discord-bots

[simple surge]

😭

[fast osprey]

If this is user message content, are you implementing the privacy protections you have agreed to in the TOS? Unlikely you have a robust system for looking through these files if someone invokes their right to be forgotten

[simple surge]

Frankly; not too sure how all that works; but it's a transcript thing, for the ticket. For support.

[fast osprey]

That does not waive you of the responsibilities you have agreed to

Alternatively you could just let people use discord and not try to handle this yourself

[simple surge]

As I mentioned; it's just a transcript tool; for my discord ticket bot, for support? It's not interferring with discord's thing directly?

[fast osprey]

It is. You are interfering with privacy features, namely people's ability to request their messages be removed

just leave the messages in discord. People can read them there

[simple surge]

Sure, and if I get a message from discord; saying that a user has requested their data to be deleted; I have no issue doing so, within my panel; however for the likeliness, and integrity of my server; I'd prefer to keep tickets logged.

[fast osprey]

And it can be logged. In discord

what mechanism do you have for a user to request you for their data to be deleted? How are you going to do so? This is not discord asking you, you have agreed to grant this directly to users

Is this data encrypted at rest?

[simple surge]

It'd be only me and the person who created the ticket; who have permission to view the transcript?

[fast osprey]

that doesn't impact the responsibilities you have agreed to.

[uneven wadi]

Don't most or popular tickets bots have transcript system though?

[fast osprey]

Someone doing something doesn't mean it is okay or legal to do

[uneven wadi]

What I mean is

They're verified bots

[fast osprey]

That doesn't matter

[uneven wadi]

If what you're saying isn't legal

Why are they still there

[fast osprey]

Someone breaking a law doesn't mean you get to

[uneven wadi]

Like why the bot ain't banned or something

[fast osprey]

The TOS are clearly outlined. And this server's rules say you are not allowed to ask for help in breaking TOS. Someone else breaking the TOS and getting away with it don't factor into either of those

At the end of the day, you can view "tickets" just fine in discord. If you want to pull those things out of discord, you have a whole slew of things you are responsible for. It isn't worth the headache, you can just use what already exists and users' privacy rights will be automatically maintained. Given you don't know what those responsibilities even are, you certainly have not implemented them. It's up to you if it's worth it, but that's not something you can just skip and worry about later

[simple surge]

Homie you are just yapping 😭

[young dagger]

@simple surge Don't use the R word

Just say stupid or something else

[simple surge]

Apologies; but this guy.. is just yapping LOL

[fast osprey]

Again. People doing something is irrelevant

Unless you are implementing user privacy protections you have agreed to, which you have made clear you are not, this is against TOS. Other people also violating TOS does not change that

[pseudo sedge]

whats the issue

[fast osprey]

That's js?

[pseudo sedge]

yes

[fast osprey]

This is the python server 😂

[pseudo sedge]

how do i know if is it js or no im just saying thats js

[fast osprey]

node index.js

[pseudo sedge]

so what do i do

[stark ingot]

You should probably learn the basics of programming before trying to create a bot

[fast osprey]

There's a discord.js server (assuming that's what you're using) that will give you better help

[visual yarrow]

Hi. We don't appreciate the use of ableist language here, or personal attacks. Please don't do that again. Thanks.

[simple surge]

Hey there, yeah my apologies; but that guy is just 😡

[mild token]

You can just use thread bud which will save u alot of headache all will be saved in your channel as well ,u can look into private threads which is more efficient

I personally just use them as ticket and with ticket(threads) i don't even have to save anything in my db all are saved in discord itself which saves my db resources as well

[uneven wadi]

Guys, will you guys help program a bot?

[ionic cave]

I need help

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

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

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

@bot.command(name='H')
async def hello(ctx):
await ctx.send(f'Hi!')

This ain't wokring

working

[fast osprey]

What is happening, and what do you want to happen?

[stark ingot]

You define intents twice and you don't turn on message content until the second one, after you already pass it to bot

[ionic cave]

I got it to work,

[fast osprey]

(That should also result in a library log saying as much)

[mild token]

If I want to select emoji with context menu does discord.Emoji will work as method parameter of context menu ?

[fast osprey]

context menus only accept messages or users

[mild token]

Oh so I need to check the message type then tnx for the info

[minor geyser]

hey so, i have this py for server in client.guilds: print(server.name) and i want to make it so that it assigns the servers name to a value so that i can use a function specifically for that server (like getting information about the guild) from the command prompt

i just cant comprehend how to do that right now,,

[fast osprey]

What does "a value" mean?

Servers already have a unique ID

[late remnant]

hi guys

does anyone know how i can unittest my discord bot commands and events

[scarlet tiger]

I have another bot for testing new features, and if everything works well, I push it to the remote repository and pull it on the server where the main bot is.

[sick birch]

https://github.com/python-discord/bot/tree/main/tests

this is how we test @unkempt canyon

[late remnant]

Thanks bro i was actually checking that repo earlier and I noticed they were only linting or testing functions but not actual bot commands, still I haven't checked this directory yet. I'll check it out!

[late remnant]

but do you test it manually?

[scarlet tiger]

I have 2 ways, manually and automatically

[sick birch]

it's generally a good idea to have multiple methods of testing yeah

[scarlet tiger]

Yeah

[sick birch]

it may be valuable to have a mix of unit tests and E2E tests for instance

[late remnant]

how do you do it automatically

[stark ingot]

On discord bots can not run app commands so you would have to make fake data that you could feed the command callback

[late remnant]

yeah thats what im currently doing

[pallid sonnet]

Does anybody know of of any discord bots like this for any game?

[dapper cobalt]

You can input the guild's id in the command line and use bot.get_guild to get the guild's object

!docs discord.ext.commands.Bot.get_guild

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.get\_guild

get_guild(id, /)```
Returns a guild with the given ID.

Changed in version 2\.0: `id` parameter is now positional\-only.

[minor geyser]

I do suppose that does work, but I was hoping It could be something where you just type like 1 and it selects the first server. Actually couldn’t I do that using a json file? 😅

[dapper cobalt]

well, bot.guilds returns an array object which you can index, so if you want the first server you can do client.guilds[0], and for second server client.guilds[1], and so on

[minor geyser]

something where it writes ”1”: “servername here” in a json file on every start and read/writes ig

[minor geyser]

oh!! Okay!!

[dapper cobalt]

not the best practice to store servers' names as they are changeable variables, a server's id is constant tho

[minor geyser]

Yeah makes sense, I just meant that in general it could work lol

[dapper cobalt]

also I don't think you'd memorize the order of your bot's servers

[uneven wadi]

Hey, how can I make a bot run with a server? Like hosting you know, any free plans available?

[dapper cobalt]

however, if you want to get the server by name you could loop through the bot's guilds and use an if statement inside the loop to check whether it's the server you're looking for and if so return its data

it'd be something like this

names = ["zika", "seif"]

for name in names:
     if name == "zika": 
           print("hello world")

[minor geyser]

hm, i reckon I could do

num = 0
for server in client.guilds:
    print(f”server {num}: “+client.guilds[int(num)])
    num = int(num) + 1
serverchoice(“Server to operate on:”)
do.stuff(client.guilds[int(serverchoice)])```

[vocal laurel]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.get_guild

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.get\_guild

get_guild(id, /)```
Returns a guild with the given ID.

Changed in version 2\.0: `id` parameter is now positional\-only.

[minor geyser]

Sorry aha I was typing that on mobile 😅

[vocal laurel]

you may just use that to get it

[minor geyser]

So it would simply be something like inputting a number choice

[vocal laurel]

oh nvm, sorry

[minor geyser]

All good, I’m a bit bad at putting my thoughts into words and asking for help in general so if there’s a misunderstanding it’s 100% my fault lol

[vocal laurel]

Nope, I just didn't read the whole thing so that is mb

[vocal laurel]

So according to this, you want to get information on a guild based on your input

[dapper cobalt]

why do u want to know the order of the server

[vocal laurel]

you could just get_guild if you have the id

[dapper cobalt]

.

[minor geyser]

Well like for servers that it’s in lol

[vocal laurel]

Yep, so what type of input will it be?

Like if you put the name of the server, you could just use the example given above

using a for loop

[minor geyser]

well if my code works, it should just be like inputting 1 or 2 yk ?

[vocal laurel]

server 1 or server 2?

hm

Well you could store the server number in a data base for example

Server number | Server ID

1 | 42394839438294832

and basically you fetch the server ID based on the server number that you searched for

you would also have to account for when the bot leaves a server, what number that should be etc

[minor geyser]

well yeah I just don’t need to store them lol i just suggested json as opposed to typing out or copy and pasting the ID

[vocal laurel]

Don't use a json as a db

[minor geyser]

But the last line applies, that’s basically what I’m going for

If I stored IDs and stuff it would bloat overtime and eventually get too big, all I wanna do is be able to do is fetch some info by typing a number, so this should work

Thanks! :3

[mild token]

how can i remove someone from thread? when i do remove user it doesnt fully remove the member from the thread rather on its name slash is there

i want that person to completely remove from thread

[vocal laurel]

you could create a list of guilds and then select it

guilds = [guild.id for guild in bot.guilds()]
selected_guild = guilds[YOUR_INPUT+1]
guild = bot.fetch_guild(select_guild)

This is so you don't have to create a database

guilds is to create a list of all guild ideas, then selected_guilds is to get the guild you want from that list and guild is to fetch that guild based on the selected_guild id

[vocal laurel]

!d discord.Thread.remove_user

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Thread.remove\_user

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

Removes a user from this thread.

You must have [`manage_threads`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Permissions.manage_threads) or be the creator of the thread to remove a user.

[mild token]

i am doing this only

but there is slash coming on that name

when i remove them

[vocal laurel]

Do you mind sending a screenshot?

[mild token]

one sec let me see if i have those

see the person

he is not in thread

thats why slash is on its name

dont know why this happening

[vocal laurel]

Can I see your code please?

[mild token]

sure let me open vsc

            if check_clan_player.clan:

                clan_data = await self.bot.db.fetch_clan(
                    clan_tag=check_clan_player.clan.tag
                )
                if clan_data:
                    mem_channel = await interaction.guild.fetch_channel(
                        clan_data["channel_id"]
                    )
                    stat_channel = await interaction.guild.fetch_channel(
                        clan_data["clan_stat_thread_id"]
                    )
                    clan_chat_channel = await interaction.guild.fetch_channel(
                        clan_data["clan_chat_thread_id"]
                    )
                    if user in mem_channel.members:
                        await mem_channel.set_permissions(
                            target=user,
                            overwrite=None,
                            reason=f"{user} have been removed from {mem_channel.name} channel. ",
                        )
                    if user in stat_channel.members:
                        await stat_channel.remove_user(user.id)
                    if user in clan_chat_channel.members:
                        await clan_chat_channel.remove_user(user.id)

            player_leader_role = discord.utils.get(
                interaction.guild.roles, id=RoleIds.LEADER
            )
            if player_leader_role in user.roles:
                embed.add_field(
                    name="Position role unlinked",
                    value=player_leader_role.mention,
                )
                await user.remove_roles(
                    player_leader_role,
                    reason=f"remove {str(check_clan_player.role)} from {user.display_name} which is of {check_clan_player.clan.name}({check_clan_player.clan.tag})",
                )

            await interaction.client.get_channel(Logs.PLAYER_LOG).send(embed=embed)

mainly i am doing on this part removing the person

its not very optimised but it works

[minor geyser]

Okay!! Thank you! :333

[mild token]

just the slash thingi is there it doesnt cause much problem but leaves the user with slash in thread

[vocal laurel]

np!

[mild token]

@vocal laurel anything wrong in my code : ( or its just a discord bug or something?

[vocal laurel]

Im not sure tbh

[mild token]

oki : (

[vocal laurel]

the code doesnt seem like the problem

[mild token]

i checked docs thrice

but this slash thing persisted

hope it fixes on its own

[ivory remnant]

is it possible to make commands for user installed bots in py? cause i made a command which works on my server but doesnt show in dms

and every example i have managed to find is in js

[golden portal]

!d discord.app_commands.allowed_install

[unkempt canyon]

NEGATORY.

No documentation found for the requested symbol.

[golden portal]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html?highlight=installs#discord.app_commands.allowed_installs

[vocal laurel]

!d discord.app_commands.allowed_installs

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.allowed\_installs

@discord.app_commands.allowed_installs(guilds=..., users=...)```
A decorator that indicates this command should be installed in certain contexts. Valid contexts are guilds and users.

This is **not** implemented as a [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.check), and is instead verified by Discord server side.

Due to a Discord limitation, this decorator does nothing in subcommands and is ignored.

New in version 2\.4\.

Examples...

[vocal laurel]

^

[ivory remnant]

thank you

[uneven wadi]

Hello, I want to create a bot that is similar to @unkempt canyon

Specifically made for a certain server i own

[slate swan]

Good luck and enjoy coding it

[uneven wadi]

how to do it

i know a lil py

but not discord.py

[golden portal]

couldn't you fork the bot and run your own instance?

[sick birch]

@unkempt canyon's source code is available in https://github.com/python-discord/bot under a MIT license

[uneven wadi]

i wanna add some adjustments to it

[uneven wadi]

also i want something specific from this bot

!rule 3

[unkempt canyon]

Rules

3. Respect staff members and listen to their instructions.

[uneven wadi]

this one

[sick birch]

you are free to take what you want from that code and modify it how you please

[uneven wadi]

how to do it

[sick birch]

!source rule

[unkempt canyon]

Command: rules

Provides a link to all rules or, if specified, displays specific rule(s).

Source Code

Go to GitHub

bot/exts/info/information.py:605

[uneven wadi]

omg thanks!

[mint pecan]

is commands.bot_has_permissions and app_commands.checks.bot_has_permissions the same?

[fast osprey]

No

[warm radish]

@small rose

@crude summit

@misty yoke

[uneven wadi]

Hello

why i cant disable public bot

[vocal plover]

If you're not able to disable it you should contact Discord support, that shouldn't be happening and there's not much anyone here can do about it

[slate swan]

First is for prefix commands, second for app/slash commands

[slate swan]

Likely because you have set public link, which isn't allowed for private bots, so remove that and then should be good

[uneven wadi]

Yeah, jus removed them.

thanks!

[slate swan]

👍

[vocal plover]

I stand corrected, I need to un-rusty myself with the current status of bot dev apparently

[uneven wadi]

Guys.

Do i need __init__.py for my bot

have no idea what it does

but seen it @unkempt canyon in repo

[vocal plover]

That really depends on the context, __init__.py is essentially how you create a module, so if you had a folder called abc with an __init__.py in it, and that file contained - for example - a setup() function for a Cog, you could import that folder as simply abc rather than abc.something if the file was called something.py. It basically lets you organise your code if you need multiple files grouped together. Python Discord's bot is a large bot with a ton of code so that sort of structure is necessary to keep track of it, but if you have a small bot you can get away without those files for now (though familiarising yourself with them and what they do is great for your learning journey, and I'd highly recommnd looking into the structure of Python projects more)

[uneven wadi]

also what should I add to my bot? like features, cogs etc
im new and this is my first bot
i want my bot to be like @unkempt canyon and lil bit of @lament depot

[uneven wadi]

Thanks, I understand!

So i dont need init for now ig

[vocal plover]

Just think of a couple of things to start with, a couple features you know you want, and go from there. Rushing in with a ton of stuff will burn you out quickly - try and pick the things you're really excited about as the features you make first

[uneven wadi]

Noted!

[fast osprey]

IMO there are two distinct things here

• if you're trying to learn the library, hello world + very simple api interactions. Have a hypothesis for what you want to learn
• if you're trying to make something useful, actually observe a problem and design a novel solution to it. Rewriting the 10 features every bot has just makes you 97538th in line

[uneven wadi]

Noted! thanks

[vocal plover]

there's a song I can't remember the name of with a lyric to the effect of "if I hear one more love song I'll be sick" and I think we need a adaptation for the bot community that goes "if I see one more generic multipurpose bot I'll be sick"

[uneven wadi]

not doing anything rn but should i create commands with prefix first and convert them to slash?

[vocal plover]

If I were starting out now I'd ignore prefix commands, they're not liked by Discord and are gradually losing support in favour of slash commands. Unless you find something that you really can't find a way to make with interactions-based stuff (i.e. slash commands, buttons, menus, etc.) I wouldn't bother touching them

[uneven wadi]

noted

[ionic cave]

Give me some i can code with python on my discord bot, can't be to hard.

Replay if you got some,.

[fast osprey]

[uneven wadi]

😂

[ionic cave]

.

Real funny

[ivory remnant]

could someone give me an example on how to use userinstalled bots in discord.py? ive been trying for hours now and it works in my server but doesnt show in dms

[viscid hornet]

you need to set allowed contexts and allowed installs on your commands

this sets where you can have the slash command: ```py
@app_commands.allowed_installs(guilds = ..., users = ...)

and this sets where you can use the slash command: ```py
@app_commands.allowed_contexts(guilds = ..., dms = ..., private_messages = ...)

dms is messages with the bot, private_messages is messages with other users

[ivory remnant]

should it go under the command?

nevermind i figured it out

tysm

[viscid hornet]

its a decorator

[ionic cave]

How do i make an embed?

[fast osprey]

Make a discord.Embed object -> call methods on it to set fields and whatever you want -> send it on a message with the embed= arg

[thorny hull]

Hope this is the appropriate channel for this. I have a discord.py bot that posts a message with some reactions. Users react to this message to have roles assigned and removed. It all works great but breaks whenever the bot restarts. Tried using a few different datasources to store the info of the reactions, channel_id and message_id and they all seem to work ito storing and retrieving but whenever the bot restarts, the functionality of the "Reaction Message" is lost. I have a workaround but it's less than ideal. It involves recreating the reaction message whenever the bot starts.

Any ideas? Is there some limitation in the API to prevent this functionality or perhaps a setting or two I missed in the Developer portal?

[scarlet tiger]

Consider using a persistent view with a selective menu to assign roles to users.

[fast osprey]

Or consider using the built in onboarding channels & roles dialogue, then you don't need a bot running at all

[thorny hull]

I'm giving this a go, thanks

[thorny hull]

Hmmm thanks for the suggestion, I like that. However, this won't work here as existing users will assign and unassign one role ceaselessly. I might look at using this for new users tho! 👍

[fast osprey]

You can do that with that menu

I have servers that do this often

[slim bloom]

@fast osprey

import os, shutil, aiohttp, aiosqlite
from discord.ext import commands, tasks

class Tasks(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        
    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_ready(self) -> None:
        self.backup_database.start()
        print(f'Cog {self.__class__.__name__} is ready')

    @tasks.loop(hours=168)
    async def backup_database(self):
        if os.path.exists('src/database/backup.db'):
            os.remove('src/database/backup.db')

        shutil.copy2('src/database/bot.db', 'src/database/backup.db')

async def setup(bot):
    await bot.add_cog(Tasks(bot))```
## How could I improve it or what aspects were wrong?

[fast osprey]

You really should not be using on_ready to drive functionality. This happens repeatedly and randomly

There's also really not much of a point in having a cog that has a single thing in it, it's just unnecessary boilerplate imo

[slim bloom]

So where in async does the task start? I can't think of any other way than on_ready

[fast osprey]

You can just make a normal ass task and start it in the setup

don't need a cog or on_ready at all

@tasks.loop()
async def whatever():
  ...

async def setup(bot):
  whatever.start()

[slim bloom]

in my bot.py?

[slim bloom]

alr

[fast osprey]

or in an extension, wherever you want

[slim bloom]

What is the difference between saying cog and extension?

[fast osprey]

Entirely different concepts, the docs have pages on both

[vocal laurel]

Do you still need it? @slim bloom

[slim bloom]

yeah

[vocal laurel]

I can't find docs for it but afaik, extensions are files that you load into your main file and cogs are groups of command put into an extention that you then load into your main file

[slim bloom]

async def setup(bot):
    await bot.add_cog(Tasks(bot))
    cog = Tasks(bot)
    cog.backup_database.start()```?

[golden portal]

if its within a cog just start it in cog_load

!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\.

[thorny hull]

Oh no, I'm running into the exact same problem. I tried to implement your suggestion and again, it works a treat, but the functionality breaks when the bot restarts. Choosing another option results in this error I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Thanks for the suggestion, back to the drawing board.

[thorny hull]

Oh really? Okay will check that out next thanks.

[mint pecan]

how can i make my bot work like this that i can specify the argument in a prefix command?
!ban user=@someone reason="rule 1"

[golden portal]

see flag converter

set delimiter='='

[mint pecan]

where do i put that?

[golden portal]

in the class def of the flag class, the doc shows an example of it

[mint pecan]

im getting
discord.ext.commands.errors.MissingFlagArgument: Flag 'user' does not have an argument
this was my code

class BanFlags(commands.FlagConverter):

    user: discord.User | discord.Member
    reason: Optional[str] = None

@commands.command()
async def ban(ctx: commands.Context, flags: BanFlags):
    await ctx.reply(flags.user.mention)

[golden portal]

you need *

[mint pecan]

ohhh

i forgot that

[slate swan]

!intents

[uneven wadi]

lol

[stoic tusk]

anybody knows how to code the new Group Chat update for bots?

[feral wren]

guys

what 'async def 'means?

[fast osprey]

Defines an async function

[stark ingot]

What discord library are you using?

[silent folio]

Can someone tell me what a discord bot is

[wanton current]

a bot user that uses code to interface with the discord api

[silent folio]

Thanks.

[jagged crown]

How to fix this it won't response just trying to make a simple Bot

I'm just a beginner

[sick birch]

!message-content-intent

[unkempt canyon]

Discord Message Content Intent

The Discord gateway only dispatches events you subscribe to, which you can configure by using "intents."

The message content intent is what determines if an app will receive the actual content of newly created messages. Without this intent, discord.py won't be able to detect prefix commands, so prefix commands won't respond.

Privileged intents, such as message content, have to be explicitly enabled from the Discord Developer Portal in addition to being enabled in the code:

intents = discord.Intents.default() # create a default Intents instance
intents.message_content = True # enable message content intents

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents) # actually pass it into the constructor

For more information on intents, see /tag intents. If prefix commands are still not working, see /tag on-message-event.

[sick birch]

couple things:

1. post your code as text next time, images of a phone screen are hard to read
2. reset your token

[vocal laurel]

I am having a problem with my help command. With the code sent below, the bot sends an embed but creates 2 fields within the embeds for the commands (basically creating it for each category/cog). However I want it to send all the commands in 1 field regardless if it has a category or not, how would I go about doing this?

  async def send_bot_help(self, mapping):
    em = discord.Embed(title = "Help Command")
    em.color = discord.Color.from_rgb(93, 211, 251)
    for cog, commands in mapping.items():
      filtered = await self.filter_commands(commands, sort=True)
      command_signatures = [self.get_command_signature(c) for c in filtered]
      if command_signatures:

        em.add_field(name="Commands", value="\n".join(command_signatures), inline=False)

    await self.get_destination().send(embed=em)

[golden portal]

just this? ```py
all_commands = []
for ... in mapping.items():
...
all_commands.extend(command_signatures)
all_sig = '\n'.join(all_commands)

[vocal laurel]

it works, tysm

[drifting arrow]

What's the discordpy thing to have loops etc?

NVM. Figured it out :D https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/tasks/index.html?highlight=tasks#discord.ext.tasks.loop
Thanks chat

[drifting arrow]

Is there a discordpy thing to make a task run at a specific time every week? say monday 12pm?

[shrewd apex]

yes

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/tasks/index.html
https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/tasks/

u can enter the time but for checking the day u can use the tzinfo and something like calendar module to check if it's that particular day in like before_loop

[silent folio]

What is the main language and libraries for discord bot???

[hollow osprey]

there is no "main" language/library

Python and discord.py is one choice

[silent folio]

Ok thanks

[feral wren]

guys

i need a funcition who let only to users who has 'admin' role to use mod commands like 'ban',mute ecc. with my bot

[quasi frigate]

for slash commands:
@app_commands.checks.has_permissions(administrator=True)

for text commands:
@commands.has_permissions(administrator=True)

[fast osprey]

You should really not be overriding mod actions that already exist in the client, you are actively reducing their security.

If you want to restrict app commands, you should use the default_permissions decorator rather than a local check

[vocal laurel]

if you are looking for permissions, then use the deco suggested above, however if you are looking for roles, then you would use

@app_commands.checks.has_role() #checking for 1 role
@app_commands.checks.has_any_role() #checking for multiple roles

^ for app commands (aka slash commands)

@commands.has_role() #checking for 1 role
@commands.has_any_role() #checking for multiple roles

^ prefix/text commands

[fast osprey]

App command role limiting should be done from the integrations menu, not a local check

[feral wren]

@bot.tree.command(name="add_role", description="add a role to a member")
@commands.has_role('Mod')
@app_commands.describe(member="The member to ban", role = "the role to add")
async def addrole(interaction:discord.Interaction,member: discord.Member, role: discord.Role):
    emb = discord.Embed(title='addrole',description=f'the role {role} as been added to {member}')
    await member.add_roles(role)
    await interaction.response.send_message(embed=emb)

this is the command add_role

but everyone in my server is able to use it

what's wrong in this script?

[quasi frigate]

youre using the text command decorator instead of the slash command decorator

it should be @app_commands.checks.has_role('Mod') instead of @commands.has_role('Mod')

[fast osprey]

Or this

And there are several reasons why you should use the integrations menu instead

This code also lets people grant others roles they shouldn't be allowed to. You can already grant roles from the client

[slate swan]

hi guys, just wondering why instead of image, the code is giving me base64 text

[sick birch]

sometimes images are b64 encoded

[slate swan]

@bot.command()
async def imagine(ctx):
    
    api = Text2ImageAPI('https://api-key.fusionbrain.ai/', '7D62CC5E605', '974CDBCAA8EE6910F74')

    model_id = api.get_model()
    uuid = api.generate("Sun in sky", model_id)
    images = api.check_generation(uuid)
    print(images)

heres the code

[harsh orbit]

there is some bots that has a premiuem subscreption
and every premuim subscriber has its own bot with name and photo changable
the bot has same commands of the original bot but with more commands and featuers
how is that possible?

[slate swan]

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: TypeError: string indices must be integers
no wonder why im getting this error

[fast osprey]

You can spin up multiple bots and just run multiple processes with different tokens. That said, it is against TOS to share creds/tokens with someone who is not a service provider outlined by the TOS

[young dagger]

Where exactly is the check for invite links? Because I cannot find it

[young dagger]

Can you resume the interaction after restarting the bot?

[zinc gust]

show the code

[harsh orbit]

it runs automaticlly

could you give me example for how to run that automaticcly pls?

[zinc gust]

so you want to make a public bot

that everyone can puts in their servers

and they could get more commands

by subscribing

?

[fast osprey]

You don't

you can't make bots automatically

[harsh orbit]

probot if you know it
has premuim suscreption that you can by automaticlly that gives you ur own bot

[harsh orbit]

if mean that making new app no
maybe they store some bot tokens and when someone by it runs a new bot by taking a token from database

[fast osprey]

There is not an automatic way to make bots, period

not without violating tos

Sure you could make a bunch of them in bulk, but there's still a limit. There's no functional need to do this. People can live without putting their dumb anime profile pic on a bot, just use the one bot

[young dagger]

Is it possible for the delete_message_seconds parameter to not selectively delete messages from a specific channel upon a ban?

There is nothing about excluding a channel

[fast osprey]

discord doesn't provide that afaik

[young dagger]

They should

Looping through channels is pain

[fast osprey]

What are you trying to accomplish?

[young dagger]

I want to delete all the user's messages from the past 24 hours upon a ban, except those from a specific channel

[viscid hornet]

doesnt discord already do that?

[young dagger]

No, you cannot exclude a channel from keeping messages

It will delete all messages

[exotic hazel]

This example for using app commands in discord py is 2 years old, is that ok or have things changed? I'm new and I just want to make sure I'm not learning from an outdated example
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/v2.4.0/examples/app_commands/basic.py

[fast osprey]

2.4.0

That is the example published with 2.4.0, which is currently the most recent stable version

[exotic hazel]

I see, thank you

[fast osprey]

In general, it's not too terribly unlikely for some core things to not change at all within a major version (2.x.x). Any additions will be backwards compatible anywho, so in theory any example written in 2.0.0 will work for any 2.x.x

[jaunty cape]

First of all, you leaked your token

Second of all, you’re not passing any arguments

Third of all, are you using the correct prefix?

Fourth of all, you don’t need to set a name for a command if it’s going to be the same as your function name anyways

Fifth of all, is your command tree set up properly?

[forest surge]

bro I want to familiarize with this who wants to make a project or just do something

[fast osprey]

Best way to convince people that you're serious and good to work with is to put forth the effort to learn on your own and have examples of your work that you can show IMO

[stark ingot]

Almost all projects start as a solo dev that makes the base of the code than showcase their project in the relevant community. Sometimes people will see it than want to help.

It also helps if you have a unique idea, as more people will be interested

[neon ocean]

Did you just leaked your API key?

[slate swan]

made it shorter

so the api key is longer than short one

[livid hare]

anyone can help me about automation script already ended working but something wrong cuz one script won't working but no error i can't understand why don't working

idk where to post

[stark ingot]

Is it about discord bots?

[lost scarab]

#1035199133436354600

[livid hare]

anyone can give me proxy scraper?

[young dagger]

I'm working on a new verification system for my Discord server using captcha

[slate swan]

can u edit a webhook in py

[hard kite]

Uhm how to make command invisible for user that has no specific role?

[fast osprey]

For app commands, the integrations menu on the guild

[young dagger]

Why do I sometimes get interaction failed when clicking a button, but it works again after restarting Discord?

I don't need to restart the bot, just my own Discord client

[vocal laurel]

You have to sometimes restart your discord client to get the latest changes from your bot

[young dagger]

Why?

[vocal laurel]

Thats just how discord is

sometimes it doesn't instantly refresh on your discord client

[young dagger]

So there is no need to use await interaction.response.defer() if the issue is solved by restarting my Discord client?

[vocal laurel]

yep

[young dagger]

My final server captcha verification

[stark ingot]

Generally that would only be for app commands not buttons

[young dagger]

I don't know why, and I can't reproduce the error

@stark ingot Do you have any solution?

[stark ingot]

No, I have no idea why a button gets fixed when you restart discord

I assume you mean there is red text on discord that says interaction failed?

[young dagger]

Correct

Maybe I should use something else instead of timeout=None on the view?

[stark ingot]

Well if the view needs to be persistent than you have to use timeout=None

[drifting arrow]

I need some fresh set of eyes on this..
Why is that line grayed out? it should work..

🤔

What'd I do wrong chat?

Definitely not an indentation issue..

[hearty basalt]

because you did "if not steamid or steamurl"

i think you meant "if not steamid or not steamurl"

right now if a steamurl is given, it satisfies the first if and will send the "please enter id or url" msg

[scarlet tiger]

discord.py doesn't allow setting required options?

[drifting arrow]

Yeah I asked in general chat and they helped me find it lol. I didnt notice it before

[drifting arrow]

It does.

I made a mistake with my code.

[hearty basalt]

so my solution would work?

[drifting arrow]

Here's the full corrected finished code now.

    @app_commands.command(name="connect", description="Connects your steam account to your discord account to claim rewards")
    @guild_only()
    async def connect(self, interaction:Interaction, steamid:str=None, steamurl:str=None):
        await interaction.response.defer(ephemeral=self.config['ephemeral_response'])

        if not steamid and not steamurl:
            await interaction.followup.send("Please enter either a steam ID or steam URL.", ephemeral=True)
            return

        if steamurl:
            steamid = await self.functions.steam_profile_using_url(url=steamurl)

        response = await self.functions.update_discordid(steamid=steamid, discordid=interaction.user.id)

        if response:
            await interaction.followup.send("Successfully linked your discord account to the steamid!", ephemeral=self.config['ephemeral_responses'])
        else:
           await interaction.followup.send("That steamid is already linked to a discordid. Consult the staff to resolve this issue.", ephemeral=self.config['ephemeral_responses']) 

``` works no issues

[hearty basalt]

yay

[drifting arrow]

Wait. it should be and not steam url

@scarlet tiger - You can set a paramater to "None" or a preset value and it becomes optional. If you don't define a value it becomes mandatory.

You can also do things like set a parameter to discord.file or i believe it's discord.member or int or a boolean

I cant remember all of them but that's some of them

oh and discord.channel

by setting it to these specific paramaters you remove the possibility for your members to mess up the command, for example setting it to discord.channel creates a menu where the user can find the desired channel. similarly for discord.member

[scarlet tiger]

I do it another way and I didn't remember that it could be done that way too

[drifting arrow]

I always opt to create everything in such a way that the end user, no matter how dumb or intellect they are, cannot mess it up.

I hold their hand as much as possible.

;-; Great new issue, error. Finally decided to run my code..

AttributeError: module 'discord.ext' has no attribute 'tasks'

My imports:

import json
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from discord.ext.commands import Bot, Cog
import discord.ext

from discord import app_commands
from discord.interactions import Interaction
from discord.app_commands import guild_only

from plugins.seeders.supportfiles.embeds import seeders_embeds

from plugins.seeders.supportfiles.functions import seeders_functions

My code:

    @discord.ext.tasks.loop(minutes=1)
    async def check_seeders(self):
        reset_points = await self.check_start_of_week() #Checks if it's the start of the week.
        #The rest is not needed

🤔 is it an import issue? i think it is

Alright. it was. had to do from discord.ext import tasks

[drifting arrow]

How do I send multiple embeds? I tried await interaction.followup.send(embeds=[steam_embed,base_embed], view=the_buttons) but it breaks lol

[fast osprey]

What does "it breaks" mean?

[drifting arrow]

discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'stats' raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'to_dict'

C:\Users\decla\OneDrive\Desktop\discordbots\developerbot>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\decla\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 827, in _do_call
    return await self._callback(self.binding, interaction, **params)  # type: ignore
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\decla\OneDrive\Desktop\discordbots\developerbot\plugins\stats\stats.py", line 50, in stats
    await interaction.followup.send(embeds=[steam_embed,base_embed], view=the_buttons)
  File "C:\Users\decla\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\discord\webhook\async_.py", line 1785, in send
    with handle_message_parameters(
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\decla\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python312\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 172, in handle_message_parameters
    payload['embeds'] = [e.to_dict() for e in embeds]

[fast osprey]

One of those things is None

[drifting arrow]

like my variables?

my embed variables? impossible. if it's getting to the point where it's sending the messed it means the embeds generated as intended

nope. nevermind. was possible. lol

i forgot to return 1 of the embeds xD

Ty @fast osprey

[young dagger]

What is a good way to clean old entries in a dictionary when users interact with buttons?

Do it in a background task, cleanup in existing code or use something like caching library?

[fast osprey]

That's pretty vague, as is it's not clear how these buttons relate to this dictionary

[young dagger]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/YZQA

It's for the captcha verification I told you about

[fast osprey]

What's the problem you're trying to solve?

[young dagger]

Clean old entries from the dictionary

[stark ingot]

With only 10min you might be able to get away with an asyncio sleep

[fast osprey]

Why?

[stark ingot]

Because that is the point of a cool down?

[young dagger]

Because the list is going to grow over time

And there is no need to keep track of these users

[stark ingot]

You could also start an ext.task for 10 min and only runs once but that might be unnecessary

[fast osprey]

Do you have reason to believe that it will grow enough to matter?

This really seems like optimizing before you actually have a problem

This is on the order of a handful of bytes

If you're already using the members intent, for example, that's already orders of magnitude more memory imprint

[young dagger]

Anyway, what would be the best solution for implementing some kind of cleanup in this case?

[stark ingot]

You could make a task run every 30min to an hour that loops through the dict and removes old entries

[hushed galleon]

this looks similar to dpy cooldowns, in their case they just clean up keys anytime a cooldown check is done
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/v2.4.0/discord/ext/commands/cooldowns.py#L119-L126

[unkempt canyon]

discord/ext/commands/cooldowns.py lines 119 to 126

def _verify_cache_integrity(self, current: Optional[float] = None) -> None:
    # we want to delete all cache objects that haven't been used
    # in a cooldown window. e.g. if we have a  command that has a
    # cooldown of 60s and it has not been used in 60s then that key should be deleted
    current = current or time.time()
    dead_keys = [k for k, v in self._cache.items() if current > v._last + v.per]
    for k in dead_keys:
        del self._cache[k]```

[young dagger]

So cleaning on interaction is the best way to go about this?

[young dagger]

I was considering that once every 24 hours should be enough too

[stark ingot]

Yeah, whatever time interval makes sense

I just would not do any less than 15 min

[hushed galleon]

the "best" way? i suspect both approaches have negligible differences for this workload

perhaps in heavy traffic (say, 100/s) you might experience slightly excessive cpu usage from checking each time, but at that point you'll likely have bigger bottlenecks

[young dagger]

Why not less than 15 min?

[stark ingot]

If your cool down is 10 min it does not make much sense to check more often. And just a 5 min buffer. Not a fact but just my intuition that says you shouldn't :)

[young dagger]

I could implement it as you suggested during interactions https://paste.pythondiscord.com/53TQ

Or I could run a task periodically to handle it

[young dagger]

How would you personally implement this?

[young dagger]

Oh, yes, of course, there is no need for that. I just don’t see why it should grow over a longer period of time

[fast osprey]

You can't make a good assessment on caching strategies when you don't even know how you're scaling. You're just assuming this will be a problem without proving it

you can't solve the problem until you quantify it, and I can guarantee from here that it's not a problem to begin with

[young dagger]

So hypothetically, keeping track of thousands of users over a three month period is better than cleaning up users you no longer need to track?

I'm interested in why you see cleaning up old entries as an issue

[fast osprey]

The same reason why crawling through your code base and minimizing every variable name is an issue. This doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and if you can't quantify it you're just picking random things to optimize

You cannot make an informed decision without information. If you don't know what is taking up memory and how much memory it's taking up, this is just guess work looking at code and theorizing it's something that needs fixing without having a way of proving that it got fixed. If your optimizations are not rooted in empirical evidence and just whatever you happen to notice, your code and your sanity are going to suffer.

[sacred sand]

How do i install the discord.py library?

[midnight oracle]

Put pip install discord.py on your CMD or Terminal

[sacred sand]

where do i run that

in terminal?

[midnight oracle]

yep

[sacred sand]

and then i can use it in vsc?

[midnight oracle]

Indeed

[sacred sand]

okay ty

[midnight oracle]

:)

[sacred sand]

how do i put it on path?

[sacred sand]

sorry for all the q's

[midnight oracle]

You could do it manually or just uninstall Python and install it again by clicking on the "Add to PATH" option in the installer, and it will do it for you.

[sacred sand]

i don't really wanna uninstall python again 😭

[midnight oracle]

If you want to do it manually, go here.

[sacred sand]

ok ty

[sacred sand]

it says this

[fast osprey]

You need to select the py launcher option when installing python

[zinc gust]

reinstall python

and on the first "screen"

like the first thing that appears

there should be "add to path"

[zinc gust]

to put python code in vsc you need to install the python extension

[sacred sand]

add python.exe to PATH?

[zinc gust]

yeah

[sacred sand]

done

[zinc gust]

then should be good

[sacred sand]

alr thanks

[zinc gust]

btw anyone got a way to lock an entire server with multiple role ?

like i mean when i lock a server i can only unallow a role to send messages

while there are other roles like helpers staff etc that i need to unallow aswell

but im getting rate limited because of the amount of role

[sacred sand]

now i gotta learn how to make discord bot

[zinc gust]

goodluck

[fast osprey]

Allows supercede denies. Just deny send message on @everyone and allow on the roles you want

[sacred sand]

Is this still valid?

[sacred sand]

it says its not valid..

fixed

[sacred sand]

why are there so many errors?

😭

[scarlet tiger]

Did you install Python correctly?

[sacred sand]

I think so

It didnt really tell me to do much so

[scarlet tiger]

Run this in your terminal python --version

[sacred sand]

I will when I get home

[scarlet tiger]

Ok

[sacred sand]

It says 3.12.5

[scarlet tiger]

Try python your_file.py

[scarlet tiger]

Are you in the correct directory for your bot?

[sacred sand]

i have no idea

[scarlet tiger]

Do you use VSC?

[sacred sand]

yeh

[scarlet tiger]

Make sure to open the folder where the bot is

[sacred sand]

you mean the bot code?

[scarlet tiger]

It's not code, the error says that the file directory is not correct

[sacred sand]

i don't understand

[scarlet tiger]

Can you send me a screenshot of your VSC?

[scarlet tiger]

I want to see the files tab

[sacred sand]

this part?

[scarlet tiger]

Save your bot file in a folder and then open that folder

[sacred sand]

bot file?

[scarlet tiger]

the .py file bruh

[sacred sand]

done

like this?

[scarlet tiger]

Now let me see your terminal

[sacred sand]

in vsc?

[scarlet tiger]

Ye

[scarlet tiger]

Ok now run python your_file.py

[sacred sand]

how is invalid syntax

[scarlet tiger]

You need to put your token lol

[sacred sand]

i did

[scarlet tiger]

Let me see the rest of the code

[sacred sand]

i fixed it

it says this now tho

[scarlet tiger]

You need to enable privileged intents from the Discord developer portal

[sacred sand]

i looked around for that but i couldn't find it

[scarlet tiger]

!message-content-intent

[unkempt canyon]

Discord Message Content Intent

The Discord gateway only dispatches events you subscribe to, which you can configure by using "intents."

The message content intent is what determines if an app will receive the actual content of newly created messages. Without this intent, discord.py won't be able to detect prefix commands, so prefix commands won't respond.

Privileged intents, such as message content, have to be explicitly enabled from the Discord Developer Portal in addition to being enabled in the code:

intents = discord.Intents.default() # create a default Intents instance
intents.message_content = True # enable message content intents

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents) # actually pass it into the constructor

For more information on intents, see /tag intents. If prefix commands are still not working, see /tag on-message-event.

[sacred sand]

i have to put that code in?

[scarlet tiger]

Your code is fine, you need to go to the Discord developers page

[sacred sand]

now?

[scarlet tiger]

Go to Bot

[sacred sand]

this?

[scarlet tiger]

Enable this

[minor geyser]

hey so using input blocks the things heartbeat, i tried using threading to fix this and im certain i did it right but it still blocks the heartbeat :p any workaround or do i just have to remove that function entirely or make my decision within 10 seconds lol

[sacred sand]

oh okay

ty

[fast osprey]

input as in terminal input?

[scarlet tiger]

No problem

[minor geyser]

yeah :p

[fast osprey]

Why not just instruct your bot through discord?

You have basically a better terminal already

[minor geyser]

the goal was to be able to fetch information on a guild through the terminal, ig it’s just a quirky way of doing it lol

but I think the problem is that I have the input inside the on_ready function

[fast osprey]

Yeah but...you could just do it from discord

or is this meant to do one thing and then exit? You don't need a connected bot

[hushed meadow]

Hey

I need help with my python code

An error occurred: Command raised an exception: HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In embeds.0.fields: Must be 25 or fewer in length.

@bot.command()
@commands.cooldown(1, 300, commands.BucketType.user)  # 300 seconds = 5 minutes
async def viewteams(ctx):
    managers = load_managers()

    if not managers:
        await ctx.send(f"No manager information found. | {ctx.author.mention}")
        return

    embed = discord.Embed(title="Team Information", color=discord.Color.blue())

    for manager_id, team_name in managers.items():
        manager = ctx.guild.get_member(int(manager_id))
        if manager:
            team_role = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name=team_name)
            if team_role:
                team_members = len(team_role.members) - 1  # Excluding the manager from the count
                embed.add_field(name=f"Team: {team_name}", value=f"Manager: {manager.mention}\nTeam Members: {team_members}", inline=False)
            else:
                embed.add_field(name=f"Team: {team_name}", value=f"Manager: {manager.mention}\nTeam Members: 0", inline=False)
        else:
            embed.add_field(name=f"Team: {team_name}", value=f"Manager ID: {manager_id}\nTeam Members: 0", inline=False)

    message = await ctx.send(embed=embed)

    # Message timer
    for i in range(30, 0, -1):
        embed.set_footer(text=f"Embed deleting in {i}")
        await message.edit(embed=embed)
        await asyncio.sleep(1)

    await message.delete()```

[fast osprey]

You're sending more than 25 fields in an embed

[stark ingot]

dont cross post, I already answered in your thread

[slate swan]

how does the bot create its own invite if its not even in that server its in and supposed to use my own invite?

[stark ingot]

Please rephrase your question.
You want to know why it says to get a new invite from the "nss portal bot" when the bot is not in the server?

[slate swan]

sounds about right sure

[stark ingot]

I think that is just how discord works. It really means nothing for bots as "asking for a new invite" from a bot is not relevent.

[torn orchid]

Help pls!
Error said that textchannel doesn't have attribute send

[fast osprey]

You're calling send on something that's None

[minor geyser]

basically yeah
also whaa?

basically i was writing it to be able to grab info on a guild or user but was thinking about expanding into some more stuff so i wanted to not have to change the code later which is why im doing it this way now

[jaunty cape]

That’s not what it says

[fast osprey]

What are you calling .send on, and why might that be None?

[mint elm]

any idea why this isnt pinging the role correctly?

i was told an extra ampersand but even without it it fails

[stark ingot]

You cannot ping roles/people in embeds. You have to put it in the message content

[mint elm]

nvm turns out i was using the wrong role id ☠️

[young dagger]

Why are you using & anyway?

[stark ingot]

And the & at the end breaks it

[mint elm]

<@&roleid> mentions a role

[mint elm]

yea i checked stack overflow they told me to do that but that failed obviously

[stark ingot]

I think it will still display the ping it just will not actually ping anyone

[mint elm]

yea thats even better

ty friends

actually one more question, this is sending as LITERALLY ## TOP 5 KAISERS instead of

TOP 5 KAISERS

am i doing something wrong?

[patent hull]

field names don't support header markdown

[stark ingot]

I think bold works, you will have to try it and see

[mint elm]

ah, is there any way i can put a header in an embed? because im moving this server's already existing embed (sent via webhook) to my bot so it can auto update

[patent hull]

embed description works

idk if field values do tho

youll have to try

[jaunty cape]

Fields are already bold though

[stark ingot]

I thought you could make them more bold ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jagged crown]

@bot.command()
async def delpassword(ctx):
if ctx.author.id in passwords:
del password[ctx.author.id]
passwords()
await ctx.sent(f'Password is now removed')

What's my fault here?

[scarlet tiger]

the "password" is not defined

the error says it

[jagged crown]

Well I put the password still doesn't work

My bud tried it

Still doesn't work

[jaunty cape]

first of all, the screenshot quality took years off of my life

and apparently the list password doesn't even exist

(or whatever the variable password is)

[jaunty cape]

nvm, password appears to be a dictionary

you shouldn't be using a dictionary for that anyways, you're going to lose all that data the moment you restart your bot

[jagged crown]

Well I'm just testing my projects I set the password before I try to delete it

[jaunty cape]

first of all does password exist?

the traceback says it doesn't

[jagged crown]

So how I can fix it?

[jaunty cape]

by making password exist

duh

[jagged crown]

So I set the password first then try to delete it?

[jaunty cape]

no you have to make a variable called "password"

because it clearly does not exist within the scope of your function

and based on your testing you already attempted to set the password first

[jagged crown]

Ohh okay okay ill try I'll try

[jaunty cape]

also what you gave us is not helpful

you don't tell us where "password" is defined and where the function "passwords()" is defined, and we don't know what it does

[jagged crown]

Well I'm just training my self

[jaunty cape]

wtf is that supposed to mean

[jagged crown]

Just experiencing about Coding and programming

[jaunty cape]

and how is that related to what i told you

[jagged crown]

Nvrmnd

[jaunty cape]

😐

[jagged crown]

I'm just a teen so while im young need to learn about something I want than playing games

[jaunty cape]

how is that related to what i told you

[jagged crown]

Dayumm Imma make a discord bot for my bud

[jaunty cape]

and how is that related to making a discord bot for your bud?

[jagged crown]

Are you trippin ME?

[jaunty cape]

no you're tripping me

[jagged crown]

Nahh I'm serious

[jaunty cape]

you're not giving the necessary information to make your discord bot work

i need to know where you defined the "passwords" variable and what the "passwords()" function does

[jagged crown]

It's just a testing don't mind it HAHA

[jaunty cape]

.-.

so what exactly were you asking for help with?

[jagged crown]

Well If I have a problem with my self-training

lol

[jaunty cape]

😐

[sacred sand]

how do i get the bot token from .env?

[uneven wadi]

Using dotenv

[sacred sand]

i tried that but it said the import doesn'texist

[uneven wadi]

Go to your terminal and type pip list

See if that module is there

[vocal laurel]

Make a prefix command and put an arg that takes in the guild number you want to check out

[sacred sand]

How do i get just the message that was changed

I tried to doing before.Message but it resulted in an error

[sacred sand]

how do i get it?

[fast osprey]

If you're putting peoples' message data somewhere they don't have access to, I hope you're observing the privacy protections you've agreed to in the TOS

[sacred sand]

its my own messages

lol

[fast osprey]

Nothing in your code suggests that will always be the case, and it's pretty clear what this is meant to do

[sacred sand]

it will always be the case because the bot is only in a server i have access to

🤓

[fast osprey]

And that's the entire purpose of this bot. To sit in a server with only you and copy your messages.

That you send in a server with yourself

[sacred sand]

Yeh

Its called learning

[fast osprey]

We're not stupid dude

[sacred sand]

Well we might not be, but you are

[fast osprey]

You can learn things that don't violate privacy

[sacred sand]

How do you expect me to learn without using the bot 😭

[sacred sand]

oh yeah i'm violating my own privacy in a server with only me in it

Good job!!!

[fast osprey]

It is very clear what the purpose of this bot is

[sacred sand]

Yeh to help me learn

Idk why you're being such an ass about it

💀

[fast osprey]

There are a million other things you could be learning in this space. You chose this for a specific reason

[sacred sand]

???

😭

You're weird

[fast osprey]

Unless you're claiming the only possible thing a bot could do would be to copy people's messages in a way that violates the privacy protections they are afforded by law, there are other things you could build to learn and it's odd that you're picking this specifically

[sacred sand]

💀

How do you think mod logs work

I bet this server is showing deleted/edited messages in a channel we can't see

[fast osprey]

People doing something doesn't mean that thing is ethical or within TOS to do. You pointing at people doesn't change what you've agreed to

[sacred sand]

You have to be a bot

There's no way you're real

[fast osprey]

No I'm just someone who cares about user protections and privacy

[sacred sand]

🤓

I choose to learn the messages topic in discord.py
SolsticeShard: "OMGG YOU'RE VIOLATING PEOPLES PRIVACY"

[fast osprey]

Not interested in arguing with someone in bad faith. Ultimately this sort of message dumping is against TOS unless you implement privacy protections, which you've made it clear you don't have any interest in doing so. You saying it's only in your server doesn't change that this code is TOS violating as is and you have no interest in fixing that. You could also choose to learn about those protections, but instead you're being condescending and rude

[sacred sand]

report me then

😭

[vocal laurel]

[thin raft]

@sacred sand if you want to code something that violates the TOS you signed, you should not be asking how to break it inside that same platform

If you do it at least search in a different place 🤦‍♂️

[sacred sand]

If it breaks TOS then why is it so open to use

There's no warning in it at all

and if it breaks TOS then all mod bots would have broken TOS

[vocal laurel]

Its meant to be used for good intentions

[fast osprey]

It breaks tos if the protections aren't put in place

[sacred sand]

and its in the resource in the channel description

[sacred sand]

whats bad about showing when someones edits a message

[fast osprey]

Their message content is their data, which they have rights to

[vocal laurel]

Well its like deleting a message, you can't see it (unless you are breaking TOS ofc)

basically to protect their data as said above

[sacred sand]

??

[fast osprey]

When you copy that somewhere, without the correct protections you are stripping them of those rights

This is spelled out in the TOS which you have agreed to

[sacred sand]

wdym you can't see it, it literally shows edited in small text when someone edits their tex

there i edited it

[fast osprey]

content

[vocal laurel]

I can't see the message before it was editied

[sacred sand]

yeh but my code shows both before and after

so what now?

[vocal laurel]

Exactly

[sacred sand]

Okay

so report dyno, it displays edited text before and after in mod logs

[vocal laurel]

A normal person wouldn't be able to see the before message, so there shouldn't be a reason to be storing this

[sacred sand]

go sue them

[fast osprey]

Cool, and that's irrelevant

[sacred sand]

???

Its the same thing i tried to do so no its relevant

[fast osprey]

Again, other people violating tos is not remotely relevant to this conversation

[sacred sand]

If you can sue Dyno then i'll admit i'm wrong

go ahead

[primal cliff]

why would you want to sue dyno

[sacred sand]

because apparently it breaks TOS

[fast osprey]

It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing

[primal cliff]

also does anyone know a free discord bot hosting service

[fast osprey]

You're just deflecting

[primal cliff]

I heard of glitch and github pages

[sacred sand]

It really does

[primal cliff]

do they work

[fast osprey]

There isn't anything reliable for free eternally, no. They have to make money

[vocal laurel]

There are a lot of "free discord hosting services" but they do come with a lot of draw backs

[fast osprey]

Costs money to run servers and they aren't going to spend theirs on you, a rando, forever

[primal cliff]

hmm can i have some services names?

I tried hosting it on my hp pavilion dv2700

[fast osprey]

They either are limited trials or are so bad they frustrate you into paying

!hosting

[unkempt canyon]

Discord Bot Hosting

Using free hosting options like repl.it or Heroku for continuous 24/7 bot hosting is strongly discouraged.
Instead, opt for a virtual private server (VPS) or use your own spare hardware if you'd rather not pay for hosting.

See our Discord Bot Hosting Guide on our website that compares many hosting providers, both free and paid.

You may also use #965291480992321536 to discuss different discord bot hosting options.

[sacred sand]

link the tos

[fast osprey]

It takes 15 seconds to google discord developer tos

Specifically section 5

To reiterate, using/storing message content isn't inherently against TOS, just if you do not also implement the required privacy protections. Pointing at other services doing this does not change that, and also does not indicate whether or not they have those protections

[mint elm]

I have this snippet here that checks if a user is already in a certain position on a regional lb (example OCE 1) and its supposed to check if the position in the region is already taken, however it completely goes through and writes it into the file despite already being taken. Screenshot 2 shows exactly what its searching for via a print. Screenshot 3 shows the file being read

[fast osprey]

This would be a lot cleaner (and more performant and safe) with a proper db fwiw

[thin raft]

Why can I buy a knife with all the illegal practices I can do with it?

[mint elm]

i don't have access to a db nor do i know how to operate them, im using a file because this project isnt too big and is just for a small group (4 regions, 10 spots available in each

[fast osprey]

And if a bad write happens, you will corrupt and lose all of your data. This isn't about scale, it's about using the correct tool for the job

As is, you're looking for substrings which is probably conflicting with other fields

[mint elm]

would it not just search for /OCE/1 and if it finds it just discontinue?

[fast osprey]

Id be more worried about the fact that what you have now will randomly crash and lose all of your data

But one thing to do is actually print out the things you're comparing in your if statement, it probably isn't behaving like you expect

[mint elm]

i'll look into databases and how to use them while i program this, if it really does become a problem ill fully move to databases now but if i sanitize everything enough to the point where it wont break formatting i should be all good right

[fast osprey]

That's not the problem here, you're trying to write to a flat file without atomic writes, which a failure causes the entire file to be corrupted

It will only become a problem once that happens and you've lost your data and your app crashes

[sacred sand]

I get it now lol but it doesn't say how to put in the protection

[sacred sand]

would this be better then?

[primal cliff]

is anyone using glitch.com to host discord bots

[rugged shadow]

you can host HTTP/interaction-based bots on glitch

for gateway bots (like discord.py), you have to get a VPS

[exotic hazel]

I'm new to bots, does interaction-based mean it only uses app commands? And that makes it easier to host?

[rugged shadow]

mhm

for the interaction based bots, you host an HTTP server and Discord sends requests to it

which is pretty neat because some services allow you to serve HTTP requests for free

[exotic hazel]

I see, thanks! That's very cool, because I only wanted to use slash commands anyway

[rugged shadow]

but beware because there aren't a lot of libraries that abstract this functionality really well

other than hikari (example)

[exotic hazel]

Hmmm, they seem to be completely separate for hikari (gateway vs REST)
Does this mean that a discord.py bot, even if it only uses interactions, cannot be hosted as an HTTP bot?

[fast osprey]

I mean sure, this is a lot safer in terms of data privacy but I'm not sure why you'd want it

[stark ingot]

I see no reason that logging the before and after content of an edited message would be against developer TOS
From my understanding it would not be for the reasons of

• There is no expectation of privacy on a discord server so a discord message is not private information
• The bot is not storing the information but rather posting it
• In the intended use case the data would only be able to be seen by a subset of the group that could see it originally
• The bot is exempt from personal data deletion regulations due to the posted information being
• Non-Private
• Essential for the functionality of the service (IE a mod log)
  The bot would just need to state this is their privacy policy to be extra safe

[fast osprey]

Nothing in the tos mentions an "expectation of privacy". This is an entirely made up distinction

The tos state that you must meet requirements for storing any api data you obtain from discord. It does not make an exception if you happen to also use discord as the storage mechanism

[stark ingot]

And storing API data from a message edit event does meet the requirements

[fast osprey]

No it doesn't

[stark ingot]

How would it not?

[fast osprey]

Are users granted the right to be forgotten when you do so?

[stark ingot]

No, but it falls within the exceptions of the "right to be forgotten"

[fast osprey]

It does not

Discord itself is beholden to this, hence why they have feature for it

[stark ingot]

The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest
-# GDPR Source
Publicly available information (such as your address, which is often in public real estate/property records)
-# CCPA Source
Discord has to delete it because they have no need for it.
A logging bot does not have to delete it because the data is being used to maintain an "orderly environment" for public interest and deletion of this data would make the "officials" unable to maintain a "orderly environment"

[fast osprey]

GDPR aside, you don't even have to get into legal aspects. Discord has a privacy feature where users ask for their messages to be deleted, and you as a bot owner have agreed to not interfere with discord privacy features

Except to the extent you are required to retain API Data under applicable laws or regulations, you will (1) promptly update the API Data upon request from us or the applicable user, and (2) promptly delete the API Data when: (a) retaining it is no longer necessary for your Application’s stated (and approved through App Review, as applicable) functionality that is permitted under the Terms; (b) you stop operating your Application (whether on your own, due to an enforcement action by us, or otherwise); (c) we request you delete it; (d) the applicable user requests you delete it; or (e) required by applicable laws or regulations. You will give users an easily accessible way to ask for their API Data to be modified and deleted. If you have received API Data in error, you will immediately tell us, delete it, and provide proof of deletion upon our request.

These are separate and in addition to local data privacy laws. None of this cares about "expectation of privacy".

[stark ingot]

The application is not retaining the API Data. If someone screenshots messages on discord, discord is not responsible for hunting down this person and making them delete the screenshot when they need to delete data. The data is no longer in the bots control

[fast osprey]

The bot's messages are in the bot's control. You are using discord as a database

That does not absolve you of the responsibilities just because of where you choose to store these things

Whether you are reposting my messages in telegram or an excel spreadsheet or discord itself, you have a responsibility to delete my api data when I tell you to. Unless you are claiming that it is a third party, in which case there is a whole separate subsection

[faint bloom]

what u guys recommend to use disnake or discord.py

is discord.py alive?

[stark ingot]

I prefer py-cord over discord.py.
I have not heard much bad about disnake, I just have not used it

Personally I would look at the documentation/examples/guides of each and choose based off of that as feature and structure wise they are all quite similar

[fast osprey]

On the second question, discord.py resumed development and is actively being maintained yes

[fast musk]

I use discord.py haven't tried disnake. I enjoy working with discord.py

[lost scarab]

D.py 🐐

[timber dragon]

dpy

[scarlet tiger]

py-cord >>>

[merry cliff]

whatever works well >>>>>>

[mint pecan]

how can i make a command with both keyword args and normal args?

[viscid hornet]

a function with args and kwargs or a written command with args and kwargs?

can you elaborate?

[mint pecan]

a function with args and kwargs

[viscid hornet]

thats basic python

but sure hold on

!args-kwargs

[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

[mint pecan]

i mean a command that support bot args and kwargs

[viscid hornet]

🤦🏽‍♂️

so a command with required arguments and default arguments, yes?

[mint pecan]

yes

[viscid hornet]

its the same thing

[mint pecan]

nonono

like i can specify the arg in command

[viscid hornet]

(..., arg1: type1, arg2: type2, arg3: type3 = None)

[viscid hornet]

i dont get your use case?

[mint pecan]

!ban @someone
!ban user=@someone

[viscid hornet]

show me an example

[mint pecan]

like this

[viscid hornet]

i dont think thats possible

[mint pecan]

oh

[viscid hornet]

also dont make a ban command

its already part of discord and by making your own, you're reducing the security of such an action from falling into the wrong hands

[mint pecan]

no im just using it as an example

[viscid hornet]

use a different command as an example

you're reinventing the wheel by making it square

not a good idea

[mint pecan]

wouldn't a check help

[viscid hornet]

you're not hearing me correctly

it's already been done

[merry cliff]

yeah also if you want your own system or whatever like @unkempt canyon :)

[fast osprey]

The concerns aren't something you could solve with a check

• your audit log becomes shit because it's your bot doing everything, which is just worse than people doing it themselves
• you won't reasonably be able to recreate 2FA requirements
• your bot now has to ask for permissions it doesn't actually need to do things people can already do, which just unnecessarily increases risk if your bot is ever compromised for no actual functional gain

On your initial question you could look into making a flag converter, but there's really not a case where you'd want both. If it's ambiguous enough where flags are useful, you don't want people using positionals

[vocal laurel]

Is this what you want? https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/commands.html#ext-commands-flag-converter

[mint pecan]

yes but i want it to work with normal args too

[vocal laurel]

normal args?

[mint pecan]

without flag converters

[viscid hornet]

args and kwargs in functions, but in dpy instead

[viscid hornet]

also why would you want this?

if you want individual arguments you can fill in separately then just use slash commands

[fast osprey]

Mixing the two will lead to ambiguous behavior. You do not want this

Even better, just move to app commands and eliminate the problem entirely

[stark ingot]

^this
it's kinda what they were designed for. Allow you to have more clarity in your arguments with little to no extra typing on the users part

[young dagger]

Is there a more recent basic cog + extension example?

I found this one https://gist.github.com/pinheaded/ac880263084a65b8d2f769c1fa46a3d7

But it says it's for discord.py v2

[fast osprey]

There are live examples for each in the docs. They do not need to come together, and it's important to understand why

[young dagger]

I'm asking for an example specifically

If you have any to provide

[fast osprey]

They're in the docs, as I said

Very fast google exercise

[young dagger]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/cogs.html?highlight=cog#

This one is not showing an full example as the previous link

[fast osprey]

What does "full example" mean

[young dagger]

Dude

[fast osprey]

And how is this not "full"

[young dagger]

Did you check the link?

[fast osprey]

I did.

[young dagger]

https://gist.github.com/pinheaded/ac880263084a65b8d2f769c1fa46a3d7 is providing main + cogs

The docs are not

[fast osprey]

Because they are not going to rewrite a full bot to explain every concept. What is confusing about the example in the cog docs and how you would integrate it?

[young dagger]

Well that's what I'm looking for

[fast osprey]

You are going to struggle learning if you do not challenge yourself to layer concepts on top of each other

People do not have the time to rewrite the entire stack to explain incremental concepts every time

[young dagger]

I'm reading the docs too. I just want an example that's it

[fast osprey]

My advice is to read the new concept and challenge yourself to apply it to what you have vs looking and hoping someone has done that for you in every case. Up to you if you wish to take that advice

There are not official examples that do this because they expect you to layer those concepts yourself. There may be unofficial examples but these are not quality controlled or kept up to date

[mint pecan]

how can i make help command display the flags inside a flag converter?

[young dagger]

I added:

    @app_commands.command(name="ping")
    async def slash_pingcmd(self, interaction):
        await interaction.response.send_message(interaction.user.mention)```

But it's says "This applications has no commands"

Any idea why?

[fast osprey]

Are you syncing your commands somewhere? Are you sure this is being added to your command tree?

[young dagger]

Is this the right way to do it?

    async def setup_hook(self):
        await self.load_extension("cogs.commands")

        await self.tree.sync()

[fast osprey]

Ideally you should only sync when you need to, which is not every time you start your bot

[young dagger]

But if I create a command to sync, then I will need to sync that command first?

class SorakaBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(
            command_prefix="!",
            intents=discord.Intents.all()
        )

    async def setup_hook(self):
        await self.load_extension("cogs.commands")

    async def on_ready(self):
        print(f'Version: {discord.__version__}')
        await self.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(name='League of Legends', type=1))
        print(f'Successfully logged in and booted...!')

    async def sync_application_commands(self):
        await self.tree.sync()
        print("Application commands have been synced.")

    @commands.command(name="sync")
    @commands.is_owner()
    async def sync_commands(self, ctx):
        await self.sync_application_commands()
        await ctx.send("Application commands have been synced.")

[2024-09-04 18:01:52] [ERROR ] discord.ext.commands.bot: Ignoring exception in command None discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "sync_commands" is not found

Am I doing something wrong?

[sick birch]

yeah but usually only once

people also make it a hybrid command so you can use the sync command to sync the sync command

[fast osprey]

You really shouldn't be publishing sensitive owner-only operations as app commands in the first place

[fast osprey]

You cannot define commands within a bot subclass

These have to be externally declared

[young dagger]

Why can't I use

    @app_commands.command(name="ping", description=f"Check {self.bot} current latency.")```

It tells me Unresolved reference 'self'

[fast osprey]

You can't use variables like that in statically declared decorators

[young dagger]

Do you know the solution?

[fast osprey]

What are you trying to put in that sub string?

[young dagger]

The bot's name

[fast osprey]

Well your code doesn't know what the bot's name is unless a) you tell it or b) you log in and fetch the app info

Very simple answer is to just hard code it in a constant

[young dagger]

Can somebody review my code? It's very simple. I just wanna know if I'm on the right path.

main.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/IRTA

commands.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SH3A

errors.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/3NWQ

[scarlet tiger]

discord.py doesn't have a method called load_extensions()?

[young dagger]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.load_extension

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.load\_extension

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

Loads an extension.

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

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

Changed in version 2\.0: This method is now a [coroutine](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-coroutine).

[scarlet tiger]

extensions no extension

[young dagger]

Not afaik

[scarlet tiger]

Ah ok, the library I use has that method, it allows you to load all extensions at once and I thought discord.py also had it.

[young dagger]

I guess you can load all the extensions in a single loop if you prefer that

[scarlet tiger]

Well, in general I think it's good, just make sure you have a good organisation of your files.

[mint pecan]

How can i make help command display flags inside a command with FlagConverter?

[misty widget]

how to use open cv for robotics

[slim bloom]

code:

async def setup_locales(self): 
        os.makedirs('src/locales', exist_ok=True) 
        try:
            i18n.load_path.append(os.path.join('src', 'locales'))  
            i18n.set('locale', 'en')
            i18n.set('fallback', 'es')
            i18n.set('enable_memoization', True)
            i18n.set('format', 'json')
            print(i18n.t('greeting'))
            print('Languages have been setup successfully')
        except Exception:
            print('An error occurred while setup the languages:')
            traceback.print_exc()```

error: When I try to do a print like print(i18n. t('greeting')) instead of the translation appearing, "greeting" appears which it shouldn't, how do I fix it?

@hushed galleon

[severe rampart]

You set the locale to english did you not?

[slim bloom]

Yes, but something like hello should still appear instead of greeting.

[mint pecan]

class A(commands.FlagConverter):
    x: str
    b: int


@commands.hybrid_command()
async def test(self, ctx: commands.Context, *, flag: A):

result:

!test

Arguments:
  flag No description given

default help command does not display A's flags
How do i make it show the inside flags?

[fast osprey]

Why not just make this an app command

[mild token]

Is there a way to set icon from a url of drop-down menu

[midnight oracle]

Only emojis

[slate swan]

    try:
        result = mongomanager.marketplace_posts_collection.insert_one(document)
    except Exception as e:
        print("error 1:", e)

        try:
            new_data = mongomanager.marketplace_posts_collection.find_one({'_id': result.inserted_id})
            print("new data")
            print(new_data)
            print("----")
            print(self, guild_id, author_id, type)
            await prompt_post_editor(self, guild_id, author_id, new_data, type)
            return
        except Exception as e:
            print("Error 2:", e)

why on earth does this happen?

[mild token]

: (

[stark ingot]

It's generally not a good idea to catch all exceptions. In your case you are catching it and not displaying the traceback which is essentially for finding your problem quickly

[slate swan]

i fixed it <3

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1276480053936521349/1281345938123919381/AaxnFpl.mp4?ex=66db61e5&is=66da1065&hm=6b83b8ba01a2d3e7e8079d4bef29d47379352297c3b6027ee6deb55fdf9d2994&

[young dagger]

What is this about?
5:31 ERROR discord.ui.view Ignoring exception in view <View timeout=180.0 children=4> for item <Button style=<ButtonStyle.secondary: 2> url=None disabled=False label='2' emoji=None row=None sku_id=None>

[young dagger]

New to cogs. Can someone please review the code? It's very basic. I just wanna know if I'm on the right path.

main.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/IRTA

commands.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/SH3A

errors.py
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/3NWQ

[fast osprey]

There's not really a point in putting an error handler in a cog if it's a core part of your bot's infrastructure and not something you'd load/unload. And in general there isn't a point in making cogs that only have one thing, you could just add that thing to the bot on its own, that's just overhead at that point

[young dagger]

This is the beginning. So it's better to add error handler directly for the commands in the same file?

[fast osprey]

I mean it depends on what you want

Local error handlers are for logic specific to commands when errors happen. A global error handler is for things you want to happen when any command errors

[young dagger]

But you said it's a bad thing to use a global error handler?

[fast osprey]

I said it was bad to put it in a cog

Or rather it doesn't make any sense to

[young dagger]

How else can I add a global error handler for my cogs?

[fast osprey]

That's like taking an apple out of the fridge, putting it into a container, then taking it out of the container so you can eat it immediately

@bot.error, or implement it in a subclass of Bot

[young dagger]

You mean the main.py?

[fast osprey]

Wherever you want it. Things don't have to be in cogs to be in different files

[young dagger]

Where would you put the error handler?

[fast osprey]

Personally I'd subclass Bot and put all of my central implementations in it . I also think people obsess way too much about what file they put things in

[young dagger]

Thanks. What about load the extensions in the subclass too?

This way I don't need to duplicate the loads in every cog

[fast osprey]

Huh?

[young dagger]

Can you review my code one last time?
main.py https://paste.pythondiscord.com/3XKQ
commands.py https://paste.pythondiscord.com/MG5A

So now main.py will act as a fallback for unhandled exceptions

Which is the subclass Bot

Let me know if there is something I missed

[fast osprey]

You should not be changing presence in on_ready, that can actively disconnect you

On_ready fires repeatedly and randomly too

[young dagger]

Where should I change it?

Under setup_hook maybe?

[fast osprey]

You can pass presence data into the bot's constructor

You don't have to change it yourself

[young dagger]

Is this fair?

class Bot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(
            command_prefix=["!", ">"],
            intents=discord.Intents.all(),
            case_insensitive=True,
            help_command=None,
            activity=discord.Game(name='League of Legends'),
            status=discord.Status.online
        )

[young dagger]

Should I keep on_ready completely empty? Could I print out "Bot is ready"?

[fast osprey]

You can do that if you want, but do you really want a print every time the bot does a routine reconnect?

[young dagger]

I mean it would be good to see in the console when the bot is fully connected. Do you have any other suggestion?

[fast osprey]

You can make a task that does it once when it initially connects if that's what you want, rather than doing something on every reconnect

Up to you, it's just logging

[young dagger]

Would a print actively disconnect me on_ready?

[fast osprey]

Nah, it's just going to give you noise about something you probably don't care about

[young dagger]

Hmh intreseting

When I do !whois 38630748474022293939 way more than 17-18 digits the bot crashes

    @commands.command(name="whois", description="Get user information.")
    @commands.guild_only()
    @commands.cooldown(1, 5.0, commands.BucketType.user)
    async def whois(self, ctx, member: discord.Member = None):

[2024-09-06 01:53:28] [INFO ] discord.gateway: Shard ID None session has been invalidated. [2024-09-06 01:53:33] [INFO ] discord.gateway: Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: 0d2cc6f4dfafcf67b98ea53f49327447). [INFO] Successfully connected as Developer Bot.

Reconnecting and falling back to the error handler

[slim bloom]

@hushed galleon one question

[young dagger]

Do you know why the bot crashes if you use 20 digits for member: discord.Member?

lol

The bot crashes on exact 20 digits

Not 21, 22 etc

[fast osprey]

"Crashes"?

[young dagger]

Yes when I do !whois 38630748474022298722

[fast osprey]

No, what does "crashes" mean

[young dagger]

[2024-09-06 02:27:05] [INFO ] discord.gateway: Shard ID None session has been invalidated.

The session is invalidated. The bot reconnects and falls back to the error handler

[young dagger]

On exactly 20 digit integers

[fast osprey]

🤨

That's not even a valid snowflake, and I don't think anything in the library would straight up disconnect you. Probably something in your code

[young dagger]

Why would it do that on exactly 20 digit integers?

[young dagger]

My code

    @commands.command(name="whois", description="Get user information.")
    @commands.guild_only()
    @commands.cooldown(1, 5.0, commands.BucketType.user)
    async def whois(self, ctx, member: discord.Member = None):
        if member is None:
            await ctx.send(f"NOT OKAY")

        await ctx.send("OKAY")
        return

[fast osprey]

That is not all of your code

Must be something in your code, I'm calling the MemberConverter with a 20 digit id and immediately getting the error id expect

[young dagger]

My full code:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
import datetime

# Set up the bot with a command prefix and all intents enabled
intents = discord.Intents.all()  # Enable all intents

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

check_mark_emoji = '![check_mark](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1185706844665159820.webp?size=128 "check_mark")'
x_emoji = '![X_](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1185706862201544774.webp?size=128 "X_")'

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Logged in as {bot.user.name} ({bot.user.id})')

@bot.command(name='whois', description='Get user information.')
async def whois(ctx, member: discord.Member = None):
    if member is None:
        await ctx.send("NOT OKAY")
        return

    await ctx.send("OKAY")


# Global error handler
async def on_command_error(self, ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.NoPrivateMessage):
        return
    elif isinstance(error, commands.MissingPermissions):
        return
    elif isinstance(error, commands.CommandNotFound):
        return
    elif isinstance(error, discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound):
        await ctx.send(f"{x_emoji} I could not find the user `{error.argument}`.")
        return
    elif isinstance(error, discord.ext.commands.errors.UserNotFound):
        await ctx.send(f"{x_emoji} I could not find the user `{error.argument}`.")
        return
    elif isinstance(error, commands.CommandOnCooldown):
        # Create an embed message
        embed = discord.Embed(title="",
                                description=f"{x_emoji} This command is on cooldown. "
                                            f"Try again in {round(error.retry_after)} seconds.",
                                timestamp=datetime.datetime.now(), color=discord.Color.red())
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        return
    else:
        await ctx.send(f"{x_emoji} An error occurred while processing the command.")
        raise error

bot.run('TOKEN_HERE')

[fast osprey]

What are you doing while handling the error?

And if you remove this error handler?

[young dagger]

Crashes as well

discord.gateway: Shard ID None session has been invalidated. discord.gateway: Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: f2d07faabe7c3ee9e5df6d8b57d9b131). discord.ext.commands.bot: Ignoring exception in command whois raise MemberNotFound(argument) discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound: Member "38630748474022298722" not found. Logged in as Developer Bot (1064279645215793173)

[fast osprey]

And that's the entirety of your code?

[young dagger]

Yes. I created it especially for this example

Reinstalled discord.py as well, same

[fast osprey]

and where are you hosting this? Fetching a user doesn't invalidate your session, you got something fucked in your environment

[young dagger]

PyCharm -> New project

[fast osprey]

[young dagger]

Did you try with exact 20 digits?

[sturdy egret]

Can someone help me with discord embeds and sending images from a file path. Ive got it to send like before the embed gets sent but i cant get it inside of it

[golden portal]

filename needs to match for it to be inside the embed
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-use-a-local-image-file-for-an-embed-image

[unique lichen]

Is it possible to run a discord bot using eval function?

[mint pecan]

im learning about flags

but theyre not showing in help prompt

[fast osprey]

If your goal is to let a user provide multiple optional arguments and to make that easy, app commands are the right tool

[unique lichen]

Anyone knows please?

[fast osprey]

Why? What is your goal?

[midnight oracle]

Yep

Beside the danger of this command, you'll have to adjust your code a little, but yeah. It is possible.

[unique lichen]

Basically make a jsk like thingy to run the bot from another python program

[unique lichen]

Thank you so much

[fast osprey]

Why would that need to be an eval? You could just write the code

[sturdy egret]

That’s not the issue..

[golden portal]

that's usually the issue

you didnt even show any code

[unique lichen]

How would I run it from another python program?

[fast osprey]

Just...put the code in that program...?

Like what is the actual flow here in concrete terms, what are these programs doing

[young dagger]

It's specically the ID 38630748474022298722 that makes is crash. I tried other ID's with the same length and they didn't

Error message: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/GTPQ

[dire timber]

I have a quick question.

How do I make all elements of a view disappear after a timeout if there's no interaction? What I mean by this is, what object do I refer to in order to edit the message without requiring a message/interaction?

Example is

  async def on_timeout(self) -> None:
        for button in self.children:
            self.remove_item(button)
        # or
        self.clear_items()
        
        #The below function call will not work as there won't be an interaction (no button press or similar interaction)
        #await interaction.response.edit_message(view=self)

Problem solved now

👍