discord-bots

[teal delta]

!tag

!on_message

[slate swan]

salut

[sage crown]

I think you're missing an async with

[mint pecan]

yeah it works when using with block but i want to return the database connection though

[sage crown]

You need the async with. Where do you want to use it without async with?

[odd folio]

What is an instance variable?

[mint pecan]

i realized you need to await for the class for it to be alive which i didnt and with block isnt needed

[sage crown]

You still need the with block to close the thread

[mint pecan]

you can do manually it using db.close() though?

[sage crown]

Why bother? Just use a with

You have to remember to use a finally

[mint pecan]

yeah but sometimes i want to close it manually

[sage crown]

You can close it manually and still use the with

[stark ingot]

A variable that is associated with an instance (object) of a class

[mint pecan]

isnt that duplicate?

[sage crown]

Good context managers are idempotent

[mint pecan]

aiosqlite connection is refusing me to shutdown my bot (using ctrl + c) when it's not closed, what's the solution?

[woven plume]

I'm being comissioned by someone to make a discord bot for them, but I have no frame of reference for how much to charge for. The bot is supposed to facilitate running a 'ranked match' in an external game (with things like character bans) and also taking the results of the match and using a ranking algorithm to rank the players.

[queen wedge]

@bot.tree.command(name="start_election", description="Start an election in a specific region.")
@app_commands.describe(region="1,2,3,4")
async def start_election(interaction: Interaction, region: int):
    region_map = {1: 'Aryavart', 2: 'Dravidian Rashtra', 3: 'Saurashtra', 4: 'Purvanchal'}
    
    if region not in region_map:
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"Invalid region: {region}. Please choose between 1, 2, 3, or 4.", ephemeral=True)
        return
    
    eci_role = discord.utils.get(interaction.user.roles, name="ECI")
    if not eci_role:
        await interaction.response.send_message("You do not have the required ECI role to start an election.", ephemeral=True)
        return   
    
    selected_region = region_map[region]
    candidates = await db.get_candidates_for_region(selected_region)
    
    if not candidates:
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"No candidates found for the {selected_region} region.", ephemeral=True)
        return

    options = [discord.SelectOption(label=candidate['candidate_name'], description=candidate['party_name'], value=candidate['party_name']) for candidate in candidates]

    class VotingDropdown(ui.Select):
        def __init__(self, candidates_options):
            super().__init__(placeholder="Choose your candidate", min_values=1, max_values=1, options=candidates_options)
        
        async def callback(self, interaction: Interaction):
            user_id = interaction.user.id
            party_name = self.values[0]
            username = interaction.user.name
            
            already_voted = await db.check_if_voted(user_id, region)
            if already_voted:
                await interaction.response.send_message("You have already voted!", ephemeral=True)
                return
            
            await db.add_vote(user_id, party_name, region)
            await interaction.response.send_message(f"You voted for {party_name}!", ephemeral=True)
            print(f"Vote added for {party_name} by {username} from {selected_region}")

    view = ui.View()
    view.add_item(VotingDropdown(options))
    
    await interaction.response.send_message(
        embed=Embed(
            title=f"Election Poll for {selected_region}",
            description="\n".join([f"{index + 1}. {candidate['candidate_name']} ({candidate['party_name']})" for index, candidate in enumerate(candidates)]),
            color=Color.green()
        ),
        view=view
    )

it says interaction failed if I restart the server

[fast osprey]

You should be making a View class, not a generic View object that you then staple items into. If you're using discord.py, look at the persistent.py example for options on how to get things to persist across restarts

[queen wedge]

can you give an example

[fast osprey]

There are examples in the example file I mentioned

[wheat summit]

Hello! I'm doing my first Discord bot with Python, but I saw a tutorial that said to go to the internal PC commands and run "pip install discord" but it doesn't work, any ways to fix this? And if it can't be fixed, what do I do to install that Discord thing?

[elfin peak]

how can I make a discord bot?

[sage crown]

The async with, will close it

[queen wedge]

?

[fast osprey]

¿

[wheat summit]

Why won't this work?

@bot.command()
    async def hello(ctx=None):
        await ctx.send("Hello there!")```

It says that "hello" isn't a command.

[queen wedge]

I mean, where can I find that example file

[queen wedge]

Replace = with :

[fast osprey]

It's in the examples folder in the repo

[wheat summit]

Alright! Thanks!

[stark ingot]

Don't give people advice if it does not solve the actual problem.

[stark ingot]

Whatever tutorial you are following sounds like it is pretty bad. I recommend looking at the docs and examples for the library you are using

[wheat summit]

Why does my bot keep saying that my command doesn't exist as an error?

[fast osprey]

Probably because you're not registering it properly

[young dagger]

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

[wheat summit]

How to fix it?

Should the command be grey when I type it or?

[fast osprey]

Going to need to see the full code

[wheat summit]

Alright!

Here it is. ```py
@bot.command()
async def sendembed(ctx:None):
embeded_msg = discord.Embed(title="Title of Embed", description="Description of embed", color= discord.Color.blue())
embeded_msg.set_thumbnail(url= ctx.author.avatar)
embeded_msg.add_field(name="Name of the author", value="Value of field", inline=False)
embeded_msg.set_image(url=ctx.guild.icon)
embeded_msg.set_footer(text="Footer Text", icon_url= ctx.author.avatar_url)

        await ctx.send(embed= embeded_msg)```

It says that the "sendembed" command doesn't exist.

[fast osprey]

"full" means "full"

as in all of it, not just this command

[wheat summit]

Alright.

[fast osprey]

(removing any tokens)

[wheat summit]

Don't worry, I got it covered.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

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

@bot.event
async def on_ready():

    print("Bot ready!")


    @bot.command()
    async def hello(ctx:None):
        await ctx.send(f"Hello there, {ctx.author.mention}.")

    @bot.command(aliases=["gm", "morning"])
    async def goodmorning(ctx):
        await ctx.send(f"Goodmorning, {ctx.author.mention}!")

        @bot.command()
        async def sendembed(ctx:None):
            embeded_msg = discord.Embed(title="Title of Embed", description="Description of embed", color= discord.Color.blue())
            embeded_msg.set_thumbnail(url= ctx.author.avatar)
            embeded_msg.add_field(name="Name of the author", value="Value of field", inline=False)
            embeded_msg.set_image(url=ctx.guild.icon)
            embeded_msg.set_footer(text="Footer Text", icon_url= ctx.author.avatar_url)

            await ctx.send(embed= embeded_msg)

with open("token.txt") as file:
    token = file.read()

bot.run(token)``` Here.

(Currently following a tutorial which doesn't get these types of errors).

[fast osprey]

You should not nest commands inside of each other, or inside of an event

these should all be indented to the top level

[wheat summit]

Alright!

[mint pecan]

connection pool

[sage crown]

Ah maybe aiosqlite is different and needs async with contextlib.closing

[open cobalt]

hey guys, I have a problem, so I fire a HTTP request to get the members of a guild, but instead receiving only my name, why?

[timber dragon]

Members intent.

[teal delta]

token.txt 😼

Use dotenv

[wheat summit]

What is it?

[teal delta]

# .env
key=value

# main.py
>>> import os
>>> os.getenv("key")
"value"

It secures secret keys

Make a new file called .env

[wheat summit]

Alright, thanks!

[open cobalt]

I activated that in the discord dev portal, but not working

[mint pecan]

you need to load it using dotenv.load_dotenv first, am i wrong?

[teal delta]

Nope

[timber dragon]

Yes you do

[timber dragon]

What about in code?

Oh wait http request

fetching a guild doesn't return its members

[stark ingot]

I don't in my code. I think it may be system dependent

[fast osprey]

Environment variables
Typed modern config formats like toml or yaml

[mint pecan]

is making a shutdown command good?

[timber dragon]

Interesting

[timber dragon]

Yeah nothing wrong with that

[teal delta]

How do I use that?

[south yacht]

Hello I need help, when I try run setup command on bot it sends smth weird

[stark ingot]

what is a "setup command"

[stark ingot]

Did you install this off of github or something? It is probably a bad idea to run files that you dont know what is in them or what they do that you find on the internet
Do you even have python installed?

[wheat summit]

GUILD_ID= discord.Object(1149794271935873126)

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description= "Says hello back to the user that used the command.", guild= GUILD_ID)
async def sayHello(interaction: discord.Interaction):
                  await interaction.response.send_message(f"{interaction.user.mention} Hello there!")```

Why won't this work?

It says this: "builtin_function_or_method" object is not subscriptbale.

[south yacht]

oh no I dont

tysm much

[fast osprey]

What's the full error?

[wheat summit]

An Error while syncing applications commands has occured: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not subscriptable

But the try: command was wrong, now it says "Synced 0 commands".

[fast osprey]

You should have a traceback

If you don't know what line that error happened on, youre shooting in the dark

[wheat summit]

How to get that?

[fast osprey]

The library gives it to you by default

Something in your code is eating it

[wheat summit]

What's a library? I'm a beginner.

Here if the full code:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!",intents=discord.Intents.all())
@bot.command()
async def sendembed(ctx:None):
            embeded_msg = discord.Embed(title="Title of Embed", description="Description of embed", color= discord.Color.blue())
            embeded_msg.set_thumbnail(url= ctx.author.avatar)
            embeded_msg.add_field(name="Name of the author", value="Value of field", inline=False)
            embeded_msg.set_image(url=ctx.guild.icon)
            embeded_msg.set_footer(text="Footer Text", icon_url= ctx.author.avatar)

            await ctx.send(embed= embeded_msg)

@bot.command(aliases=["gm", "morning"])
async def goodmorning(ctx):
        await ctx.send(f"Goodmorning, {ctx.author.mention}!")

@bot.command()
async def hello(ctx:None):
        await ctx.send(f"Hello there, {ctx.author.mention}.")


GUILD_ID= discord.Object(1149794271935873126)

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description= "Says hello back to the user that used the command.", guild= GUILD_ID)
async def sayHello(interaction: discord.Interaction):
                  await interaction.response.send_message(f"{interaction.user.mention} Hello there!")

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):

    if message.content == "You are rude":
        await message.delete()
        await message.channel.send("Please be kind to others.")

@bot.event
async def on_ready():

    print("Bot ready!")

    try:
           synced_commands= await bot.tree.sync()
           print(f"Synced {len(synced_commands)} commands")
    except Exception as e:
           print('An Error while syncing applications commands has occured:', {e})


with open("token.txt") as file:
    token = file.read()

bot.run(token)```

[fast osprey]

You're not going to have a good time implementing something this advanced not knowing what a library is

This is like walking into a brain surgery class and asking what a scalpel is

[wheat summit]

Oh wow, is it that bad?

Soo, what is a library?

[fast osprey]

You have a try and except in your code. Do you know what these do or why you put them there?

[wheat summit]

Ohh a library it's like discord.py?

[wheat summit]

I do know, to know if the commands synced correctly in the guild.

[wheat summit]

Nice.

[fast osprey]

That is not what try and except do, generally

[wheat summit]

Oh, what do they do then?

[fast osprey]

Why is it in your code if you don't know what they do

[wheat summit]

I thought they did that, as in the tutorial that I'm following they use try and except to see if the command synced and if not what is the error.

I'm trying to do my first slash command, but it won't sync into my guild.

[fast osprey]

This tutorial is teaching you bad practices and not even explaining why they're doing it lol

[wheat summit]

Oh..

[fast osprey]

Wherever you're getting it from is talking out of their ass, because what they're doing is actively making your code less usable

[teal delta]

Oh nah the solsticeshard ignored me #discord-bots message

[wheat summit]

Oh, so I should remove it?

[fast osprey]

You should first understand what it does. You should never add/remove/change code just because someone tells you to, that's lesson 0

[wheat summit]

Then I'm so bad at this.

[teal delta]

Does that count as spoon feeding?

[fast osprey]

Spoon feeding is really bad, especially when they spoon feed you shit code they don't even explain

[wheat summit]

So, what should I do to sync my command?

[teal delta]

ChatGPT be like

[fast osprey]

And generally toml/yaml are pretty googleable, there are good libraries out there

[teal delta]

await bot.tree.sync()

Put that in a command

[fast osprey]

You should understand what try and except do, and why they are bad here

[wheat summit]

Alright, could you explain it to me?

[wheat summit]

So that syncs my command?

[teal delta]

What about json?

[teal delta]

It will sync all your app commands and make them available for use

[wheat summit]

Alright!

[fast osprey]

json is a data exchange format. It Works ™️ but it's unnecessarily verbose and limited for configuration imo

[teal delta]

Though it will get rate limited if you use it too often

[teal delta]

As long as it's not used for databases, should be about fine

[fast osprey]

Google python try except is a good starter

[fast osprey]

It's just not meant for this, the only reason to use it is a refusal to learn the correct tools

[wheat summit]

Alright.

[teal delta]

Configuration like editing data?

Or creating

[fast osprey]

configuration as in...things that configure how your application works

[wheat summit]

It says that I can only use await with the async function.

[teal delta]

But like I just recently migrated to that, I use those for settings

[wheat summit]

Nvm.

[teal delta]

Fixed it?

[wheat summit]

How to not make it rate limited?

[wheat summit]

Yep.

[teal delta]

Just don't sync too much

[wheat summit]

Alright!

Nope didn't sync it.

[teal delta]

For me when I add app commands it doesn't pop up yet

But restarting Discord should work

[wheat summit]

Alright.

Still nothing.

[teal delta]

No errors in the console right?

[wheat summit]

Don't think so.

Nope.

[teal delta]

Show the code

[wheat summit]

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!",intents=discord.Intents.all())
@bot.command()
async def sendembed(ctx:None):
            embeded_msg = discord.Embed(title="Title of Embed", description="Description of embed", color= discord.Color.blue())
            embeded_msg.set_thumbnail(url= ctx.author.avatar)
            embeded_msg.add_field(name="Name of the author", value="Value of field", inline=False)
            embeded_msg.set_image(url=ctx.guild.icon)
            embeded_msg.set_footer(text="Footer Text", icon_url= ctx.author.avatar)

            await ctx.send(embed= embeded_msg)

@bot.command(aliases=["gm", "morning"])
async def goodmorning(ctx):
        await ctx.send(f"Goodmorning, {ctx.author.mention}!")

@bot.command()
async def hello(ctx:None):
        await ctx.send(f"Hello there, {ctx.author.mention}.")


GUILD_ID= discord.Object(1149794271935873126)

@bot.tree.command(name="hello", description= "Says hello back to the user that used the command.", guild= GUILD_ID)
async def sayHello(interaction: discord.Interaction):
                  await interaction.response.send_message(f"{interaction.user.mention} Hello there!")
                  await bot.tree.sync(GUILD_ID)

                  
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):

    if message.content == "You are rude":
        await message.delete()
        await message.channel.send("Please be kind to others.")

@bot.event
async def on_ready():

    print("Bot ready!")


with open("token.txt") as file:
    token = file.read()

bot.run(token)```

[teal delta]

Oh nah bro no cap fr

You synced inside the command

Do it in a separate command

[wheat summit]

Alright.

When I do that it says that I can only use it with the async function..

[fast osprey]

Do you know what syncing is, why you need to do it, and when you should do it?

[wheat summit]

Yes, syncing is when you need to basically "load" something in like a guild, I need to do it to load my slash commands and I should do it when I should like "load" something in another thing.

[fast osprey]

That's not really accurate at all

[wheat summit]

Oh...

[fast osprey]

Did the tutorial even try to explain?

[wheat summit]

No, it's that with my experience with lua I thought it was like that,

[fast osprey]

This tutorial somehow manages to get worse and worse. You really should stop reading it

[teal delta]

I feel you man

[wheat summit]

I'm literally watching 2 different tutorials, I don't really know what to do at this point...

[fast osprey]

Slash commands (app commands) specifically are stored in a structure called the CommandTree. Calling sync() on that command tree is effectively telling discord about the commands that it's storing, because discord needs to know about them and their metadata

[teal delta]

Ok make another command then sync when you use it, that's all

Then restart Discord

[wheat summit]

Alright.

[fast osprey]

This only pertains to app commands, hence why it's called on the CommandTree that stores them

[teal delta]

Is there anything different about app_commands and tree?

[fast osprey]

CommandTree is a class made by the library that tracks app commands

[wheat summit]

Why does interaction become grey when I type it... It shouldn't..

[stark ingot]

I have not seen a single youtube tutorial for making discord bots that was good or not outdated
Just a fyi

[wheat summit]

Now that I realize, same.

What is the "def" function?

[fast osprey]

Some of these questions you're asking are very, very base level python. And if you try to learn them in the context of an advanced framework like a discord bot, you are going to get very very confused

as these libraries presuppose you have these fundamental skills and will not talk you through them

[wheat summit]

I can't do anything at this point... I don't want to continue using platforms like BotGhost.

Can you please tell me just how to fix my problems? I really want to make my slash command work..

As you are basically telling me no way on how to learn how to use Python, as you said that every single tutorial that I'm watching are just bad, so how should I learn it then?

[fast osprey]

https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/ is a good starting resource

[wheat summit]

Alright, thanks.

[stark ingot]

Learning python and learning how to make a discord bot in python are separate. You should learn some python first.

[fast osprey]

These concepts build off of each other but will take time, there's not an easy path to just running before you know how to walk. This community exists to help with those stages of learning but you'll need to put the effort in to self-learn

[wheat summit]

I would like to do it.

But I learn better with examples or by videos.

Or just a page that has a true explanation and examples.

[fast osprey]

Examples there are plenty once you've read the underlying concepts.

Videos are an inherently wrong medium for conveying this information, and will range from bad to outright misleading. I strongly suggest you get comfortable with reading articles and then experimenting yourself in code

[wheat summit]

Are there like any official Python books or something?

[stark ingot]

!res has a bunch of tutorials for learning python. It is not official but I started with "Automate the boring things"

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[wheat summit]

Alright, thanks!

How to make like the "wait" function?

[fast osprey]

You'll need to describe the behavior you're trying to accomplish

[south yacht]

Hello I need help, when I try run setup command on bot it sends smth weird

[fast osprey]

You were already told not to run random batch scripts off of github lol

"setup command" is something that some random person wrote, and if you want to use it (you shouldn't), you should ask them

[south yacht]

What is that

Batch script what is that

[fast osprey]

Read your own screenshot man

Windows Batch File

This is a script you downloaded from somewhere that some rando wrote, you are running it and it is trying to do things to your computer that you don't understand. That should be alarming to you.

[lilac sparrow]

Hello does someone know how to handel with user-installable apps? bc i want to make that my Discord Bot Command register also in the normal dms of a user and not in the bot dms i can use my command everywhere besides in this so if someone know it would be helpfull

[fast osprey]

Which library are you using?

[lilac sparrow]

the normal one

[fast osprey]

[lilac sparrow]

idk im a starter i just watch a youtube video

and try something out what kinda worked

[fast osprey]

yeah youtube videos will lie through their teeth at you

and give you things that are horrible practice or just not work

Anyways, at some point you will have picked a discord library to work with, and the answer to your question may vary based on that

[south yacht]

Sorry im just new and trynna test some bots 😦

[fast osprey]

You are trying to run some bot that a specific person built. You should contact them. Your question is with what they made, not with python.

Though I would not trust this at all given what I'm seeing, and you would do really well to be more skeptical about things you get from online

[teal delta]

I agree, sounds like a Trojan worm ransomware to me

[mint pecan]

im getting discord.errors.NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10015): Unknown Webhook when using interaction.followup.send

[merry cliff]

hi can you share code?

[mint pecan]

    @app_commands.command()
    async def test(self, inter: Interaction):
        await inter.followup.send('eoeakaok')

[merry cliff]

oh ok

followup is used when the intertaction has already been respionded to

so if you are sending just a message, either do interaction.response.send_message("my message") or await interaction.response.defer(thinking=True) first

[mint pecan]

is thinking needed?

[merry cliff]

the defer is used when your program will take longer than ~!3 seconds to give an output

[merry cliff]

You can try wuthout but I think so

havent used it ion a whjile tho'

[timber dragon]

thinking is always True for slash interactions

It's for components where it defaults to False, and you can actually set it

[wheat summit]

Is there a way to make like the options of the slash commands in the prefix command?

Like the option that you need to choose the members.

And how to make the bot always stay online even if I close Visual Studio?

[slate swan]

!intents

[dense falcon]

Is there any way I can reset the cooldown of a command without the reset being executed within that command?

[fast osprey]

Run it in a process on your computer and keep it online, or rent a vps and do the same

[mint pecan]

How do i fix Unclosed connector error?

[fast osprey]

What's the full error and traceback?

[mint pecan]

2024-11-02 06:39:37 ERROR    asyncio Unclosed connector
connections: ['[(<aiohttp.client_proto.ResponseHandler object at 0x000001585A847590>, 15332.187)]']
connector: <aiohttp.connector.TCPConnector object at 0x0000015859419F40>

[fast osprey]

Traceback?

[mint pecan]

theres no traceback

[fast osprey]

Sounds like something to fix or you have no idea where this problem is

[pale zenith]

Maybe because it is <:name:id> not <:name:id:> unless you mistyped?

!python

<286529073445076992:>

no that would just break it. Maybe you have the wrong ID?

[fast osprey]

robux

real currency

okay skid

[craggy anvil]

?

nvm i fixed it somehow

[stark ingot]

Is it animated? I thing animated emojis need to be <a:name:id>

[craggy anvil]

nah it wasnt

[stark ingot]

tbf they never said it was real currency unless they deleted a message.

[craggy anvil]

i never said it lol

[fast osprey]

They have a long history of skid currency exchange

[craggy anvil]

me?

[fast osprey]

Look up their message history

[craggy anvil]

nun exchanging i did in my past

[fast osprey]

And yet you deleted your message anyways

[craggy anvil]

what message did i delete?

these past 5

it's js bc there was no specific error with it i js changed name of emoji and it worked after it i dont see the problem in deleting those 5

[fast osprey]

When you have a long history of writing shit trying to get people to send you money, then you post code here with the word robux next to currency values, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to put two and two together

[craggy anvil]

when did i try to get people to send me money? 🤣

and these 2 are totally different projects

you are not putting any shit together mate

blud aint sherlock holmes 🙏

[fast osprey]

#discord-bots message

Really

[craggy anvil]

litteraly an automated middleman bot

where did i try to get people to send "ME" money there?

and what that has to do with robux now lol

[fast osprey]

Why don't you show the full code and describe what this is doing then if you've got nothing to hide?

[craggy anvil]

because i sold that src? why would i leak it here to prove you wrong?

you rlly think i've been doing one project since july

that's when i asked abt that

[fast osprey]

No I think you're a prolific skid

[craggy anvil]

think what you want 🙂

[fast osprey]

Then show code

[craggy anvil]

i got no reason to care abt that 🤣

[craggy anvil]

why would i

[fast osprey]

To prove you're not a skid

[craggy anvil]

i told you to keep thinking i am skid

i dont care xd

would u show your bands if i called you poor?

to prove that you're not pooron

didnt u have some roles in this server? looks like you got demoted

[fast osprey]

You show code with currency next to robux, you delete that code, you refuse to provide more code or context of why you're displaying currency next to robux. It's not a good look, and someone who wasn't breaking rules would have nothing to hide

[craggy anvil]

where did i show code with currency next to robux?

show that again please

[pale zenith]

You just deleted it lol

[slate swan]

gigabrain

Shows something
Deletes it
Gets pointed they've shown something
Asks to show and prove where they sent it

[craggy anvil]

u litteraly saw what i've asked, i showed my description of embed and i asked why would emoji not display

i didnt mention real currency in there

and the message that he sent id of was sent in july

so you are connecting those two projects?

gg big brains 😂

[craggy anvil]

🤣 mate they saw what i've sent already

it got no thing to do with real currency

[fast osprey]

The connection is you skid together shit asking people to send money to your bot

LOL

"Nothing to do with real currency"

Posts code with "$24.99"

Immediately deleted

[craggy anvil]

yea they do send money to bot because it works as automated middleman?

[fast osprey]

You can't make this shit up

[craggy anvil]

it still doesn't have anything to do with the code u mentioned that i've asked about in july

[fast osprey]

You literally just posted code with currency prices and deleted it a second later

Why are you deflecting

[craggy anvil]

you are actually ed 🤣

still got nothing to do with the code you mentioned before

[fast osprey]

You can try to gaslight me into thinking you didnt post skid code you immediately deleted, but you did. Hopefully there are logs

[craggy anvil]

how skid when made by me 🤣

logs for what

blud thinks staff gonna look trough logs to prove him wrong xd

[wispy falcon]

why does my ping command not work

   def __init__(self, bot):
       self.bot = bot

  @commands.Cog.listener()
   async def on_ready(self):
       print(f"{__name__} is online")

   @commands.command()
   async def ping(self, ctx):
       embed = discord.Embed(
           title = "Pong!",
           description = f"Latency in MS",
           color = discord.Color.light_gray()
       )
       embed.add_field(name="Bot Latency", value=f"{round(self.bot.latency * 1000)}ms")
       embed.set_footer(name=f"Requested by {ctx.author.name}", icon_url=ctx.author.avatar)
       await ctx.send(embed=embed)

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

added this in the main file

```async def Load():
   print("Attempting to load cogs...")
   for filename in os.listdir("./cogs"):
       if filename.endswith(".py"):
           try:
               print(f"Loading {filename}...")
               await bot.load_extension(f"cogs.{filename[:-3]}")
               print(f"{filename} loaded successfully.")
           except Exception as e:
               print(f"Failed to load {filename}: {e}")


async def main():
   async with bot:
       await Load()  # Ensure cogs are loaded here
       await bot.start(TOKEN)  variable for security
   
asyncio.run(main())```

oops

[craggy anvil]

now imma continue doing my thing and u can continue wasting time aruging with yourself bc u got nothing else to do in your life 🙂

[wispy falcon]

why does the ping command not work it says that the command doesnt exist

[fast osprey]

Are you sure that extension is loading?

[stark ingot]

The image they posted here had no real life currency values.
It was something like __100,000__R$

[wispy falcon]

yes

[fast osprey]

The code they posted and deleted then literally had "$24.99" on it

[fast osprey]

How are you verifying that?

[slate swan]

is that the indentation in your file as well?

probably doesn't load if that's your indentation

[craggy anvil]

yea it doesnt

[wispy falcon]

the load function includes print statements that confirm each cog file is found processed and loaded

and it prints loaded succesfully

[wispy falcon]

its just discord

[fast osprey]

So you're getting the success print for that specific extension? Are other extensions loading commands properly?

[wispy falcon]

idk i have only 1

[fast osprey]

Are you loading these commands into the same bot object you're running? Seeing the full main file minus token would be helpful

[wispy falcon]

yeah

[slate swan]

how can i fix thhis

[slate swan]

have you installed python? if yes, how

fixed it

[wispy falcon]

all other commands in that cog work but the ping one not

[fast osprey]

Show your code now, you didnt have other commands before

[slate swan]

ive got it through the website but doesnt work

anyone able to join a vc and help me

post screenshots containing the errors, no point in joining a vc

[finite salmon]

Try py -m pip install discord.py

Python is for macos/Unix, py is for windows

[slate swan]

i did that and it worked having issues with my main.py

[finite salmon]

There goes your bot token

[slate swan]

delete the screenshot and reset your token now

[finite salmon]

How are you running your script

[slate swan]

you just need to install audioop-lts the same way you did for discord.py

[finite salmon]

Also you're using python 3.13, I doubt dpy supports 3.13 yet

[slate swan]

Python 3.13 doesn't have it in the stdlib anymore

And you shouldn't use 3.13 either way - downgrade to 3.12

[finite salmon]

Yeah

Use 3.12

[slate swan]

yea

shall i move to 3.12?

[finite salmon]

Yes

[slate swan]

any of these

[finite salmon]

Download the 3.12 installer from python.org and don't forget to add python to path

[slate swan]

im doing off microsoft store

[finite salmon]

Don't use the Microsoft version

Download it from python.org

[slate swan]

can you vc and help me?

[finite salmon]

I can't help on vc

[slate swan]

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3127/

download the installer and run it

[finite salmon]

Uninstall the Microsoft version before you install 3.12

[slate swan]

32 or 64?

depends your device, probably 64 if it's not old

shall i uninstall this too

yes

done now do i install the pip install discord.py?

[finite salmon]

Have you installed this?

[slate swan]

yes

[finite salmon]

Sorry for the ping

[finite salmon]

First go to vsc and create a venv

do py -m venv venv

In the terminal

And then a popup should come asking if you want to select that venv, click yes

[slate swan]

no popup

[finite salmon]

In vsc

[slate swan]

in vsc

[finite salmon]

Not in your cmd

[slate swan]

done

[finite salmon]

Yeah click yes

And kill the terminal and create a new one

And then pip install

[slate swan]

in cmd or vsc

[finite salmon]

Vsc

[slate swan]

"terminal" in vsc = cmd

i forgot how to kill it not used vsc in ages

just exit 🤷

[finite salmon]

Hover over the Python tab and a dustbin icon should popup

And with the PowerShell also

And press ctrl + `

[slate swan]

done

[finite salmon]

To open a new terminal

And pip install

[open cobalt]

hey guys, hope yall doing well. I receive several events from the discord websocket, how would you guys make the event listener with all the events?

[finite salmon]

Personally I have a separate cog listening to all events

[fast osprey]

The popular discord libraries already provide a framework for listening to specific events

[finite salmon]

pip install discord.py

[slate swan]

done

[finite salmon]

Run your code

[fast osprey]

On windows you shouldn't be running raw pip commands

It's ambiguous which pip installation that uses

[finite salmon]

Doesn't matter once you activate a venv

[slate swan]

it works i only got that code now what shall i add

[open cobalt]

how they manage that, can you provide a github link to that file like for example events.py or something like that?

[finite salmon]

Whatever you want..?

[slate swan]

alr cheers

[finite salmon]

👍🏿

[fast osprey]

are you trying to rewrite it yourself?

[open cobalt]

not at all, but started with the discord api and read along the article and how to manage that an app stays alive.

[fast osprey]

It's unclear what you're trying to do and why you can't use the things already given to you, is this more of an educational exercise?

you can look through library source but those are internals that aren't going to be documented as they're not intended for consumer use

[open cobalt]

ok, I will look through a library that wraps the discord api pretty well

[fast osprey]

The structure and types of events sent through the socket are also documented by discord itself for people writing this

[fast osprey]

ah myb sorry didn't see that they were in a venv, pretty rare to see people jump right into that

[finite salmon]

Lmao yea

Once I started using venv I couldn't go back to using my global environment

[slate swan]

can you help me fix this? i see no errors

[fast osprey]

You need to indent your code

[slate swan]

wdym

[fast osprey]

Do you know what indenting is, and how it's important in python?

[slate swan]

not really

[tardy lagoon]

should I use app_commands.command or Bot.tree.command for making slash commands?

[fast osprey]

This is pretty fundamental like first week python stuff. You will struggle to learn those basics while also trying to do so in the context of an advanced subject like this

indenting (tabs and spaces at the beginning of a line) have a fundamental purpose in python to signify when code is "nested" inside of a statement above it.

def something():
abcdef()

is invalid, compared to

def something():
  abcdef()

[fast osprey]

the former just declares a command in that context. It won't add it to the bot's command tree on its own. The latter declares it as a command and registers it into the command tree in one go

[tardy lagoon]

what does that mean?

[fast osprey]

Which part is confusing?

[tardy lagoon]

I'm talking about the decorators btw

[fast osprey]

Yes, I was responding with that in mind

[tardy lagoon]

so what is context, and the command tree?

[fast osprey]

@app_commands.command()
async def cmd(...):
  ...

This just makes a command sitting there. Same as creating any variable like x = 5. This alone doesn't do anything

A command being in the CommandTree is what actually gets it sent to discord when you sync that command tree

[tardy lagoon]

oh, so if I call tree.sync, it won't appear in the server?

[fast osprey]

@bot.tree.command()
async def cmd1(...):
  ...

@app_commands.command()
async def cmd2(...):
  ...
bot.tree.add_command(cmd2)

are equivalent

[tardy lagoon]

oh, ok, thanks

[fast osprey]

If you declare an app_command with method 2 inside of a Cog and then load that Cog into the bot, that will automatically register that command in the commandtree as well. This is the majority use-case for @app_commands.command but not necessarily the only one

[tardy lagoon]

without bot.tree.add_command(cmd2)?

[fast osprey]

Yes, loading the cog itself effectively does that for all app commands contained in the cog

[tardy lagoon]

much appreciated, thanks

[wheat summit]

?

[slate swan]

no

[slate swan]

rent a vps

[wheat summit]

Already got answered for that.

[wheat summit]

What do you mean no?

[slate swan]

you ask if something is possible and get "no" as answer

can someone help me make an announcment command

[stark ingot]

Prefix commands cannot have options like slash commands because well... at that point just use slash commands
If you mean to create a prefix and slash command at the same time py-cord has ext.bridge not sure if other libs have something simialr

[stark ingot]

You will have to explain what you mean

[wheat summit]

I can’t manage to make a slash command work tho. But like Circle has both Slash and Prefix commands that have options.

[stark ingot]

Slash commands are definitely better, so if you can make them work that is best.
Can you show a screenshot of what you mean with the "Circle" bot?

[fast osprey]

Diluting your code to give people 2 ways of doing the same thing (one of them worse), vs just setting the expectation that they do it the right way

[wheat summit]

Sure thing!

[wheat summit]

Like this, same command that does the same exact thing, just one with prefix and one as a slag command.

[stark ingot]

Yeah, you can have arguments with prefix commands, you just cant have discord Options.
You just need to add arguments to the command definition for it to work with prefix commands

[wheat summit]

How?

[fast osprey]

It's the same as adding arguments to any python function

def my_function(argument1: Type1, argument2: Type2, ...):

[wheat summit]

Alright so if I want to do like the that you have to specify a member and a reason for the reason I have to make an argument like “msg: str”, while for the members one how to do it?

[fast osprey]

Typehint it how you want to, discord.Member is one such type. Although if your bot is going to be DM'ing people, you'll want to make sure you got their consent to ahead of time

[wheat summit]

Alright! Thanks! I’ll ping you if I encounter any issues.

[slate swan]

So i can do a acommand what will send a announcement to a channel pinging everyone and in a embed and select a title wtc

[stark ingot]

What do you have so far? You should just be able to take an argument in the command for the announcement content and send it to the channel with the embed

[fast osprey]

Consider publishing these to an announcement type channel. There's really no need to have a bot as an intermediary

[stark ingot]

I dont think the intent is to spread it to multiple servers. I think the intent is to have an embed. I may be wrong tho

[fast osprey]

Generally it's good to do this off of an existing message rather than an input to a command, that way you can review markdown and have much easier multiline input. Publishing is the first-class way to do this and doesn't need a bot running. You could implement this as a message context menu alternatively

[slate swan]

so i can have a everyone ping and make announcments through the bot brodcasted to a channel

[stark ingot]

yeah, just make sure you set allowed_mentions properly

[slate swan]

i dont know how to make the command

[stark ingot]

have you looked at the examples of the library you are using?

[fast osprey]

Which part are you specifically having trouble with? Making a command, period? Making the command accept a message? Having that command send a message to a channel?

[slate swan]

im using visual

im here gonna move the command to my cogs

[fast osprey]

@bot.tree.command(...) goes over a command function

[slate swan]

Isnt that / command?

[wanton current]

yes

[slate swan]

Can someone help me with a script for announcements

[fast osprey]

That's...what we're doing?

[slate swan]

i dont know what else to put

this is all i got

[fast osprey]

If you don't know how to make a function in python, you should learn that first

[slate swan]

also would it be worth doing command folders

[fast osprey]

What is a command folder?

[tired pine]

async def

💀

[drifting arrow]

I'm trying to make a "level" mechanic for my bot, just for the lulz really. and having difficulties with the math part. anybody got a recommended formula or can help me out with the math?

I want users to level up at a normal rate and not have huge gaps between levels

NGL this is such a weird thing to ask lol

[obsidian pine]

I've installed discordpy 1.7.3 but it wouldn't let me run my script showing this error

[golden portal]

install discordpy 2.4

[obsidian pine]

But i need 1.7 for my current bot

[golden portal]

why

[obsidian pine]

That's what it's requirements is

[slate swan]

1.7.3 uses discord api v8 which is deprecated and shouldn't be used

upgrade the code to 2.x -> https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/migrating.html

the API v8 also should've been removed based the timings discord gave, but it hasn't been removed yet

so any bots using 1.7.3 may die at any moment when discord decides to delete v8

[timber dragon]

Glad that aiohttp is helping with breaking 1.7

[open cobalt]

so guys, for understanding purpose. Was the discord py library always async or no, and if not, how could it handle such inputs outputs from various commands?

[hasty pike]

Whenever i take input from user and user added emoji to it then it shows :emoji:, how do i fix this?

[open cobalt]

async def def(): ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

[glad cradle]

In very early versions it wasn't. It didn't handle them concurrently but in the classic way (sequentially), which was a big issue

[tropic jackal]

some1 knows why I get these?

[hasty pike]

These are like warnings that your code might or might not work, unlike errors (red lines)

And you might want to ask this here

[tropic jackal]

for discord.py what type of python version need?

[hasty pike]

I don't there's any set requirement other than Python3.8+

[young dagger]

How can I detect mentions of channels from other guilds but not in direct message (DM) channels?

elif any(message.guild.get_channel(channel_id) is None for channel_id in message.raw_channel_mentions):

The code above is detecting DM channels as well.

[hasty pike]

Did you define instance for it?

[stark ingot]

That is not true, it is python 3.8-3.12

You will have to explain more what a normal rate is. This is something that I came up with quickly. F(x) is how much total XP is needed to reach a level X. G(x) is how much more XP is needed to get from the current level to the next level. Each level gets a little bit harder to get.

But if you want even less of a gap you might just want a linear line. Where ever 200 XP a user gets a new level

[ancient schooner]

Hi

[fervent frigate]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[thorny valve]

a sextuple skull emoji is delirious work

[vapid parcel]

Bro went to bed at 5am

[spiral crypt]

Can discord bots use custom emotes?

Like if I add some custom ones to a private server im in with the bot, and then have it use those emotes in another server its in?

[mint pecan]

what's the type annotation for multiple selections for app commands?

[golden portal]

Literal?

[merry cliff]

yes but you have to specify the emoji id, so <:emoji_name:emoji_id>

[spiral crypt]

I can get that with like, right click, copy id?

[merry cliff]

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/issues/390#issuecomment-625929794

[spiral crypt]

Im on my phone rn so cant test it out

[merry cliff]

apparently you can do that

[spiral crypt]

Will check out in the morning thankies

[merry cliff]

np

[twilit thunder]

Guys Where can i learn Python faster to code discord bots/tools?

[obsidian pine]

Command raised an exception: TypeError: argument of type 'Member' is not iterable

@client.command()
async def add(ctx, user: discord.Member):
    role = ctx.guild.get_role(1301284017789861950)
    if not role in ctx.author:
        return
    await ctx.channel.set_permissions(user, view_channel=True, send_messages=True)
    embed = discord.Embed(description=f"{user.mention} added to ticket {ctx.channel.mention}")
    await ctx.reply(embed=embed)

@add.error
async def add_error(ctx, error):
    if isinstance(error, commands.MemberNotFound):
        await ctx.send("Member not found, please ask him to join server")
    await ctx.send(error)

@merry cliff can you help?

[fast osprey]

You can't check if a role is "in" a member

[merry cliff]

try Member.roles instead

[merry cliff]

so in this case, if role not in ctx.author.roles

[obsidian pine]

Oh lemme try this

[merry cliff]

perhaps raise an error / send a message to tell the person they don't have the right role or something similar

[fast osprey]

If this is meant to be a check, it should be implemented as one rather than checking it directly in the command body tbh

[merry cliff]

yup

[fast osprey]

!d discord.ext.commands.has_role

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.has\_role

@discord.ext.commands.has_role(item)```
A [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.check) that is added that checks if the member invoking the command has the role specified via the name or ID specified.

If a string is specified, you must give the exact name of the role, including caps and spelling.

If an integer is specified, you must give the exact snowflake ID of the role.

If the message is invoked in a private message context then the check will return `False`.

This check raises one of two special exceptions, [`MissingRole`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.MissingRole) if the user is missing a role, or [`NoPrivateMessage`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.NoPrivateMessage) if it is used in a private message. Both inherit from [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CheckFailure).

Changed in version 1\.1: Raise [`MissingRole`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.MissingRole) or [`NoPrivateMessage`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.NoPrivateMessage) instead of generic [`CheckFailure`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.CheckFailure)...

[timber dragon]

Or use if not <Member>.get_role(ROLEID) if you really need it inside

1. Why did you reply to an unrelated message from me?
2. You're in the wrong server. That's Javascript, not Python.
3. Selfbots are strictly against the Terms of Service. No one will help you with that.
4. Refer to point 2 again.

[fast osprey]

[timber dragon]

Bro deleted all their messages

[mint pecan]

how can i modify my views so when it's timed out and when someone clicks on it, it sends a interaction message?

[scarlet tiger]

You can use the on_timeout() event to modify the view when the timeout ends.

[mint pecan]

i want it to send everytime the user interact tho

[stark ingot]

You can now add emojis directly to your bot in the discord developer portal. You can then send them in the same way. This is recommended instead of uploading them to a server.

[scarlet tiger]

use the callback() of the components that have the view

[stark ingot]

I have never tested this myself but ...
In theory you could edit the views on timeout so that all of the components have a custom Id of timeout or similar. Then in on_interaction, check for that custom Id and respond

[fast osprey]

if you already have a timeout handler, there's no reason to leave the buttons enabled

worse user experience and you need hacky code to handle it

[stark ingot]

Depending on the situation it might be better user experience to have a response. You could include why it was closed for example (If it was not a timeout)

[fast osprey]

That could (and arguably should) be captured in the message content rather than visually communicating to them that you want them to interact with this element

[fast osprey]

You didn't call the super init when overriding it

999 times out of 1000 you want to do that first

[remote hound]

someone able to help me with a discord bot please message

[fast osprey]

Feel free to ask your question here and get better help with more eyes

[dry kelp]

is pylance being faulty?

[hushed galleon]

indeed that class definition does not typehint any support for generics, so pyright is declaring it incorrect as per typing specs

it looks like they rewrote range and fixed it in disnake v2.9.0+
https://github.com/DisnakeDev/disnake/blob/v2.9.0/disnake/ext/commands/params.py#L379-L411

[lucid kite]

<@&831776746206265384>

[sick birch]

Hello, I've deleted this message as we don't allow recruiting or paid work in this server

[twilit thunder]

Guys Where can i learn Python for discord bots/tool

[scarlet tiger]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[mint pecan]

does commands.is_owner work for app commands?

[stark ingot]

It should, at least it does in Pycord.
Although if you want owner only commands it is best to register them to a guild you own and limit the visibility to yourself. That way users will not get confused why they can't use the command

[fast osprey]

IMO best to not even register this as an app command at all. The entire point of app commands is to be discoverable, which is the exact opposite of what you're trying to do. Unless you're making use of app command specific features like autocomplete, you really shouldn't publish this

[stark ingot]

What do you recommend then? A terminal command?

[fast osprey]

Text commands are the standard, but really any unpublished way to send signals to the process

[dusk glade]

!eval 2+2

[unkempt canyon]

:warning: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

[No output]

[dusk glade]

!eval "2+2"

[unkempt canyon]

:warning: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

[No output]

[scarlet tiger]

Use print() lol

[teal delta]

!eval console.log("Hello World");

[stark ingot]

There is not much reason to set up prefix commands in a bot that does not already use them. That would mean you have to have the message intent (and most people would want to use the message content intent for this)
If you use a guild command in a private guild it is essentially unpublished

This is not #bot-commands by the way

[teal delta]

Unpublished like not synced?

[stark ingot]

I'm not sure what exactly they mean by that word. I see unpublished as anything not available to the public.

[fast osprey]

There isn't any "setup" to text commands though. You write the function and it's there

Sure you could jump through hoops to publish to a private guild but like why

[stark ingot]

Does discord.py use the same bot object for app and prefix commands? I just see very little reason to be promoting prefix commands at all.
At least for py-cord the hoop to publish a command to a guild is as simple as passing a guild_id to a kwarg

[young dagger]

Prefix-based commands don't count as activity for the active developer badge, that's BS

Call me old school I don't give a damn

So all I have to do is add a ping slash command and problem solved

[stark ingot]

It is because discord does not want bots using prefix commands anymore.

I have seen 1.5 valid reason to use prefix commands. Everything else I have seen can be done with app commands

[young dagger]

But I don't think the badge should be based on a preference. In my eyes, you can be an active developer by using only prefix commands

[stark ingot]

The problem is the active dev badge is somewhat meaningless. There are plenty of people who are not devs who have it too.

In the end discord makes the requirements and if they dont like prefix commands. they probably will not promote them in any way

[smoky sinew]

pycord 💩

[south yacht]

So I started my host and my dc bot and it doesnt show commmands, I restarted discord and etc. So I need to wait bcs It needs to configure?

[turbid condor]

Are you syncing the commands?

[turbid condor]

Well the commands show up instantaneously now u just need to refresh your discord client still my questions remains

[south yacht]

how to check it

[turbid condor]

Well like it's in the code

Can you show the code for your main.py

[stark ingot]

This is simply not true. Pretty much all of the forks that are in active development are of high quality

[fast osprey]

The differences are pretty much all pedantic, and the functional ones aren't that impactful in the grand scheme of things

[stark ingot]

@wanton current care to explain?

[alpine mist]

Hi guys, do yall have any good vids or website that can teach me how to create a discord bot?

[fast osprey]

All of the popular libraries will have documentation, though this presupposes some base level of python experience. Videos are ass, don't rely on them at all

[open cobalt]

When I wanted to create a discord bot, First, I made a connection to the gateway in order to receive event updates and then http requests and so on. It gets really deep this kind of stuff, so glad we have discord.py and other wrappers

[merry cliff]

!res

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

[merry cliff]

There’s a few ones tagged “Discord Bots”

[spiral crypt]

Can discord bots check reactions from messages?

[spiral crypt]

Would it be able to like, save the id of the message i replied to, given only this message

[stark ingot]

Yes, message.reactions returns a list of discord.Reaction
And you can get the id with message.reference.message_id
You should probably read the docs 🙃

[thorny valve]

in discord.py is it possible to have a alias for a slash command?

[fast osprey]

There's no first-class alias system provided by discord. I'd encourage you not to do this (just making multiple wrappers on the same logic), as this just makes the slash menu far more cluttered and less usable while also eating up the limited number of commands you have available. Because commands are searchable, there's really no need for this if they're intuitively named.

Commands are also permissioned individually, so this adds burden to server managers and margin for error

[thorny valve]

thank you!

it probally won't be worth the slight convenience of adding an alias

[fast osprey]

Ideally they add this as metadata on the command at some point in a way that doesn't clutter the UI

[thorny valve]

maybe as some kinda tree view

but that seems like it could be a nightmare for mobile

[stark ingot]

I have been told that the slash command menu searches the description of the command when trying to suggest commands. This may be worth a try, I have not tried it myself tho.

Looks like it does but the effectiveness of it will depend on how common the "alias" you are trying to use is in other commands descriptions. (And if you are trying to do the 1-2 character alias it might not work super great)

[spiral crypt]

Can bots run other bots' commands

[dry kelp]

Weird, our dependecies is currently set with that version

[drifting arrow]

hhmm

Trying to make a discord bot that has a whole bunch of features people may or may not want in their discord bot.. But IDK what people want? 🤔 any ideas or suggestions?

[drifting arrow]

I don't believe bots can use other bots interactions, however a bot could use another bots "on_message" commands. Like !help but you'd have to program the bots to accept this.

Interactions being /help (slash commands) and buttons etc.

[spiral crypt]

Ah rip

I was trying to setup an auto redraw thing for a lottery bot

[drifting arrow]

assuming you're remaining within TOS, there's no way for 1 bot to use another bots interactions. As far as I am concerned anyway

I'm sure someone smarter is going to come wooshing on any moment now, pushing their glasses back up towards their eyes as they say "Well uhhm actually."

[spiral crypt]

Idk if what im trying to do is within tos so x3

[drifting arrow]

What do you mean auto redraw?

[spiral crypt]

Basically someone wins a giveaway, they can accept or decline in dms, if they decline it automatically rerolls the winner

[drifting arrow]

Okay.. So why would you need a 2nd bot?

[spiral crypt]

The lottery bot isnt mine

[drifting arrow]

Then make a lottery bot

[spiral crypt]

I made a bot to watch for wins and log them

Idk how 😭, thats gonna take so much longer

Id have to start from scratch pretty much qww

[drifting arrow]

A lottery bot is literally takes a list of people. rolls a random number, celebrates

with some shit in between

[spiral crypt]

The time issue tho

[turbid condor]

well a simple lottery bot shouldn't be hard

[drifting arrow]

Well. @spiral crypt you just solved this issue xD #discord-bots message

[spiral crypt]

Im not the best programmer so i might have to turn the bot off to fix stuff, and thatll fuck up the timing

[drifting arrow]

Give me a few hours I'll make a basic lottery bot. ;D

After my rhett and link episode tho. Not before or during. But after.

[turbid condor]

you can store the time in a db

[spiral crypt]

Yeah thats getting a bit complicated for me

The closest thing i have is a json thats holding lottery wins

[drifting arrow]

Fuck databases. I got a "level" bot that uses a json file 😎

!paste

[spiral crypt]

I only use json for storing dictionaries, idk how to do anything else

[drifting arrow]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/PKTQ

still a WIP

[turbid condor]

well depends on your usecase for a small audience a json might work but for a larger one it will get slower as time passes

[drifting arrow]

Made in like 15 minutes using duct tape, gorilla glue and a whole lot of caffeine

[spiral crypt]

Wtf is a cog 😭

[turbid condor]

⚙️

[drifting arrow]

OFC. A proper database will always be ideal. But who has time for that when you're trying to get the maths right? lol

[spiral crypt]

Mine will probs add a new entry every like 2 days

So 175 entries a year

Itll be fineee

[drifting arrow]

At such a low volume, you could even use pen and paper technically lol. But in terms of efficiency, you got json files (or similar. doesnt necessary need to be json), then lightweight databases like sqlite. then your more heavier databases. I dare not list one in fear of being struck down from someone from #databases

They're ruthless

Listed in worst to best. not best to worst

[spiral crypt]

Im taking a database class, but theyre not teaching how to connect to it with languages

Theyre just teaching it using a dbms

[drifting arrow]

TBH most of what you're learning now will be transferrable to most languages. The same stuff

[turbid condor]

if u can use basic SQL then the other part isn't hard

[spiral crypt]

Im learning java, im self taught in python for the most part

Yeah im pretty good at sql

[turbid condor]

then using sqlite for starters shouldn't be a problem for you

[spiral crypt]

Just select * and youre good

[drifting arrow]

While I love this. select * is always fun. It's recommended you be more direct with what you want.

[spiral crypt]

Ik x3 im jokin

[turbid condor]

I was blown by this

[drifting arrow]

I do things the absolute laziest way possible. But if you want to be efficient with your resources you really should only grab what you need.

[spiral crypt]

Ikik

[drifting arrow]

Which is partly why a json file is not ideal

[spiral crypt]

Literally i just use it to save a dictionary, and load it when the bot starts

Thats all its used for

[drifting arrow]

Is this lottery bot going to be used as part of your classwork?

[spiral crypt]

Naw this is for a guild from a game i play

[drifting arrow]

oh

[spiral crypt]

My class is java

My school is java oriented

[turbid condor]

then why not use java for the bot?

[spiral crypt]

Bc im better at python x3

[turbid condor]

I see

[spiral crypt]

And its more convenient

Dicts in java are dum maps

Theres easy string parsing in python

With the silly [::[:[:[:[:[:[:]]]:];];];]

[turbid condor]

well then u should have map for how to go about your bot in mind?

[spiral crypt]

[drifting arrow]

This will result in an error. Not enout : and [

[spiral crypt]

Naw it works trust

I also dont like writing system.out.println every time i have to test something

[turbid condor]

XD

[drifting arrow]

oh sure

[spiral crypt]

Andddd not having to worry about data types is also nice

[turbid condor]

more like declaring em

since u do have to be careful with datatypes in python too

[spiral crypt]

Well in my case its setup pretty strictly so there isnt room for type errors

I dont have any user input stuff, anything going into the bot has a data type that i expect

[drifting arrow]

🤔 How should the lottery setup proccess go? Multiple commands? 1 big ass command? maybe a command and buttons? 🤔

hhmm..

[spiral crypt]

Ngl id want it like the one thats already made is

It like opens a window or something with the info needed

[drifting arrow]

oh

[spiral crypt]

Time for lottery, name, description, and one more thing i forgor

Ignore my brainrot

Description can have images too

I think

[turbid condor]

Tbh u could find a bot on github

[drifting arrow]

Are you watching a minecraft live stream?

[spiral crypt]

Hypixel skyblock

[drifting arrow]

So you'd want the command/setup process to be easier to use on mobile than pc?

[spiral crypt]

On pc its like that too, im just on my phone rn so that's where i yoinked the screenshot from

It makes a little box

This bot i have to make as ease of use as possible as the people using the lottery bot dont rlly wanna do extra work

And since theyre used to the old bot, well yeah

[drifting arrow]

Aight

[spiral crypt]

Im going to have to change my logging conditions

Oh wells

[drifting arrow]

Well. Then it's really simple.
you want a command like /lottery or some crap. idk you figure that part out.
The command creates that popup dialogue box (forgot the discord name for it, it has a name.)

Fill it out. Then the bot throws an embed into a channel. is like "HEYYYY guys! @ everyone. Checkout my snazzy giveaway!" and people press a button to enter. It logs it.

Then after X time it's like "Oh hey hey. Checkout the winners.. @ <people who won>" and then DMs them

simple really

[spiral crypt]

This is how they look

[drifting arrow]

Are they still using reacts?!

eeeww that's so <whenever buttons wasnt around>

[spiral crypt]

It uses a button

OKAY its 3:30am i need to sleep

I have class in 4 hours

Goodnight

[obsidian pine]

Sorry to ask but I'm new to this and just if i can play MP3 or any other audio format file in discord bot by connecting it to vc?

[hasty pike]

Yes that's possible

[turbid condor]

Any audio should work as long as you have the codecs

[obsidian pine]

What's codecs?

[turbid condor]

It's a program that compresses or decompresses streams or signals

Either they be audio video or others

By default most codecs come pre installed with os

[obsidian pine]

So do I need to pass any specific format?

And how do i connect it to bot?

[turbid condor]

Just use most commonly used audio format that is mp3

[obsidian pine]

Yeah I'll just convert and upload it

[turbid condor]

You will need to use ffmpeg for that

[obsidian pine]

Any guide for this?

[turbid condor]

As for how to actually configure that you might want to look up yt

[obsidian pine]

Oh okay

So ffmpeg is what i need

[turbid condor]

As the voice part of discord is pretty much a mystery to me

[turbid condor]

Yeah that's what used for streaming audio via vc

[teal delta]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States

Good luck

[fast osprey]

Yeah in all my time doing this I can count on one hand the number of people with a legal and ethical use case for audio lol

[turbid condor]

👀

[obsidian pine]

Lol I'll be using it for my personal bot in personal server

[fast osprey]

Doesn't matter

The TOS don't make a distinction anywhere that says the word "personal"

[obsidian pine]

So what can they do

Terminate the bot

• my audio file will be like soundboard recorded by me and my friends

They don't fall under any copyright

[stark ingot]

Yeah, you are fine. They assumed you were downloading off of YouTube

[fast osprey]

This sounds like a use case for the built in soundboard

[open cobalt]

Any of you know good hosting providers for dc bots or just using a raspberry pi?

[fast osprey]

!hosting

[unkempt canyon]

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

[dry kelp]

I host mine on cloud, as example digital ocean, i been using it for quite a few years, it has NEVER dropped down or had any sort of issues, prices are not so affordable, depending on your budget

Digital Ocean assures you 99.9% of uptime, only in cases as global disaster they drop

https://www.digitalocean.com/

[open cobalt]

Indeed, very pricy. I researched and found netcup, sounds great and I think cheap pricing for the VPS

[wary torrent]

why discord profile images not loading iPhone , can anyone help??

[slate swan]

Not related to this channel, contact https://dis.gd/support

[south yacht]

So I have purchased A bot and the seller like isnt not responding to me and there is exe file where I can run the bot, and bot is online but its not showing commands, and on cmd its showing this eror:
[ERROR] Failed to load msgcmd cog. Error: Extension 'files.msgcmd' could not be loaded.

[turbid condor]

Well that's pretty ambiguous

It only tells tells there's something wrong with a file files.msgcmd and nothing else

[south yacht]

im not a programer but what is files.msgcmd?

[open cobalt]

this is a cog file

every cog has its structure

[turbid condor]

A file named msgcmd inside a folder called files

Tho there is nothing else here that tells what exactly is causing the issue

May be look for a log file inside your project directory

[south yacht]

ah, I cant im not that good programar

[turbid condor]

Well then ask the guy from who you bought the code to fix his stuff

Cuz we can't help without a traceback of the error

[blissful crane]

there really is no reason for someone to sell you the code, as an exe

unless you asked specifically for an exe, that's pretty weird

[turbid condor]

Well an exe could be dangerous so i wont trust using one unless it s from a trusted source

[fast osprey]

Somehow I get the feeling even if they got source, they wouldn't be combing through it before running it

[ionic pilot]

hey uhh how do these @ things work and how do i use them

[fast osprey]

They're called decorators, it's a built in python syntax

[ionic pilot]

how can i make one?

[fast osprey]

https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-decorator

[ionic pilot]

ccccccoooool

but how do i define client?

[timber dragon]

It's usually whatever you called your Bot instance

skibidi = commands.Bot(...) # <-
# ^^^

@skibidi.event
...

@skibidi.command(...)
...


skibidi.run(...)

[ionic pilot]

how would i do it in an eval?

[timber dragon]

Consider installing jishaku

https://pypi.org/project/jishaku/

[ionic pilot]

crazy

[timber dragon]

Lol yeah

[ionic pilot]

so is it possible to define Bot in an eval?

[timber dragon]

Yeah

[ionic pilot]

without extensions ^^

[timber dragon]

You can do something like !jsk py _bot.user.name

Or !jsk py await _ctx.send("pog")

||even tho !jsk py "pog" works too||

[ionic pilot]

idk python that much, can you only do it with that library?

[timber dragon]

An eval command?

[ionic pilot]

yes

[timber dragon]

You can do it yourself but it'll probably be unsafe and be less functional

For a good eval command without any extensions, etc., see the following: https://github.com/Rapptz/RoboDanny/blob/rewrite/cogs/admin.py#L214-L259

Remember to follow the license if you plan to copy it

[ionic pilot]

thx bro

[robust reef]

hello

[thorny valve]

how do you add a cooldown to a slash command in a cog? (if it's different from setting it up outside a cog)

[robust reef]

have you tried this import discord
from discord.ext import commands

Define a cooldown: 1 use every 10 seconds

@commands.cooldown(rate=1, per=10, type=commands.BucketType.user)
async def your_command(self, ctx):
await ctx.send("This command has a cooldown of 10 seconds per user.")

[timber dragon]

That's for prefix commands

from discord import app_commands

...
@app_commands.checks.cooldown(rate, per)

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown

[ionic pilot]

do you guys know how i can add an auto-react with a bot on every message

[timber dragon]

We do

But do you really want that

Reactions are heavily ratelimited.. adding one to every message can potentially get your bot api banned, temporary

[ionic pilot]

really

[ionic pilot]

how ratelimited

[timber dragon]

Well getting banned is a little extreme

[ionic pilot]

async def on_message(message):
    if message.author.id == myid:
        message.add_reaction()

i want it to react me

[timber dragon]

Idr the exact numbers

[timber dragon]

I guess that's better than all messages

[ionic pilot]

but idk where to put it so it works

idk how to

[fast osprey]

Do you know how make listeners generally?

[ionic pilot]

no

[fast osprey]

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.listen

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.listen

@listen(name=None)```
A decorator that registers another function as an external event listener. Basically this allows you to listen to multiple events from different places e.g. such as [`on_ready()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.on_ready)

The functions being listened to must be a [coroutine](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Example...

[ionic pilot]

idk where to place it

[open cobalt]

I think above the async def on_message(....)

[ionic pilot]

idk where to place that tho

[fast osprey]

In the file where your bot is declared, at any point after you declare it

[open cobalt]

# This example requires the 'message_content' intent.

import discord

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

client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

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

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
        await message.channel.send('Hello!')

client.run('your token here')

the decorater registers the on_message event, kinda like adds it to the bot I think and when an event is received through the gateway that equals that event name, the on_message will be executed

[south yacht]

[ERROR] Failed to load view cog. Error: Extension 'files.view' raised an error: TypeError: SlotView1.init() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

Anyone could help me what I should change there?

[fast osprey]

Code?

[sturdy dragon]

yep listen decorator goes right above async def on_message

[ionic pilot]

idk where add

i have bot.py and dev.py

[fast osprey]

^

[sturdy dragon]

which is the module which runs your bot instance?

[ionic pilot]

um docker

[sturdy dragon]

I mean in bot.py and dev.py, I assume bot.py has the bot definition and the bot.run?

[ionic pilot]

um idk

[fast osprey]

If you don't even know what file runs your bot, you're gonna have a bad time trying to modify that bot lol

Did you not make this code?

[ionic pilot]

yes

[ionic pilot]

its ballsdex bot

[fast osprey]

You should ask them then

Or build your own so you understand how the architecture works

[sturdy dragon]

another easy way to tell, which module is grabbing your discord token lol

[ionic pilot]

they said its easy

[sturdy dragon]

its easy if you know whats going on

[ionic pilot]

idk which one

[fast osprey]

If you don't understand it because you didn't build it, you're effectively asking us to fix something someone else built when they could just do it themselves

[sturdy dragon]

whats the actual issue OLi

[fast osprey]

Somewhere in all of this code should be a line which creates a Bot or Client object

Your goal is to find that

[sturdy dragon]

your listener isnt functioning correctly?

[ionic pilot]

i just want my* bot to react me

[sturdy dragon]

are you sure the bot has the right permissions

setup intents and permissions is important

[ionic pilot]

yes

it can react

read messages content and messages and channels

[sturdy dragon]

so you want it to react to what, text messages based on content?

[ionic pilot]

kinda

but idk where to make the on_message

if it works

idk python

i want it to react me only

[fast osprey]

That's your first issue lol. Generally you're not going to get people here willing to do it for you for free

[ionic pilot]

i thought they already did

[ionic pilot]

like this

[sturdy dragon]

this is easy if you are the bot owner

[fast osprey]

That's an example

[sturdy dragon]

or you can filter responses by user ID

[fast osprey]

If you don't know python, you're asking us to write the code for you

[ionic pilot]

he gave me a concerned emoji when i asked him

[ionic pilot]

im just asking where to put it~

[fast osprey]

^

[sturdy dragon]

the most basic listener @commands.Cog.listener() async def on_message(self, message: discord.Message): if message.content.lower().strip() == "ping": await message.channel.send("pong")

[ionic pilot]

its imported in all of them

[sturdy dragon]

what imports are at the top of bot.py

[ionic pilot]

asyncio

inspect

logging

math

time

types

[sturdy dragon]

is there any listener to check message content

[ionic pilot]

datetime.datetime

[sturdy dragon]

I meant is it importing other modules from the same cog

[ionic pilot]

typing.TYPE_CHECKING, cast

aiohttp
discord
discord.gateway

[ionic pilot]

commands core, dev dev

[sturdy dragon]

this is def the module where your bot object is created 😛

cant tell much else

[ionic pilot]

discord.ext.commands.bot.PrefixType

[ionic pilot]

there is no .run in it

formatted kwargs.join

[fast osprey]

Imports are a red herring here. You need to find where the bot/client object is instantiated

[ionic pilot]

hmmm

ok

[delicate cape]

Does anyone encounter the bug that ephemeral message is showed to all ppl in the channel ?

[turbid condor]

Then that's not ephemeral

And it's the first time I heard of this

[delicate cape]

I got 2 reports for 2 days but noone take a screenshot. But today I got screenshot that all ppl in the channel saw the message. And message has ephemeral=True set.

[turbid condor]

That's weird

[delicate cape]

Very wierd. The problem is that my messages contains passwords ;d

Idk how discord decide to not set the message to be ephemeral

[slate swan]

https://dis.gd/bugreport if you have a concrete example that can be reproduced

Until then, probably something in your code that's wrong

[delicate cape]

It can't be wrong in my code it's hardcoded ephemeral=True

[slate swan]

Or alternatively the library, but doubt

[slate swan]

That's what everyone says, until they've seen the issue

[turbid condor]

Wait is the command you using a hybrid_command?

[slate swan]

Just know that only interactions can respond with ephemeral messages

[slate swan]

So yeah, if you have hybrid commands and use the prefix command, it will never be ephemeral

[turbid condor]

Well we found our rat i think

[slate swan]

Well, as expected, your code that's wrong

[delicate cape]

I can see in the message it says only i can see it

[turbid condor]

Can you share the ss?

[slate swan]

Non interaction response messages cannot have the ephemeral flag

[delicate cape]

Yes

[turbid condor]

Well incase of hybrid it doesn't throw error when ephemeral is True and you invoke it via context i think

[ionic pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-8156731953245760801

[fast osprey]

Common hybrid command L

[turbid condor]

This is an ephemeral tho?

[turbid condor]

In here the command was invoked using prefix

[delicate cape]

slash command yes

[turbid condor]

That's why it's not ephemeral

[delicate cape]

so app command can't be ephemeral

[turbid condor]

It's not a slash command

It's a prefix command where the prefix is /pm

Check the diff in both commands usage in the screenshots u sent

On tells that which user has used the command the second one doesn't

[fast osprey]

These systems work completely differently. Setting your prefix to / just makes it more confusing that it already is

[turbid condor]

Confusing it's more like saying java and JavaScript are the same langs

Back to the topic tho

@delicate cape the solution to this problem is making your hybrid command into a pure app command

[slate swan]

Or send in dm if it has been invoked via prefix command

[turbid condor]

This works too but it might get the bot flagged if too many users use it

[delicate cape]

aha

I have a question is it wrong to use it like this:

@commands.hybrid_group(name="pm")
async def parent_command(self, ctx: commands.Context) -> None:
    ...

@parent_command.command(description="Add/Update Upkeep date for House/Stronghold/Castle.")
@app_commands.describe(name="Name of the House/Stronghold/Castle")
@app_commands.autocomplete(name=get_passwords)
@app_commands.describe(upkeep="Type how much days left")
@app_commands.guild_only
async def upkeep(self, ctx: commands.Context, name: str, upkeep: int) -> None:

[fast osprey]

There's really no good reason to present them with a prefix option when you actively have a better option

[delicate cape]

@turbid condor thanks for the feedback I got it

[ionic pilot]

happiness is merely a social construct..

[drifting arrow]

No. How dare u deny my happiness

Anybody able to help out with some quick maths? :D

self.user_stats[member_id]['xp'] >= (self.config['xp_required_to_level'] * (self.user_stats[member_id]['level'] ** 2))

The problem with this formula is it goes quite fast. :/

It's a simple chat-level system thing that some discordbots have lol

I wanted to recrate it myself but the maths is the hardest part

[thorny valve]

I got it working with
@app_commands.checks.cooldown(1, 10.0)

but now I don't know how to get it to stop throwing errors at me and give them to the user

[drifting arrow]

You just need an error function thingy.

@yourfunction.error
async def a_random_function_name_thats_useful(self, ctx, error):
    # Error handling

For example this:

    @app_commands.command(name="stats", description="Looks a user up")
    @ app_commands.checks.has_any_role(*roles)
    @guild_only()
    async def stats(self, interaction:Interaction, steam:str):
        await interaction.response.defer(ephemeral=self.config['ephemeral_response'])
        steam_profile = await self.functions.get_steam_profile(steam=steam)
        if not steam_profile:
            await interaction.followup.send("That profile is set to private. To pull data the profile has to be public.", ephemeral=self.config['ephemeral_response'])
            return
        steam = steam_profile['steamid']
        stats = await self.functions.pull_steam_data(steamid=steam)
        if not stats:
            await interaction.followup.send("No stats to be shown.")
            return
        
        steam_embed = await self.embed_factory.steam_embed(steam_profile=steam_profile)
        base_embed = await self.embed_factory.pvp_stats(stats)

        the_buttons = stats_buttons(stats=stats, config=self.config)
        await interaction.followup.send(embeds=[steam_embed,base_embed], view=the_buttons)

    @stats.error
    async def stats_error_handler(self, ctx, error):
        if isinstance(error, app_commands.MissingAnyRole):
            roles = []
            for role in self.config['allowed_roles']:
               guild = self.bot.guilds[0]
               the_role = guild.get_role(role)
               roles.append(the_role.mention)
            error = f"You do not have any of the required roles: {roles}"
            await ctx.response.send_message(error, ephemeral=True)
        else:
            await ctx.response.send_message(error, ephemeral=True)

I just check to ensure they have the required role and if they dont i yeet an error at the user

[thorny valve]

seems pretty simple thx

[unique snow]

Hi

[drifting arrow]

Hi

[drifting arrow]

Yep. Pretty pretty simple.

[open cobalt]

hey guys, getting an error with this code: ```py
country_codes_embed = nextcord.Embed(title="Supported Country Codes", description="").from_dict(
country_codes)

 raise HTTPException(response, data)
nextcord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50035): Invalid Form Body
In embeds.0.description: This field is required

[wanton current]

why are you using from_dict?

[open cobalt]

it is a method that suggested me and it says this: Converts a :class:dict to a :class:Embed provided it is in the format that Discord expects it to be in.

[wanton current]

what is country_codes?

[open cobalt]

a dictionary with country codes

country_codes = {
"AD": "Andorra",
"AR": "Argentina",
"AU": "Australia",

...

[wanton current]

That's not how from_dict() and I don't know why you got suggested that