discord-bots

[slate swan]

wait no that wont work

[placid skiff]

I'm not at home so i can't show you, i try to find them online, wait a second

[slate swan]

it will only return one role

[placid skiff]

Yes you have to iterate through it

[crystal cave]

which site should i use to host my bot? (as in sites like heroku)

[slate swan]

yes, but I dont want to print one role, I want to print the names of everyrole in the guild

[barren isle]

???

[heavy folio]

how do i get a member's roles

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.roles

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.roles

property roles: List[Role]```
A [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.9)") of [`Role`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Role "discord.Role") that the member belongs to. Note that the first element of this list is always the default [‘@everyone](mailto:'%40everyone)’ role.

These roles are sorted by their position in the role hierarchy.

[crystal cave]

which site should i use to host my bot? (as in sites like heroku)

[cloud dawn]

Any paid vps

[placid skiff]

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
    @commands.has_role("Admin")
    async def unmute(ctx, user: discord.Member):
        role = discord.utils.find(lambda r: r.name == 'Member', ctx.message.guild.roles)
        if role in user.roles:
            await bot.say("{} is not muted".format(user))
        else:
            await bot.add_roles(user, role)
```py

[slate swan]

What?

[placid skiff]

It was utils.find btw you have to use lambda

[slate swan]

As said, I don't want to search for one role?

I need every role in the guild?

[cloud dawn]

ctx.guild.roles

[slate swan]

that returns a list

i need to access the names

and idk how to do that since roles doesn't have the name attribute

[barren isle]

anyone able to help me fix a bump bot?

[cloud dawn]

roles = [role.name for role in ctx.guild.roles]

[placid skiff]

Yes use this, role is equals to that list, so role.name is equals to role name and you can memtion it

[slate swan]

no, roles doesn't have the name attribute?

im confused

[cloud dawn]

What are you on? I think you need to learn a bit more python first.

[slate swan]

Nah I'm following the docs? https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Member.roles here, roles doesn't have any attribute

[cloud dawn]

i suggest trying this first before making assumptions roles = [role.name for role in ctx.guild.roles]

[slate swan]

what does role.name return tho?

[cloud dawn]

The role name.

[slate swan]

hmm where in the docs can I find this

[cloud dawn]

inside guild.roles are role classes so we can just do role.name

[cloud dawn]

No where since it is just python

[placid skiff]

Bro just listen:

role = discord.utils.find(lambda r: r.name, ctx.guild.roles)

This returns you a list like the one you get from guild.roles

[cloud dawn]

!d discord.Role.name

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Role.name

The name of the role.

[placid skiff]

So you just iterate through them and send the role

[slate swan]

hm I see

[placid skiff]

But role is just the name of that list cuz is lambda r: r.name

[cloud dawn]

!source

[unkempt canyon]

Bot's GitHub Repository

Repository

Go to GitHub

[slate swan]

it dosn't return a list tho, it gives the first (only one) role

[placid skiff]

Cuz you have to iterate through guild.roles

[sick birch]

you just just use a list comp for this

namelist = [r.name for r in guild.roles]

[placid skiff]

Yes you could do in that way too

[slate swan]

roles = " ".join([r.name for r in ctx.guild.roles])

```How do I remove the everyone role and how can I mention the others?

[placid skiff]

Start from the second element in the list

[slate swan]

use r.mention instead of r.name

[boreal ravine]

why pass context

[boreal ravine]

Index it

[slate swan]

ty

[placid skiff]

It is not my code lol, take it from stack overflow

[slate swan]

and you can do what @placid skiff said

[barren isle]

I dont know what is wrong but it is not working, all this is it to set the invite for the servers bump ( its for a bump bot btw ) so If you know what wrong please state

  # Broken
@bot.command()
@commands.has_permissions(manage_guild=True)
async def setinvite(ctx,*,desc):
  file = open("data/invites.txt","r")
  current = ast.literal_eval(file.read())
  file.close()
  try:
    await ctx.send(f"Getting information for {desc} .")
    invite = await bot.get_invite(desc)
    print("Invite 1")
  except:
    await ctx.send("The invite is invalid. 1")
  try:
    if invite.guild == ctx.guild:
      current[str(ctx.guild.id)] = desc
      await ctx.send("Invite Set!")
      file = open("data/invites.txt","w")
      file.write(str(current))
      file.close()
      print("Invite 2")
    else:
      await ctx.send("The listed invite is not for your server.")
      print("Invite 3")
  except:
    await ctx.send("The invite is invalid. 2")```

[slate swan]

we won't know what's wrong

[slate swan]

wdym?

using the remove() method?

[placid skiff]

The everyone role is always the first element in the list when you get the list of all roles
So if you start from the second element you will skip it

[slate swan]

oh ok, do I use pop() or remove() in this case?

[sick birch]

you can splice it

i think that's the right terminology

[slate swan]

or you can even set an if statement for the for loop

if r.name != everyone

[sick birch]

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
print(a[1:])

[2, 3, 4, 5]

gist of it

[placid skiff]

There is no need, use list slicing
!e

list[0,1,2,3,4]
print(a[1:])

[slate swan]

you didn't specify a....

[placid skiff]

!e
list[0,1,2,3,4]
print(a[1:])

[sick birch]

hehe

!e

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
print(a[1:])

[unkempt canyon]

@sick birch :white_check_mark: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

[2, 3, 4, 5]

[placid skiff]

Lol i'm drunk

[sick birch]

there

[placid skiff]

Thanks

[slate swan]

!e
a = ["hi", "lol"]
print(a[1:]

[unkempt canyon]

@slate swan :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "<string>", line 2
002 |     print(a[1:]
003 |          ^
004 | SyntaxError: '(' was never closed

[slate swan]

!e
a = ["hi", "lol"]
print(a[1:])

[unkempt canyon]

@slate swan :white_check_mark: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

['lol']

[slate swan]

y'all drunk lmao

[sick birch]

there

[slate swan]

oh ok, how come its not [0:]? isn't the first element in a list 0?

[sick birch]

we don't want the first element remember

[0:] is the same thing as the actual list itself, it's not doing anything

[cloud dawn]

That's what i said 10 min ago lol

[sick birch]

name checks out

[placid skiff]

I started working this moring at 11 am and i take a pause just now lol

[slate swan]

Ahh I see

but now this issue came up

[sick birch]

i think i know what it is

[slate swan]

so

roles = " ".join([r.mention for r in ctx.guild.roles][1:])

removing the method u guys told me, now instead of mentioning the everyone role, it sends the ID

?

[slate swan]

where do you do that

in an embed?

yes

you can't mention in the title

[sick birch]

this is gonna panic when someone doesn't have any roles

[slate swan]

i never did?

[slate swan]

when a guild don't have any roles

but it always has everyone

[placid skiff]

Well you have to check if the guild.roles have at least one role if you don't know the guild

[sick birch]

if it has everyone doing [1:] will freak out but i think that's more of an off-case

[slate swan]

!e

a = ["hello"]
print(a[1:])

[unkempt canyon]

@slate swan :white_check_mark: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

[]

[placid skiff]

One role except everyone

[slate swan]

roles = " ".join([r.mention for r in ctx.guild.roles][1:])
            if not roles:
                roles = "None"

This will work?

[placid skiff]

By the way it just print None lol

[slate swan]

exactly

[placid skiff]

Yes

[sick birch]

oh cool, i was expecting it to error out

it shouldn't be an issue then

[slate swan]

well

it would error

nothing has no mention

[slate swan]

@slate swanthis will work?

[sick birch]

mmm fair enough

[slate swan]

I don't think an empty list activates the if not

[placid skiff]

It is not said cuz maybe discord py will throw NoneType object has no attribute mention

[sick birch]

empty lists are falsy values

[sick birch]

it's not even gonna do the loop once, so i doubt it

[slate swan]

if len(list) == 0

[slate swan]

then it's good

[sick birch]

works but if not list also works since it's a falsy value

personal preference

[placid skiff]

No no bro empty value will return false

[slate swan]

but roles is a string rn

not a list

[placid skiff]

Every empty value return False

[sick birch]

you don't even need the if statement afterwards

if you try to iterate through an empty list it won't even run once

[pure plover]

Hlo

[bright palm]

If there is no roles it will be "" so it is falsy

[sick birch]

!e

emptylist = []
for i in emptylist:
  print(i)

[unkempt canyon]

@sick birch :warning: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

[No output]

[pure plover]

Can anyone help me adding token of bot in python

[sick birch]

ye

[slate swan]

[sick birch]

bot.run("TOKEN HERE")

[pure plover]

!e
emptylist = []
for i in emptylist:
print(i)

[unkempt canyon]

@pure plover :warning: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

[No output]

[pure plover]

Kk

[sick birch]

it doesn't even enter the loop

so you'll be fine

[pure plover]

!e print 666 on top

[unkempt canyon]

@pure plover :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "<string>", line 1
002 |     print 666 on top
003 |           ^^^^^^
004 | SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?

[slate swan]

then the if statement is already fine

[pure plover]

!e help

[unkempt canyon]

@pure plover :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
003 | NameError: name 'help' is not defined

[sick birch]

this is not python 2

we use ()

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.activity

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.activity

property activity: Optional[Union[discord.activity.Activity, discord.activity.Game, discord.activity.CustomActivity, discord.activity.Streaming, discord.activity.Spotify]]```
Returns the primary activity the user is currently doing. Could be `None` if no activity is being done.

Note

Due to a Discord API limitation, this may be `None` if the user is listening to a song on Spotify with a title longer than 128 characters. See [GH-1738](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/issues/1738) for more information.

Note

A user may have multiple activities, these can be accessed under [`activities`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Member.activities "discord.Member.activities").

[slate swan]

How can I get just the name?

[placid skiff]

!e

i = ""
print(i)

[unkempt canyon]

@placid skiff :warning: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

[No output]

[sick birch]

of the role?

[slate swan]

activity

[sick birch]

i would assume activity.name but i'm guessing

[slate swan]

I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this.
Can you tell me more about it?

nope

[sick birch]

d.py has good semantics imo

[slate swan]

pro tip, you can click on the embed title in !d and it will bring you to the docs

i am owner of bot ryzen it is is 75+ server and it anti nuke so intents are on i applied for verification also but unfortunately i close it intents and it is not enable now what Should i do?

showing every attribute

[slate swan]

@slate swan

I have no idea

[sick birch]

not quite understanding you

[slate swan]

So how do I get the name of an activity?

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @pure plover! I noticed you posted a seemingly valid Discord API token in your message and have removed your message. This means that your token has been compromised. Please change your token immediately at: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me

Feel free to re-post it with the token removed. If you believe this was a mistake, please let us know!

@pure plover :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
003 | NameError: name 'bot' is not defined

[sick birch]

might wanna not

change your token pls

[boreal ravine]

i dont know actually

[slate swan]

doesn't exist

LMAO

!d discord.Activity.name

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Activity.name

The name of the activity.

[sick birch]

if i were you i'd look under the attributes section of discord.Activity

welp

[boreal ravine]

oh I didn't know there was an activity class

🤔

[tawdry perch]

what does ctx.send_help this do? Is this literally what it says?

[sick birch]

said again, good semantics

[slate swan]

hmm so I have to do the same thing to activity as I did for roles huh?

[pure plover]

Kk

[sick birch]

exactly what it says

[boreal ravine]

Nope, it's probably another function

oh

[tawdry perch]

so, which one is correct

[reef shell]

when you create a text channel using this method it returns the created channel object. so you can assign the returned object into a variable
channel = guild.create_text_channel(name="bruh")

[tawdry perch]

or I can just make a quick function and test it out

[sick birch]

it sends either the default help or a custom class if you have one

i assume it calls the send_bot_help() of bot.help_command

(assuming it's set)

[slate swan]

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

[reef shell]

it returns this <bound method Context.send_help of <discord.ext.commands.context.Context object at 0x7f6d357b5ac0>>

[tawdry perch]

what is that ;-;

[sick birch]

he's not wrong

it technically does return that

the location in memory may be different but that's beside the point

[slate swan]

I still dont know how to get the activity name of a MEMBER

[sick birch]

member.activity returns discord.Activity yes?

so you should be able to do member.activity.name

[slate swan]

nope doesnt work

[sick birch]

what error are you getting?

[slate swan]

that discord.Member.activity has no attribute name

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.activity

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.activity

property activity: Optional[Union[discord.activity.Activity, discord.activity.Game, discord.activity.CustomActivity, discord.activity.Streaming, discord.activity.Spotify]]```
Returns the primary activity the user is currently doing. Could be `None` if no activity is being done.

Note

Due to a Discord API limitation, this may be `None` if the user is listening to a song on Spotify with a title longer than 128 characters. See [GH-1738](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/issues/1738) for more information.

Note

A user may have multiple activities, these can be accessed under [`activities`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Member.activities "discord.Member.activities").

[sick birch]

that's odd, can we see your code?

[slate swan]

hmm

returns discord.activity.Activity

            embed.add_field(name="Activity:", value=f"{arg.activity.name}", inline=True)

!d discord.activity.Activity

[unkempt canyon]

discord.activity.Activity

class discord.Activity(**kwargs)```
Represents an activity in Discord.

This could be an activity such as streaming, playing, listening or watching.

For memory optimisation purposes, some activities are offered in slimmed down versions:

• [`Game`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Game "discord.Game")

• [`Streaming`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Streaming "discord.Streaming")

[reef shell]

when you don't call it (in await expression)

[sick birch]

what's arg?

i mean, it's type

[slate swan]

a discord.User or a discord.Member

[sick birch]

i see

[tawdry perch]

it did send a help command!

[sick birch]

ah i know why

nvm no i don't

[tawdry perch]

but now I need to figure out how to send it for specific command

[slate swan]

If you do it this way, you will get a sentence like the following
Is it possible to get only the ID part?

[slate swan]

discord.Activity.name exists, but how do I get it from the member is my question

member.activity.name

doesn't work

[sick birch]

that's what i said but they said it doesn't work

[slate swan]

what's the error

[sick birch]

so now i'm confused

[reef shell]

are you using the default help command? (subclassed)

[slate swan]

ive said it multiple times now

[tawdry perch]

iirc, yes

[placid skiff]

Just paste the error you get from your console so we can read what is the issue

[sick birch]

yeah they said discord.Activity has no attribute name

a traceback would be nice yes

[slate swan]

Saying it doesn't work or asking what's wrong with this code? is not helpful for yourself or others.
Describe what you expect and/or tried (with your code), and what isn't going right.
Please provide any errors you get for optimal assistance.

[reef shell]

you can get the channel's id by the id attribute

[slate swan]

discord.Member.activity.name

[reef shell]

!d discord.TextChannel.id

[unkempt canyon]

discord.TextChannel.id

The channel ID.

[slate swan]

has no attribute

bro you used the class?

?

[tawdry perch]

class MyNewHelp(commands.MinimalHelpCommand):
    async def send_pages(self):
        
        destination = self.get_destination()
        for page in self.paginator.pages:
            emby = discord.Embed(description=page)
            await destination.send(embed=emby)

bot.help_command = MyNewHelp()
``` I use this

[sick birch]

member.activity should return an instance

[slate swan]

member.activity != discord.Member.activity

[reef shell]

so you can override send_command_help()

[slate swan]

ah wait I see the issue

discord.Member is the main class

[reef shell]

to customize it

for specific commands help

[sick birch]

you should never work with the base classes themselves with d.py

only instances

[tawdry perch]

but how?

[slate swan]

nah nvm I fixed it, the typehint for the arg was a little fucked

[sick birch]

explains it

[slate swan]

yup it works now

[placid skiff]

Nah you can do that, but you have to know what you are doing

[slate swan]

meaning you didn't read the error properly, nor sent it

[reef shell]

override send_command_help()

[sick birch]

^

[placid skiff]

My bot is a customized Bot class for example

[sick birch]

i mostly mean the base discord models like discord.Member and such

[reef shell]

and there is a good gist for subclassing default help command

[tawdry perch]

ehhh, what?

[placid skiff]

Yes those are useless to work with the base class

[sick birch]

oh yeah there was a tag on d.py server for that

it was a really good gist

[reef shell]

https://gist.github.com/InterStella0/b78488fb28cadf279dfd3164b9f0cf96 this gist will definitely help you

[sick birch]

ah yeah

[slate swan]

Sorry to bother you again.
Can you tell me how to use the id attribute?

[sick birch]

you can use it however you like, it's an integer

you can print it, send it over discord, store it, whatever

[tawdry perch]

!remind 24h read with time

[unkempt canyon]

Out of the question.

Sorry, you can't do that here!

[reef shell]

if your textchannel object's name is channel then channel.id will give you the id for that channel

[tawdry perch]

;-;

[slim whale]

why is it looking like this? i want the photo at the right

@bot.command()
async def serverinfo(ctx):
  guild = ctx.guild
  a= len([m for m in ctx.guild.members if not m.bot])
  b= len([r for r in ctx.guild.roles])
  c= len([c for c in ctx.guild.text_channels])
  d= len([d for d in ctx.guild.voice_channels])
  e= len([e for e in ctx.guild.emojis])
  f= len([f for f in ctx.guild.categories])
  g= ctx.guild.mfa_level
  h= "a"
  if g == 0:
    h = "No"
  else:
    h = "Yes"
  embed = discord.Embed(colour=0x87CEEB)
  embed.set_author(name=f"{guild.name} Information!", icon_url = guild.icon_url)
  embed.set_image(url=guild.icon_url)
  embed.add_field(name="Server Owner", value=f"{guild.owner}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Server ID", value=f"{guild.id}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Server Region", value=f"{guild.region}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Categories", value=f, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Text channels", value=c, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Voice channels", value=d, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Rules channel", value=f"{guild.rules_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="AFK channel", value=f"{guild.afk_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Updates channel", value=f"{guild.public_updates_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Members", value=a, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Roles", value=b, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Created at", value=f"{guild.created_at} **UTC Time**", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Boosts", value=f"{guild.premium_subscription_count}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Emojis", value=e, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Emojis limit", value=f"{guild.emoji_limit}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Verification Level", value=f"{guild.verification_level}", inline=True) 
  embed.add_field(name="2FA", value=h, inline=True)
  await ctx.send(embed=embed)```

[slim whale]

.

[slate swan]

Thank you very much! It's all fixed! I can't thank you enough!

[reef shell]

np

[reef shell]

use set_thumbnail method for it

[slim whale]

okk

[reef shell]

!d discord.Embed.set_thumbnail

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_thumbnail

set_thumbnail(*, url)```
Sets the thumbnail for the embed content.

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

Changed in version 1.4: Passing [`Empty`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed.Empty "discord.Embed.Empty") removes the thumbnail.

[slim whale]

thanks!!!!!!!

[placid skiff]

Remember that the thumbnail take a lot of spaces so on phone the field inlined will mess up a lot

[slim whale]

in my phone its everything with inline

so its a flooding machine XD

[reef shell]

inline thing doesn't work on mobile client

[placid skiff]

They actually do lol

[slim whale]

do u like this?

[reef shell]

i guess not

[placid skiff]

Yes bro i tried them
They're a lot ugly tho 😂

[reef shell]

looks cool on desktop , but eww on mobile

[placid skiff]

It's something like this:

ti
tle
Som
e te
xt

😂😂

[slate swan]

I am trying to make a bot by watching video on YouTube but IDK what mistake I made, it is not working and I have 0 idea about programming language so please help me someone

[slate swan]

!resources

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

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

https://pythondiscord.com/resources

[slate swan]

Start by learning python first

As it says, your token is wrong

ok how much time it will take?

[slate swan]

Learn python first its better

Depends on how fast you learn

Pretty sure it's not otherwise you wouldn't have that error, copy paste it again

[slate swan]

Depends on everything patience time how quick you learn

And make sure you don't have any typos to it

[placid skiff]

First learn programming lenguage
I suggest you to start with C to get a good basic, you can just learn directly with python but you will be confused with a lot of things
Then learn python, at least you should have an idea of object oriented programming, then you can start coding with bot

[reef shell]

Code?

[slate swan]

Then idk, are you simply putting your token in the .run or are you getting it from a .env

[slate swan]

k ma'am

[slate swan]

I mean its good but its better to stick with a programming language know allot about it and then when your skilled you learn another one

[slate swan]

Im a guy bruv

[river hollow]

i know its not the best way

[reef shell]

You didn’t define the TOKEN var.

[slate swan]

You're not actually passing "TOKEN" when running right?

[slate swan]

what is C?

[slate swan]

It's a string

[slate swan]

Programming language

[reef shell]

Oh

smh

[slate swan]

sorry man.

[slate swan]

Idc lmao

[river hollow]

?

[river hollow]

?

i just deleted it out bc i dont want to share it

[slate swan]

C is even more confusing so i don't recommend it until you pick something easier to learn like python, + he might not even ever need C

[reef shell]

@river hollow if you have your bot's token stored in env variables then load it in your script first

[river hollow]

but in my code have it

[slate swan]

would you mind if I dm you?

[slate swan]

Then idk

[river hollow]

i dont have this

[slate swan]

Then you did run you variable thats a random string of letters and not actually TOKEN

[slate swan]

Go for it

[placid skiff]

Yes oc
When i started i learned C, i studied till i learned memory management then i moved to other languages
The C gives you a good knowledge so even if you code on other language you will have a good idea on what you are doing, I personally think it's essential cuz if you start with python which is simple for beginners but when you move to use external package it will be pretty caothic if you don't know some things

[reef shell]

Then pass the token directly

[river hollow]

i copyed the token and just pasted it in the .run

[reef shell]

In .run

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @river hollow! I noticed you posted a seemingly valid Discord API token in your message and have removed your message. This means that your token has been compromised. Please change your token immediately at: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me

Feel free to re-post it with the token removed. If you believe this was a mistake, please let us know!

[reef shell]

bruh

[river hollow]

i removed a part out

to send it

[slate swan]

Everybody doesnt learn as equal to you python is a very good beginner friendly language i would recommend learning c after python but its not necessary

[placid skiff]

It is not confusing, it is hard cuz you don't have a lot of shortcuts that other programming languages have, so you have to create your own way to do some things

[slate swan]

Still you don't know if he's gonna ever need it, maybe he just wants a discord bot, you don't need to go out of your way and learn C first before python

[bright palm]

He could make the bot in C :D

[slate swan]

That would take a lot more time rather than doing it in python 😂

[placid skiff]

Yes bro but the fact is, I try to explain it simple
C will make you use your brain to do certain things, this will train your mind so you will solve problems instead of tryin to find shortcuts

[bright palm]

Yeah and it would blow up from the slightest mistake

[barren isle]

Why is it sending the message so many times?

@bot.command()
@commands.has_permissions(manage_guild=True)
async def setchannel(ctx,*,desc,given_name=None):
  file = open("data/channels.txt","r")
  current = ast.literal_eval(file.read())
  file.close()
  for channel in ctx.guild.channels:
    if channel.name == given_name:
      await ctx.send("Please mention a channel next time.")
    else:
      wanted_channel_id = channel.id
      current[str(ctx.guild.id)] = wanted_channel_id
      await ctx.send("Bump Channel Set!")
      file = open("data/channels.txt","w")
      file.write(str(current))
      file.close()
      print(wanted_channel_id)```

[bright palm]

There is a C discord library though https://github.com/cee-studio/orca

It's quite good

[slate swan]

I still find it unnecessary for a mere discord bot

[slate swan]

Because you're looping and sending the message each time it loops

[barren isle]

what should I change to not loop?

[slate swan]

Remove the for loop

[barren isle]

ok

[slate swan]

That's really basic python

[placid skiff]

Programming isn't always write code following some path
Most of the time programming is create a problem, solve it and then process it
Python will give you the necessary so you will not have to solve directly the problem
But when you have to do complicated things, like doing a bot, you have to know how to solve some algorithm problems

[bright palm]

What the fuck is this code

lmao

[slate swan]

Ngl i thought of that too 😂

[slate swan]

Not really, if it's a basic or simple bot you really don't

[barren isle]

Bad I do know

[placid skiff]

I think that if i wouldn't learnt C i will be a lot in trouble with the bot i'm creating

[bright palm]

Like why are you using ast.literal_eval?

[slate swan]

That doesn't apply to everyone

For example, I've never had any knowledge of any other language but python and got my bot some dope advanced and complex commands

[bright palm]

Mmm most of the things C teachs you are irrelevant for discord bots

[slate swan]

^

[bright palm]

But in general it is good practice

[placid skiff]

In therms of coding yes
But in therms of algorithms and problem solving no

[bright palm]

Teachs you the way to do things without relying on anything

[placid skiff]

Exactly

[slate swan]

Learning a language that you might never need doesn't hurt, but if you're not gonna get that far into programming nor plan on keep going and just doing it for the moment then it's pretty useless

[bright palm]

Yeah but with what most people do they don't even need to solve any problems as it has all been nicely done for them already

[placid skiff]

Lol maybe is just that i'm not one of those people who creates something that already exists 😂

[bright palm]

Your bot seems pretty basic you also do some odd things

Like what is this

Just use getattr D:

[placid skiff]

Well not exactly
I'm just sharing modified code so they will look more common and find simple ways to solve problem 😂😂

[placid skiff]

As i said i've C mentality so i'll solve problems in my own way 😂😂
Btw the code is pretty old now, i've not uploaded it yet 😂

[placid skiff]

I will try btw, i'm just not used so i prefer doing it like this

[bright palm]

For python the C mentality isn't the best approach

[placid skiff]

Till now it worked fine

[bright palm]

It works it just isn't the best

[slim whale]

@bot.command()
async def serverinfo(ctx):
  guild = ctx.guild
  a= len([m for m in ctx.guild.members if not m.bot])
  b= len([r for r in ctx.guild.roles])
  c= len([c for c in ctx.guild.text_channels])
  d= len([d for d in ctx.guild.voice_channels])
  e= len([e for e in ctx.guild.emojis])
  f= len([f for f in ctx.guild.categories])
  g= ctx.guild.mfa_level
  h= "a"
  if g == 0:
    h = "No"
  else:
    h = "Yes"
  i= round(ctx.guild.created_at)
  embed = discord.Embed(colour=0x87CEEB)
  embed.set_author(name=f"{guild.name} Information!", icon_url = guild.icon_url)
  embed.set_thumbnail(url=guild.icon_url)
  embed.add_field(name="Server Owner", value=f"{guild.owner}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Server ID", value=f"{guild.id}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Server Region", value=f"{guild.region}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Categories", value=f, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Text channels", value=c, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Voice channels", value=d, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Rules channel", value=f"{guild.rules_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="AFK channel", value=f"{guild.afk_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Updates channel", value=f"{guild.public_updates_channel}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Members", value=a, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Roles", value=b, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Created at", value=i + "**UTC Time**", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Boosts", value=f"{guild.premium_subscription_count}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Emojis", value=e, inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Emojis limit", value=f"{guild.emoji_limit}", inline=True)
  embed.add_field(name="Verification Level", value=f"{guild.verification_level}", inline=True) 
  embed.add_field(name="2FA", value=h, inline=True)
  await ctx.send(embed=embed) ```i want to round the created at

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/bot.py", line 939, in invoke
await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 863, in invoke
await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 94, in wrapped
raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: TypeError: type datetime.datetime doesn't define __round__ method

[placid skiff]

Good to know
I like to learn and i'm also a self-learner
So in future it will be certain better

[slim whale]

!d round

[unkempt canyon]

round

round(number[, ndigits])```
Return *number* rounded to *ndigits* precision after the decimal point. If *ndigits* is omitted or is `None`, it returns the nearest integer to its input.

For the built-in types supporting [`round()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#round "round"), values are rounded to the closest multiple of 10 to the power minus *ndigits*; if two multiples are equally close, rounding is done toward the even choice (so, for example, both `round(0.5)` and `round(-0.5)` are `0`, and `round(1.5)` is `2`). Any integer value is valid for *ndigits* (positive, zero, or negative). The return value is an integer if *ndigits* is omitted or `None`. Otherwise, the return value has the same type as *number*.

For a general Python object `number`, `round` delegates to `number.__round__`.

[slate swan]

dose anyone have a reason why this is not working

[placid skiff]

What error it throw?
By yhe way there is no need, try this:

async def on_member_join(member)
    await ctx.member.send(message)

[cloud dawn]

Why are you using list comp on a list to create a list to count the list again?

isn't len(ctx.guild.roles) good enough?

[slate swan]

ah thx

[slim whale]

idk, but that is not the error

[cloud dawn]

This is -> i= round(ctx.guild.created_at)

[bright palm]

Why are you trying to round a datetime?

[slim whale]

because its ugly xd

[slim whale]

ik, how i can fix it

[bright palm]

What do you want it to be instead?

[slate swan]

ctx is undefined

[slim whale]

without decimals

[cloud dawn]

!d datetime.datetime.strftime

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.datetime.strftime

datetime.strftime(format)```
Return a string representing the date and time, controlled by an explicit format string. For a complete list of formatting directives, see [strftime() and strptime() Behavior](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior).

[placid skiff]

Sorry is just member.send

[slim whale]

that doesnt tell me how to round it

[cloud dawn]

It's literally the function of how to round it.

Did you click on the link?

[slim whale]

wait xd

yes

[bright palm]

created = ctx.guild.created_at.replace(microsecond=0)

[cloud dawn]

This will still have decimals and please don't spoonfeed

[slate swan]

How to get a member's custom status and about me?

[bright palm]

!e ```py
from datetime import datetime

print(datetime.now())
print(datetime.now().replace(microsecond=0))

[unkempt canyon]

@bright palm :white_check_mark: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | 2021-10-22 16:15:39.989997
002 | 2021-10-22 16:15:39

[bright palm]

?

[cloud dawn]

Well time to go to the js server

[slate swan]

.

[devout iris]

How can i host my bot for free?

[slim whale]

replt

[warm torrent]

hello I'm a python beginner and i'm developping a discord bot buit i have a problem : I want my bot to send a message every day on a fixed hour and i did not find a way to achieve it despite my researchs on stack overflow. can you please help me ?

[devout iris]

is replit hosting?

[slim whale]

where? doesnt workpy @bot.command() async def serverinfo(ctx): guild = ctx.guild a= len([m for m in ctx.guild.members if not m.bot]) b= len([r for r in ctx.guild.roles]) c= len([c for c in ctx.guild.text_channels]) d= len([d for d in ctx.guild.voice_channels]) e= len([e for e in ctx.guild.emojis]) f= len([f for f in ctx.guild.categories]) g= ctx.guild.mfa_level h= "a" if g == 0: h = "No" else: h = "Yes" created = ctx.guild.created_at.replace(microsecond=0) embed = discord.Embed(colour=0x87CEEB) embed.set_author(name=f"{guild.name} Information!", icon_url = guild.icon_url) embed.set_thumbnail(url=guild.icon_url) embed.add_field(name="Server Owner", value=f"{guild.owner}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Server ID", value=f"{guild.id}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Server Region", value=f"{guild.region}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Categories", value=f, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Text channels", value=c, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Voice channels", value=d, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Rules channel", value=f"{guild.rules_channel}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="AFK channel", value=f"{guild.afk_channel}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Updates channel", value=f"{guild.public_updates_channel}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Members", value=a, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Roles", value=b, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Created at", value=f"{ctx.guild.created_at} **UTC Time**", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Boosts", value=f"{guild.premium_subscription_count}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Emojis", value=e, inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Emojis limit", value=f"{guild.emoji_limit}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="Verification Level", value=f"{guild.verification_level}", inline=True) embed.add_field(name="2FA", value=h, inline=True) await ctx.send(embed=embed)

[slim whale]

uptimerobot but its illegal xd

[bright palm]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/tasks/index.html

[devout iris]

Ah

[bright palm]

.-.

[slim whale]

i am dumb?

xd

@bright palm a

ah

XD

now i know

[warm torrent]

i didnt understand anything ? is there a simple function which checks the hour of the computer ?

[slate swan]

Ok so use datetime to get the current hour and if the hour is your expected hour....send the message

Another thing...if you put it in a while loop to check the hour every certain duration like 20 sec, make sure your bot doesnt message thousands of time as an hour stays for 60m.

I suck at explaining. Pardon

[slim whale]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/bot.py", line 939, in invoke
await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 863, in invoke
await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 94, in wrapped
raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime.datetime' and 'str' @bright palm

embed.add_field(name="Created at", value= created + "**UTC Time**", inline=True) did this

[bright palm]

You can supply a time argument to the task to specify the time it should run at

[pure plover]

How to add custom status in bota like playing a game

???

[bright palm]

Make the datetime a string first?

[slim whale]

oh yes

[pure plover]

@slim whale @slim whale

[pure plover]

@bright palm

Plss tell

🥺🥺

[slim whale]

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
  command_prefix="!"
  await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Activity(
    type=discord.ActivityType.listening,
    name=f"{command_prefix}help"))```this is playing

[bright palm]

No

[slim whale]

listening*

spoonfeeding u 😡

[warm torrent]

i dont need to have a xhile function, do I ? because i use async

[pure plover]

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
command_prefix="!"
await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Activity(
type=discord.ActivityType.listening,
name=f"{command_prefix}help"))

This?

[bright palm]

Don't do this just use https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/tasks/index.html

[slate swan]

@pure plover

await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(name="a game"))

[warm torrent]

but i didnt understand

[slim whale]

yes

[slate swan]

Me too

[warm torrent]

im gonna test your advice

[slate swan]

@slim whale activity

[bright palm]

Perhaps you should learn some more about python

[slate swan]

Lol

[slim whale]

bRUH

[slate swan]

Haha

[slate swan]

✅

[viral pebble]

how can I count the voice time that the users have done?

[brittle ingot]

get the datetime they join the VC and the datetime they leave and find the difference, store that in a Database?

[boreal ravine]

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, message: disnake.Message):
        guild = self.bot.get_guild(880030618275155998)
        owner = guild.get_role(884679735366533151)

        if len(message.mentions) > 5:

           # if owner in message.author.roles:
            #    print(f"Owner mentioned {message.mentions} people.")
            #    return

            await message.delete()
            await message.channel.send(
                f"Too many mentions! {message.author.mention}", delete_after=7
            )

``` no errors, but why does this not work?

[slate island]

somebody who can help me with a piece of code made in Discord? Might be the easiest for you! 😛 pm if possible?

[slate swan]

what did you do in discord kayle

[boreal ravine]

mention 10 people in a message

[slate swan]

no dm, send it here

[boreal ravine]

primarily me

[slate swan]

maybe set an else to the if statement with something

[boreal ravine]

ohhhh

[slate swan]

maybe that returned false

[boreal ravine]

i figured out why

if you pinged yourself

it doesn't trigger

BUT if you pinged 5 other people then it'll work

[slate swan]

it would count as one if you ping the same person multiple times

innit

[boreal ravine]

hm

[slate island]

How come the top part of the code gets disabled (the client.command)s. When I add the client.event

[slate swan]

!d discord.Message.mentions

[slate island]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/alijigitav.py

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.mentions

A list of Member that were mentioned. If the message is in a private message then the list will be of User instead. For messages that are not of type MessageType.default, this array can be used to aid in system messages. For more information, see system_content.

Warning

The order of the mentions list is not in any particular order so you should not rely on it. This is a Discord limitation, not one with the library.

[sick birch]

on_message stops other commands from working

[slate swan]

doesn't say anything about that

[sick birch]

you have to add client.process_commands(message) as the last line in the on_message

[slate island]

Then what do I do?

[slate swan]

change @bot.event to @bot.listen()

[sick birch]

that works too

[slate swan]

above on_message

[slate island]

so client.listen()?

[sick birch]

i find using listeners easier but use client.event if you want

[slate swan]

yes

[slate island]

Let me try!

It says command doesnt exist. the !add command.

Ignoring exception in command None:
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "add" is not found

[boreal ravine]

Code?

[sick birch]

can we see your code for that command?

[slate island]

When doing client.listen().

Its in the link I sent.

[boreal ravine]

you should probably

make a command, not an event for that type of thing

iirc on_message doesn't receive args but im not sure

[slate island]

Then I have to change it completely.. so it would be better if it could just work.

[sick birch]

you should use the commands extension

[boreal ravine]

^

[slate island]

?

[boreal ravine]

the commands extension lets you have multiple arguments in a command

like what you did earlier

[sick birch]

then change it, there's no reason to be not using the commands extension

you're just gonna keep running into more and more issues like this

better switch now and save yourself the headache down the line

[slate island]

But I don't know how I would change it. I tried, but I hit a wall everytime I try change it to a command.

[boreal ravine]

it's like making a function

[sick birch]

perhaps you haven't read the documentation yet

[boreal ravine]

but in discord

[sick birch]

it has excellent command examples

[boreal ravine]

^ or just read the examples folder

[sick birch]

@bot.command()
async def echo(ctx, arg1):
  await ctx.send(arg1)

very simple echo function

[boreal ravine]

yes

[slate island]

Would the client.process_commands(message) maybe work?

[boreal ravine]

you can add more parameters to it

[boreal ravine]

it will but it won't work for your current code

[slate island]

I know how to make a bot.command function, but with the current code and what I want it to do, it gives tons of errors.

[sick birch]

like what?

[boreal ravine]

show us

didn't you already have commands earlier?

just use that as an example

[sick birch]

yeah you already have commands in your code

i'm looking at the pastebin one

why not just make more of that

[slate island]

Robin J, as you can see the client.event one is for a google sheet api

So thats why with command I would have issues doing what im doing.

[sick birch]

i don't see why you would have issues with that

you can still interact with the API from within commands

nothing is limiting you from doing so

[slate island]

Let me show you errors I get.

[sick birch]

do

[slate island]

How do I put it in quote here?

Like in a box the piece of code error?

[sick birch]

you mean like this?

[slate island]

Yep!

[sick birch]

```
stuff
```

[slate island]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Sebastian\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 85, in wrapped
    ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Sebastian\Desktop\DiscordBot\bot.py", line 92, in add
    if message.content.startswith('!add '):
AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'content'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Sebastian\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 939, in invoke
    await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
  File "C:\Users\Sebastian\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 863, in invoke
    await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Sebastian\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 94, in wrapped
    raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'content'

[sick birch]

yeah the first argument of a command is the context

not the message

[slate island]

So what do I do?

[sick birch]

use the context object rather than the message

[slate swan]

ctx.mesage.content

[boreal ravine]

ur not supposed to have ctx in an event except some events

oh

[slate island]

Its the:

message.content.startswith

[slate swan]

Yup

Just add ctx

[slate island]

So I made it? message.context.startswith ?

[sick birch]

no the issue here is they're doing startswith inside of a function

[slate island]

ok

[sick birch]

you can remove that whole part d.py handles that behind the scenes for you

[slate swan]

add ctx at first

[boreal ravine]

why not just make a command wtf

[slate island]

so ctx.message.context.startswith ?

It is a command im making.

[slate swan]

Yup

[sick birch]

yeah

just get rid of all your startswith and use commands

[slate swan]

Wait...

[boreal ravine]

its this easy

async def function(ctx, first, second, third, fourth):
```??

[slate swan]

@slate island you using Client()?

[sick birch]

exactly

[boreal ravine]

he isnt

[slate swan]

Ohh

[slate island]

async def add(ctx):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    # Command to insert data to excel
    if ctx.message.content.startswith('!add '):
        SPREADSHEET_ID = 'idhere' # Add ID here
        RANGE_NAME = 'A1'
        FIELDS = 2 # Amount of fields/cells

        # Restrict the command to a role
        # Change REQUIREDROLE to a role id or None
        REQUIREDROLE = None
        if REQUIREDROLE is not None and discord.utils.get(message.author.roles, id=int(REQUIREDROLE)) is None:
            await message.channel.send('You don\'t have the required role!')
            return
    
        # Code
        msg = message.content[3:]
        result = [x.strip() for x in msg.split(',')]
        if len(result) == FIELDS:
            # Add
            print(message.created_at)
            DATA = [message.author.name] + [str(message.author.id)] + [str(message.created_at)] + result
            sheet.add(SPREADSHEET_ID, RANGE_NAME, DATA)
            await message.channel.send('Your data has been successfully submitted!')
        else:
            # Needs more/less fields
            await message.channel.send('Error: You need to add {0} fields, meaning it can only have {1} comma.'.format(FIELDS,FIELDS-1))```

[sick birch]

they're using commands.Bot, but named it client

[slate island]

This is what I have so far.

[slate swan]

I had a heart attack lmao

[sick birch]

you're gonna get an error there

message isn't a variable

the 3rd line

use ctx.message instead

[slate island]

so its if ctx.author ?

ok ctx.message.author ?

[sick birch]

also why do you need startswith if it's inside the command

[boreal ravine]

is if REQUIREDROLE is not None and discord.utils.get(message.author.roles, id=int(REQUIREDROLE)) is None: even valid syntax?

[sick birch]

you're effectively checking if the message contents starts with "!add" twice

[slate island]

So everywhere in the code it says message.somethinghere

has to be: ctx.message.somethinghere

[sick birch]

correct

[slate island]

Let me try.

[oblique adder]

how do i get the invite code and the inviter in an on_member_join event ?

[brazen seal]

why this not work when user isn't on the server?

[sick birch]

there's no native way to do it so you'll have to cross reference the audit logs

[sick birch]

error?

[boreal ravine]

store the the person who created the invite in a db > check if the user joined from that invite

[brazen seal]

i don't have

[sick birch]

error handler?

[boreal ravine]

the id/tag isn't global + your bot cant fetch the user

[oblique adder]

how do i get the inviter which the person who join use ?

[brazen seal]

how i can fix it?

[boreal ravine]

i dont know

[boreal ravine]

i dont know???

[sick birch]

get the invites and their uses before someone joins, after someone joins check which invite increased by one

then you know which invite they used to join

[slate island]

Doesn't work. Nothing happens. No errors either.

[sick birch]

not helpful

[slate island]

async def add(ctx):
    if ctx.message.author == client.user:
        return

    # Command to insert data to excel
        SPREADSHEET_ID = 'idhere' # Add ID here
        RANGE_NAME = 'A1'
        FIELDS = 2 # Amount of fields/cells

        # Restrict the command to a role
        # Change REQUIREDROLE to a role id or None
        REQUIREDROLE = None
        if REQUIREDROLE is not None and discord.utils.get(ctx.message.author.roles, id=int(REQUIREDROLE)) is None:
            await ctx.message.channel.send('You don\'t have the required role!')
            return
    
        # Code
        msg = ctx.message.content[3:]
        result = [x.strip() for x in msg.split(',')]
        if len(result) == FIELDS:
            # Add
            print(ctx.message.created_at)
            DATA = [ctx.message.author.name] + [str(ctx.message.author.id)] + [str(ctx.message.created_at)] + result
            sheet.add(SPREADSHEET_ID, RANGE_NAME, DATA)
            await ctx.message.channel.send('Your data has been successfully submitted!')
        else:
            # Needs more/less fields
            await ctx.message.channel.send('Error: You need to add {0} fields, meaning it can only have {1} comma.'.format(FIELDS,FIELDS-1))

[brazen seal]

zero error

[sick birch]

then it's working like you made it

[sick birch]

btw you can get rid of lines 3-4

ah you know why

[slate island]

lines 3 and 4?

[sick birch]

everything afterwards is indented

so the whole code will only run if you send the command

[brazen seal]

but why this not ban user which isn't on the server?

[sick birch]

which you never will

[slate island]

Sooo?

[sick birch]

i assume it's because the bot can't "see" the user, so it doesn't know what to do

[sick birch]

fix your indent, and remove the part where it checks if the bot is the one sending the message

[slate island]

So just remove line 3 and 4?

[sick birch]

and fix your indents, yes

[slate island]

which indents?

[sick birch]

everything in the command is indented into the if block

so everything only runs if ctx.message.author == client.user

[sick birch]

i'm talking about this

[brazen seal]

what i should to in do the bot can see the user?

[sick birch]

actually you should be getting unreachable code error

[slate island]

Yeah, but what lines for example. I just removed line 3 and 4.

[slate swan]

please don't use ableist language here

[sick birch]

the bot has to either share a server or be in a group chat with them

[sick birch]

still have to fix your indent

[slate island]

Can you give a piece of a code that is indent in the code that I have to change?

[sick birch]

you see where it says # Command to insert data to excel

deindent starting from there to the end of the command

[slate island]

I don't see the indents you are talking about. Sorry. :S

Because it seems to work fine now.

After I removed line 3 and 4.

Anything I have to be aware of? Because it seems to work sir.

[brazen seal]

so how i can do the bot not must be in a the same group chat with user or server?

[dapper cobalt]

Because you are using discord.Member and not discord.User.

[brazen seal]

now it at all not work

[slate swan]

discord.User

[dapper cobalt]

My bad, it's a capital U. My keyboard lagged.

[zenith zinc]

hii

[brazen seal]

still

not

[dapper cobalt]

Show your full code?

[dapper cobalt]

Use await ctx.guild.ban(user, reason=reason).

And also you can do member.mention instead of BannedUser = f"<@{member}>".

[zenith zinc]

HII

[dapper cobalt]

!d discord.User.mention

[unkempt canyon]

discord.User.mention

property mention: str```
Returns a string that allows you to mention the given user.

[brazen seal]

still :/

[dapper cobalt]

Still what?

[brazen seal]

still not work

[sick birch]

it can't convert to a discord.User if it can't see the user

[dapper cobalt]

Define 'doesn't work'.

What error do you get?

[valid niche]

that would raise a BadArgument error, but the converter is able to make an API call afaik so it will always work as long as the user exists

[brazen seal]

any error

[dapper cobalt]

Do you have any error handlers?

[brazen seal]

what is it?

[sick birch]

i see, that makes sense as the converter is actually async

[dapper cobalt]

Ah, can you please put your code inside a try...except and raise the exception?

[valid niche]

that wouldn't bypass any error handlers, you would need to print the error/print_exc

[dapper cobalt]

Well, instead of making a whole error handler, they want to just know what's wrong with this command.

[slate island]

@sick birch the code works when I removed line 3 and 4. How come it works when I didn’t change the indents?

[valid niche]

most people will have their error handler in a separate cog, and unloading that cog would do the trick

[dapper cobalt]

I don't think they know how to use cogs.

[brazen seal]

yes, i'm still beginner so thats why i ask you for help

[brazen seal]

how i can raise exception?

[dapper cobalt]

except Exception as e: raise e

[lament mesa]

What's the use of a try block if you are only re-raising the same exception?

[slate swan]

I have a question if there is any other way to check the permissions than @has_permission(permission=True)?

why

[slate swan]

Member.permissions_in

[ancient olive]

TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null
at Object.<anonymous> (/root/bot/heroku/app.js:7:113)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:76:12)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47

const version = new RegExp("VERSION.{0,}=.{0,}'(.*)'").exec(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '/../bot.py')))[1] // Get DiscordGSM verison from bot.py

I can't figure out why this is happening can you help me

[slate swan]

this is javascript not python, you should ask in the js server

[ancient olive]

Ah sorry

[brazen seal]

in this line code has been stopped without raising any exception

[unkempt canyon]

Hey @half tide!

Uh-oh! It looks like your message got zapped by our spam filter. We currently don't allow .txt attachments, so here are some tips to help you travel safely:

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com

[half tide]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ejequbabuk.py
inter response errors out
u can only respond to an interaction
once
we do it mupltiple times
in def gbanslash
read main.py -slash-commands branch
commit a change
u can test on ur own bot if necessary

[slate swan]

            activity_type = ""
            try:
                if arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.watching":
                    activity_type = "Watching "
                elif arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.listening":
                    activity_type = "Listening "
                elif arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.playing":
                    activity_type = "Playing "
                elif arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.streaming":
                    activity_type = "Streaming "
                elif arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.custom":
                    activity_type = "Custom "
                elif arg.activity.type == "ActivityType.competing":
                    activity_type = "Competing"
            except AttributeError as e:
                print(e)
                activity_type = ""

            embed.add_field(name="Activity:", value=f"{activity_type}{arg.activity.name}", inline=True)

Hi, this is a info command, so when I do -info @mention it's going to send an embed with the mentioned users information. arg is either a discord.Member or discord.User. I'm trying to get the name of the activity type, but when I run the command on someone who has a activity, it sends only the arg.activity.name and not the type, which means that except is ran no matter what, and if the user doesn't have an activity, I get this following error: discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
Traceback:

embed.add_field(name="Activity:", value=f"{activity_type}{arg.activity.name}", inline=True)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

I've tried few ways to solve this but it doesn't work, any1 who could help me with this?

[hasty iron]

arg.activity is None

[slate swan]

Yes I know that

[hasty iron]

then it should be pretty easy to fix no?

[slate swan]

I have this, How do I make it so it deletes the 7 day old logs (ping me)

I said I tried, but I couldn't fix this, otherwise why would I ask for help? You need to understand this, I've seen u a few times trying to "help" but what you're really doing @hasty iron is making people regret asking because YOU expect us (newbies) to know every thing. Keep it nice instead and help, or if you don't want to help then shut up and move on

[hasty iron]

the library doesn’t expect you (newbies) to use it

it expects you to have some knowledge

and the fix requires a single if statement

i don’t know if that’s hard or not

[slate swan]

Oh really, so newbies shouldn't learn? Because that's how everyone starts right? You're logic is that if you don't know, don't do it. Right, but what if I try my best? And if I can't make it, I ask for help, this is what this channel is for. You're not welcoming people that's new to this library which literally is against the #code-of-conduct

Anyways, I'll ask in another server, ty tho

[hasty iron]

what? newbies shouldn’t learn?

you’re literally avoiding the whole point

to use discord.py you need knowledge and you apparently don’t have it

[slate swan]

I don't have it because I couldn't find a solution to my issue? This is the first time I ran to this issue how am I supposed to know? This is the first time I coded a discord bot? What you have been saying to me the whole day, even when I asked for help before, is questioning my skill? I told you I'm new, all I'm trying is to get help

[hasty iron]

dude

[dapper cobalt]

Well, you should help yourself at the start.

[hasty iron]

newbies shouldn’t use discord.py

learn python before using it

!resources

[slate swan]

Which I did

[unkempt canyon]

Resources

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

https://pythondiscord.com/resources

[hasty iron]

and as i said, this requires a literal single if statement

[dapper cobalt]

You didn't help yourself, because you haven't learnt Python before jumping into a higher level than newbie level library.

[slate swan]

I literally took a basic python course in school, I'm completely new to this library and I'm asking for help wtf?

[hasty iron]

wow and you still don’t get the point

[slate swan]

So what you're saying is basic python isn't enough for discord.py?

[hasty iron]

yes it isn’t

[slate island]

async def add(ctx):

    # Command to insert data to excel
        SPREADSHEET_ID = 'idhere' # Add ID here
        RANGE_NAME = 'A1'
        FIELDS = 2 # Amount of fields/cells

        # Restrict the command to a role
        # Change REQUIREDROLE to a role id or None
        REQUIREDROLE = None
        if REQUIREDROLE is not None and discord.utils.get(ctx.message.author.roles, id=int(REQUIREDROLE)) is None:
            await ctx.message.channel.send('You don\'t have the required role!')
            return
    
        # Code
        msg = ctx.message.content[3:]
        result = [x.strip() for x in msg.split(',')]
        if len(result) == FIELDS:
            # Add
            print(ctx.message.created_at)
            DATA = [ctx.message.author.name] + [str(ctx.message.author.id)] + [str(ctx.message.created_at)] + result
            sheet.add(SPREADSHEET_ID, RANGE_NAME, DATA)
            await ctx.message.channel.send('Your data has been successfully submitted!')
        else:
            # Needs more/less fields
            await ctx.message.channel.send('Error: You need to add {0} fields, meaning it can only have {1} comma.'.format(FIELDS,FIELDS-1))```

How come this piece of code

when i type !add test test

[dapper cobalt]

Discord.py is an intermediate library, not basic.

[slate island]

it adds into the spreedsheet d test test

it adds a d into field 1? Where is the d from?

[dapper cobalt]

You can restrict the command to a role just by using a simple decorator. @commands.has_role(roleID).

[slate island]

I know, but it shouldnt only for certain situations.. so thats why I left it in and put none on it atm.

But into the spreedsheet when i type !add test test

it adds into field 1: d test and field 2: test

Where does the d come from?

[slate swan]

I don't understand this logic, how do you guys expect someone to learn the library if they don't try? They will fail somewhere and I failed here, and I need help and you don't provide it because I have basic python knowledge and not intermediate? There is literally something I don't know how to fix, and this happens to everyone even if you're pro in pything

[hasty iron]

right if statements are related to the discord.py lib only

[slate island]

You know why @dapper cobalt ?

[dapper cobalt]

What do you save in the spreedsheet? Which variable?

[slate island]

When I type !add test, test

[dapper cobalt]

Can you please use syntax highlighting? I can't read your code properly.

!code

[unkempt canyon]

Here's how to format Python code on Discord:

```py
print('Hello world!')
```

These are backticks, not quotes. Check this out if you can't find the backtick key.

[slate island]

it adds:

I did use that.

The "d" shouldnt be there.

[dapper cobalt]

msg = ctx.message.content.replace("add", "") try that.

It takes the d at the end of 'add'.

[slate island]

Should i add it or change it with something?

[hasty iron]

or you can strip it too

[dapper cobalt]

Index starts from 0 and not 1.

[slate island]

You talking to me?

[dapper cobalt]

No, I'm talking to my cat, his name is Soly.

[slate island]

Atm it is:

msg = ctx.message.content[3:]

Oh hi Soly!

[slate swan]

lol

[dapper cobalt]

Change it to msg = ctx.message.content.replace("add", "").

[slate island]

Let me try. 😄

[dapper cobalt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/264445053596991498/895551009391251466/IMG_20210925_230112.jpg

He said hi back whilst eating my headphones.

[slate island]

It kinda worked KeyError.

now it just adds the !

So when i type !add hey, hey it says:
field 1: ! hey
field 2: hey

Fixed it!

Thanks ❤️

[zenith zinc]

nice

[half tide]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ejequbabuk.py
inter response errors out
u can only respond to an interaction
once
we do it mupltiple times
in def gbanslash
read main.py -slash-commands branch
commit a change
u can test on ur own bot if necessary

@hasty iron

[slate island]

I could also just have changed the 3: to 4: ❤️

Cheers ❤️

[dapper cobalt]

Haha, you can call me Scoopy. And I'm glad you figured it out.

[slate swan]

scoopy?

nice

[half tide]

Someone please i need help

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/ejequbabuk.py

[dapper cobalt]

Yeah, KeyError is my nickname here, check my username.

[dapper cobalt]

You can tell us what's the problem instead of just showing us your code.

[half tide]

Sorry heres one:
inter response errors out
u can only respond to an interaction

[dapper cobalt]

Line?

Or just show the full traceback?

[manic wing]

scoopy I love your website

[slate swan]

i hate the kids in dpy, he said i was a skid because of my about me

as soon as i called him a skid he got butt hurt and made a mod ban me

[manic wing]

lol

[dusky elk]

Is anyone aware of a public fork of discord py that is being actively updated and has interactions implemented?

[hasty iron]

i saw the entire thing and that’s not what happened, anyways you shouldn’t bring other server’s shit here

[slate swan]

forks are allowed

there are mad forks of discordpy

[hasty iron]

well there are no good/decent ones, but the more popular ones are pycord and disnake

[dusky elk]

ah..

[slate swan]

disnake? never hurd of it

[dusky elk]

oh man I was hoping I could just migrate to a fork

pain

[dapper cobalt]

And I love you.

[pliant gulch]

If you have knowledge of the API you can also just impl interactions yourself,

[dapper cobalt]

!pypi disnake

[unkempt canyon]

disnake v2.1.4

A Python wrapper for the Discord API

[pliant gulch]

I mean dpy already dispatches the interaction event

Just need to parse that data

[dusky elk]

yeah,, thats what Im going to end up doing

[dusky elk]

huh this looks eerily similar to dpy

[slate swan]

it's a fork

usually when they fork they don't change stuff they just add stuff

[manic wing]

if you hate the dpy kids why are you here?

[slate swan]

not what i meant

i meant the kids that assume your a skid because od your about me on discord.com

[hardy yoke]

because it's #discord-bots and not #discord-py?

[slate swan]

^

lol

[hardy yoke]

disnake was made by ppl who made dislash which was a popular 3rd party lib implementing slash n such in d.py
I'd wait before fully switching over 2 a fork personally

[slate swan]

Do like me, switch language

I already switched language when it started to get an update every century

[hasty iron]

i don’t think switching a language because of discord bots is worth it

[rare saddle]

How to make a change that will represent the guild?

[manic wing]

elaborate

[rare saddle]

How to make sure that if a person does not change the prefix for the bot, then use the standard prefix, and if changed the custom one

[slate swan]

I love that custom_prefix variable

[manic wing]

its spelt default

[slate swan]

how i can do it ? how to remove the line? like in the picture? on python

[manic wing]

what line?

[slate swan]

maybe set the color to the embed color

[manic wing]

the embed line?

[slate swan]

i don't wanna this line

that probably only works without betterdiscord

[manic wing]

you just do defaultcolor

3553599

[slate swan]

OMG bro i love you thank you!!!

[edgy lion]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/noyojexutu.rb

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'id' | why is self.bot a none type

[manic wing]

self.bot isn't the nonetype, self.bot.user is the nonetype

i dont know why it is nonetype at all, and im just gonna throw this out there - maybe bot isn't ready?

[thick sigil]

finish yours fast

api wrapper

[manic wing]

say what

he stopped his ages ago

🙇 to andy

[slate swan]

Do you guys know how to translate html color into python, that is, I have the color 2f3136 and when I insert it into embed, an error appears SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[hardy yoke]

hope you're using motor and not pymongo 👁️ 👁️

[manic wing]

you're doing color=?

[slate swan]

sure

emb = discord.Embed(color=2f3136)

0x2f3136

[slate swan]

thank you bro!

[hardy yoke]

what you need to do is use the on_guild_join event. Whenever your bot joins a guild, open a database query and add ! to the prefix field associated with that guild.

This way, every guild your bot joins will already have that field filled in, and if they've set a custom prefix it'll ofc hold a diff value.

[rare saddle]

okay, thanks

[mortal dove]

Can someone give me the right format for a commands.Cog.listener()? I totally forgot what the correct arguments for it are, and I don't have any examples on hand in my code.

@commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(message): # <- What else here?
    ...
    await bot.process_commands(message)

Currently gets TypeError: on_message() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

[slate swan]

self, message

[mortal dove]

huh

alr ty

[slate swan]

In the parameters, add self

[hardy yoke]

make sure you have a backup inside get_prefix as well if you go that route. If your bot joins a server while the bot is offline, the on_guild_event won't run. So in the event that a guild is not found in the db, you can add it within get_prefix

Does this make sense? IDK, but that's how I do it

[thick sigil]

who r u

[manic wing]

Caeden, who are you?

[thick sigil]

your idol's teacher

[manic wing]

mhmmmm

who said scoopy was my idol

he's just a nice dude

[slate swan]

hey! Anyone here familiar with discord buttons?

Bro, I found this:

2021-10-22 13:48:46,243:INFO:nextcord.gateway: Websocket closed with 1000, cannot reconnect.
2021-10-22 13:48:46,243:ERROR:nextcord.client: Attempting a reconnect in 470.44s
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nextcord/client.py", line 515, in connect
    await self.ws.poll_event()
  File "/home/container/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nextcord/gateway.py", line 585, in poll_event
    raise ConnectionClosed(self.socket, shard_id=self.shard_id, code=code) from None
nextcord.errors.ConnectionClosed: Shard ID None WebSocket closed with 1000

[valid niche]

code 1000 is an unknown error

so it just lost connection for a bit

[slate swan]

Ah

so thats been happening this entire time

[valid niche]

and as you can see at the top it says attempting reconnect in 470 seconds hence why you see it reconnect after a while

[slate swan]

yup

[valid niche]

but yeah it's an unknown error so idk how to solve it

[slate swan]

got a solution or do I need to deal with it?

ok

[valid niche]

you can ask discord if they have more insight, but i doubt it

[slate swan]

ok

is it jsut me or on mobile i can't open the dev portal

[valid niche]

works fine for me

[slate swan]

it lets me login i do the captcha and then takes me back to login

🤔

disable your adblocker

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@avatar.error
async def avatar(ctx, error, member : discord.Member = None):
    if isinstance( error, discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound ):
        memberavatar = member.avatar_url

        emb = discord.Embed(color=0x2f3136)
        emb.set_image(url = memberavatar)
        emb.set_author(name = f"{member.name}", icon_url = memberavatar)
        emb.timestamp = datetime.utcnow()

    await ctx.send(embed = emb)```help?
error:
`discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'avatar_url'`

If the member is not found, why do you try to get it's avatar

[hasty iron]

its an error handler anyways

[slate swan]

...

And yeah, error handlers don't take custom parameters

[slate swan]

thank you

[slate swan]

@avatar.error
async def avatar(ctx, error, member : discord.Member = None):
    if isinstance( error, discord.ext.commands.errors.MemberNotFound ):
        emb = discord.Embed(color=0x2f3136)
        emb.set_author(name = f"s", icon_url=member.avatar_url)
        emb.timestamp = datetime.utcnow()

    await ctx.send(embed = emb)```
`discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'avatar_url'`
help?

[manic wing]

i'm pretty sure someones already told you what to do

do you mean if not isinstance?

[slate swan]

what?

...

You're kind of checking if it's none and if it's none then you send stuff

I want the bot to show the author's avatar_url

And error handlers don't take any parameter you wish

[slate swan]

So I'm doing it wrong?

You should use @commands.command for sending the answer to your command and use @avatar.error to check for possible errors

Use a normal @commands.command decorator

What you're doing now is basically only send the avatar when the member is not found, which makes no sense at all and obviously throws a NoneType error

so how do I get the bot to show the author's avatar.url?

what i need use?

i need use embed.add_field?

[kindred epoch]

embed.set_image

[rain olive]

do u have member intents

[kindred epoch]

!d discord.Embed.set_image

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_image

set_image(*, url)```
Sets the image for the embed content.

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

Changed in version 1.4: Passing [`Empty`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed.Empty "discord.Embed.Empty") removes the image.

[shy roost]

can't find any proper examples of code in the docs of discord.py

of creating a thread

for a message, as I'm trying to create my own modmail bot

could someone send me some code on just the basics of creating a thread when a command is called?

so like, I want the bot to send the actual message to the moderators or people with mod+ perms in my server, which I don't understand how I can do.

[slate swan]

!d help

[unkempt canyon]

help

help([object])```
Invoke the built-in help system. (This function is intended for interactive use.) If no argument is given, the interactive help system starts on the interpreter console. If the argument is a string, then the string is looked up as the name of a module, function, class, method, keyword, or documentation topic, and a help page is printed on the console. If the argument is any other kind of object, a help page on the object is generated.

Note that if a slash(/) appears in the parameter list of a function when invoking [`help()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#help "help"), it means that the parameters prior to the slash are positional-only. For more info, see [the FAQ entry on positional-only parameters](https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#faq-positional-only-arguments).

This function is added to the built-in namespace by the [`site`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html#module-site "site: Module responsible for site-specific configuration.") module.

Similar names: django.help, pdbcommand.help

[slate swan]

ok

[placid skiff]

How to combine two lists of strings?

[slate swan]

how do you make your bot dm people

[slate swan]

!d discord.Message.create_thread

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.create\_thread

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

Creates a public thread from this message.

You must have [`create_public_threads`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Permissions.create_public_threads "discord.Permissions.create_public_threads") in order to create a public thread from a message.

The channel this message belongs in must be a [`TextChannel`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.TextChannel "discord.TextChannel").

New in version 2.0.

[slate swan]

list1 + list2

[slate swan]

.send on the member

[shy roost]

ah okay, @slate swan is there also a method to reply to a thread? I want a moderator to be able to respond to a thread that a person has created.

[slate swan]

Wdym

[shy roost]

like is there a method so that a user that runs a command that replies to a thread, can pass a message argument to a method to automatically do that ?

like if I were to use a method to make a command pass a message onto a user who started a thread

[slate swan]

So you want the user that created the thread?

[slate swan]

you mean in the def message chain

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.send

await send(content=None, *, tts=None, embed=None, embeds=None, file=None, files=None, stickers=None, delete_after=None, nonce=None, allowed_mentions=None, reference=None, mention_author=None, view=None)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Sends a message to the destination with the content given.

The content must be a type that can convert to a string through `str(content)`. If the content is set to `None` (the default), then the `embed` parameter must be provided.

To upload a single file, the `file` parameter should be used with a single [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") object. To upload multiple files, the `files` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.9)") of [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

To upload a single embed, the `embed` parameter should be used with a single [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") object. To upload multiple embeds, the `embeds` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.9)") of [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

[shy roost]

no, I want another person, a moderator+, to be able to reply to the person who started the thread's thread. So if a user runs a command to start a thread in dms with the bot, that message will be passed onto the moderator/staff of that server, and the moderator can reply to that thread

that's my end goal, I could just copy some code from github, but I want to write this kind of stuff on my own, since I haven't work with d.py in ages lmao

[slate swan]

Oh i see

The moderator can just join that thread?

[shy roost]

is there a method for that?

[slate swan]

Yeah, he goes to the thread and clicks join 😂

[shy roost]

no, I want the mod to receive a dm with the message, and this way they can reply to the specific user through the bot, such as passing their message in dms with the bot, and the bot will then pass the message back to the user who sent the report.

that's the point of dms in moderation right? So you can report in private without others seeing your issue.

[slate swan]

You can't create threads in dms

[shy roost]

ah okay, so how can I achieve this end goal?

i might've seen wrong earlier on a os project on github, since I thought you had to create a thread in dms lmao

[slate swan]

Simply make it so whatever the user sends a message in the bot's dm it takes the message and sends it somewhere else, either in a staff channel or in a moderator's dms

ok well ... nevermind

[slate swan]

?

[shy roost]

ah okay, how can I send something in dms lmao. I think there might be a built-in method for that, but I can't remember lol

[slate swan]

As i already told the guy from earlier, .send on the member

[shy roost]

I don't think I have to check whether it's in dms or a public channel, since the user can decide that, and with bots that run on d.py's built-in ability to run their commands with someone calling them in cdms.

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.send

await send(content=None, *, tts=None, embed=None, embeds=None, file=None, files=None, stickers=None, delete_after=None, nonce=None, allowed_mentions=None, reference=None, mention_author=None, view=None)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Sends a message to the destination with the content given.

The content must be a type that can convert to a string through `str(content)`. If the content is set to `None` (the default), then the `embed` parameter must be provided.

To upload a single file, the `file` parameter should be used with a single [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") object. To upload multiple files, the `files` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.9)") of [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

To upload a single embed, the `embed` parameter should be used with a single [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") object. To upload multiple embeds, the `embeds` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.9)") of [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

[shy roost]

ah okay, thank you!

[slate swan]

Yw

[shy roost]

how can I check if a bot has received a dm?

that's where I'm kinda confused lmao

[slate swan]

Check if the channel is a dm channel

[shy roost]

and how can I do that?

[slate swan]

Using on_message

And isinstance

[shy roost]

ah okay

what instance would a dm message be?

[slate swan]

!d discord.DMChannel

[unkempt canyon]

discord.DMChannel

class discord.DMChannel```
Represents a Discord direct message channel.

x == y Checks if two channels are equal.

x != y Checks if two channels are not equal.

hash(x) Returns the channel’s hash.

str(x) Returns a string representation of the channel

[slate swan]

oh sorry i ment its fine

imma just rewrite my code

[shy roost]

ah okay, thank you!

[slate swan]

Yw

[slate swan]

Alr

[shy roost]

so in the on_message event, I can simply check for whether or not the message sent is a dm message, or a channel message right?

and if it's a dm message, I can run the command?

[slate swan]

Yeah

Wait you want it in a command?

[shy roost]

yeah

[slate swan]

Oh

[shy roost]

the report feature

[slate swan]

Then use ctx.channel

[wicked atlas]

There is also a check im pretty sure for if a command is run in a dm

[slate swan]

if isinstance(ctx.channel, discord.DMChannel):
   ...

[shy roost]

ah okay

couldn't I just do that in a command itself

[slate swan]

That's where you're doing it

[shy roost]

okay, let me give it a shot. I will tell you how it goes.

[wicked atlas]

!d discord.ext.commands.dm_only

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.dm\_only

@discord.ext.commands.dm_only()```
A [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.check "discord.ext.commands.check") that indicates this command must only be used in a DM context. Only private messages are allowed when using the command.

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

New in version 1.1.

[slate swan]

ok now that might help me

[shy roost]

ah okay, i think using a decarator would be more efficient

[shy roost]

do I have to define this in the command that I want the decorator to accept, or?

@wicked atlas

[wicked atlas]

Just import it, and then you can use checks on your command like this

@commands.command()
@dm_only()
async def my_command(ctx):
  ...```

Just make sure they go under the command() decorator

[kindred epoch]

huh

its @commands.dm_only()

[wicked atlas]

Well, unless you import the decorator

[shy roost]

after you import from discord.ext import commands

[wicked atlas]

But you could do that

[kindred epoch]

ohk

[shy roost]

never imported a decorator before, could you elaborate please?

[wicked atlas]

Well, that was poorly worded, I just meant you could do either of the following

from discord.ext.commands import dm_only

from discord.ext import commands
commands.dm_only()

[shy roost]

ah okay, that makes sense, thank you!

[slate swan]

@bot.command()
async def avatar(ctx, member : discord.Member = None):
    async with ctx.typing():
         await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
    if member == None:
        member = ctx.author
        memberavatar = member.avatar_url


        emb = discord.Embed(color=0x2f3136)
        emb.set_image(url = memberavatar)
        emb.set_author(name = f"{member.name}", icon_url = memberavatar)
        emb.timestamp = datetime.utcnow()

    await ctx.send(embed = emb)

how do I create an animation of a bot so that it type after the command await await asyncio.sleep(0.5) and after that it has already written the code itself.