discord-bots

[slate swan]

ill show u my updated code @fast osprey

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/IKHA

[fast osprey]

Have you tried logging the result you get back from the api? Also you should not be using the requests module in an asyncio application

[slate swan]

what you mean logging?

[fast osprey]

anything that you can do to output information from your code to you

even a simple print statement works

[slate swan]

nvm i made the cmd work

my snusbase code work now

[fickle aurora]

this looks like chatgpt made it in the most respectful way possible

[drifting arrow]

He has also made no progress since I got him to paste his code 2 days ago

[cedar acorn]

oh thanks for telling me

[drifting arrow]

Np

[desert rock]

would this be the correct way to add a custom image to a embed?

[scarlet tiger]

I upload the image to Discord and then copy the URL

[desert rock]

im a bit confused....

i was able to do this... but how do i get it to be in the embed box?

[scarlet tiger]

Using the set_image() method of the Embed object, there are a few ways to do this but the easiest in my opinion is to upload the image to a Discord channel and copy the URL.

[desert rock]

is there a video on that?

[scarlet tiger]

I don't know if there are videos in your language, I speak Spanish

[timber dragon]

See the following if you are using discord.py and want to add a local image to an embed:
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-use-a-local-image-file-for-an-embed-image

[slate swan]

me when people don't even read what is sent to them.

no wonder they will then code random stuff

literally code to copy paste but naah, let's ignore it and try random things out

[timber dragon]

[jolly bone]

trying to set up cogs and need help, can someone dm me?

[fast osprey]

You can post your question here

[cinder walrus]

Helllooooo! im back

😉

Now ive setup a database with Plugins n that sets weather commands innside of the cog can be used or not, im new to databases atm the bot makes a new database per server would this be ineffecient is there a better way like to have server_Settings.db list all the servers and there settings or contuine with SERVERID_setting.db per sever

[sick birch]

you should not be using new databases per server. It should just be a row in one table

[viscid hornet]

"the bot makes a new database per server"

[sick birch]

unfortunately that’s what a lot of people first reach for

either new database per X or new table per X

[viscid hornet]

[cinder walrus]

what do you mean by that? im trying to make it so that everyserver has a settings area inside the database, such as like there server id and then a list of pugins and if there enabled i will also need to add channel list to this adventurly and make it read there channel ids

[viscid hornet]

if you want settings for servers, make a table that links guild ID to setting ID

you dont need an entirely new table

or an entirely new database

[sick birch]

make your settings columns, each guild has its own row

[viscid hornet]

don't make them columns

[cinder walrus]

even more confused now

[viscid hornet]

make them numbers: ```sql
CREATE TABLE settings (
guild_id INT NOT NULL,
setting INT NOT NULL
);

[viscid hornet]

make them numbers

[cinder walrus]

,, this is how it looks atm i thought it was good aha first time ever using a database

        db_name = f"Discord Servers Settings/{server_id}_settings.db"
        

        if not os.path.exists("Discord Servers Settings"):
            os.makedirs("Discord Servers Settings")

        if not os.path.exists(db_name):
            conn = sqlite3.connect(db_name)
            c = conn.cursor()


            c.execute('''
                CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugins (
                    name TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
                    status TEXT
                )
            ''')

            # Populate the 'plugins' table with the available plugins and set the status to 'disabled'
            # Replace 'plugin1', 'plugin2', 'plugin3' with your actual plugin names
            plugins = ['Scramble_Game', 'Giveaway', 'plugin3']  # Add your plugin names here
            for plugin in plugins:
                c.execute("INSERT OR IGNORE INTO plugins (name, status) VALUES (?, ?)", (plugin, 'disabled'))

            conn.commit()
            conn.close()
            print(f"Created database for server {server_id} and initialized plugins.")

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_guild_join(self, guild):
        self.create_server_db(guild.id)```

[viscid hornet]

| guild_id | setting |
|----------+---------|
| 123      | 1       |
| 123      | 3       |
| 456      | 1       |

here, the server ID 123 has features 1 and 3 enabled, but not 2. the server ID 456 only has feature 1 enabled. this is your settings

[viscid hornet]

this is awful

you're also using a blocking library

!pip asqlite - use this instead

[unkempt canyon]

asqlite v2.0.0

A simple and easy to use async wrapper for sqlite3.

Released on <t:1719317735:D>.

[cinder walrus]

like i said first time ever using a database

[viscid hornet]

dont make an entirely new database for something as small as this

dont do this

[cinder walrus]

with the asqlite will it still work with my sqlite3 db?

[sick birch]

well, now you shift the burden of settings validation from the database to your app but that could work too

[cinder walrus]

Baso i just wanted to make a database that stores what plugins are enabled and disbaled n adventurly link it to a website n that can change it to either enabled or disabled

also be able to have channels in there under the serverid such as bot_commands_Channel n able to change that via the website

[viscid hornet]

asqlite is an asynchronous version of sqlite

[viscid hornet]

thats arguably better than needing to expand your database every time you have a new feature

[cinder walrus]

so 😕

[viscid hornet]

its way easier to add to some dict or enum or other method of config in your codebase than in your database

[cinder walrus]

pervious i was using a json file structured like

SERVERID:
Plugins:
sramble_Games: enabled
giveaway: enabled
channels:
bot_commands: 47438292282
scramble_Channel: 34884884

I have no idea how to even go about the way ur suggesting

[sick birch]

personal preference I guess. I like having my database at the core and be the single source of truth, and don’t mind adding migrations

[cinder walrus]

how would i go about this then like say plugin Giveaway is number 1 and if its enabled its number 2 if its disabled its number 3?

im so confusd ngl

[slate swan]

check bitwise flags

discord uses them for user badges for example

explained here quickly

[cinder walrus]

how is this related to what im doing?

[slate swan]

how would i go about this then like say plugin Giveaway is number 1 and if its enabled its number 2 if its disabled its number 3?

using bitwise flags, just like discord does for badges, permissions, etc.

permissions on discord isn't an array with true/false, it's a bitwise flag e.g. 2112

and 2112 can be used to determine if a permission is enabled

you can do the same for your commands

[cinder walrus]

my brains fried ngl i spent 3 hours earlier codeing something to disable / enable cogs on a server basis to find out it isnt possible

[glad cradle]

mh it's possible

[cinder walrus]

fr>?

[glad cradle]

you just need a cog check and use your db

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/api.html?highlight=cog#discord.ext.commands.Cog.cog_check

[cinder walrus]

im using pycord

[glad cradle]

or interaction check

[glad cradle]

https://docs.pycord.dev/en/stable/api/cogs.html#discord.Cog.cog_check

[cinder walrus]

like honeslty earlier i spent 3 hours codeing it to update the database per server but the cogs were always enabled in all the servers.

[sick birch]

probably add some simple caching there running a db check on every cog command is a bit eh

[glad cradle]

yeah I agree

[sick birch]

besides the point though

[glad cradle]

that's why you should first check docs and gather info

[cinder walrus]

my aim was to make a plugin /module style system like big bots such as dyno and mee6 use to enable/disable features hopeing to put them in cogs and be able to like ignore giveaway.py cog if its not enabled on the website /database

i did.

[sick birch]

we know what your goal is, we’re giving you solutions

you don’t need to repeat what you want to do 😉

[viscid hornet]

yeah bitsets would also be another option. forgot to mention thise

[slate swan]

small example for you:

def is_plugin_enabled(server, plugin):
  return (server & plugin) == plugin

giveaway = 1<<0
scramble_game = 1<<1

server1 = giveaway # only giveaway plugin
server2 = giveaway | scramble_game # both plugins

is_plugin_enabled(server2, giveaway) # True, because giveaway is enabled in server2
is_plugin_enabled(server1, scramble_game) # False, because scramble_game is disabled in server1

server1 |= scramble_game # enable scramble_game for server1

is_plugin_enabled(server1, scramble_game) # True, because scramble_game is now enabled in server1

server1 ^= scramble_game # disable scramble_game for server1

is_plugin_enabled(server1, scramble_game) # False, because scramble_game is now disabled again in server1

[sick birch]

I would also be cognizant of backwards compatibility when implementing your enable/disable system

[cinder walrus]

pretty sure this is to advanced for me just have to not bother i think

So your all giving me diffrent options what option would be the easierst n the least stress on the bot?

[sick birch]

I’d say all of them are about the same level of difficulty, they’re all stored in the database

[cinder walrus]

oh dear i do miss my json file ahah

[slate swan]

maybe a steep learning curve, but worth it

[cinder walrus]

is it viable to check a db every single time a command is run?

[slate swan]

just query when needed, cache the data

[cinder walrus]

        # Skip the check for the test command (so we don't block it)
        if ctx.command.name == "giveawaycogtest":
            return True

        # Database connection to check the Giveaway plugin status
        db_name = f"Discord Servers Settings/{ctx.guild.id}_settings.db"
        conn = sqlite3.connect(db_name)
        c = conn.cursor()

        c.execute("SELECT status FROM plugins WHERE name = 'Giveaway'")
        result = c.fetchone()
        conn.close()

        if result and result[0] == 'disabled':

            return False

 plugin is enabled
        return True

Like ive managed to do this thinking it was good

[sick birch]

should be fine. Databases can handle a lot more than people might originally think

[slate swan]

e.g. load the data when the bot starts, then when a server sets if a plugin is enabled/disabled, update the db and cache

[cinder walrus]

yeah the enabled/disabled should be set via a website adventurly

[cinder walrus]

tbh i thought a database was the same as a json file

[sick birch]

json is an inefficient data exchange format, databases are heavily optimized to storage large amounts of data and query them

if you want to read from a json file, you need to load the entire thing into memory, parse it, and look for what you need. If you want to write to it, you need to load it into memory, modify it, and rewrite the entire file from top to bottom

meanwhile with a database, you just issue a query to read or write a specific value and the database handles the rest

[glad cradle]

Ik we all did that at the start 😭

[cinder walrus]

Would i be creating a new entry in the db for a new server? insted of a new db

[glad cradle]

there's also to mention that all databases and db drivers use atomic operations, while for json files you need to do that yourself

[wanton current]

yes

you usually don't create dynamic databases or database tables

[cinder walrus]

oh im so dumb

[glad cradle]

databases are pretty much like excel spreadsheets, you have spreadsheets (tables) and every spreadsheet has columns and rows, where columns are the variables and the rows are entries that contains all the values

[cinder walrus]

hmm

[cinder walrus]

like this sir?

[fleet sierra]

hello

[cinder walrus]

hi

[viscid hornet]

yes, this is better

[quick gust]

pretty sure that's an excel sheet lol

[viscid hornet]

oh yeah

was wondering why the user IDs were separated

[cinder walrus]

no its a database

[viscid hornet]

show the full screen

and also thats probably an excel sheet

you have an extra column on the left

[viscid hornet]

ew

[cinder walrus]

its just the app i use to view the db

[viscid hornet]

just use db browser

infinitely better

[cinder walrus]

its goo enough for me

alls i need to do it check stuff is acc working on it

now ive wacked my brain on it for 7 hours might be time for some rest lmao tom need to try n start working on channel ids and then look a at makin a userdata db

[cinder walrus]

how would u suggest i do userdata so i want it to track xp message count and lvl per user per server just do it as SERVERID USERID TYPE NUMBER? per line simular to above?

[viscid hornet]

sounds like you want this then

[cinder walrus]

i think so tryna eat right now i currently have one worlkking great wiht json just need to update it to db

[slate swan]

thats yaml

[cinder walrus]

no

[slate swan]

it is yaml

[cinder walrus]

i just typed that message from my head.... i was using a .json file i know what i was using

[keen dune]

Finally getting back to working on my discord bot game

[weary obsidian]

so i got this error message:
discord.errors.PrivilegedIntentsRequired: Shard ID None is requesting privileged intents that have not been explicitly enabled in the developer portal. It is recommended to go to https://discord.com/developers/applications/ and explicitly enable the privileged intents within your application's page. If this is not possible, then consider disabling the privileged intents instead.

is there any way to check what privileges my bot needs? Like a function that just spits out all the permissions i need to give him in the developer portal?

[fast osprey]

These aren't permissions. Your bot is asking for intents, and you wrote that code asking for them

[stark ingot]

Intents are almost exclusively about what events/data you receive from discord. For example the GUILDS intent is for receiving things like guild_update and channel_create you can see the full list here: https://discord.com/developers/docs/events/gateway#gateway-intents

For privileged intents it is safe to assume that if you dont know why you need them then you either:

• dont need them
• should learn what they are and why you need them (you can learn more here)

[young dagger]

Why not just receive all intents?

[shadow vigil]

it will make your bot slow by default, why process data that you won't use/need anyways?

just a waste of cpu power

[young dagger]

That makes sense, thanks. I was more thinking from a security perspective.

[fickle cape]

how yall feel about using supabase as a DB for my bot to acces info from and write into

[stark ingot]

What was said above and also the 3 privileged intents that you have to be approved for eventually

[shrewd apex]

supabase uses postgres so u should be pretty good just make sure u keep an eye on the amount of data u are storing free tier has 512mb afaik

[austere musk]

Hello guys, I finished my first project using discord.py, but now I don't know how to run it 24 hours a day for my discord. I want a server that is cheap and good to run it. Do have any advice?

[fast osprey]

!hosting

[unkempt canyon]

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[young dagger]

What is the best approach to use a list from one cog in another cog?

Cog #1
list = []

Cog #2
list.append

[fast osprey]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/cogs.html#using-cogs

[young dagger]

Do you actually have an answer to my question?

[slate swan]

It's actually on the website

[young dagger]

Cog #1

class LinkSpam(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        self.WHITELIST_FILE = [1, 2, 3]

Cog #2

class Checker(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        self.check = self.bot.get_cog('LinkSpam')

    @app_commands.command(name="test")
    async def test(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):

        await interaction.response.send_message(f"{self.check.WHITELIST_FILE}")```

[2025-02-27 00:26:37] [ERROR] Unexpected error: Command 'linkspam' raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'WHITELIST_FILE'

I can't use self for self.check?

[fast osprey]

maybe the bot doesn't have a cog named that at the time you assign that

[young dagger]

It works if I do it within the command:

check = self.bot.get_cog('LinkSpam')
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"{check.WHITELISTED_DOMAINS}")

[fast osprey]

yes, because the other cog is loaded by then

[sick birch]

it should be extracted as a module

[young dagger]

How can we use the self.WHITELIST_FILE from the class?

Cannot find reference 'WHITELISTED_FILE' in 'link_spam.py'

Cog #1

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

        # Load test
        self.test_list = []

Cog #2
from events.cog1 import test_list

I'm getting Cannot find reference

[fast osprey]

It's still an attribute of the checker Cog object

Is this a static attribute?

or is this something that multiple components are referencing/changing

[young dagger]

Second one

[fast osprey]

This code is totally fine then, or you can make it an attribute on the bot itself

[young dagger]

But why doesn't it work when extracted as a module?

[fast osprey]

what do you mean by that

[young dagger]

Do I need to define it at the module level?

[sick birch]

show the import line

[sick birch]

yeah, it being all caps implies its a constant and constants are usually module scoped

[young dagger]

Cog #2

from events.cog1 import test_list

[sick birch]

should be module scoped if constant. otherwise if it's read and modified in a lot of places it should be an attribute on your bot

[undone kiln]

Thank you

[young dagger]

Could I load the list from a json file on setup_hook?

[sick birch]

you could do that yeah

[young dagger]

Or would it be better to load them from a cog?

[sick birch]

i don't know what the purpose of the whitelist file is so I couldn't tell you

[jolly bone]

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

def main():
    intents = discord.Intents.default()
    client = commands.Bot(command_prefix="?", intents=intents)
    

    load_dotenv()
    
    client.run(os.getenv("DISCORD_TOKEN")) 

    # this part wont load cogs
    for folder in os.listdir("modules"):
        print("loaded")
        if os.path.exists(os.path.join("modules", folder, "cog.py")):
            @client.event
            async def on_ready():
                await client.load_extension(f"modules.{folder}.cog")
                print(f"{client.user.name} has connected to Discord.")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

the bot loads fine, but just skips over the part where i want it to load my cogs

[shrewd apex]

cog loading is async in discord.py now assuming u are using that

[jolly bone]

can you help fix it

[shrewd apex]

i can suggest you sources which show how to do it

[jolly bone]

please man, ive been looking for help for no joke 3 days

[shrewd apex]

https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/cogs/#how-to-load-extensions-from-a-folder you should check the cog load part

import pathlib

@bot.event
async def setup_hook():
    for file in pathlib.Path("cogs").rglob("*.py"):
        if file.stem.startswith("_"):
            continue
        await bot.load_extension(".".join(file.with_suffix("").parts))

the cogs folder holds all your cogs

[jolly bone]

man

[shrewd apex]

u should also make sure ur cog has the async setup function

from discord.ext import commands

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

    @commands.command()
    async def super_command(self, ctx: commands.Context):
        ...

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, message: discord.Message):
        ...

    @tasks.loop(...)
    async def super_task(self):
        ...

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

async def teardown(bot):
    print("Extension unloaded!")

here is an example of a cog

[quick gust]

you're not starting the task

[timber dragon]

That's partially wrong; setup_hook is not an event.

It works because the decorator simply sets the attribute; however, the recommended way to override is by subclassing.

[shrewd apex]

yeah a pending change in our todo 😭

[viscid hornet]

teardown?

[shrewd apex]

yep triggered when u remove the cog

[viscid hornet]

.cog_unload?

[blissful crane]

when you unload the extension

[viscid hornet]

ah i see

wow thats kinda sick. TIL

[timber dragon]

cogs vs extensions

[timber dragon]

Not really related to dpy, but just to add more to your todo; you could do a little section on typing/annotations/generics because like no one seems to understand how that works.

[viscid hornet]

i'll help write it 🙋🏽‍♂️

[shrewd apex]

sure just send a pr

[shrewd apex]

fair enough a typing guide would be cool, so far few we have currently planned are oauth, db, sharding, and deployments

[timber dragon]

Oo those are really good topics

[fast osprey]

Not to hammer this in, but the conflation a cog and an extension is a widely spread misconception. Especially if you're putting this into guides it would be good to get into the nuance.

[shrewd apex]

yep will look into it

[shrewd apex]

i think there is an initial section kind of setting apart the ideas behind what a cog is native to dpy and extension being more of a python module, would you suggest including some generic examples as well to give a clear idea between them

[fast osprey]

Providing an extension that doesn't have a cog, and a cog that isn't in an extension makes this more clear

As is newbies are almost always presented with the one pattern so they think these things are synonymous

[glad cradle]

idk how good "dynamic views / components / idk how they're called" are now in D.py but we could also consider to add that

Basically a disnake low level components similar solution but for d.py

[shrewd apex]

mhm will do thx

[shrewd apex]

https://github.com/DisnakeDev/disnake/blob/master/examples/interactions/low_level_components.py this?

[drifting arrow]

Modals have "on_submit" but what if I just close it? Is there a response for that?

[fast osprey]

Nope, discord doesnt tell you they did that

[drifting arrow]

Didnt think so

[glad cradle]

yeah but I've noticed D.py dynamic components are not the same as that, they are usuful to just store data in custom ids, you still need to use views, still we could cover that even tho it's an advanced topic so maybe it's not worth the hassle

or is the view state built from the custom ids making them persistent

[drifting arrow]

https://github.com/Gnomeslayer/Gnomeslayers-Trivia :D

Now with 45 flag questions ;D Do you know your flags?

[stark ingot]

What library are you using?
Py-cord, nextcord, disnake, and discord.py are the most popular (but there are more)

[stark ingot]

Meant to reply to this, read message above

[viscid hornet]

they're using discord.py

i've worked with them before

[stark ingot]

They have asked for help in the Pycord server as well

Would not be surprised if they were linked the wrong docs at some point and have code in both

[viscid hornet]

well thats certainly strange. they did say openly that they used dpy and the syntax reflected that (@client.tree.command)

[stark ingot]

mabye they joined pycord by accident ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drifting arrow]

Well now I feel ignored. Im using discordpy

[sick birch]

did you have a question?

[drifting arrow]

No. I shared my repo and he replied intending to reply to someone else and now I felt ignored lol

Just needy people things.

[sick birch]

ah

fair

[drifting arrow]

Also. No. I wont be adding a readme. At least not anytime soon. 🙃

[young dagger]

Which method is recommended to use?

        url_pattern = re.compile(r'https?://(?:www\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+)')
        matches = url_pattern.findall(message.content)

1.      if any(domain.lower() not in self.whitelisted_domains for domain in matches):
            await message.delete()```
   
   

2.      for domain in matches:
            if domain.lower() not in self.whitelisted_domains:
                await message.delete()
                break```

[drifting arrow]

Uhh

1 seems to be nicer

[quick gust]

Barely any difference for such a tiny operation

[drifting arrow]

:D

[young dagger]

What about the regex? Is there a better way to implement what I'm trying to do?

[quick gust]

Its good imo

[timber dragon]

make sure it handles hyperlinks too

[young dagger]

These will be handled differently, as they are 99% used by scammers to mask malicious links 🙂

[quick gust]

Why handle them differently? Are you performing different actions if it's a hyperlink vs a normal link?

[young dagger]

Exactly

[viscid hornet]

why tho? it's the same thing?

[timber dragon]

why not just one regex

like I got ths one for handling url spam

  URL_REGEX: re.Pattern[str] = re.compile(
      r"""
      (?P<url1>https?://[a-zA-Z0-9]+([-\.][a-zA-Z0-9]+)+(:[0-9]{1,5})?[^?#\s]*(\?[^#\s]*)?(\#[^\s]*)?)|
      \[[^\]]+\]\((?P<url2>https?://[a-zA-Z0-9]+([-\.][a-zA-Z0-9]+)+(:[0-9]{1,5})?[^?#\s]*(\?[^#\s]*)?(\#[^\s]*)?)
      (?:\s+\"[^\"]*\")?\)
      """,
      re.VERBOSE,
  )

# URL_REGEX.search(message.content)
# group("url1") or group("url2")

-# "it works"

[young dagger]

Because most of those who use hyperlinks have compromised accounts

[viscid hornet]

i use them multiple times a day and im pretty sure my account isnt compromised. seems like a pretty vague argument

[young dagger]

Well, it's because you are not running a gamer community with almost 30K members 😅

It's not like I'm gonna use the bot for an educational server

[quick gust]

Is that like a thing? Gamers don't use hyperlinks?

[young dagger]

Not common

[timber dragon]

your gaming server should be using the builtin automod tbh

deleting the message each time can ratelimit your bot

and considering that these compromised accounts that you're focusing on usually spam in muliple channels

[young dagger]

We are quite efficient at removing these so the risk is quite small

[quick gust]

I doubt it's gonna get ratelimited, the ratelimits are pretty generous iirc, but it's 100% better to use the builtin automod

[young dagger]

That’s why we will handle them differently

[timber dragon]

but you do you ig

[young dagger]

If you give me a good argument for why I shouldn't, I might consider it

[young dagger]

For the record, Discords automod is terrible

[timber dragon]

that's all I got lol

I don't have exp with being a mod in big servers

[timber dragon]

how so

[young dagger]

Just my opinion

[quick gust]

What makes u think its bad

[young dagger]

It's not always accurate and flags words that aren't that bad

[quick gust]

Also, a much more reliable way to differentiate between links sent by comprised accounts vs by normal accounts is to check if a similar link is being sent across different channels in a short amount of time

[young dagger]

No need for that, I will just add "no hyperlinks" in the server rules

[quick gust]

[young dagger]

Good point though

[sick birch]

custom solutions for large communities usually work better than discord's canned one-fits-all automod

[sick birch]

i still don't think it makes a difference if a link is a hyperlink vs just a regular link. in this server we just look for specific known bad links, regardless of where it is in a message

[timber dragon]

oh? does disocrd not account for big servers?

[sick birch]

no, i'm just saying different communities have different needs and, if executed well, custom solutions are generally better

[timber dragon]

ah

[sick birch]

for this server we have a fairly extensive filtering system: https://github.com/python-discord/bot/tree/main/bot/exts/filtering

[young dagger]

I have analyzed 4 years of data from my server and 99% of the time, hyperlinks are used by compromised accounts

[sick birch]

well if that's what the data shows then go for it

[young dagger]

I'm not saying this applies to all servers

[young dagger]

Agreed

[glad cradle]

holy hell

[sick birch]

most readable regex

[fast osprey]

I think some of y'all are conflating automod with the specific automod rule of discord selected terms

Automod as a system does what it says on the tin and quite well

[young dagger]

Regardless, Automod can't handle it the way I want to do it

[young dagger]

Btw what is the point of using an underline before each function?

_check_bad_display_name why not just check_bad_display_name?

[sick birch]

denotes a private/internal/utility function

[quick gust]

^ they're generally not supposed to be used outside the parent class

[stark ingot]

In python it is a convention. In some other languages it is enforced. Like private in java

[slate swan]

!eval ```py
class Test:
def _blah(self):
print("blahblah")

def __womp(self):
    print("wompwomp")

t = Test()
t._blah() # yes
t._Test__womp() # yesyes
t.__womp() # nono

[unkempt canyon]

:x: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | blahblah
002 | wompwomp
003 | Traceback (most recent call last):
004 |   File "/home/main.py", line 11, in <module>
005 |     t.__womp() # nono
006 |     ^^^^^^^^
007 | AttributeError: 'Test' object has no attribute '__womp'

[slate swan]

It can be somewhat enforced, but not fully like other languages

[sick birch]

double underscore before just mangles the name

[slate swan]

Once is just "you shouldn't" and twice "you really shouldn't" use that

Honestly a bit unfortunate that py doesn't have a notion of private

[blissful crane]

I don't usually use other langs, so maybe that's why but I don't see the appeal in private attrs

[sick birch]

it's probably more valuable in libraries than applications like discord bots

[stark ingot]

I still like pythons "you shouldnt" rather than "you cant"
Not sure if python has a convention for private vs protected though

[viscid hornet]

whats the difference between those two?

[stark ingot]

I won't be able to explain it better then google, I only use public/private XD

[drifting arrow]

I'm just going to yeet my 2 yeets worth of thought in regards to compromised accounts and links.

Don't allow links in general if your community is prone to having their accounts compromised.
A compromised account will usually spam, send the same message, so you can tell it's compromised that way.
Most accounts these days DM users, so you have to rely on your members informing you.

From experience I've seen these compromised accounts primarily DM users.

And no matter how many times you remind your member base what to look out for, they aren't reading your warnings and will still get "hacked"

[sick birch]

generally private is only accessible from within the class, but protected can be accessed by subclasses

[cinder walrus]

Hiya, I’ve noticed a issue with my bot in codeing it I have multiple on message events tracking such as sever xp global xp and for a few games, I’ve noticed this breaks the bot slightly when typing any command the bot suddenly responds 3 times

[quick gust]

You should send your code

[timber dragon]

Male sure you aren't processing commands in a listener

[drifting arrow]

You need validation.

And you might want to set your commands to be slash commands and not text commands

[cinder walrus]

ive fixed it now

[drifting arrow]

and I'd consider merging all your "on_message" listeners

[cinder walrus]

that message was supposed to send last night

[drifting arrow]

Appreciate you letting us know. We almost offered help for an issue we believed needed assistance with

[cinder walrus]

and i cant merg them there for diffrent games.

[cedar nova]

is there a better way of doing this? it looks ugly and I hate it

import re

...
def Parse_Message_Link(url: str, type: str):
    match = re.search("https://discord.com/channels/(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)", url)

    if not match:
        print("bad")
        return None

    # Convert the ids to ints aswell as return them
    guild_id = int(guild_id)
    channel_id = int(channel_id)
    message_id = int(message_id)
    if type == "g":
        return message_id
    elif type =="c":
        return channel_id
    elif type == "m":
        return guild_id
...

[blissful crane]

if you change the regex to r"https://discord.com/channels/(?P<g>\d+)/(?P<c>\d+)/(?P<m>\d+)"

you can just return int(match[type])

[sick birch]

probably cleaner to return all channel id, message id, and guild ID as a tuple and let the caller unpack and discard what they don't want

also, Parse_Message_Link should be parse_message_link, and I would recommend not using match as a variable name since it's a soft keyword, and not using type as a variable since it shadows the built in type

[fast osprey]

What's the use case where someone is sending you a message link? A message context menu will probably be way better in most cases

[cedar nova]

This was legacy code. I used the function to have my bot send the message from the url into an different channel (pre forwarding). Saved an extra step or 2 and also was put into a pretty embed

[glad cradle]

is it ok if, I myself as an open source library developer, offer the open source software to use endpoints or other features that aren't document by discord? I'm genuinely asking because you can see tons of libraries which had or have PRs or even offer in their public APIs "voice recording" and other undocumented discord features

and this in the dev ToS seems related

2B) You will not (and will not attempt to or permit or enable others to): [...] (c) access or use the APIs in any way that (i) is not in accordance with the applicable Documentation [...]

[fast osprey]

"ok" is a bit nebulous here

does it violate the ToS? Probably

[vapid parcel]

Im making a dashboard, and I see guilds.members.read

and im needing to some how see what bots are in the guild, to see if my bots are in it..? I have multiple bots on this dashboard, and im trying to make a feature which would need to check if my bot is in their discord servers. Is there a way to do that?

But they are not authorizing with that discord bot, they are authorizing with only 1 bot, which is a bot in the support server, making it to where they don't need to authorize with each bot.

[sick birch]

you'd need to get that information from your bot. so get the guild ID from the user, then check if your bot is in that guild

[stark ingot]

Discord themselves has a system for lib devs to get early access to features, that are not documented yet. I think "not in accordance with the applicable Documentation" could have multiple meanings

[glad cradle]

I'm not in that list tho. Even then I have never seen discord take any action against developers that offer access to undocumented features

I will provide support for documented features only

[manic sail]

hi i have a problem

with

a discord.py

│── bot.py
│── config.py 
│── /cogs
│   │── example.py
│   │── admin.py```

my project

structure

and splash commands its not work

bot.py file ```
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
import config
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
class MyBot(commands.Bot):
def init(self):
super().init(command_prefix="!", intents=intents, application_id=123456789012345678)

async def setup_hook(self):
    await self.load_extension("cogs.example")
    await self.load_extension("cogs.admin")
    await bot.tree.sync(guild=discord.Object(id=config.GUILD_ID))
    print("Bot gotowy!")

bot = MyBot()
@bot.event
async def on_ready():
print(f"Zalogowano jako {bot.user}")

bot.run(config.TOKEN)

my cog

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

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

    @app_commands.command(name="ping", description="Sprawdza ping bota")
    async def ping(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"Pong! 🏓 {round(self.bot.latency * 1000)}ms")

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

[shrewd apex]

wdym it dosent work any errors?

did u setup logging?

[fast osprey]

They are syncing. But they're syncing to a guild despite having a global command.

Also I would not recommend you sync every time your bot starts, it's unneeded

[young dagger]

Oh yeah, you can use a command to sync

[proven pendant]

    async def on_app_command_error(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, error: discord.app_commands.errors):```

Hi, i had an issue with bot error handling. Why doesnt my bot catch the error? it fails to recognise the error

[fast osprey]

That isn't an event and I don't know what led you to believe it was

[proven pendant]

💀 um

[fast osprey]

Or are we just guessing events that might exist lol

[proven pendant]

damn mb i gen thought it did
do u know how i can fix it

i meant what the correct event is

[fast osprey]

There isn't one

Reading through the docs is a good first step, or you're just guessing events and hoping they exist with the parameters you want.

App command errors are dispatched to your CommandTree's on_error method. They don't fire an event

[proven pendant]

on_command_error
this is an event
i assumed thered be one for app commands

ohhh

omgg alr tysmmm

[fast osprey]

[restive dagger]

!eval

import os
os.system("rm -rf ./")

!eval

import os
os.listdir()

[exotic hazel]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/267659945086812160

[restive dagger]

oh sh i didnt realise i was in the wrong channel

my bad

[exotic hazel]

No worries, it happens 🙂

[slate swan]

🙂 seems adversarial for any channel

[plain birch]

there is no way to get a discord bot into a groupchat vc correct

[fast osprey]

nope

[restive dagger]

No, but you can have user bots

[restive dagger]

?

[fast osprey]

This is against tos, and it's against server rules to suggest or help things that are against tos

[floral raptor]

can i ask for python-telegram-bot here? or is it only discord bots?

[plain birch]

can they?

[wanton current]

latter

[floral raptor]

what do you mean ?

[slate swan]

only discord

[frank osprey]

nope cause thats naughty

[slate swan]

I need help with this error https://paste.pythondiscord.com/7AVQ

The slash command is not popping up in the discord bot

[fast osprey]

Nothing in here syncs your commands.

Also don't use the requests module in async code, use aiohttp instead

[slate swan]

ok

can u modify the code for me @fast osprey

[fast osprey]

nope

[toxic notch]

Where can i learn codes for discord.py?

please help 🙏

[sick birch]

this seems pretty good: https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/

[toxic notch]

okie thank you 😁😁

[next pollen]

hi bot

[drifting arrow]

Hi

[next pollen]

hello bro

how r u

[proven pendant]

edit : omg nvm tysm i fixed it!

sry for the ping btw

[celest jackal]

Is anybody using hikari and crescent? have an idea why is not updating in discord when i add a new command?

[stark ingot]

Whenever you add/edit/delete a command the first thing you should do is refresh discord with ctrl+r

[viral heart]

What even is a user bot?

[stark ingot]

Pretty much anything that uses a user token except the official discord client

[viral heart]

That is confusing but if it's against TOS might as well stay away from it anyways

[slate swan]

can someone help me rq

ive made a script for my bot but there is a command that is not going away and idk how to fix it

[viscid hornet]

elaborate

[slate swan]

dm

[viscid hornet]

no

here

[slate swan]

what is confusing about what i said

okay so

i want to get rid of the /rig command

[viscid hornet]

did you sync

[slate swan]

and its not getting rid

[viscid hornet]

and did you refresh your client

[slate swan]

yes

[viscid hornet]

did you sync your command tree?

[slate swan]

ive done everything but it still appears

[viscid hornet]

is it there if you go to another guild?

[slate swan]

ill try now holdon

[slate swan]

yes

[naive briar]

Did you remove it from the code?

[slate swan]

yeah

atleast i think, thats why i joined here for help

[viscid hornet]

!paste - lets see some code then

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

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

[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/OAHQ

[viral heart]

I'm not good at python by any means but try deleting these

@bot.command(name="righeads")

@bot.command(name="rigtails")

[slate swan]

isnt this for the '! command

[viral heart]

Those would be apart of the Rig command and if you don't want that command anymore you wouldn't need those.

[viral heart]

What do you mean

[slate swan]

!rig tails !rig heads

that works, but i only want to get rid of the / one

[viral heart]

Oh, okay. Yeah I've never dealt with ! Commands, I prefer / commands. I'll take a look at the code again and see if I can remotely help at all.

[timber dragon]

You're clearing the global commands

Are you the commands you're trying to remove aren't guild specific?

[slate swan]

.

[timber dragon]

Multiple guilds? Idk lol

[slate swan]

worth a try though

Clear the commands for the guilds with the id they have and see the result

[viral heart]

@slate swan You could try this, I've had a similar issue before and this fixed it

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Logged in as {bot.user}')
    
    bot.tree.clear_commands()
    await bot.tree.sync()
    
    print("Slash commands cleared and re-synced.")

[timber dragon]

That'll error lol

The guild kwarg is required

[slate swan]

Nope

it's just the same as clearing all global commands

[timber dragon]

guild=None means all global commands

[slate swan]

it's an optional kwarg

[viral heart]

Oh, for me it never gave me an error. I think anyways, I just noticed my issue went away when I did it

[timber dragon]

No it's not an optional kwarg

[viral heart]

So I apparently somehow solved an issue for myself while creating a new one. Neat!

[slate swan]

docs are weird then

[timber dragon]

That means it can take None or Snowflake

The kwarg doesn't have a default

[slate swan]

why'd have to be inconsistent with the rest

all others are optional and have none as default lmfao

[timber dragon]

So that users are aware of what it does

[slate swan]

well, get_commands() is optional

users may not be aware it gets the global commands if not giving a guild

same for sync()

[timber dragon]

They can read the docs :)

[slate swan]

yeah, well then they can make it consistent

[timber dragon]

But I agree, it's dumb

[slate swan]

also they half-broke hybrid commands in 2.5

[timber dragon]

How so

2.5.1 just got released with bug fixes lmao

[slate swan]

ah, well tried yesterday

[timber dragon]

Oh i know what you mean

[slate swan]

gotta see

[timber dragon]

That got fixed

[slate swan]

the state thingy for interactions

[slate swan]

nice nice

[timber dragon]

Yeah

Related to the new callback resource thing

[slate swan]

ah yeah no pings for smaller updates i guess

[timber dragon]

Nope

[tacit meadow]

I have done create a bot tunneled via cloudflare.com. Can I write python code for processing messages received by my bot. Where should I start.

I'm new to this bot staffs.

I'm RPI++. Hi everyone.

[sick birch]

can you give us more details

[tacit meadow]

I need to process messages coming from remote ESP32Sx. I'd like to use python. And processed messages will be send back to the said device.

Is that possiable ?

It is some kind of IOT staffs.

[slate swan]

are you effectively talking about discord bots?

doesn't seem like it has anything to do with discord bots

[tacit meadow]

Ah Yah for discord bots.

[slate swan]

then i'm not sure what exactly you'd like to do

[tacit meadow]

I've found by Googling now

I need to check discordpy.

[timber dragon]

You can just use a library like discord.py for this?

client = discord.Client(intents=discord.Intents(messages=True, guilds=True, message_content=True))

@client.event
async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
  print(f"{message.author} sent a message: {message.content}")

client.run("token")

loool

[tacit meadow]

yah yah I've found that.

Thanks you all.

I will proceed to there.

Thanks.

[slate swan]

what does an esp32 an iots have to do with the whole thing x)

[tacit meadow]

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')

[timber dragon]

note that there are also other python discord api wrappers like hikari, pycord, discord.http, disnake and nextcord

[tacit meadow]

Yes. Thanks for your info.

[slate swan]

before anyone jumps in

[viscid hornet]

cursed af that the modal definition is inside the command

[glad cradle]

and client: commands.Bot 👍

[pallid plank]

Wait

Why is he importing app_commands separately and then using @discord.app_commands.

😭

[timber dragon]

💀

[woeful hill]

✨style✨

[timber dragon]

name="report" and function is called Report 😭

And the modal class "my_modal" 😭

[wanton current]

we need inport

[small coral]

anyone need my help?
I can develop a discord bot

[woeful hill]

You need to find them, they won't simply just find you

[young silo]

Can u tell me where I can learn discord bot making

[small coral]

what do you really want to build?

[young silo]

Like disc0rd b0ts like t0k3n joiner, ev creator, b00st bot oauth and many more

[young silo]

I purchased many tools like t0k3n ev creator tempmail and yopmail also I have b00st b0t but I don't want to waste money for purchasing this that's why I want to learn discord b0t coding so that's why I can make my own b0ts

[shrewd apex]

that sounds like ton of gray areas

[young silo]

Um i only want to know where u learn coding to make b0ts

[young silo]

But they are selling at a huge price

[small coral]

dm me

[young silo]

U dm me I have many dms

And ping me

[shrewd apex]

you wont find any help for those particular use cases in this server, but we can provide resources on how to get started with building discord bots

[young silo]

Yea I don't want these bots help i only want to learn

[shrewd apex]

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/ check examples folder
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/

[young silo]

Ok it has tutorial also

[young silo]

Any more resources u know

Thank you very much bro

[shrewd apex]

its an unofficial guide but yeah you can use it to get started

[young silo]

Any more u know

[shrewd apex]

not many that are up to date, if you have doubts you can ask here or https://discord.gg/dpy

[young silo]

U are from india ?

Oh thx

Ok this will help me in developing bot

Thx

[timber dragon]

Everyone always asks if you're from India, but no one ever asks where India is from or how India is doing

[drifting arrow]

You're in the wrong subreddit..

[naive briar]

[quiet ocean]

oh hey

[fast osprey]

That sure is a lot of nondescript, randomly censored buzzwords

[pale zenith]

Gotta hack that mainframe

[young silo]

Yes

[stark ingot]

Yes but they are also common terms for what scammers/resellers use to violate TOS

[young silo]

Yea but some you cannot say that all are scammers some people are good and help people

[stark ingot]

Unlikely

Even if you think they are good if they break TOS they are probably hurting someone

[young silo]

Yea bcuZ all know it is developing country and for earning money some people do these bad things for earning but in some cases the person which is doing scam like in india but the money goes to china bcuZ 90% scam call centers are operated by China but many of us didn't know the reality.

[young silo]

Yes

[stark ingot]

That has nothing to do with what i am talking about

[young silo]

Many of people see that indian are scamming but the operator or boss is china

[young silo]

Ok

[stark ingot]

I am talking about discord scammers not call centers. Also I don't care who operates it it is still scamming

[exotic hazel]

And either way, for the purposes of this server it doesn't matter if something is right or wrong, if it violates TOS we can't help with it

[slate swan]

Discord finally decided to eventually add katex support

[viscid hornet]

did it?

$5^2$

[quick gust]

its still in experimental stage, plus it won't work like that lol it'll be inside a codeblock afaik

[slate swan]

experiments, so not live

also yeah, code blocks

```katex
\sqrt{2}
```

[viscid hornet]

\sqrt{2}

[viscid hornet]

[slate swan]

not live

[viscid hornet]

i read infertile's message first

then read yours after sending

[quick gust]

I also said it's in experimental stage

[topaz stratus]

what? what kind of weird bots are those? 🤨
also why are your O's zeroes

[fast osprey]

t3h 1337 h4xx0rz xD

[young silo]

B00st bot = b00st the server with N1tro t0k3n
Ev creator = make disc0rd t0k3n with selenium automatically
T0k3n joiner --> Can join disc0rd t0k3n ( like offline members and many more)

[slate swan]

what's the purpose of those 0 and 3 and whatever

[topaz stratus]

those don't sound kosher ngl

[fast osprey]

bro you're not a hacker

speak english lol

and yeah those are very against tos

[safe mist]

Is there a way to create a slash command hyperlink? For example if someone clicks on #add, it brings up the /add command?

[timber dragon]

Yes you can mention a slash command: </full name:id>

[topaz stratus]

i didn't even know that

[slate swan]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#message-formatting

[topaz stratus]

yeah saw that in the docs

[viscid hornet]

i wonder how they got to that emoji for the standard unicode stuff

also whats guild navigation

<267624335836053506:browse>

[slate swan]

funnily the id is actually id as plaintext

e.g. id:browse (<id:browse>)

[slate swan]

https://tenor.com/view/sorry-please-pretty-please-gif-2667018502164666858

[viscid hornet]

[slate swan]

yeah.. discord...

though it's in the "example"

and only all uppercase should be changed

but yeah, don't necessarily read all that instantly to be fair..

[viscid hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/rinauchis-rinaspixel-gif-20708554

[viscid hornet]

ah i see

[astral wolf]

Hey if anyone here needs any discord bot i can make one for free I am new to this discord library I jus need a good topic to work on kindly dm me if interested

[jade fox]

@astral wolfhey bro i want a dc bot

[astral wolf]

Yea sure man dm me

[timber dragon]

Scammers scam the scammer lol

[slate swan]

scammer scams the scammer scamming the scam scammed by the scammer

[glad cradle]

Java's Scanner?

[viscid hornet]

[timber dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/jarvis-hawk-hawk-tu-tuah-gif-3696881901305765010

[frank osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-gif-26460616

sometime weird things happen and im ok with that

[wanton current]

https://tenor.com/view/h-cup-onii-chan-takai-turning-back-gif-26497918

[sweet badger]

Anyone wanna collaborate on a discord game bot? I'll explain the design in Dms tho

[astral wolf]

Yo I'm up for it

[cedar nova]

Can someone explain what's going on? i'm confused on why its being passed as an integer when going into my function?

I have an app command

    @app_commands.command(name="create", description="Create a giveaway")
    async def create_giveaway(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, prize: str, description: str, amount: int, end_time: str, role: discord.Role = None, invite: str = None):
        await interaction.response.defer()
        print(type(end_time))
        # will parste into database later also make it more pretty
        if tt.string_to_seconds(end_time) is False:
            await interaction.followup.send(
                "Incorrect format used for the end date of the give\n"

                "Examples of proper use"
                "`1 month(s)`"
                "`4 day(s)`"
                "'1 hour'"
                "'30 minutes'"
                ""
            )
            return
        end_time = tt.seconds_to_discord_timestamp(tt.string_to_seconds(end_time))
...

and im passing through the strings_to_seconds function, its imported from an different .py file. I've been getting integer errors and when checking the type its an string within the app command but the function has it as an integer.

Examples of arguments passed through "1 day", "24232", and "2 months"

This is the start of the function haven't modified the variable or anything when passing it through

def string_to_seconds(time_str: str):
    if time_str.isdigit():
        return int(time_str)
    time_str = time_str.lower()
    total_seconds = 0
...

Fixed it by changing the object type into a string but still very confused

def string_to_seconds(time_str: str):
    print(type(time_str)) # debugg
    time_str = str(time_str)
    print(type(time_str)) # debugg
    if time_str.isdigit():
        return int(time_str)
    time_str = time_str.lower()
    total_seconds = 0

  # time_str is an string instead of integer now

before changing the type I would be getting this in console while checking the type

<class 'str'>
<class 'str'>
<class 'str'>
<class 'int'>
[2025-03-07 01:07:35] [ERROR   ] discord.app_commands.tree: Ignoring exception in command 'create'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\wizar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\discord\app_commands\commands.py", line 857, in _do_call
    return await self._callback(self.binding, interaction, **params)  # type: ignore
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\wizar\Desktop\Giveaway bot\cogs\Giveaways\handle_giveaways.py", line 104, in create_giveaway
    end_time = tt.seconds_to_discord_timestamp(tt.string_to_seconds(end_time))
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\wizar\Desktop\Giveaway bot\utils\time_stuff.py", line 27, in seconds_to_discord_timestamp
    seconds = string_to_seconds(seconds)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\wizar\Desktop\Giveaway bot\utils\time_stuff.py", line 46, in string_to_seconds
    if time_str.isdigit():
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'isdigit'```

not sure if how i import matters but here it is
```py
import utils.time_stuff as tt

[tender bobcat]

What wrong is probably in another function seconds&to_discord_timestanp

[cedar nova]

No I'm just a bad programmer and didn't add error handling, tt.seconds_to_discord_timestamp gets called because my code only checks if something is returned or not (which the error was returned)

[tender bobcat]

Look at the traceback

It tells you seconds_to_discord_timestamp called string_to_seconds

[cedar nova]

string_to_seconds is what sends the attribute error

This is the entire function and I just realize that yeah I don't need to call the function again (its only called once at least and the argument is string_to_seconds) that's still the problem. the function itself. string_to_seconds returns an integer

also current_time_in_unix is just int(datetime.datetime.timestamp(datetime.datetime.now()))

def seconds_to_discord_timestamp(seconds: float):
    current = current_time_in_unix() 
    seconds = string_to_seconds(seconds)
    total = current + seconds
    return f"<t:{total}:f>"

no way is anything visibly turning whatever my argument into an integer

[tender bobcat]

See? You put a float inside the string_to_seconds, which it only accept string

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/JNCIZC3HWXFICW2AIGIXIUE7HU
Explanation

Why took so long to respond...

[cedar nova]

Are you saying that because string_to_seconds is in tt.seconds_to_discord_timestamp and it only takes in an float that tt.string_to_seconds(end_time) is sending end_time as an float (and defaults to integer because it has no decimal) and that's why within string_to_seconds time_str is an integer rather than a string?

[tender bobcat]

? Python type annotation only to remind the developer what type it should be, it's not enforced and not auto converted

(unless you are some library that read the type annotation and do some complex handling like discord.py) which you are not

And you put an integer there, so it's a integer

[cedar nova]

dangg

it all makes sense now

I was wrapping my head around about what you said and also did some testing myself and yeah you were right, really misunderstood and the simple fix was to just remove it all together

[cedar nova]

no clue what I was talking about here but after testing what I got from your help got me to the issue even if I was confused

Thanks 👍

[tender bobcat]

Me thinking it's normal for beginner to not think this way as they only learn type annotation really late
But this is a special case as the discord.py have special usage of type annotation that might be confusing

Well, no, I am pretty sure discord.py taught you to put like description: str for command arguments to get a string

But this make you thought this apply to entire python, when discord.py doing the specific heavy lifting to make it beginner friendly

[cedar nova]

Not sure if this is a good reason or not but I just put it there so I would know what to put in when I call it

[tender bobcat]

Well, I think you are required to put it due to discord.py

[cedar nova]

gotcha

[tender bobcat]

At least, now I learnt that this can confused beginner who start from discord.py

Because usually, people learnt type annotation when they forget what type is everything and causing error

[cedar nova]

Yeah they force type annotation for slash commands

[tender bobcat]

Because they need to know what you want and handle for you, specifically

[delicate dew]

Hello I recently took a Raspberry Pi 5 to put a Discord bot in python the problem is that I struggle to use it. for example when I put the bot on my user (not root) I create my venv, I install the modules in the requirements but as soon as I launch the bot it gives me a python error that I do not have the necessary permissions etc ...

Nothing to do but even when I do sudo su I still can not access the root folder

[tender bobcat]

Show the error

[delicate dew]

Wait

[slate swan]

to be fair it would likely fit better in e.g. #unix as it's not related to discord bots (even if you run a bot on that rpi, it doesn't make it a discord bot issue)

it's either a wrong rpi or python installation/setup

[tender bobcat]

It depends on the error
Maybe they wrote something that cause it in the bot

[delicate dew]

on a VPS or my pc it works very well

[tender bobcat]

An error message would be more helpful

[delicate dew]

Yes wait i reinstall the os

[slate swan]

🗿

[tender bobcat]

...

I'm not going to be here when you are done so well

[delicate dew]

10 min max

[slate swan]

at least changing some settings when reinstalling? compared to the first time

[delicate dew]

Honestly, I don't see what could be wrong.

[slate swan]

so you're reinstalling just like before?

[delicate dew]

@slate swan@tender bobcat

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/axrzz/discord/bots/bot.py", line 1, in <module>
    from dotenv import load_dotenv
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'
(myenv) root@raspberrypi:/home/axrzz/discord/bots# pip install dotenv
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting dotenv
  Downloading dotenv-0.9.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.9 kB)
Collecting python-dotenv
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/python-dotenv/python_dotenv-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)
Installing collected packages: python-dotenv, dotenv
Successfully installed dotenv-0.9.9 python-dotenv-1.0.1
(myenv) root@raspberrypi:/home/axrzz/discord/bots# python3 bot.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/axrzz/discord/bots/bot.py", line 4, in <module>
    import discord
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord'
(myenv) root@raspberrypi:/home/axrzz/discord/bots#

i already do pip install -r requirements.txt why...

why i am bad

[pallid plank]

!dashm

[unkempt canyon]

Install packages with `python -m pip`

When trying to install a package via pip, it's recommended to invoke pip as a module: python -m pip install your_package.

Why would we use python -m pip instead of pip?
Invoking pip as a module ensures you know which pip you're using. This is helpful if you have multiple Python versions. You always know which Python version you're installing packages to.

Note
The exact python command you invoke can vary. It may be python3 or py, ensure it's correct for your system.

[timber dragon]

python3 -m pip ...

Also, the dotenv package is called "python-dotenv"

[delicate dew]

I think I am confused because I connect as axrzz 'and not root'

[delicate dew]

same...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/axrzz/discord/bots/bot.py", line 1, in <module>
    from dotenv import load_dotenv
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'

[viscid hornet]

did you pip install it?

[delicate dew]

I tried to install it manualy without reading the requirements and it works .... I don't understand

[viscid hornet]

define "install it manually"

[delicate dew]

(myenv) axrzz@raspberrypi:~/discord/bots $ pip show python-dotenv
WARNING: Package(s) not found: python-dotenv
(myenv) axrzz@raspberrypi:~/discord/bots $ pip install python-dotenv
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting python-dotenv
  Using cached https://www.piwheels.org/simple/python-dotenv/python_dotenv-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)
Installing collected packages: python-dotenv
Successfully installed python-dotenv-1.0.1
(myenv) axrzz@raspberrypi:~/discord/bots $ pip show python-dotenv
Name: python-dotenv
Version: 1.0.1
Summary: Read key-value pairs from a .env file and set them as environment variables
Home-page: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv
Author: Saurabh Kumar
Author-email: [e-mail]
License: BSD-3-Clause
Location: /home/axrzz/discord/bots/myenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages
Requires:
Required-by:
(myenv) axrzz@raspberrypi:~/discord/bots $ python3 bot.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/axrzz/discord/bots/bot.py", line 4, in <module>
    import discord
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord'
(myenv) axrzz@raspberrypi:~/discord/bots $

[viscid hornet]

well you havent installed discord.py

[delicate dew]

I know but the problem and that I would like to install all the modules by doing to pip install -r requirements.txt and not with pip install <modulename>

[viscid hornet]

so make a requirements.txt file and put all the modules you need

!venv i also recommend using these

[unkempt canyon]

Virtual environments

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

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

Then, to activate the new virtual environment:

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

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

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

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

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

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

[delicate dew]

I already have it but when I make the order he installs but nothing ...

[viscid hornet]

define "nothing"

[delicate dew]

When i do pip install -r resuirements.txt

[unkempt canyon]

Please react with ✅ to upload your file(s) to our paste bin, which is more accessible for some users.

[viscid hornet]

put it on the pastebin

[delicate dew]

He install all modules but when i run bot.py he tell i dont installed the module like dotenv, discord etc...
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/C72A

[timber dragon]

It isn't installing anything. There's an error

[viscid hornet]

yeah thats a build error

[delicate dew]

any idea to fix that because i am lost 🥲

[viscid hornet]

it literally says there "this error occurred from a subprocess and is likely not a problem with pip"

[viscid hornet]

gonna have to look online. it's a C issue so

[delicate dew]

want to die 🥲

[viscid hornet]

#python-discussion and #c-extensions might help

[timber dragon]

Sounds like a threat

[viscid hornet]

where

[timber dragon]

^ /s

[delicate dew]

the solution to avoid error (thx chat gpt)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3-dev

it work love on you and for ur time@viscid hornet@timber dragon

[safe mist]

Does anyone know if there is any way to delete sending stickers in channel? I've checked permissions and server settings but it seems you can only disable external stickers & not all.

Not really related to discord.py specifically, but I don't know where else to ask. I've got a discord channel which is used for a specific slash command, users can obviously also DM the bot but a lot of them say it's easier to just use this channel. AutoMod currently blocks ANY message sent, so if you accidentally send a message instead of using the slash command, it never gets sent. Users have however figured out that stickers can bypass this, I now have the bot watch on_message and deletes any messages that are somehow sent however I'd rather block them entirely.

[tender bobcat]

Do you need the user to read the message history?

[fast osprey]

Making a channel you don't want people to send messages in doesnt make too much sense. Why can't they just use this in a normal channel?

[thin raft]

Long time since I did a discord bot, where were you able to check the submission of the Modal?

there's the on submit but cant find the actual data

[sick birch]

it's in the .value attribute of the textinput

[thin raft]

thanks

[true echo]

it says this but i have it in my requirements.txt

anyone know hwy

does anyone know hwy

bro?

helpers?

[stark ingot]

stop spamming everywhere

[true echo]

........

how am i spamming

im just askign for help?

[stark ingot]

You have asked in 5 different channels with 2 accounts

[true echo]

huh

not me

😭

[stark ingot]

!rule tos also

[unkempt canyon]

Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may violate terms of service, or that may be deemed inappropriate, malicious, or illegal.

[true echo]

breo

im reporting

[fast osprey]

context? What's tos related here?

[stark ingot]

User status

this as well

[fast osprey]

🤨 weird

[timber dragon]

Bro is installing asyncio 💀

[wanton current]

pip install io

[fast osprey]

pip install pip

[viscid hornet]

pip install builtins

[slate swan]

pip install python

[viscid hornet]

pip install c

[timber dragon]

pip install std

[hearty basalt]

pip install windows

[young dagger]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html?highlight=message stickers#discord.Message.stickers

if message.stickers:
        await message.delete()

[safe mist]

i just delete all messages by default

thought there might be a way to fully disable sending stickers discord-side that i was missing

but i dont think there is

[timber dragon]

Apparently not

[wanton current]

Discord™️

[timber dragon]

You can disable embeds, files and reactions but not stickers for some reason

Just amazing

discord™️

[sick birch]

[timber dragon]

Ayo?

[fervent harness]

msg.edit(f'{player1.id}\'s battle with {player2.id} has begun')```
I have the above line of code which gives the following error: `Message.edit() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given` 

I do not see another argument so if anyone could explain why this is happening that would be great!

[naive briar]

How are you defining msg?

[fervent harness]

msg = await ctx.send(...)

[naive briar]

Ah, yeah

[naive briar]

!d discord.Message.edit

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.edit

await edit(*, content=..., embed=..., embeds=..., attachments=..., suppress=False, delete_after=None, allowed_mentions=..., view=...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Edits the message.

The content must be able to be transformed into a string via `str(content)`...

[naive briar]

The method is keyword only, so you gotta do content=f''

[fervent harness]

I see thanks!

[thin raft]

Any idea why sendall command isnt showing?

...

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

    @commands.command(name="reload")
    async def reload(self, ctx: commands.Context) -> None:
        await ctx.bot.reload_extension("cogs.shop")
        await ctx.reply("Reloaded!")

    @app_commands.command(name="tienda")
    async def tienda(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        try:
            await send_store(interaction)
        except ValueError:
            embed = discord.Embed(
                title="Código de verificación expirado",
                description=f"Para generar un nuevo código de verificación accede [aquí]({AUTH_URL})"
                            f", una vez iniciada sesión (no aparecerá ninguna web) copia el enlace "
                            f"y dale al botón de introducir código",
                color=0xFF00FF
            )
            await interaction.response.send_message(embed=embed, view=NoAccessTokenView())

    @app_commands.command(name="sendall")
    async def sendall(self, interaction: discord.Interaction) -> None:
        for member in self.bot.db.get_all_members():
            await send_store(interaction)

        await interaction.response.defer()


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

the other command "tienda" is showing

[shrewd apex]

sync ur commands and hit ctrl + r if on discord desktop

[thin raft]

done that still not registering

[shrewd apex]

when u sync the commands u get a list of returned commands which were synced is that command present in the list?

[thin raft]

class Bot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__(intents=discord.Intents.all(), command_prefix="..")
        self.db = DB()

    async def setup_hook(self) -> None:
        await self.load_extension("cogs.shop")

        await self.tree.sync(guild=discord.Object(931192437949485116))
        print([c.name for c in self.tree.get_commands()])

the print shows tienda and sendall

[shrewd apex]

no the sync call returns a list of synced commands

[thin raft]

oh

not returning anything

[shrewd apex]

!d discord.app_commands.CommandTree.sync

Returns
The application’s commands that got synced.

Return type
List[AppCommand]

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.CommandTree.sync

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

Syncs the application commands to Discord.

This also runs the translator to get the translated strings necessary for feeding back into Discord...

[thin raft]

yeah

just checked it

[shrewd apex]

are u sure the guild id is correct and when bot was added it was added with application commands scope?

[thin raft]

it was added as admin

im confused about one registering but not the other one

[shrewd apex]

thats wierd but it's likely that after the first command sync even tienda probably didn't get re synced

do you get any errors?

[woeful hill]

You declare a global command but you sync guild

[naive briar]

Shouldn't be a problem, I don't think

[thin raft]

fuck it was that

[timber dragon]

Yeah that only syncs the commands for that specific server

[warm kestrel]

@calm vector can you mute/deafen/move/disconnect @ lemon in exemple?

i mean in vocals

[viscid hornet]

1. probably dont ping mods
2. no. thats literally how roles work

[warm kestrel]

yes i ping mods

[viscid hornet]

lmao get ready for a swift timeout

[fast osprey]

[viscid hornet]

lmao which part

[fast osprey]

what it is they want

[round knoll]

hi, i cant seem to be able to give a simple role to a on_member_join event. am i missing something, i feel like it should be easy...

[slate swan]

currently missing the whole code

[fast osprey]

Code? And what's the goal of giving everyone a role?

[round knoll]

        @self.event
        async def on_member_join(member):
            print(f"{datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}----------{member} has joined the server----------")

            # drifters role
            has_drifter_role = self.DRIFTERS_ROLE_ID in member.roles

            if not has_drifter_role:
                await member.add_roles(member.guild.get_role(self.DRIFTERS_ROLE_ID))
                print(f"{datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}----------Added Drifters role to {member}----------")

[young dagger]

1. Does the bot have permissions to manage roles?
2. Does it print anything?

[round knoll]

1. yes
2. yes

the bot already manages roles and random stuff, its working fine for everything else. it throws an error

2025-03-08 16:20:13 ERROR    discord.client Ignoring exception in on_member_join
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/zed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 441, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/zed/Projects/ZeddyBot/zeddybot.py", line 336, in on_member_join
    await member.add_roles(member.guild.get_role(self.DRIFTERS_ROLE_ID))
  File "/home/zed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/member.py", line 1051, in add_roles
    await req(guild_id, user_id, role.id, reason=reason)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'id'

it also prints that the user joined, with proper formatting and all

2025-03-08 16:20:13----------testy_test_mctest has joined the server----------
[<Role id=428788808754921472 name='@everyone'>]
False
1347960879500755066

[timber dragon]

it can't find the role in that server

[young dagger]

Does the role exist?

[round knoll]

i grabbed the role id from the developer option when you right click on the role in discord

[timber dragon]

make sure it's int

self.DRIFTERS_ROLE_ID in member.roles isn't valid either, member.roles is a list of Role objs. Use member.get_role(ROLEID).

also, you don't need to get the full Role obj just add it; use discord.Object(ROLEID)

[round knoll]

alright, ill try those changes

[young dagger]

Can you show where you placed it?

[round knoll]

dang, i wrapped the self.drifter_role_id in int() and it worked.... ive been trying to debug for 3 hours

thanks @timber dragon and @young dagger

it's cause im loading all the stuff from a config.json .. it's a string inside of it, makes sense

[young dagger]

You don’t need to wrap it in int(), though it’s not bad practice. Just using drifter_role_id = 123456789 is fine. If you add quotation marks, it will turn into a string

[fast osprey]

json is a pretty crap config format anyways compared to things like toml and yaml. It was designed for data exchange, not configuration

[young dagger]

Oh right, json is always string by default afaik

[round knoll]

ill have to refactor at some point, but at least its working now. ill do a couple more tests just to make sure

[unreal owl]

What would be the best way to get the user_id out of a username?

[blissful crane]

could you explain a bit more? There aren't many cases where you'd wanna do that, usually it's the other way around

[unreal owl]

So I am coding a Ticket system for my small server, but I dont want to save the users data in a db or smth, so the channels name is called "ticket-emn4tor". So I coded a cap with max tickets based on their id but to change it I need that ID

I hope you get what I mean

[blissful crane]

there are a couple things to note here

1. Ticket systems that use channels are not recommended, it's best to use private threads
2. using names for something like this is not recommended, ids are better since they're unchangeable and unique
3. Guild.get_member_named will take a name str and return a discord.Member if possible

[sick birch]

usernames in channel names is far more convenient, it's how @novel apex works

you can put the user ID in the channel topic though

[stark ingot]

IMO still use a small database, it prevents issues where the channel name/topic is changed

[fast osprey]

(and also don't use channels for this to begin with)

[viscid hornet]

can you not also name threads?

[unreal bay]

.env file exists: True
TOKEN: None
OWNER_ID: None
Error: DISCORD_TOKEN environment variable not found.

[unreal bay]

can anyone help me about this problem pls dm

[viscid hornet]

you already made a help post

[pale zenith]

env files and vars are more of a hassle than it is worth. I recommend creating a simple config.py and importing config values normally instead

[unreal bay]

i got it

[ember ibex]

The on_message listener never seems to work for me. I have given my bot every single permission there is, made sure there are absolutely no errors, made sure that the cog is loaded and nothing else is interfering. NONE of the code executes in the on_message listener

class GeneralCommands(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot, config):
        self.bot = bot
        self.db = MainDatabase()
        self.config = config
        print("GeneralCommands Cog Initialized")


    @nextcord.slash_command(name="test_general", description="Hello")
    async def test_general(self, ctx):
        await ctx.send("The general cog is loaded.")

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, message: nextcord.Message):
        await self.bot.process_commands(message)
        print("Listener triggered!")
        if message.author.bot:
            return
        
        print(message.content)

The slash command works, but whenever I send messages, the program doesnt print anything

[viscid hornet]

slash commands aren't messages. simple as that

also you don't need to process commands because it's a listener, not the main event handler

[ember ibex]

yes I was just trying out any code snippets I could

[ember ibex]

What does this mean?

[viscid hornet]

wait fuck

[viscid hornet]

slash commands arent messages

brain segfault

[ember ibex]

Is there an example of working on_message listener functionallity? I tried making a bot a few months ago with a listener and it also didnt work then. I've tried every code snippet stack overflow has given

[ember ibex]

Yes I was just using the slash command as verification that the cog was loaded

[vapid parcel]

Anyone know how see all members the bot can see? I wanna just len it, but i don't chunck the guilds on startup, meaning i can't just call self.bot.users is there another way?

[viscid hornet]

no i doubt it

[ember ibex]

But how do I just get the message content to print as verification that the listener is working

[naive briar]

Do you strictly need it in the startup?

[vapid parcel]

Wdym?

[naive briar]

You could wait until the bot is fully ready before doing that

If it's for a presence, that'd work

[viscid hornet]

i dont see why it wouldnt work

[vapid parcel]

Doing guild chucks causes rate limits, I want to avoid that.

[ember ibex]

That's why I'm writing here, because it is structured exactly the same as the existing code online

[vapid parcel]

I can't have my bot just sit rate limited for 10+ minutes

That's the main issue, that's why I don't load the chunks on startup

[viscid hornet]

command prefix as a raw slash? lmao

[naive briar]

[vapid parcel]

Yea, it cries if I put nothing, we don't actually have slash cmds.

Mb, I meant, we don't actually have prefix cmds

[viscid hornet]

iirc you can put an empty tuple in there

[vapid parcel]

🤷‍♂️

/ works 🤷‍♂️

Prefix cmds are for the weak 🙏

[naive briar]

I missed them 😔

[vapid parcel]

They were alr

Hybrid were on top

Actually, fuck hybrid, I fucking hate those things, they were a mix of bs, if u got the prefix working, u would have to remember to make it work for slash too 😭

To much work

total_counts = [guild.approximate_member_count async for guild in self.bot.fetch_guilds(limit=None)]
total_users = sum(total_counts)

Well, this is my fix to my question, thanks to my glorious king @finite salmon

[finite salmon]

on god

[vapid parcel]

❤️

[last cradle]

how to go about making a command like this w/o api

[fast osprey]

What do you mean "without api"? And this screenshot doesn't really say anything about what this command actually does or what logic it uses

[midnight oracle]

I know it's possible, I just don't remember how. How was it to make a button copy to clipboard something?

[naive briar]

I'd guess make a URL button and redirect to a page that then adds the stuff to your clipboard

Don't know if it's possible any other way though

[midnight oracle]

Ye ye!

I just read about it in StackOverflow

Thanks!

[timber dragon]

Link to post? 👀

[last cradle]

okay thank you

[young dagger]

Can masked links in messages be detected without using regex?

[fast osprey]

Why do you not want to use the tool specifically designed for detecting patterns in text

[young dagger]

What kind of tool?

[fast osprey]

Regex

Asking how you find specific patterns in text without regex is like asking how you eat soup without a spoon

[young dagger]

Just wondering if Discord had something builtin for this

[fast osprey]

It does, and it uses regex

[stark ingot]

To answer your question, discord does not send what links are in a message, so no

[unreal shuttle]

guys, is there a way to automatically send my robinhood trade positions to a discord channel?

for context, Robinhood is an investing platform that can also be used for daytrading

[fast osprey]

You can post whatever message you want to a webhook

how you create that message is entirely up to you

[unreal shuttle]

i mean, how can it be integrated into a python code?

[fast osprey]

Webhooks are just api endpoints with a specific payload. It's up to you to write the code that gets the info you need and crafts the message you want

Libraries like discord.py simplify sending to that webhook, but as far as it's concerned it's entirely on you the developer to figure out what message you want to send

[viscid hornet]

do webhooks work if the bot is offline?

[wanton current]

Webhooks aren't bound to a bot

If you have the webook url you can always send messages to it

[ember robin]

My ephemeral isn't working, but there are zero errors.

I've also created a post if someone would like to help me out.

[fast osprey]

Are you deferring and then following up?

[ember robin]

Uhh, not really. Just trying to fix it atp.

[fast osprey]

What's your code?

[viscid hornet]

.bm - i'll take good note of it

[unkempt canyon]

Virtual environments

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

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

Then, to activate the new virtual environment:

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

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

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

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

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

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

[unreal bay]

https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1348538260606943262 HELP ME IN THIS

[timber dragon]

Nah

[fast osprey]

Might want to read #rules number 9

[vernal folio]

Anyone who wanted to help me building bots with me?

🙂

[fast osprey]

lol

Very smooth

[quick gust]

Just ask for help with whatever you need, here

[slate swan]

why i cant use voice message

because permissions

[stark ingot]

Or do you mean with a bot? In which case you can

[slate swan]

aaaaand guilds/clans are now gone

[stark ingot]

To clarify my reaction above, dont care about the clans feature itself, it does not effect me. But the many of the people who used them in scummy ways... im glad wont be able to do that

[viscid hornet]

what scummy ways? what happened?

[stark ingot]

Abusing the fact that it was an experiment and only some people had access

[viscid hornet]

ohh so people were selling clan tags?

[stark ingot]

among other things yes

[viscid hornet]

@stark ingot how does externally setting a discord RPC work?

[slate swan]

"externally setting"?

[viscid hornet]

setting an RPC outside of discord

hence externally setting

[slate swan]

You mean like set a presence from another app?

[viscid hornet]

pretty much yeah

set presence from code, specifically

[slate swan]

IPC connection

[viscid hornet]

wtf man this channel has been quiet for 10 hours why is there slowmode

[viscid hornet]

elaborate

[slate swan]

then it's just about sending the right commands

[slate swan]

you connect to the IPC socket using its path

then send data to that connection, the data is the set presence command with the information

[viscid hornet]

hm alright

also for websockets, what's the difference between that and a webserver

and what modules do you use for setting up websockets as opposed to a webserver

[slate swan]

Websockets is more about sending/getting real time data, a web server can host a websocket endpoint for example

[slate swan]

Depends the language/framework, some are very simple as you just need to "upgrade" the request to use websocket

[slate swan]

Windows path is \\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0 iirc - Linux/macOS have another path

[viscid hornet]

python first, but i might port this to JS to link it to my vscode

[viscid hornet]

wait so what do i do with this

[slate swan]

Then I guess websockets is probably the most common library for that

[viscid hornet]

so a websocket can also be a webserver? or the other way around

[slate swan]

Create a socket connection to it and send the commands, there's probably some simple code on GitHub/Gist for the most basic use

[slate swan]

Most of the time it's a server and a client, the client creates a ws connection to the server so that they can send relevant data in realtime together

Instead of, for example, doing a request to a REST endpoint every 5 seconds to have the updated information

[viscid hornet]

i feel so stupid rn

i dont get any of this

can i at least see some example code?

[slate swan]

ehm wait

[slate swan]

for Python there's https://github.com/qwertyquerty/pypresence

most of the code is not relevant, but the xlient/utils part to get the path and connect to it should at least get the rough idea of how it works

[viscid hornet]

(with websocket-client)

from websocket import create_connection

ws = create_connection(r"\\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0")

ValueError: url is invalid

am i just

[slate swan]

yeah because it's not the same

a socket connection to an ipc pipe isn't the same as connecting to and using a websocket

[viscid hornet]

yeah ima just use pypresence

fuck this

[slate swan]

you just need the stdlib with socket module

[slate swan]

you can look at how it works internally to make your own "alternative"

[timber dragon]

axo isn't slowing loosing it anymore, she lost it.

[viscid hornet]

i am gonna punch my monitor in a moment

[viscid hornet]

i dont get literally anything in this

it's cuz i dont know the structure of it so i have no fucking clue what goes where

[slate swan]

yeha probably better to use libs then, they're made for that after all

[viscid hornet]

i wanna know the whole process tho. thats my issue

[slate swan]

then looking at the presence code is best

[turbid condor]

can anybody tell me how to lock a thread using bot command i'm using dpy

I only found delete in the documentation

[timber dragon]

Thread.edit(locked=True)

[turbid condor]

ahh so it's in threads

thanks I was checking Forums

[timber dragon]

Forums hold threads lol

[turbid condor]

yeah that got me confused

since there are threads similar to a text channel too

[woeful hill]

a post in forum channel is a thread

[slate swan]

and a thread is just a channel type

[tawny junco]

Wym? There's a hybrid class that takes care of that. I converted to hybrid simply by changing the decorator to @hybrid... and it just worked 💀

[vapid parcel]

hybrid_command didn't handle that all..? but okay.

[tawny junco]

Wym? could you rephrase

[vapid parcel]

hybrid cmds were different than regular slash cmds

and certain arguments you had to treat differently

[tawny junco]

It's been a while since I used regular slash commands. But how different are the arguments? (not arguing btw just need a refresher)

[vapid parcel]

First off, slash cmds require you to have typehints in arguments, and Hybrid does not.

Secondly, you would have to use keyword-only marker in hybrids, vs in slash cmds you do not.

Making it in my opinion, slash cmds betters.

[tawny junco]

@commands.hybrid_command(aliases=["j", "J"], description="Searches for Japanese words")
    async def jisho(self, ctx: commands.context, *, arg: str) -> None:
        page_view = PageView(ctx=ctx, arg=arg, data=self.word_search(arg))
        await page_view.send()

This is my hybrid_command that was originally a prefix command. What did you mean by keyword-only markers? I really forgot how app_commands work (this is what you call slash cmds right?)

[vapid parcel]

*, arg: str

* is the keyword only marker.

you would never need that in an actual slash cmd

[tawny junco]

wait hold up. gimme a sec to check something

[naive briar]

What does it do to prefix commands I wonder

[tawny junco]

Nope that's wrong, I just checked. That's not why that's there. I wasn't forced to put that. It serves another purpose

I just ran the command without it

[tawny junco]

to understand what it does, you first have to understand what happens when you don't use it

[vapid parcel]

you would need it for the prefix cmd?

not the slash cmd

[tawny junco]

Also wrong. I'm explaining the purpose of it rn

Normally, if you don't use the *, args syntax then what happens is, for every space you enter will be passed as an argument. For example

@bot.command()
async def calculate(num1, op, num2):
    ...

# on discord: !calculate 4 + 6

this is equivalent to saying calculate("4", "+", "6"). So it's just spaced arugments. If you add another space and do !calculate 4 + 4 + 6 then you'll get the parameter error (not enough parameters blah blah)
but if you could just do **kwargs to filter out extra arguments. But there's a catch. It might even be a bug idfk but you can't do it for large amounts of text for whatever reason and you also don't get quotations from text. what the *, arg does is treat every space as part of the argument including all special charactors and quotations. It's NOT NEEDED for prefix commands. It just depends on what you wanna do. I originally used it for a google translate api because having all you text in one string with all quotation is pretty handy for translating

Idk why it took me so long to type that @vapid parcel@naive briar

[vapid parcel]

Yes, but most arguments will need *, not saying you NEED it in every cmd, but if you are making a cmd with a default value like reason= or another thing, you will be using *, and I had a lot of cmds like that, and thats why I just don't like hybrid cmds. I understand what you are saying, but a majority of hybrid cmds will be using *.

[tawny junco]

I thought the argument here was it is absolutely required to use the *