safer to use get_partial_messageable() as linked earlier)

[slate swan]

so then can i still do await channel.send()? if it's only return an int, can I still have it send a message that way?

[hushed galleon]

uhh if what returns an int? you can still use .send(), it was just getting the channel that needs to be fixed

[young dagger]

!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.

[young dagger]

What can this be?
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/RVJA

[hushed galleon]

who knows, discord disconnected your bot for some random reason
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/v2.3.2/discord/client.py#L700-L701

[unkempt canyon]

discord/client.py lines 700 to 701

# sometimes, discord sends us 1000 for unknown reasons so we should reconnect
# regardless and rely on is_closed instead```

[young dagger]

Is there any way to check why?

I just run it on a VPS with PM2

[hushed galleon]

afaik no, but its probably not something you can do anything about anyway

code 1000 is simply a clean websocket closure, it doesnt mean that discord is conveying any error status

the other close codes discord could send is documented here
https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/opcodes-and-status-codes#gateway-gateway-close-event-codes

[young dagger]

Well I have never seen it before. Maybe I could ask my VPS provider if they are having any uptime issues/or change VPS location?

[hushed galleon]

if you want to sure, but receiving a close code is unlikely to suggest that there's an issue with the connection itself, because that normally results in disconnecting without any close code

[young dagger]

I mean what else could it be, since I never received this message with my other VPS provider for 12 months? As soon as I changed to this provider, I received the message

[hushed galleon]

could be some engineer at discord making changes to the gateway and forcing bots to reconnect... or perhaps they have some automated system to close connections that behave a certain way

whatever the cause might be, it was an intentional action by discord's servers to end your gateway connection with code 1000

i wouldnt worry that much about it given the downtime was 1 second

[pale zenith]

This error legit just appears sometimes

I got it once while polling history on every channel of a server

[timber lotus]

is commands the only way for a bot to store data in a database?

[sick birch]

no

[final iron]

This question is confusing

databases are independent from commands

In the case of sqlite, they're just files

So I don't really understand what you're asking

[timber lotus]

thanks bro

[stiff oriole]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1193001243300352150

Anyone able to provide insight on what is going on?

[slate swan]

howdy gents its me borger

im proud to annouce that my bot is now functioning as intended

i'd like to thank the people that have helped me with coding it by providing reasorces and insight

yall really did me a solid

welp

back to the void

[split onyx]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/R3IQ
idk at this point
I need some help

I know its basically all wrongt but im unfamiliar with sql, also add the id and prefix does work but can be built upon better.

[final iron]

Please dont tell me you have a 3 letter username and password

[split onyx]

I dont lol

its just blurred, the info is correct

My table in sql has guild.id and newprefix

[split onyx]

...

hewO?

[split onyx]

nvm

[latent pier]

How can i get reason of ban of banned user?

[latent pier]

If it's about SQL then #databases

[robust fulcrum]

Guys do disnake have cogs watching enabled by default?

[hasty pike]

Error:
Command raised an exception: TypeError: object of type 'async_generator' has no len()

line: len(ctx.guild.bans())

[slate swan]

!d discord.Guild.bans

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Guild.bans

async for ... in bans(*, limit=1000, before=..., after=...)```
Retrieves an [asynchronous iterator](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-asynchronous-iterator) of the users that are banned from the guild as a [`BanEntry`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.BanEntry).

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

Changed in version 2.0: Due to a breaking change in Discord’s API, this now returns a paginated iterator instead of a list.

Examples

Usage...

[slate swan]

See the example 2

[hasty pike]

So i can't get a length?

[slate swan]

Literally look at the second example....

[hasty pike]

I can't see examples in embed

[slate swan]

Come on.... Use at least a little bit of common sense and click on the link on "discord.Guild.bans" - it's not blue for decoration

[hasty pike]

Oh got it

Thanks

[slate swan]

hi, I tried to install the fivem library in the terminal and since I installed it, everything in visual studio stopped working, can anyone help me?
Thank you

!dash-m use that

[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]

and install discord.py not discord

[unkempt canyon]

discord v2.3.2

A mirror package for discord.py. Please install that instead.

[sacred oyster]

hello

I was wondering how would you check the perms of the user who triggered (used) the command

in an if block

i was using if ctx.message.author.guild_permissions.administrator: because I found it in stackoverflow but I noticed it doesn't work and it's obsolete

[slate swan]

For what do you need to check the permissions

[sacred oyster]

a ban command

[slate swan]

For what

[sacred oyster]

to ban users

[slate swan]

Doesn't answer the question, to send a message? To warn you? To mention the user? To send a nice gif?... ...

[sacred oyster]

I had planned that if the user has enough permission to ban, it would send an embed containing who banned and who got banned

[slate swan]

Then use the decorator instead, will prevent unnecessary code

!d discord.ext.commands.has_permissions

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.has\_permissions

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

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

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

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

[slate swan]

See the example

[sacred oyster]

which example

[slate swan]

^

But click on the blue discord.ext.commands.has_permissions title instead

[sacred oyster]

ohh

[slate swan]

There it's for manage_messages but you can do for anything and add multiple as well

[sacred oyster]

ohhh

is there a list to the permissions?

or they're just the same name as the ones in roles

[slate swan]

indifferent

[slate swan]

!d discord.Permissions

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Permissions

class discord.Permissions(permissions=0, **kwargs)```
Wraps up the Discord permission value.

The properties provided are two way. You can set and retrieve individual bits using the properties as if they were regular bools. This allows you to edit permissions.

Changed in version 1.3: You can now use keyword arguments to initialize [`Permissions`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions) similar to [`update()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.update).

[slate swan]

There's the entire list

[sacred oyster]

How would you send something if he doesn't have the permission?

[slate swan]

@slate swan

[slate swan]

Handle the error

[slate swan]

Start your bot with python file_name.py

doesn't work, the terminal closes

@slate swan

In your terminal, you open it and use the command above

It won't just close

And no point in pinging for every message you send

[slate swan]

sorry

[slate swan]

every command I try gives me various errors

Show them then

[timid orchid]

Can someone help

i get this error when running my code

Python 3.10.11 (tags/v3.10.11:7d4cc5a, Apr 5 2023, 00:38:17) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

[slate swan]

that's not an error, you launched python

[timid orchid]

It doesnt run my bot though

[slate swan]

because you didn't pass the file to run

[timid orchid]

wdym

[slate swan]

python file.py will run the file called file.py

[timid orchid]

oh

[slate swan]

just executing python will just launch python interactively

[timid orchid]

right

mb

[smoky anvil]

Trying to run a bot on a vps, but getting this problem, how do i solve?

[fiery girder]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/BQ7A

this command is not working its showing interaction didnot respond and it has no errors

[slate swan]

What os is the vps?

Cause you are missing SSL certificates

[shrewd apex]

not really its more of an internet issue if he is connected to some sort of vpn

[late cypress]

How to pair discord bot with Flask app
suppose i hit route /say_hello/<name>
i want bot to send Hello <name> in channel

[shrewd apex]

that would require quite a different custom setup ur bot will be running a webserver and u will have another webserver in the form of flask app and any request to this flask app will be forwarded to the bot where the request will further be processed a more hacky way would be you run both the flask and bot from the same program that way a single web server should suffice since you would have access to both instances

[late cypress]

Sounds like im heading to very niche approch, what is common setup for such task, im trying to create a todo app using flask and saving data on discord server

[shrewd apex]

i did mention how u would setup the project above and how the bot and the website would interact

[late cypress]

i didn't understand by single program did you mean using threading?

[shrewd apex]

could u specify what exactly are you looking for in "setup"

ah ok

[shrewd apex]

yes kind of u would start the bot and start the flask server in another thread

[late cypress]

i got this error called Run time error Timeout context manager should be used inside a task

[smoky anvil]

Windows 10 1809

[smoky anvil]

Is it?

[golden portal]

code?

[late cypress]

Hey it was problem with asyncio it's resolved now

[frozen verge]

Can someone help with this

[golden portal]

i see, alright, you can't really mix flask with dpy

[late cypress]

Yea it's working fine with threading so far

[golden portal]

is spotipy a library you're trying to import?

[frozen verge]

yes

I also installed it with pip

[golden portal]

you should rename your file spotipy.py to another name, since that's shadowing the package

[frozen verge]

It worked

But I have another problem

[golden portal]

err, full traceback please i can't rly see why it's pointing at that

[golden portal]

thats true, but i wouldn't recommend mixing wsgi with dpy, i mean what if you want to spawn multiple workers, etc, it do be better if you separate them in a separate project with proper ipc

[late cypress]

IPC? What is it?

[frozen verge]

TypeError: BotBase.__init__() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'intents'

[golden portal]

interprocess communication, it's a way to communicate to another process, it's a general concepts, but you can use websocket/db/ and other ways

[frozen verge]

IDK What intent it is

I have the message one, Voice one

[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.

[golden portal]

see the last line there

[astral lotus]

anyone know how to fix this

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, read

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/2D7A

[final iron]

This is a Python server

[edgy plinth]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1193414717314711582

If anyone has anything that could be causing this it would be greatly apreicated

[drifting arrow]

Can discordbots issue timeouts?

[sick birch]

yes

!d discord.Member.timeout

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.timeout

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

Applies a time out to a member until the specified date time or for the given [`datetime.timedelta`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta).

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

This raises the same exceptions as [`edit()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Member.edit).

[drifting arrow]

wot.

oh

apparently u dont put "until"

[sick birch]

yeah that's what the / means in the function signature

means "positional only"

[drifting arrow]

Neat

So does it mean everything before the / has to be in that order?

or just the immediate one?

[sick birch]

that's uh, good question actually

I'll get back to you on that

[drifting arrow]

Coz I know the * means everything after has to be specified, so if you got my_func(*,a,b,c) it doesnt matter order, but you still have to say my_func(b=1,c=3) for example. u cant just do 1,3

[sick birch]

@drifting arrow you're right:

The following would apply:

• All parameters left of the / are treated as positional-only.

Source

[final iron]

Show some code

[edgy plinth]

just noticed i had old code

that could be making it longer then 3 seconds

[mild token]

How many buttons are possible to add on one interaction?

[slate swan]

Clicking a button, using an application command, choosing an option in a select menu, etc. is an interaction, so the question doesn't make much sense

If you mean how many per message, 25 (5 rows with each 5 buttons)

[fiery girder]

i am making a giveaway command what is the best way to make the waiting system

cause if i just use ayncio.sleep than it can go off when i restart the bot

[rugged shadow]

store times in your database

[fiery girder]

and if i use db with the @task.loop it stil doesnt feel right

cause of the off set

[rugged shadow]

it is only by a few milliseconds

or seconds

[fiery girder]

hours

i aint running the loop every minnute

i was thinking about doing an hour but it was the offset

so i set it to 10 minutes

[rugged shadow]

no like

compute the time left and put that into the tasks.loop

[fiery girder]

wdym?

[fiery girder]

@tasks.loop(minutes=10)
    async def giveawayloop(self):
        db.execute(
            "SELECT * FROM giveaways"
        )
        giveaways = db.fetchall()
        for giveaway in giveaways:
            time = giveaway[8]
            minspent = giveaway[7]
            if minspent < time:
                minspent += 10
                db.execute(
                    "UPDATE giveaways SET minspend = ? WHERE message_id = ?",
                    (minspent, giveaway[3])
                )``` i have this

[rugged shadow]

usually you'd store the time when the giveaway will start

calculate when that'll happen and put that into tasks.loop

cancel the task when it gets run

[fiery girder]

hmm

my way is easier

[rugged shadow]

what is the point of asking for help then

[fiery girder]

maybe there is a better way

and an easier way

[rugged shadow]

what i told you is the easiest way

load the giveaway time from the db

then schedule that in your bot

[slate swan]

The thing with that is that if a giveaway ends at e.g. 0830 and your last task run was at 0828, your next task run will be 8 minutes after the end, and if someone joined the giveaway after the end and won.. pretty unfair

What interrrp said is definitely the way to go

[fiery girder]

i dont understand the method @rugged shadow is suggesting

[rugged shadow]

for example, you have your giveaway time as 0800, so you store that in your db
then in your bot, you load that time (0800) and schedule the event on that time

[fiery girder]

howww

[fiery girder]

show like a code example or something please

[timber lotus]

DECLARATION--- IM NEW TO CODING - WHAT I TELL YOU MIGHT BE "WRONG" BUT THIS HOW I WAS TOLD TO DO IT BY SOME PEOPLE HERE AND SOME INDEPENDENT RESEARCH i just finished giveaway commands for my bot bro. i have my check giveaway function (which calls the end giveaway function) task to run every 1 second. and the key to getting to work between bot restarts is i call check_giveaway function when my giveaway commands cog loads. thats where i was told to put it in here when i asked. also i saved the end time when the giveaway was created. my check giveaway function just first looks for any giveaway that current time is not past end time, if none return the loop stops. if any return, the loop continues running and when the current time reaches the end time its calls my end giveaway function. oh also the check giveaway function is called and started when the start giveaway function.

only thing im still having issues with is getting my buttons to still work after bot restarts. i got it for the original message but i also have repost giveaway commands and that messages doesnt lol. i just need to do some debugging and figure out where the mistake is. other than that, this room helped tremendously getting my bot up adn running with giveaway commands

[slate swan]

resources usage goes brrrrr

[fiery girder]

u can just add the vutton

[fiery girder]

yea right

every secound is just way to much]

[slate swan]

and that's why you start a task for x seconds until the giveaway ends on the bot's start

[fiery girder]

i am using 10 minutes cause that just giives my peace

[timber lotus]

yea i know, i made a mistake somewhere, ill find it.

[fiery girder]

you need to add the view to your bot

[timber lotus]

i know. i had it working perfectly but added a new command and just need to fix the new command

[slate swan]

if it's not a multipurpose bot like 6472927 other bots but a giveaway bot then it's fine.

if it's multipurpose having a giveaway feature is pretty painful to have if you have lots of people that create a giveaway and other features which will use lots of resources in the end

[timber lotus]

lol exactly why only admin is setup to create and start giveaways

[raven steeple]

who can help me about code

[timber lotus]

weill only have 1 or 2 giveaways running at the same time. have our first giveaway running for the past 50some hours

[slate swan]

doesn't change a thing, i can create a server and create hundreds of giveaways in your multipurpose bot and then it may not have enough resources for other features for other users

[timber lotus]

its not a multipurpose bot and it wouldnt do shit because my server info is hard coded lol. my bot will only work in my server

[slate swan]

Just make it private in the dev portal, don't need to make it work only in your server if people can't invite it

[timber lotus]

ill be honest, i didnt do that on purpose. just thats how the setup video i watched did it haha didnt even realize i was doing it when i did it haha

[slate swan]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[timber lotus]

but curious, how do you do it for the giveaway to end when its suppose to if you dont check every second?

[slate swan]

can someone help me?

[raven steeple]

hiring python developer 200$ weekly

[timber lotus]

lol

[raven steeple]

need help about code

[fiery girder]

i am in lol

[fiery girder]

with discord ?

in anyways i am in i was looking for a job anyway

[slate swan]

@fiery girder can you help me?

[raven steeple]

yeh sure

just need a simple error fix

ill just pay 20$ for that

that ll take ur 5 minutes max

[unkempt canyon]

Rules

9. Do not offer or ask for paid work of any kind.

[raven steeple]

oh alr

i need hepl about code anyone can hlep_?

[fiery girder]

sure i can help you

[glad cradle]

you either use tasks.loop or schedule a task yourself using the asyncio api

[timber lotus]

i did a task loop. but people were commenting it shouldn't be every 1 second. so how else do you do it for the giveaway to end when its suppose to? exactly the length of teh set duration?

i guess i schedule the task to run for the last minute of the giveaway or something instead of the whole time?

[glad cradle]

what i did in the past was to:

check every 30 minutes / 1 hour the database for near ending giveaways (so giveaways that will end in 30 minutes / 1 hour) and schedule the ending actions through the creation of tasks using the asyncio api, when these tasks are completed they push the final state of the giveaway to the database (so e.g ended, etc...)

the post task run logic is important because if your Bot shuts down exactly when running the tasks to end a giveaway it'll know in the next restart if it missed some giveaways, at least, it should (never happened on production)

[raven steeple]

why no one helping

i sent someone money and he disappeared

[naive briar]

Wha

[timber lotus]

i see. so basically its 1 task set to run not that oftne (30 mins to an hour) to check for giveaways about to end that then schedules the next task which runs more often to start the eng giveaway functions?

[blazing condor]

well firstly, this ins't even related to discord bots.

[raven steeple]

there is no telegram bot section in this discord thats why i sent here

[blazing condor]

#1035199133436354600

is better and just wait patiently.

[glad cradle]

yeah, the task.loop task checks ending giveaways and schedule them, if there are multiple ending giveaways it'll schedule the end for them all

[timber lotus]

thank you for explaining. ill update now

[glad cradle]

note that this logic works well only if you're using a database

[timber lotus]

post loop you mean after_loop?

[timber lotus]

i am using a sqlite3 database

[glad cradle]

!d asyncio.Task.add_done_callback I'm talking about this

[unkempt canyon]

asyncio.Task.add\_done\_callback

add_done_callback(callback, *, context=None)```
Add a callback to be run when the Task is *done*.

This method should only be used in low-level callback-based code.

See the documentation of [`Future.add_done_callback()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-future.html#asyncio.Future.add_done_callback) for more details.

[glad cradle]

or you can just call a function at the end of the giveaway ending function ig

[timber lotus]

gotcha. thanks bro

[glad cradle]

you're using an async driver right?

!pypi aiosqlite

[unkempt canyon]

aiosqlite v0.19.0

asyncio bridge to the standard sqlite3 module

[glad cradle]

Like this one

[timber lotus]

no im not using asiosqlite. should i be?

[glad cradle]

yes you should

!blocking

[unkempt canyon]

Asynchronous programming

Imagine that you're coding a Discord bot and every time somebody uses a command, you need to get some information from a database. But there's a catch: the database servers are acting up today and take a whole 10 seconds to respond. If you do not use asynchronous methods, your whole bot will stop running until it gets a response from the database. How do you fix this? Asynchronous programming.

What is asynchronous programming?
An asynchronous program utilises the async and await keywords. An asynchronous program pauses what it's doing and does something else whilst it waits for some third-party service to complete whatever it's supposed to do. Any code within an async context manager or function marked with the await keyword indicates to Python, that whilst this operation is being completed, it can do something else. For example:

import discord

# Bunch of bot code

async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Pong!")

What does the term "blocking" mean?
A blocking operation is wherever you do something without awaiting it. This tells Python that this step must be completed before it can do anything else. Common examples of blocking operations, as simple as they may seem, include: outputting text, adding two numbers and appending an item onto a list. Most common Python libraries have an asynchronous version available to use in asynchronous contexts.

async libraries

• The standard async library - asyncio
• Asynchronous web requests - aiohttp
• Talking to PostgreSQL asynchronously - asyncpg
• MongoDB interactions asynchronously - motor
• Check out this list for even more!

[timber lotus]

hmm

[slate swan]

@timber lotus can you help me?

[scarlet aurora]

Sataru Gojo

[gray mantle]

Extension 'ext.antinuke' raised an error: TypeError: object NoneType can't be used in 'await' expression
TypeError: object NoneType can't be used in 'await' expression
pls fix it i will provide the required code

[slate swan]

We can explain what's wrong, we won't fix it for you

[gray mantle]

okay bro pls explain me where i am doing wrong

[blazing condor]

Could you provide the code where the issue is occuring.

[gray mantle]

okay wiat

!insert\

bruh how to get that code insertion link

!insert

[slate swan]

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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[gray mantle]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/F3CA

@slate swan

[blazing condor]

and the error is occuring on which line @gray mantle

[gray mantle]

let me show u

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("/", "."))

its last line

[slate swan]

can someone help me?

my bots commands dont show up

for some reason...

[gray mantle]

maybe its a cog issue

[slate swan]

could u help me fix it?

[gray mantle]

send the error msg

[slate swan]

there isnt a error

the commands just dont show up when trying to use them

[gray mantle]

send the code

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

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[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/UKFQ

[blazing condor]

hmm, considering documentation states it's a Coroutine 🤔

[slate swan]

@gray mantle

[blazing condor]

why am i blanking on this issue,

it's gotta be something stupid.

[slate swan]

@blazing condor could u try to help em aswell?

[final iron]

What’s the full traceback

[blazing condor]

wha'ts the issue?

[final iron]

Are the commands being synced

That’s not the full traceback

[slate swan]

one of the two commands doesnt show up when trying to use it

[slate swan]

I belive so

actually Id take that back

I belive they dont

[final iron]

sync returns a list of AppCommand objects, which have a name attribute

Loop through it and print the names

[slate swan]

@final iron print("Logged in as {0.user}".format(bot)) try: synced = await bot.tree.sync() print(f"Synced {len(synced)} command(s)") except Exception as e: print(e) this?

[final iron]

You didn’t change anything

That’s what you already had

[slate swan]

No I mean that isnt running

for some reason

[final iron]

Nothing is printing?

[slate swan]

yeah

[final iron]

Well yeah…

[slate swan]

maybe because of the statuses I added

[final iron]

You have a while loop

[slate swan]

@final iron so how do I make the sync do itself once and then let the while loop go on?

[final iron]

You shouldn’t be looping through presences.

[slate swan]

but I want it to have 3 and to loop through them every 10 seconds

how could I separate the two?

[final iron]

You shouldn’t be looping through presences.

[slate swan]

why is that

@final iron so I updated the code and still doesnt update it

[lofty nacelle]

I am working no a project. But i cant figure out how can i work with my friends. How can we work together is a same project. Can anyone help me out. I am new to these all !

[final iron]

Are you looking for a live coding environment, or just somewhere to host your code, like GitHub

[timber lotus]

im new probably not

[slate swan]

not sure if this is the appropriate channel, but I think this guide should be updated as repl.it no longer has free hosting as of jan 1st 2024

Can make a PR on GitHub

Actually even Heroku doesn't provide free hosting, so the entire section can be removed

[meager raven]

hello i'm neew in python, acn you please explain me why it does that when i install discord with pip

[slate swan]

Python 3.12 is not supported yet, downgrade to 3.11

[meager raven]

thxs

the 2020 or 2022 version ?

@slate swan

[slate swan]

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3117/

[meager raven]

thanks

[desert kiln]

Good afternoon my fellow friends, I'm looking to make buttons for my embeds, and was wondering how to do it?

[final iron]

There's some examples in the Github

[desert kiln]

that helps alot, dosent provide any help

[final iron]

How are examples not helpful

[desert kiln]

It would help if I had a link to said GitHub examples

[final iron]

You haven't said which library you're using, so it's literally impossible to give a link

[desert kiln]

discord.py

[final iron]

In the repository there's an examples folder

[desert kiln]

what repository

[final iron]

discord.py...

[desert kiln]

I had a look at the repo, and it wasn't much use.

[final iron]

Which part of the example didn't you understand?

[desert kiln]

Well, I'm using cogs, so I'm not sure how much it will change when using them

[final iron]

Just try it and see

There's like 10 different examples, so you're not really being specific enough for me to be able to comment on any changes

[desert kiln]

Well, what I'm wanting is 2 buttons for confirmation of deleting a channel, that can only be used my people with a certain permission, and only the author of the one who called the command

[final iron]

Take it one at a time

Just create the two buttons at first

Then, implement the permissions check

[robust fulcrum]

Guys can we override the default help command in disnake like we do in discord.py?

[sick birch]

yes. disnake is a fork of discordpy so most things are similar

I assume it's the same way too - pass in the custom help command instance to the client or bot instance

[drifting arrow]

using text commands, is there a way to get just the message that was sent?
message = ctx.message.content
Partial of my function:

    @commands.command(name='m')
    @commands.guild_only()
    async def text_reply(self, ctx):
        author_roles = ctx.author.roles
        for role in author_roles:
            if role.id in self.roles:
                database_data = await database.search_for_channel(channel_id=ctx.channel.id)
                message = ctx.message.content

i havent used text commands in a while lol

I usually use slash commands.

nvm. i needed anoter paramater lol

async def text_reply(self, ctx, response_message): XD

[vital glacier]

is there a way to make ctx.reinvoke() not mess up the rest of my custom error handling? everything after await ctx.reinvoke() gets cancelled out in my on_command_error handler

[drifting arrow]

What is against terms of service

[drifting arrow]

Turns out this doesnt work 😄

[sick birch]

Why not?

[drifting arrow]

I needed an asterisk (*) before "response_message"

chatgpt helped out. i really didnt want to have to google that issue lol

I rarely use text commands so it's not worth spending forever trying to figure out

[robust fulcrum]

Did chatgpt tell you whats "*" for?

[acoustic kernel]

Question:
Right now I have a Folder containing all my code, inside that folder I have a functions folder, containing several functions I use in the code. Now I want to make a cogs folder so I can store individual commands because my code is 1500 lines long. But I also want to use the functions in the Functions folder in my cogs, that I will import to my main.py code. Everytime I try to import a function from my functions folder it gives me a error. IDK why.

-Main Folder
-- Main.py (My Bot)
-- Functions Folder
---All my functions
-- Cogs Folder
---All my cogs

[robust fulcrum]

Show error pls?

[acoustic kernel]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\djfau\OneDrive\Desktop\Beta UN Bot Version 0.1.5\0_1_6.py", line 50, in <module>
from Cogs_Folder.Donate_Cog import Donate_Cog
File "c:\Users\djfau\OneDrive\Desktop\Beta UN Bot Version 0.1.5\Cogs_Folder\Donate_Cog.py", line 5, in <module>
from Functions_Folder.Check_File_Exists import check_file_exists
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Functions_Folder'

[robust fulcrum]

What's you folder name? Show image pls

I mean image of the your file structure

[acoustic kernel]

The cog I am working in is in the Cogs_Folder

[robust fulcrum]

So how you importing the functions? Btw you should organise your files

[acoustic kernel]

import discord
import json
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import app_commands
from Functions_Folder.Check_File_Exists import check_file_exists
from Functions_Folder.Unformat_Number import unformat_number
from Functions_Folder.Check_Player_Budget import check_player_budget
from Functions_Folder.Format_number import format_number
from Functions_Folder.Check_Player_Resource_Quantity import check_player_resource_quantity


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

...```

This is my cog

continues on but not important

[robust fulcrum]

Add a . before the Functions_Folder

[acoustic kernel]

Thats giving me a bunch of errors

[robust fulcrum]

Try organising your code in a folder called src and make it a module and use relative imports

Show errors?

[acoustic kernel]

PS C:\Users\djfau\OneDrive\Desktop\Beta UN Bot Version 0.1.5> & C:/Users/djfau/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/python.exe "c:/Users/djfau/OneDrive/Desktop/Beta UN Bot Version 0.1.5/Cogs_Folder/Donate_Cog.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\djfau\OneDrive\Desktop\Beta UN Bot Version 0.1.5\Cogs_Folder\Donate_Cog.py", line 5, in <module>
from .Functions_Folder.Check_File_Exists import check_file_exists
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

[robust fulcrum]

Run file using -m

I recommend your structure your files properly

[robust fulcrum]

Like do like this

src--|
Cogs
Functions
bot.py
init.py(makes it module)

so the your import the files like

from src.Functions import ...

Await it

[acoustic kernel]

alright dont really know what all that means but Ill figure it out thanks

[robust fulcrum]

Make it async function and run it

[robust fulcrum]

Lemme get you an example, 2 mins

Try loading extensions in setup_hook which is called before starting bot

Like

async def setup_hook():
  load here

bot.setup_hook = setup_hook

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.setup_hook

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.setup\_hook

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

A coroutine to be called to setup the bot, by default this is blank.

To perform asynchronous setup after the bot is logged in but before it has connected to the Websocket, overwrite this coroutine.

This is only called once, in [`login()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.login), and will be called before any events are dispatched, making it a better solution than doing such setup in the [`on_ready()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.on_ready) event.

Warning

Since this is called *before* the websocket connection is made therefore anything that waits for the websocket will deadlock, this includes things like [`wait_for()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.wait_for) and [`wait_until_ready()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.wait_until_ready)...

[robust fulcrum]

can you show me yoru all code?

[robust fulcrum]

main

[timber lotus]

which intents do i need for a bot that only does giveaways, send messages in channels and dms?

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
intents.guilds = True
intents.guild_messages = True
intents.guild_reactions = True
intents.members = True

this is what i think i need after reading the documentation but i never understand teh documentatioon correctly

[robust fulcrum]

!paste can you send in text form?

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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[robust fulcrum]

copy code from you main file and paste in the https://paste.pythondiscord.com/, click save and send me link

[lofty nacelle]

Yes i am looking for live coding environmet.

I want to code together with my friend.

How can i do that

[sick birch]

iirc there are extensions on VSCode for this but live coding is very unusual and would not recommend doing

you most likely want git/github

[lofty nacelle]

HOw can i do with intellij IDE

i mean i have no idea about it

How can i get started

[sick birch]

There might be an extension but I doubt it's built in - it's not a feature most people would use

[robust fulcrum]

try this

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
import os
from keys import *

class Client(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        intents = discord.Intents.default()
        intents.guilds = True
        intents.members = True
        intents.message_content = True
        super().__init__(command_prefix="()", intents=intents, *args, **kwargs)

    async def setup_hooks(self):
        initial_extensions = []
        for filename in os.listdir('Discord/cogs'):
            if filename.endswith('.py'):
                initial_extensions.append("cogs." + filename[:-3])
                print(initial_extensions)

        for extension in initial_extensions:
            try:
                await self.load_extension(extension)
            except Exception as e:
                print(f'Failed to load extension {extension}: {type(e).__name__} - {e}')

    async def on_ready(self):
        await self.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=discord.Game('Under-Development'))
        print('Active')
        print('-------------------------------')

client = Client()

client.run(BOTTOKEN)

this uses concepts of OOPS

[timber lotus]

thank you

[robust fulcrum]

kk

is hello command in cogs?

looks like cogs are not being loaded properly

show me your bot logs?

i mean logs

[hushed galleon]

fyi using discord.Intents.default() enables all the non-privileged intents so if you really only want those intents, you should write discord.Intents(message_content=True, guilds=True, guild_messages=True, members=True) instead

[robust fulcrum]

logs are shown in terminal

[timber lotus]

im not sure which intents i need. its just a giveaway bot that sends a dm to the winner, post to a text channel, edits and deletes its own messages. with embeds

[robust fulcrum]

oops, my bad

rename setup_hooks to setup_hook

sry for that

[hushed galleon]

if its a small bot where discord doesn't need to send that many events, you don't need to care that much about non-privileged intents and can just leave them all on with default(), but regardless what you have selected might work depending on what exactly your code does (for example, if people have to enter the giveaway using reactions, you'll need the reactions intent)

[unkempt canyon]

The `*args` and `**kwargs` parameters

These special parameters allow functions to take arbitrary amounts of positional and keyword arguments. The names args and kwargs are purely convention, and could be named any other valid variable name. The special functionality comes from the single and double asterisks (*). If both are used in a function signature, *args must appear before **kwargs.

Single asterisk
*args will ingest an arbitrary amount of positional arguments, and store it in a tuple. If there are parameters after *args in the parameter list with no default value, they will become required keyword arguments by default.

Double asterisk
**kwargs will ingest an arbitrary amount of keyword arguments, and store it in a dictionary. There can be no additional parameters after **kwargs in the parameter list.

Use cases

• Decorators (see /tag decorators)
• Inheritance (overriding methods)
• Future proofing (in the case of the first two bullet points, if the parameters change, your code won't break)
• Flexibility (writing functions that behave like dict() or print())

See /tag positional-keyword for information about positional and keyword arguments

[robust fulcrum]

@slate swan

which line?

[vital glacier]

anyone here experienced with on_command_error handlers?

[robust fulcrum]

np

[vital glacier]

    async def on_command_error(self, ctx: commands.Context, error: commands.CommandError):
        self.logger.warning(f"{ctx.author} ({ctx.author.id}) in {ctx.guild.name} ({ctx.guild.id}) | {ctx.invoked_with}-{type(error).__name__}: {error}")
        if type(error) in (commands.NotOwner, commands.CheckFailure, commands.DisabledCommand, commands.UserInputError):
            return
        elif isinstance(error, commands.CommandNotFound):
            await ctx.warn(f"Command `{ctx.invoked_with}` doesn't exist")
        elif isinstance(error, commands.MissingRequiredArgument):
            await ctx.send_help(ctx.command)
        elif isinstance(error, commands.MissingPermissions):
            if ctx.author.id in self.owner_ids:
                await ctx.reinvoke()
            else:
                await ctx.warn(f"You're **missing** the `{', '.join(error.missing_permissions)}` permission")
        elif isinstance(error, commands.BotMissingPermissions):
            await ctx.warn(f"I'm **missing** the `{', '.join(error.missing_permissions)}` permission")

on_command_error handler isn't triggering elif isinstance(error, commands.CommandNotFound): triggers everything else properly tho.

[naive briar]

Is your ctx a custom context?

[vital glacier]

yeah it is

[languid schooner]

Hey, I've been working on a way to do permissions in a more custom way that allows me to add permissions to sub-commands. I want to be able to do:

class RacoonCommand(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, client: nextcord.Client):
        self.client = client

    @register_pizza_command(permission=Rank.MEMBER)
    @nextcord.slash_command(
        name="racoon",
        description="🦝"
    )
    async def racoon(self, interaction: Interaction):
        return


def setup(client: nextcord.Client):
    client.add_cog(RacoonCommand(client))

My issue is the @register_pizza_command decorator. I am using nextcord and whenever I load the cog, I get no error however, the command does not load client side. When I add the decorator, the command is no longer visible.

This is my current code for the decorator:

def register_pizza_command(permission: Rank):
    def decorator(func):

        async def wrapper(self, interaction, *args):
            print(interaction)

        return wrapper
    return decorator

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction with this? I'm not very experienced with decorators as you can probably tell.

[robust fulcrum]

depends on error which is raised

[vital glacier]

how do u mean

[robust fulcrum]

the commands.CommandNotFound is raised when command is not found, it it will be raised when command in not found

[naive briar]

What

[vital glacier]

yeah but that's the whole problem, it's not doing that

[robust fulcrum]

did you try by running a command which is not present?

[naive briar]

I suggest that you should add a else block that raise possible uncatched errors

[vital glacier]

yeah...?

[robust fulcrum]

hmm weird

[vital glacier]

that is literally the whole problem

it's not triggering on none existing commands

[robust fulcrum]

try prinitng errors?

and debug

[vital glacier]

it's not triggering the whole commands.CommandsNotFound

so all i do is an try except

but not even sure if that would work

[robust fulcrum]

try this?

you are suppressing errors, add a else block too

[vital glacier]

how do u expect me to print errors when it's not being triggered.

if it isn't triggered, it's pretty difficult to print errors from it

[robust fulcrum]

bro i mean comment your if/else and debug by printing error

[naive briar]

Your handler is probably just not catching the error, so just try it

[naive briar]

🤷

[robust fulcrum]

ye, you are right

[vital glacier]

oml..

i have that and it isn't catching any errors

[robust fulcrum]

wdym?

[timber lotus]

ah i see. thank you. im using buttons so i think im good on reactions.

[vital glacier]

that is just part of my error handler, my whole error handler is mad long and i also have a part that it should catch an error and print it, but it isn't printing anything which means there aren't any errors

let me disable logging to see if it does ANYTHING at all

even with logging disabled it doesn't put anything in console

[hushed galleon]

there are various nuances to decorators here that make it difficult to use correctly, but basically the command decorators in discord.py and its forks will turn the function into some Command object which has some incompatibilities with decorators one might typically write, so i would highly recommend using nextcord's check function which handles making it work correctly:
https://docs.nextcord.dev/en/stable/ext/application_checks/index.html#nextcord.ext.application_checks.check ```py
from nextcord.ext import application_checks

def is_me():
def predicate(interaction: Interaction):
return interaction.user.id == 85309593344815104
return application_checks.check(predicate)

@bot.slash_command()
@is_me()
async def only_me(interaction: Interaction):
await interaction.response.send_message('Only you!')```

[vital glacier]

You want to see the whole error handler?

@robust fulcrum

[robust fulcrum]

ok?

[vital glacier]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/KH5A

that's the entire on_command_error handler. it catches anything atp

I even changed it earlier to made it print any other errors but it doesn't, which means nothing is getting surpressed

[robust fulcrum]

tf its so big

you must organise it

[vital glacier]

That's what happens if you've got a proper bot and you need proper error handling for basically everything

It's organised lol

[robust fulcrum]

it isn't

it isn't recommend to nest if/else a lot

[vital glacier]

This is a global error handler bro, I need to do elif isinstance for those or else it won't catch shit

[languid schooner]

Oh I see, that might be something worth looking into. Let me try that really quickly

[vital glacier]

just my main file is almost 2k lines already, and i have 10 cog files, which are all files with commands and events

and then i have a whole folder with helpers

[hushed galleon]

wait so CommandNotFound isnt even being logged at the top?

[vital glacier]

nope

it's not getting triggered anywhere, but everything else after that is getting triggered just fine

had to triple debug to make sure i wasn't tweaking

if you want you can test for urself, just dm me and i'll send you a invite to the cord and i'll let you debug it as much as u want

[hushed galleon]

if the error handler works with other errors, that would suggest the bot didn't actually raise a CommandNotFound error, perhaps from an early return in processing the command

[vital glacier]

that's what i figured, but then again i can't seem to figure out why

[hushed galleon]

do you have an overridden on_message?

[vital glacier]

that's right above the error handler

wait fuck i see the problem

[hushed galleon]

if not ctx.command: is probably why

[vital glacier]

oml im fucking blind holy shit.

yeah ok that was the problem. jesus christ im fucking blind

[languid schooner]

Hmm, so I have this so far and it does print interaction but the command itself fails and just returns "The application did not respond"

def register_pizza_command(rank: Rank):
    def predicate(interaction: Interaction):
        print(interaction)
    
    return application_checks.check(predicate)

@nextcord.slash_command(
  name="racoon",
  description="🦝"
)
@register_pizza_command(rank=Rank.MEMBER)
async def racoon(self, interaction: Interaction):
  await interaction.response.send_message("🦝")

[vital glacier]

i been overlooking that code for the past 30mins and i missed that the whole time LOL

[hushed galleon]

right, checks need to return True for the command to be allowed to run

[languid schooner]

oh I see

[languid schooner]

Im pretty sure you have saved me HOURS. I have asked nextcord support this question and they havent found a solution for 3 days now which is rather questionable. A lot of my friends didnt know either

I LOVE YOU

[drifting arrow]

Can I send a video as part of an embed?

[naive briar]

No (to my knowledge)

Not without a link anyway

[drifting arrow]

If I have a URL?

[hollow osprey]

!rule 7 | Don't post irrelevant polls or surveys

[unkempt canyon]

Rules

7. Keep discussions relevant to the channel topic. Each channel's description tells you the topic.

[faint dragon]

Just gonna drop this cursed piece of art here for you guys

[thin raft]

average discord bot code id say

[faint dragon]

god i wish

nobody seems to stray off the beaten path

[thin raft]

I love the comments

so useful

[faint dragon]

oh boy, youre gonna love this

[thin raft]

@commands.group("log")
Creates a log group

who would've guessed

and then the actions lol

[thin raft]

oh shit

[faint dragon]

thats the reason why it doesnt look like discord.py or pycord at all lol

[thin raft]

can you show the first method that appears on the pic