discord-bots

[wary pollen]

U messed up indenting

So, could u give code

@slate swan

# Importações

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

# Clasificação de classes

class Geral(commands.Cog):
    """Comandos gerais"""

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

    # Exemplo de comando:
    @commands.command()
    async def test(self, ctx):
    embed=discord.Embed(title="Meu Criador", description="Sr abelha#5441", color=0xffdd00)
    embed.set_author(name="Meu Criador")
    embed.add_field(name="Sr abelha#5441", value="Youtube: Sr abelha", inline=False)
    embed.set_footer(text="Bee Comunity")
    await ctx.send(embed=embed)        

def setup(bot):
    bot.add_cog(Geral(bot))```

[slate swan]

don't care about language

[wary pollen]

Ok

Could u point out which is line 16

@slate swan

Gtg sry

[slate swan]

I Have this, How do I tell the program to delete 7 day old logs?

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    date = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('[%Y-%b-%d]')
    with open(f".\logs\{date}.txt", 'a') as f:
        f.write("\n" + f"{date} logs:" + "\n")

Ping me plz

not nearly related to dpy

help me

[slate swan]

help me too!

[slate swan]

#python-discussion

[slate swan]

#python-discussion

or #❓｜how-to-get-help

There are 2 people asking for help

answered both of them

[wary pollen]

Ez

After async

Add another indent

[slate swan]

Fix it for me and my mother is calling me to do homework

;--;

bruh

lost situation zarif

[hasty iron]

!d datetime.datetime.strptime

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.datetime.strptime

classmethod datetime.strptime(date_string, format)```
Return a [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") corresponding to *date\_string*, parsed according to *format*.

This is equivalent to:

```py
datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))
```  [`ValueError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#ValueError "ValueError") is raised if the date\_string and format can’t be parsed by [`time.strptime()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.strptime "time.strptime") or if it returns a value which isn’t a time tuple. For a complete list of formatting directives, see [strftime() and strptime() Behavior](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior).

[hasty iron]

use that and compare it to utcnow() or now()

[slate swan]

mhm?

[slate swan]

And?

forgot the "

after button.click

what's discord.components.client

isn't it discord_components

so you don't use discord.py at all?

then why don't u use that

discord.py

discord.ext.commands.Bot

what does that have to do with your current error

wait I just noticed

why are you calling event

there's no way the guy used @quaint axle.event() instead of @quaint axle.event

what error

you didn't finish the sentence

[final pumice]

what does context mean

[slate swan]

"discord.components.client" has no attribute

??

so then how did you define client

how did you use
client = ...

then you would get 'client' is not defined

just... how did you define client?

no, before the on_ready event

no, before that

!e

#string doesn't exist yet
print(mystring)
mystring = "Hello World!"

[unkempt canyon]

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

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
003 | NameError: name 'mystring' is not defined

[placid skiff]

client = discord.ext.commands.bot(prefix = your_prefix)

[slate swan]

yeah show that

[slate swan]

wrong?

[placid skiff]

Well no, but it isn't the best way to do that

[slate swan]

ofc it's wrong

client = discord.ext.commands.Bot(command_prefix = your_prefix)

[placid skiff]

Yes 😂

[slate swan]

then why don't you use @supple mortar

[placid skiff]

I use slash command so i don't use the prefix lol

[slate swan]

commands.Bot not commands.bot

also

[slate swan]

@slate swan

[placid skiff]

He doesn't have a bot object named bot, he has a bot object named client

[slate swan]

@placid skiff

[placid skiff]

BRUH HAHAHA he is right then

[slate swan]

thought so

@raven peak

[placid skiff]

You declare your Bot object as bot

So you have always to use @bot and not @client

[slate swan]

How do I make my bot speak through the command

I'm new to this group

I don't understand either

[slate swan]

A friend recommends this group to me.

yes

like send a text-to-speech message or say something in a voice channel?

what do you have already?

And like !say and Bot speaks tended?

And like !say test

And the Bot speaks Test

did you understand?

in a voice channel

[tough wagon]

how can i stretch the button to the whole line?
like this

[slate swan]

no idea about buttons

what's the problem aa_rav

well elaborate

nothing happens?

do you have an on_message by any chance?

hey hey, how to get the userid in a decorator??? I wanna do my own function, but since you can just get the context in it... how?

you wanna make a custom check?

yes

show code then

[slate swan]

well just pass ctx to the check

then use ctx.author.id

you didn't call command

but how if the crx is not defined (since its the decorator=

@raven peak not @bot.command

[dapper cobalt]

!customcheck

[unkempt canyon]

Custom Command Checks in discord.py

Often you may find the need to use checks that don't exist by default in discord.py. Fortunately, discord.py provides discord.ext.commands.check which allows you to create you own checks like this:

from discord.ext.commands import check, Context

def in_any_channel(*channels):
  async def predicate(ctx: Context):
    return ctx.channel.id in channels
  return check(predicate)

This check is to check whether the invoked command is in a given set of channels. The inner function, named predicate here, is used to perform the actual check on the command, and check logic should go in this function. It must be an async function, and always provides a single commands.Context argument which you can use to create check logic. This check function should return a boolean value indicating whether the check passed (return True) or failed (return False).

The check can now be used like any other commands check as a decorator of a command, such as this:

@bot.command(name="ping")
@in_any_channel(728343273562701984)
async def ping(ctx: Context):
  ...

This would lock the ping command to only be used in the channel 728343273562701984. If this check function fails it will raise a CheckFailure exception, which can be handled in your error handler.

[slate swan]

uhh

[tough wagon]

someone?

[slate swan]

I see ok ty

you're welcome

[dapper cobalt]

Try using invisible characters.

[tough wagon]

bruh okay

[slate swan]

send the full error

ctrl + v

yea rhanks

oof

[tough wagon]

\u200b and space not working...

[slate swan]

how i can make it ? how can I take such a nickname format with a digital one?

[tough wagon]

!d discord.Embed.set_author

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed.set\_author

set_author(*, name, url=Embed.Empty, icon_url=Embed.Empty)```
Sets the author for the embed content.

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

[slate swan]

if I use it {member.name} bot doesn't copy the user's digits

[tough wagon]

it is just member

!d discord.Member

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member

class discord.Member```
Represents a Discord member to a [`Guild`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Guild "discord.Guild").

This implements a lot of the functionality of [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.User "discord.User").

x == y Checks if two members are equal. Note that this works with [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.User "discord.User") instances too.

x != y Checks if two members are not equal. Note that this works with [`User`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.User "discord.User") instances too.

hash(x) Returns the member’s hash.

str(x) Returns the member’s name with the discriminator.

[tough wagon]

@slate swan

[slate swan]

and how do I get the bot to completely copy the nickname with the user's numbers?

[tough wagon]

so {str(member)} or just {member} cause fstring converts

[tough wagon]

str(bot.user)

[slate swan]

... Man thank you

[tough wagon]

np

[tough wagon]

SoMeOnE pls?

[maiden fable]

You can add some unicode spaces

\u200b

Just add this in the button content

[tough wagon]

@maiden fable

[maiden fable]

Yups, it's a hairline space

[tough wagon]

wdym, how should I use it bruh

[maiden fable]

Or just try adding simple spaces

[tough wagon]

@maiden fable I don't understand you, I just tryied \u200b and spaces it didnt work

[maiden fable]

Okay, soooo lemme ask someone else. Someone I saw somewhere did stretch the button

@tough wagon just try adding loads of \u200b chars...

[slate swan]

‍

[tough wagon]

_ _

[tough wagon]

how?

[slate swan]

hahaha

mortal

[maiden fable]

---

Hi

[unkempt canyon]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied mute to @slate swan until <t:1635014367:f> (9 minutes and 59 seconds) (reason: newlines rule: sent 16 consecutive newlines in 10s).

[maiden fable]

[tough wagon]

i finally found it - ⠀

[slate swan]

I bet u used a selfbot cuz when a bot sent embed msg u can remove the embed and it gon look like that

[maiden fable]

And what if I say u r wrong? Prove that he's using a self bot

[slate swan]

im just saying :3

[maiden fable]

Same (:

[slate swan]

[slate swan]

{member}

🌝

[tough wagon]

bruh

[slate swan]

rude

[silk mauve]

#discord-bots

Guys, how can I do that my bots writes in a embed emoji of my server

Like this one

[stable delta]

Wdym?

[silk mauve]

Like

This

[silk mauve]

Ah

[silk mauve]

Still doesnt work

Is that wrongß

?*

[maiden fable]

I don't think so

Uhhhhhh, I don't think u can have an emoji in title

Try doing in the description

[slate swan]

Emojis don't work in titles and footers

[maiden fable]

Yea thought so

[silk mauve]

alr

[slate swan]

Not custom emojis at least, stuff like 🤧 work tho

[maiden fable]

\🥲

[silk mauve]

ty

[maiden fable]

Ok discord broke

Or my phone is broke

[maiden fable]

See the emoji

[maiden fable]

Works?

[silk mauve]

No

[maiden fable]

Oh, hmm

Wait, I think it's a discord bug... Since dyno bot also experiences that

[dapper cobalt]

Does the bot have access to the emoji?

[maiden fable]

Dyno also has the same problem

[silk mauve]

It does, its a emoji of the server where the bot is in

Mhmm..

[lusty swallow]

oof

[strong kettle]

How do I find out who created the specific channel?

[maiden fable]

AuditLogs?

!d discord.AuditLogEntry

[unkempt canyon]

discord.AuditLogEntry

class discord.AuditLogEntry(*, users, data, guild)```
Represents an Audit Log entry.

You retrieve these via [`Guild.audit_logs()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Guild.audit_logs "discord.Guild.audit_logs").

x == y Checks if two entries are equal.

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

hash(x) Returns the entry’s hash.

Changed in version 1.7: Audit log entries are now comparable and hashable.

[slate swan]

Hey

[maiden fable]

Hi

[jade pebble]

how do I pass a image to my discord bot?

[maiden fable]

!local-file

[unkempt canyon]

Thanks to discord.py, sending local files as embed images is simple. You have to create an instance of discord.File class:

# When you know the file exact path, you can pass it.
file = discord.File("/this/is/path/to/my/file.png", filename="file.png")

# When you have the file-like object, then you can pass this instead path.
with open("/this/is/path/to/my/file.png", "rb") as f:
    file = discord.File(f)

When using the file-like object, you have to open it in rb mode. Also, in this case, passing filename to it is not necessary.
Please note that filename can't contain underscores. This is a Discord limitation.

discord.Embed instances have a set_image method which can be used to set an attachment as an image:

embed = discord.Embed()
# Set other fields
embed.set_image(url="attachment://file.png")  # Filename here must be exactly same as attachment filename.

After this, you can send an embed with an attachment to Discord:

await channel.send(file=file, embed=embed)

This example uses discord.TextChannel for sending, but any instance of discord.abc.Messageable can be used for sending.

[jade pebble]

I want the user to attach a image and then I want to download that image

[maiden fable]

!d discord.Asset.download

[unkempt canyon]

Noooooo!!

No documentation found for the requested symbol.

[maiden fable]

Wait what

!d discord.Asset.save

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Asset.save

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

Saves this asset into a file-like object.

[maiden fable]

There

[jade pebble]

thank you

[maiden fable]

And

!d discord.Message.attachments

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.attachments

A list of attachments given to a message.

[maiden fable]

This returns the list of discord.Asset objects

[jade pebble]

so ```python
@bot.command(brief='MF')
async def MF(ctx,attachment):
await ctx.send('pong')

[maiden fable]

Nah

ctx.message.attachments returns the list of discord.Attachment objects

[jade pebble]

ok

who would I do that?

[maiden fable]

?

[jade pebble]

how would I just download or get the url to the attached file?

[maiden fable]

Bro, I told u the whole way

Just loop through ctx.message.attachments and call the save method

[jade pebble]

ahh never mind

[maiden fable]

Cool

[silk mural]

can anyone help me run someone elses python bot

code is complete but i need a little help understanding it

[velvet crest]

i have a custom subclassed help cmd in a cog, is there any way i can use its functions in other cmds. for eg a user doesnt provide the right subcommands for a cmd so i could do like send cmd help for the context cmd

[hasty iron]

!d discord.ext.commands.Context.send_help

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Context.send\_help

await send_help(entity=<bot>)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Shows the help command for the specified entity if given. The entity can be a command or a cog.

If no entity is given, then it’ll show help for the entire bot.

If the entity is a string, then it looks up whether it’s a [`Cog`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Cog "discord.ext.commands.Cog") or a [`Command`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Command "discord.ext.commands.Command").

Note

Due to the way this function works, instead of returning something similar to [`command_not_found()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.HelpCommand.command_not_found "discord.ext.commands.HelpCommand.command_not_found") this returns `None` on bad input or no help command.

[velvet crest]

thanks dude ;D

[safe temple]

what are you guys using for bot development in python?

preferably a fork of discord.py

[kindred epoch]

!pypi disnake

[unkempt canyon]

disnake v2.1.4

A Python wrapper for the Discord API

[slate swan]

^^

[devout iris]

How can i set custom status?

[delicate flax]

What type of status?

[delicate flax]

await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Game("your coice"))

[devout iris]

Not game

Custom status

[delicate flax]

I think you can't

[delicate flax]

Yes I see

[devout iris]

i can but how can i do idk

[delicate flax]

I think you can't set a custom status of a bot

[devout iris]

i can

[delicate flax]

I don't know how so

[leaden jasper]

You cant

@devout iris https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60055037/how-make-custom-status-discord-py

see the top solution

[devout iris]

Ahh smh

Sorry :/

[delicate flax]

Do you know how to get attachment url?

[hasty iron]

!d discord.Attachment.url

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Attachment.url

The attachment URL. If the message this attachment was attached to is deleted, then this will 404.

[devout iris]

How can i set embed message?

[leaden jasper]

@bot.command()
async def a(ctx):
  print(ctx.message.attachments[0].url)
  # prints url of first attachment

[leaden jasper]

Editing an embed object or creating one?

[devout iris]

Create

[leaden jasper]

!d discord.Embed

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Embed

class discord.Embed(*, colour=Embed.Empty, color=Embed.Empty, title=Embed.Empty, type='rich', url=Embed.Empty, description=Embed.Empty, timestamp=None)```
Represents a Discord embed.

len(x) Returns the total size of the embed. Useful for checking if it’s within the 6000 character limit.

bool(b) Returns whether the embed has any data set.

New in version 2.0.

Certain properties return an `EmbedProxy`, a type that acts similar to a regular [`dict`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict "(in Python v3.9)") except using dotted access, e.g. `embed.author.icon_url`. If the attribute is invalid or empty, then a special sentinel value is returned, [`Embed.Empty`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Embed.Empty "discord.Embed.Empty").

For ease of use, all parameters that expect a [`str`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str "(in Python v3.9)") are implicitly casted to [`str`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str "(in Python v3.9)") for you.

[devout iris]

Can i do it without class?

[leaden jasper]

a class?

No that's the docs

you use that class

[delicate flax]

Thank you! (I forgot the [0]) 🙂

[devout iris]

Wait i will say details
Actually i want to send message as embed from bot

[unkempt canyon]

You are not allowed to use that command here. Please use the #bot-commands channel instead.

[hasty iron]

!d discord.abc.Messageable.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.abc.Messageable.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**.

[hasty iron]

embed kwarg which takes in an Embed object

[leaden jasper]

@bot.command()
async def a(ctx):

  # make embed object
  embed = discord.Embed(
    title = 'title',
    description = 'desc'
  )
  
  # send the embed
  await ctx.send(embed = embed)

[delicate flax]

Do you know why when my bot send an embed, there is a on_message_edit event?

[devout iris]

Ty but i cloudn't make it for ping

Can u help me

[delicate flax]

Do you want to ping someone?

[devout iris]

No

Bot's ping

[delicate flax]

ok wait a second

[devout iris]

alr

[delicate flax]

round(bot.latency*1000,1)

[slate swan]

Just do int(bot.latency*1000)

[devout iris]

To where?

in embed message

[slate swan]

Wherever you want to show it

[devout iris]

i cloudn't make it still pfffff

is this wrong?

[delicate flax]

is there an error?

[devout iris]

no

[kindred epoch]

Yes

[delicate flax]

you forgot the ,

after the title

[kindred epoch]

^

[delicate flax]

like this : title = "Pingim",

[devout iris]

when i use command

[delicate flax]

the ,

like this : title = "Pingim",

[devout iris]

aaahh not legacy a sec

lmao my bad

[delicate flax]

lol

[devout iris]

it is working now tysm

[slate swan]

hello! May anyone help me with components who knows a bit more about it?

I am currently trying to get button input and so far I'm getting the click event and after that something happens. Now I got 2 buttons and want to know: how to find out which button was pressed?

button_ctx: ComponentContext = await manage_components.wait_for_component(bot, components=action_row)

[torpid dew]

hi, what is wrong with this code, the discord bot should output an animated emoji, discord doesn't let me send the emoji id so it outputs :Fire:.

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
  if message == 'wfire':
    await message.send(":Fire:")

thanks

[slow fog]

@client.command()
async def cmd(ctx):
youremoji = client.get_emoji(786138532069900350) # problem was here
await ctx.send(youremoji) # instead of formatting string simply use variable name

[torpid dew]

oh, ok

TYSM

[slow fog]

its working?

[torpid dew]

can it be @client.event?

[slow fog]

i think

try and see

[torpid dew]

ok

@client.event
async def on_message(ctx):
  if ctx == 'wfire':
    await ctx.send(":Fire:")

didnt work

discord doesnt let me show the emoji id

but ik how to do it because i can do the add_reaction

[slow fog]

oh

[torpid dew]

did i do it right?

[slate swan]

client.process_commands(message)

[slow fog]

isnt it the same code above

im not sure

i think you have to put the emoji id

and send it as a variable name

[slate swan]

can anyone pls help 🥲

[slow fog]

tbh i have never tried the buttons before

[final pumice]

im new to discord bots

[slow fog]

Yes

[final pumice]

so, do I need somewhere to host the bot?

[slow fog]

Oooooooooo

well

[final pumice]

or do i just pass code to it and it runs as is

[slow fog]

do you want it for free?

[final pumice]

wym

[slow fog]

wdym exaclty

[final pumice]

like, lets say I make a bot

[slow fog]

yes

you have the code of the bot

[final pumice]

Does it use the computing power from my computer

Or like how does it work

[slow fog]

yes it can be

[final pumice]

But what if I don't want that

What do i do?

[slow fog]

then you have to find a hosting server

[final pumice]

What is that?

[slow fog]

from sites

There are sites that provide a host service for your bot

[torpid dew]

then why did it work for reactions???

[final pumice]

What do you do?

[slow fog]

hosting it on my computer

But the matter is different for you if you want to pay to subscribe or are looking for a free service but it is difficult to find a free service with all the required descriptions

[final pumice]

Does it take a lot of computing power to do?

[slow fog]

no

at all

[final pumice]

Okay, bc I do all of this on my laptop

[slow fog]

You can try and watch the usage

[final pumice]

And I don't want the bot to hinder my laptop's performance if I do host it on my computer

[slow fog]

well idk lol

[slow fog]

It does not consume much of your device

Try and see

[final pumice]

Okay, how do I host it on my computer?

[slow fog]

install the visual studio code

[final pumice]

I have that

[slow fog]

do you have the discord.py

[final pumice]

I know all the necessary things for Python. I am just learning the Discord API rn

[slow fog]

library

[final pumice]

Yes i do

[slow fog]

oh

now open the that have your disocrd bot code and run it

[final pumice]

Don't have any at the moment

[slow fog]

oh

[final pumice]

Do I just run it once i do?

And it will use my computer to host?

[slow fog]

you gonna run it once then its will be online but when you close the program or close your computer its gonna be offline

[slow fog]

yes

[final pumice]

Alright

One thing

[slow fog]

yes

[final pumice]

I heard some people use the cloud to host on

Does that work?

[slow fog]

ofc

yea

[final pumice]

And that's free?

[slow fog]

im not sure but most need to pay

[final pumice]

Alr thanks

[slow fog]

What I know is that there are two free services

replit: but it makes your bot code visible to everyone

[final pumice]

What's the other

[slow fog]

heroku: free and i dont think it will make your code visible to everyone and thats cool but its complicated

[final pumice]

Hm okay

Are there any paid hosting services that you know of that are good?

[slow fog]

let me see

there is many

[final pumice]

Do any of them stand out compared to what you have heard from others?

[slow fog]

oh the replit itself you can paid and make your code private

[final pumice]

Interesting

[slow fog]

yes maybe

The paid service is always integrated and without problems

[final pumice]

Alright thanks

[slow fog]

on replit

This service is paid in replit

and you can search for other sites

[final pumice]

Okay. Thanks a lot

This will help me very much

[slow fog]

welcome

[leaden jasper]

If you need to run your bot 24/7 (with no downtime), you should consider using a virtual private server (VPS).
This is a list of VPS services that are sufficient for running Discord bots.

https://www.scaleway.com/
Based in Europe.
https://www.digitalocean.com/
US-based.
Considered by many to be the gold standard.
Locations available across the world.
https://www.ovh.co.uk/
France and Canadian locations available.
https://www.time4vps.eu/
Seemingly based in Lithuania.
https://www.linode.com/
Cheap VPS.
https://www.vultr.com/
US-based, DigitalOcean-like.
https://galaxygate.net/
A reliable, affordable, and trusted host.

There are no reliable free options for VPS hosting. If you would rather not pay for a hosting service, you can consider self-hosting. Any modern hardware should be sufficient for running a bot. An old computer with a few GB of ram could be suitable, or a Raspberry Pi (any model, except perhaps one of the particularly less powerful ones).

[next vapor]

How would you get someones discord username from id

[final pumice]

Yes, but what if I want to take commissions to make bots

Wouldn't a hosting service be better than using my computer?

Also, thank you for that entire list

Very much appreciated

[slow fog]

async def "yours" (ctx, user: discord.Member)

[final pumice]

Also @slow fog

I found this thing in repl.it which gives you repl.it pro for free with the Student Development Package

[slow fog]

maybe faster but not that much

[slow fog]

oh

[final pumice]

I am going to try to do that since I am currently enrolled

I sent an application to GitHub

For the package

[slow fog]

cool

[slow fog]

example
@client.command()
@commands.has_permissions(kick_members=True)
async def kick(ctx, user: discord.Member):
await user.kick()

gonna kick the user from his id too

[next vapor]

No like

I have someones ID and i wanna get their discord username

[leaden jasper]

The problems with the free 24/7 hosting options are

Replit:
• Code is public
• Shared servers so if someone else's bot gets ratelimited yours will be too
• Random restarts

Heroku:
• runs for 21 days/month without credit card registration

@final pumice

[next vapor]

i tried using bot.get_user() but that returns nothing

[leaden jasper]

let your customer handle hosting

[final pumice]

That sounds like a good idea

[slow fog]

have you tried mine

try

[leaden jasper]

str(id) i think

[final pumice]

But let's say they want to host it on their computer

I would have to give them the code, right?

@leaden jasper

[leaden jasper]

Yes

[slow fog]

wait ohh

I just understood

lol

[leaden jasper]

str(bot.get_user(id))

[slow fog]

he want his name

[leaden jasper]

and id is 288098711400218624 for example

[slow fog]

oh

[next vapor]

@bot.command()
async def verify(ctx, ign):
    id = ctx.author.id
    print(id)
    discordHash = bot.get_user(str(id))
    print(discordHash)

If i run this and do the command the ID is outputted but discordHash returns as None

Ohh

Also yeah i didnt inclue the await ctx send but that was irrelevnat

[slow fog]

sus

[next vapor]

that still returns None

[slow fog]

lol

i think this one

user = bot.get_user(user_id)

try

[next vapor]

alr

says the user_id isnt a thing

[slow fog]

put user: discord.Member above

with the ctx

[leaden jasper]

@next vapor str(ctx.author)

to get [Blaze]#9457

[next vapor]

Ohhh ok

[slow fog]

@bot.command()
async def verify(ctx, ign, user: discord.Member):
id = ctx.author.id
print(id)
discordHash = bot.get_user(str(id))
print(discordHash)

no wait

[next vapor]

Alright that worked thanks

[slow fog]

which kne

[next vapor]

imps

[slow fog]

one*

[boreal osprey]

@bot.command()
async def slowmode(ctx, seconds: int):
    await channel.edit(slowmode_delay=seconds)
    await ctx.send(f"Slowmode delay set to {seconds} seconds.")

[slow fog]

@client.command()
@commands.has_permissions(manage_channels=True)
async def setdelay(ctx, seconds: int):
await ctx.channel.edit(slowmode_delay=seconds)

[slow fog]

await ctx.channel.edit(slowmode_delay=seconds)

[boreal osprey]

ye i saw

[slow fog]

the ctx.channel.edit

[boreal osprey]

damn

[slow fog]

go and try await ctx.channel.edit(slowmode_delay=seconds)

[boreal osprey]

i alr fixed my code

[leaden jasper]

!d discord.TextChannel.edit

[unkempt canyon]

discord.TextChannel.edit

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

Edits the channel.

You must have the [`manage_channels`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.Permissions.manage_channels "discord.Permissions.manage_channels") permission to use this.

Changed in version 1.3: The `overwrites` keyword-only parameter was added.

Changed in version 1.4: The `type` keyword-only parameter was added.

Changed in version 2.0: Edits are no longer in-place, the newly edited channel is returned instead.

[leaden jasper]

@boreal osprey

[boreal osprey]

i alr fixed it

[indigo forum]

how do i

give a specific role to a user

temporarily

like a mute

for a specific specified time: 1 minute

[leaden jasper]

@indigo forum You need to save the timestamp preferably in a database and have a task that checks if the time is up periodically to remove the role

[indigo forum]

uhh no thanks i prefer basic mute

[stable delta]

well there is a more basic way, however it stops working after the code is refreshed

[indigo forum]

what

what does after the code is refreshed mean

[stable delta]

after giving the person the role, await asyncio.sleep(x) for the time given

[leaden jasper]

when you restart the bot i guess

[stable delta]

and after that line just remove the role

[indigo forum]

then

wait what

i got an email from deezer to reset my pass

[slate swan]

okay?

[indigo forum]

do you know when did i request the pass reset?

a lot of hours ago

this mornng

rn its 1:58 am

here

[leaden jasper]

Maybe their website was down

and came back up just now

[indigo forum]

talking about the bot...

[leaden jasper]

your bot is deezer?

[indigo forum]

uhh what woud be the entire thing

[indigo forum]

no, my bot is rickroll detector

and mutes for 1 minute to who sent the rickroll

[leaden jasper]

pretty boring

[indigo forum]

but the mute not implemented yet

[indigo forum]

what

well

what i wanna do is:

• check if the role "muted" exsists

  • if not, create it

• give the role to the user

and then

convert that to python code

[leaden jasper]

Is that all your bot is going to do?

[indigo forum]

no

also say

rickroll alert

[leaden jasper]

what the text "rickroll alert"?

[indigo forum]

⚠️ Rickroll Alert

[leaden jasper]

Anything else

[indigo forum]

uhh no

[leaden jasper]

when does it say that then?

[indigo forum]

when rickroll is detected

[leaden jasper]

are u making the bot for fun?

[indigo forum]

... not really

[leaden jasper]

so it's serious

[indigo forum]

more or less

yeah

but

i got an idea

[leaden jasper]

how do you plan to host it

i mean a lot of effort for a bot that just detects rickrolls...

[indigo forum]

anyways i got an idea for the bot

[leaden jasper]

that is only 21 days per month without cc registration

[indigo forum]

that you can use /report to send me an email with the link using another email

[indigo forum]

I. do. not. care.

[leaden jasper]

The bot will go offline in the last week of the month.

[indigo forum]

i said

I. DO. NOT. CARE.

[leaden jasper]

soo you dont want the bot to be online?

...

[indigo forum]

yes

99% of the month online

[leaden jasper]

i said you dont want*

a negative

[indigo forum]

what.

[leaden jasper]

You answered "yes"

but contradicted that yes in your next message

So I'm confused.

[indigo forum]

no

the yes contradicted the no in your message

[leaden jasper]

My message was a question

not a statement

[indigo forum]

i know

[indigo forum]

i didn't say that bruh

and

[leaden jasper]

You cant contradict a question

only answer it

[indigo forum]

ok

forget

[leaden jasper]

done

[indigo forum]

now

2 things to add to the bot

-make a "muted" role if it doesnt exist - ensure that the muted role has not admin related perms and admin perm and it doesnt have permission to send messages - add it to the user for 1 minute
-add a /report command so the bot uses an email and a password to email my alt email account with a brand new rickroll link (fake videos)
-the bot double checks it has admin permissions, otherwise, it automatically leaves the server

[leaden jasper]

You also need to consider if the bot has permission to create and manage roles as well

[indigo forum]

OAuth does the job for the bot.

[leaden jasper]

They could edit the url and mess up the permissions

but i guess it doesnt crash ur bot so dw about it

It's going to flood you with errors though if someone finds out how

[indigo forum]

edited: 3 features to add

[leaden jasper]

rickroll bot with admin pwrmissions!?

[indigo forum]

ANTI rickroll bot

[leaden jasper]

I don't think anyone sane would invite this bot to their server

[indigo forum]

uhh

[leaden jasper]

aside from test servers

Why does it need admin!!!

[indigo forum]

Will you help me or discuss everything I say?

[leaden jasper]

both i guess

I'm just pointing out that you won't get that many invites if your bot requires admin permission

[indigo forum]

can you translate this to human languag ?
message.guild.roles.cache.get('ROLE-ID').members.map(m=>m.user.id);

[leaden jasper]

I have never heard of cache.get

[indigo forum]

oh wait

[visual island]

its js

[leaden jasper]

is that old code?

[indigo forum]

v12

[leaden jasper]

o

[indigo forum]

sorry i searched for js instead of py

this?

discord.utils.get(guild.roles,name="Supporter")

[visual island]

sure

[indigo forum]

but

how can i check if

that is true or false

and

how to implement it in my bot

[visual island]

this will return None if role is not found

so check if its None

[indigo forum]

but

how

wait

!e ```py
discord.utils.get(guild.roles,name="Supporter")

[unkempt canyon]

@indigo forum :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 'discord' is not defined

[visual island]

if discord.utils.get(...) is None

[leaden jasper]

import discord

You cant test here actually

[indigo forum]

!e ```py
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
discord.utils.get(guild.roles,name="Supporter")

[unkempt canyon]

@indigo forum :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
003 | ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord'

[slate swan]

why am I getting this error with bot.run on windows but not linux

Exception ignored in: <function _ProactorBasePipeTransport.__del__ at 0x000002A1B4FCA790>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\asyncio\proactor_events.py", line 116, in __del__
    self.close()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\asyncio\proactor_events.py", line 108, in close
    self._loop.call_soon(self._call_connection_lost, None)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 746, in call_soon
    self._check_closed()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 510, in _check_closed
    raise RuntimeError('Event loop is closed')
RuntimeError: Event loop is closed```

[hollow agate]

@client.command()
async def timestamp(ctx):
    x = datetime.now()
    timestamp = x.timestamp()
    await ctx.send(f'<t:{timestamp}:t>')``` How can I round the timestamp? It doesn't work with decimals for whatever reason.

[indigo forum]

wait

[visual island]

you're trying to close it?

[indigo forum]

why do you put :t at the end

[slate swan]

no?

[hollow agate]

You need to, yes?

[visual island]

python has a bug with proactor thing on windows

[indigo forum]

um... no

[visual island]

so?

[hollow agate]

Wat

[slate swan]

so why do I get that error ?

[visual island]

show your code

[leaden jasper]

Is your bot for other servers or just your server?

[visual island]

int(timestamp)

[slate swan]

wait nevermind I fixed it im literally stupid I made token a string which interfered with my error catching

[leaden jasper]

because if its a public bot, you should use a db to store the muted roles for each server

@indigo forum

[indigo forum]

no need of storing them, just make them if they dont exist, ensure the correct perms, assign them, wait for 1 minute and unassign them

[visual island]

just use asyncio.sleep

[hollow agate]

Thank you!

[leaden jasper]

are u using await asyncio.sleep(x) method?

[leaden jasper]

that breaks when he restarts the bot

which is a lot since he uses heroku

[indigo forum]

i didnt implement the add role yet but yeah i use asyncio sleep

[leaden jasper]

they restart every 24 hours

[visual island]

oh, that's a problem then

[indigo forum]

what.

[hollow agate]

db = await aiosqlite.connect('database.db')
    cursor = await db.execute('SELECT time_expired FROM bans')
    a = await cursor.fetchall()
    for row in a:
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
        #print(row[0])
        stored_timestamp = row[0]
        if row[0] <= DT.datetime.now().timestamp():
            muted = discord.utils.get(guild.guild.roles, name="Muted")``` So, I'm storing `time_expired` and `user_ids` in a database. How can I get the `user_ids` where the `muted` role is defined?

Wait- probably a question for #databases

[indigo forum]

get user_ids from database

xdddd

[hollow agate]

How can I do that in my instance? It has to match up with the right row[0].

[indigo forum]

i dont know

[leaden jasper]

If you're using heroku to host your bot for free, they will restart your bot once a day so your timed mutes with asyncio.sleep(x) will break

so you should store timestamps in a database

[pliant gulch]

Keep in mind since heroku uses an ephemeral file system you will be required to use a database that isn't hosted on heroku

As it will reset all the data after reset

[hollow agate]

role1 = discord.utils.get(message.guild.roles, name='Members') Very dumb question, but how can I use this in a task loop (I defined the guild as guild)

[leaden jasper]

!d discord.ext.tasks.loop @hollow agate

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.tasks.loop

discord.ext.tasks.loop(*, seconds=..., minutes=..., hours=..., time=..., count=None, reconnect=True, loop=...)```
A decorator that schedules a task in the background for you with optional reconnect logic. The decorator returns a [`Loop`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/tasks/index.html#discord.ext.tasks.Loop "discord.ext.tasks.Loop").

[indigo forum]

restart bot why?

[leaden jasper]

@indigo forum its their policy i guess

[indigo forum]

oh and

i know its possible to host a discord.js bot in a website

i mean

inside the website

[hollow agate]

It's a free service and they transfer your hoster quite often-- get a vps or a cheap hosting

[indigo forum]

not giving money

not even a cent

[hollow agate]

You will need to learn databases xd

I use a hosting that's like $2 for 3 months and never restarts. lol

[indigo forum]

i said

no pay

but

anyways

uhh

how do i code the database

[hollow agate]

Go watch a youtube tutorial, there's quite a few databases you can choose from

SQLite is the easiest for me and generally the easiest.

cursor = await db.execute('DELETE FROM warns WHERE time_expired=?', (row[0], ))``` How can I make it just delete the time_expired data and not the whole row/column?

[pliant gulch]

[indigo forum]

uhh probably this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9DzfPJsP2s

[hollow agate]

That's part 5... go get a part 1 xD

[pliant gulch]

This won't persist the data

As again, heroku has an ephemeral file system

[hollow agate]

True, you're gonna need to host a database somehwere else

[indigo forum]

uhh no because part 5 means part 5 of the bot in general

[hollow agate]

Then go figure it out.

[indigo forum]

how about github private repo

[hollow agate]

I don't know nor care-- figure it out xd

[pliant gulch]

github is not a server

[indigo forum]

and?

[pliant gulch]

And how are you supposed to host a database on there?

[indigo forum]

uhh

[hollow agate]

cursor = await db.execute('DELETE FROM warns WHERE time_expired=?', (row[0], ))``` How can I make it just delete just the `time_expired` data and not the whole row/column?

[indigo forum]

rename the database to repo i guess

[pliant gulch]

I still don't see how that solves the problem

[indigo forum]

cursor = await db.execute('DELETE FROM warns WHERE =?', (row[0], ))

[hollow agate]

Uhhh

I'm not sure that's how SQLite databases work

[leaden jasper]

ur suposed to give the solutions not the ones asking for help

[pliant gulch]

???

[indigo forum]

where is it possible to host a sqlite database?

for free

[hollow agate]

You can't connect to a sqlite externally

[leaden jasper]

@indigo forum just use heroku's database

[indigo forum]

how

[pliant gulch]

You can, there are some services out there for that

[indigo forum]

how

[hollow agate]

I mean, yeah, I reckon you could

[leaden jasper]

under add ons

search for Heroku Postgres

[indigo forum]

postgreSQL

[leaden jasper]

free plan

Row Limit10,000

Storage Capacity1 GB

that's all you need for a rickroll bot

[leaden jasper]

Yes

[indigo forum]

ANTI RICKROLL

NOT RICKROLL

and

btw do i have to add the heroku postgres to the heroku app itself or make another one?

[leaden jasper]

it doesnt matter

[indigo forum]

ok

https://i.imgur.com/E371hsn.png

[leaden jasper]

Make sure the database exists somewhere, get the credentials to connect to the database

[indigo forum]

the database exist where?

[leaden jasper]

Imgur?

cant you attach files?

screenshots*

[indigo forum]

https://data.heroku.com/datastores/220beb19-ab7c-4e6e-89ce-484e5ce5d16a

this is mine i guess

oh

i found credentials

with my super 🧠

[shy roost]

yo guys, how can I check if a specific user receiving a message has the permission to do so? I'm making a report feature for a moderation bot, and I would like to make it so that when the bot sends the report message to the person the person who used the command wanted to, that person has to have admin perms first.

[covert igloo]

Add a check

[pliant gulch]

The user if in a guild, has a guild_permissions attribute which, you then access the administrator attribute of that

[pliant gulch]

!d discord.Member.guild_permissions

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.guild\_permissions

property guild_permissions: discord.permissions.Permissions```
Returns the member’s guild permissions.

This only takes into consideration the guild permissions and not most of the implied permissions or any of the channel permission overwrites. For 100% accurate permission calculation, please use [`abc.GuildChannel.permissions_for()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#discord.abc.GuildChannel.permissions_for "discord.abc.GuildChannel.permissions_for").

This does take into consideration guild ownership and the administrator implication.

[indigo forum]

ill make a group for helping me cause a lot more people needs help and i wanna do this as quick as i can

ill add friends

accept the request

[leaden jasper]

add this decorator

@commands.has_permissions(administrator = true)

[shy roost]

wait so can I just do this: ```py
if staff.guild_permissions() == "administrator":
do something

nevermind, figured it out. Thank you guys !

[leaden jasper]

!d discord.ext.commands.has_permissions

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.has\_permissions

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

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

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

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

[leaden jasper]

use the decorator if you dont want to use the if statement

makes things neater, less indents

[pliant gulch]

If a specific user receiving a message has the permissions to do

[slate swan]

any1 know why theres a red line?

[pliant gulch]

This implies to me that its a target which they are checking the perms of, although I could be wrong

[shy roost]

ah okay, thank you!

[leaden jasper]

no why would they check if the receiver has admin perms

they meant for themselves using the command

[pliant gulch]

For an example, checking hierarchy before muting someone. Checking if someone isn't admin before warning them, etc lol

[leaden jasper]

they are using a report system/dm support im guessing

[pliant gulch]

Seems like it, which is why I said this

[leaden jasper]

which doesnt make sense.

[shy roost]

@commands.command()
    async def report(self, ctx, message: str, staff: discord.Member):
        if staff.guild_permissions.administrator or staff.guild_permissions.moderator:
            await staff.send(message)
            embed = discord.Embed()
            embed.add_field(name="⠀", value="Message successfully sent!")
            await ctx.send(embed=embed)
        else:
            embed = discord.Embed()
            embed.add_field(name="Oops!",value="Message could not be sent, as the person you tried to send it to, is not a staff member.")
            await ctx.send(embed=embed)

[pliant gulch]

So I was right

[indigo forum]

c u tomorrow ||@leaden jasper@pliant gulch@hollow agate||

[pliant gulch]

guild_permissions.moderator?

[shy roost]

i'm trying to make a report command, where someone can submit a message into the command as a parameter, then the bot will dm the message to a moderator, why isn't this working, and I made a server for me and my friend to test this and he is an admin, but i'm getting a forbidden error saying I can't send messages to them, but i'm the server owner?

[pliant gulch]

That isn't a valid permission

[shy roost]

lol, idk

[pliant gulch]

The guild_permissions.administrator part is correct though

[leaden jasper]

!SendDM andy Hello.

you're saying you need to check if andy has admin permissions present which is redundant.

whereas i'm saying in order to use the command !senddm you need admin permissions which makes sense

[pliant gulch]

Look at the command they just sent 😂

[shy roost]

yeah, how can I make it so that the bot will create a dm with the person specified as a parameter in the command, and dm the message that the user who was reporting something said?

[leaden jasper]

they're vague

[pliant gulch]

Well, staff is a discord.Member instance, so you can use send method of it

!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]

but I want to make it so that any user who wants to report something, and I want them to be able to only send to mods, since why would I want anyone else to see the reports?

[pliant gulch]

"If a specific user receiving a message has the permissions to do"

[shy roost]

I'm already doing ```py
staff.send(message)

[pliant gulch]

receiving, idk sounds pretty specific

[pliant gulch]

Its a coroutine

So you need to await it

[shy roost]

i did

[pliant gulch]

Ok then that should work

[shy roost]

I did py await staff.send(message)

[pliant gulch]

It is*

Yea just saw that part

[shy roost]

yeah, but it's still saying that I can't send the report message to my friend who's an admin in my server, even though i'm the server owner lmao

[leaden jasper]

Normally dm support systems redirect messages to a channel for all staff to see. His system is inefficient because if a staff member is busy/offline/afk you won't know and you need to run the command multiple times for other staff members

[shy roost]

returning a 403 forbidden error, which I suppose means that I don't have permission to do something.

[pliant gulch]

That doesn't make any sense here, are you sure its erroring from this command?

Oh wait,

make sure the person you are trying to DM Has DM's on

[shy roost]

how about this. how can I make it so that I can just make the bot automatically start a dm channel with every mod and dm this message to them?

[shy roost]

ah okay, they could have that turned off in privacy and safety I assume.

[pliant gulch]

Sounds quite spammy I would just do await staff.send

[pliant gulch]

Yea, but you should consider handling that error

try-except will do

[shy roost]

ah okay, and just specify a staff member (preferably one that's online)?

[pliant gulch]

Yea

[shy roost]

ah yeah, just thought of that lol

like this: ```py
try:
staff.send(message)
except Forbidden:
await ctx.send("The staff member you wanted to send the message to, has dms turned off!")

[pliant gulch]

Yes

[shy roost]

alright, let me give that a shot

[pliant gulch]

Assuming Forbidden is discord.Forbidden

[slate swan]

@pliant gulch whats the difference between else and expect

im confused abt tht

[pliant gulch]

Else goes with an if statement/ elif statement

Does what the word means,

Except goes with a try statement

[slate swan]

ohhh shit

[pliant gulch]

It will try the code, then except an error

[slate swan]

now i understand

[pliant gulch]

If the error is received it handles it

[shy roost]

yep

[slate swan]

ty dude!

[pliant gulch]

👍

[shy roost]

@pliant gulch really basic question, I have the bot working, but I can only set the parameter message to be only one word, otherwise it sets whatever the word after the first word is, to be the staff parameter, how can I fix this?

[pliant gulch]

You will have to change around your function signature a bit

[shy roost]

maybe **kwargs?

[pliant gulch]

You can use the * which in discord.py consumes rest

[shy roost]

ah okay

[pliant gulch]

I.e (arg1, *, args)

[shy roost]

wait so I should delete the message parameter and put *?

[pliant gulch]

Args will be able to take however many words

Whilst arg1 can only take one

[pliant gulch]

Hence consuming rest

[shy roost]

ah okay, so I should put "*" in place of the "message" parameter?

how will the bot know when to count the input as a staff parameter?

[vague zealot]

!unsubscribe

[pliant gulch]

Should be (staff: discord.Member, *, message: str)

Which is why I said you will need to rearrange the signature

[shy roost]

ah okay, so the * should go before whatever it wants to consume the rest of?

[pliant gulch]

Yes

[shy roost]

ah okay, that's really nice, thank you for the clarification.

[pliant gulch]

Keep in mind due to the nature of the asteriks in discordpy means, arguments that use it have to be at the end of a command signature

So for here you pass staff first, then the message

[shy roost]

ah okay, so the parameter that it is consuming, has to be the last parameter in the commands signature right?

[pliant gulch]

Yes

[shy roost]

ah okay, and I can just call the message parameter as normal right?

same as before right?

[pliant gulch]

Same as before, but staff has to be given before it

But with it you can pass multiple words

[shy roost]

yep, that makes sense, let me test it out. thank you again for your help, I will definitely ask you if i need more help, if that's okay with you.

[pliant gulch]

Sure

[shy roost]

@pliant gulch is there a way I can make an automute command? like check between a start time, and the end time, and how many messages they sent throughout the time period, and give them a muted role if they do exceed a limit?

[pliant gulch]

Uh yes there is a very easy way to make a mute with a tempmute system

[shy roost]

how can I do so?

[pliant gulch]

That is if you know tasks, and understand how to do databases

[shy roost]

nevermind, i don't

i'll figure it out later

[pliant gulch]

Do you know some SQL?

Or have you setup a database before

[shy roost]

do you know how I could make a command that can execute codeblocks that are passed to it?

[shy roost]

nope, heard of it before, never worked with it before.

[shy roost]

nope, never.

using the exec() function?

and providing tracebacks for errors that occur?

[pliant gulch]

https://github.com/an-dyy/0x42/blob/a69d77e3acb901e317f1ec4f476c7992be7e0347/schema.sql#L12-L17 https://github.com/an-dyy/0x42/blob/master/src/exts/mod.py If you ever decide to learn heres mine which you can reference

[pliant gulch]

And yes you would use exec for the codeblock thing

Uhh idk how easy it will be to explain but

Exec can take a dictionary, this is where you put variables in that you want to be able to reference

You then want to create a str and pass that to exec beforehand the dictionary which is your function

i.e ```py
exec(f"async def eval():\n{code}")

[shy roost]

and I would pass their code in the "code" parameter?

[pliant gulch]

Then you can pass your dictionary of variables

[pliant gulch]

Well, I skipped a few steps

first you need to clean up the codeblocks

You can do this via strip

As the parameter will look like tildas

!e py codeblock = "code stuff```"
print(codeblock.strip("`"))

[unkempt canyon]

@pliant gulch :x: Your eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "<string>", line 1
002 |     codeblock = "
003 |                 ^
004 | SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)

[pliant gulch]

ah I can't do it on discord

[shy roost]

damn okay

could you just give an example of a basic code being passed to the command, in the form of a dictionary, and that should help me better understand the meaning of what you are trying to say.

[pliant gulch]

So now that codeblock is cleaned up, you can pass this to this

replacing code

[pliant gulch]

!d exec

[unkempt canyon]

exec

exec(object[, globals[, locals]])```
This function supports dynamic execution of Python code. *object* must be either a string or a code object. If it is a string, the string is parsed as a suite of Python statements which is then executed (unless a syntax error occurs). [1](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#id2) If it is a code object, it is simply executed. In all cases, the code that’s executed is expected to be valid as file input (see the section “File input” in the Reference Manual). Be aware that the [`nonlocal`](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#nonlocal), [`yield`](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#yield), and [`return`](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#return) statements may not be used outside of function definitions even within the context of code passed to the [`exec()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#exec "exec") function. The return value is `None`.

Similar names: 2to3fixer.exec

[pliant gulch]

Keep in mind you very much want to make sure this command can only be ran by you

!d discord.ext.commands.is_owner

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.is\_owner

@discord.ext.commands.is_owner()```
A [`check()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.check "discord.ext.commands.check") that checks if the person invoking this command is the owner of the bot.

This is powered by [`Bot.is_owner()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/master/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.is_owner "discord.ext.commands.Bot.is_owner").

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

[pliant gulch]

Use this decorator and then it will only allow you to run the command

[pliant gulch]

as it can be dangerous

[shy roost]

how?

[pliant gulch]

Well someone can remove all the files from your computer/where you host the bot

[shy roost]

damn okay

[pliant gulch]

or any other thing that can be executed by code

[shy roost]

I can just make it so that only people with admin perms

can run it, this way not only me can run it, but people who I trust

[pliant gulch]

If you trust your admins enough sure ig

[shy roost]

okay, let me try to write this command

[pliant gulch]

You just need to use has_permissions and pass in administrator=True

[shy roost]

ah okay, also, what do you mean here?

[shy roost]

^^

[pliant gulch]

The the example where I reference exec, I used an fstring

There it uses the variable code

[shy roost]

ah okay, I understand.

[pliant gulch]

👍

[pulsar shell]

Hey Andy,

[pliant gulch]

hi sleep

[shy roost]

can I use try-except to simply use ```py
except Exception as e:
say something

[pliant gulch]

Uh

[shy roost]

in case the evaluated code returns errors?

[pliant gulch]

You could ig

[shy roost]

are there other ways?

[pliant gulch]

Yea, you can use traceback module to format the exception and send that back to discord

[pliant gulch]

Although this isn't the final step

[shy roost]

could you give an example? (sorry, i just have never used some of the things that you are mentioning lol)

[shy roost]

what would be the next step from there?

[pliant gulch]

It would look like exec(f"async def eval():\n{code}, variables) then afterwards you would do await variables["eval"]()

variables being the dictionary of variables you made

which can be referenced in the codeblocks

i.e if I had py variables = {"stuff": 1} I could then reference it in the codeblock via stuff

[shy roost]

yeah, i don't think i'm going to do all those steps if they aren't necessary to make a very basic evaluate command, since that's all I want for now, since I have other things to work on lol

@pliant gulch how could I use the traceback module to format any errors returned from the command user's code?

[pliant gulch]

!d traceback.format_exc

[unkempt canyon]

traceback.format\_exc

traceback.format_exc(limit=None, chain=True)```
This is like `print_exc(limit)` but returns a string instead of printing to a file.

[pliant gulch]

Import traceback and use this

[shy roost]

do I have to pass anything to it or just that?

[pliant gulch]

You just call it and it should capture any errors iirc

Then it returns a string

[shy roost]

ah okay, let me try it out

@pliant gulch py @commands.command(aliases=["e", "eval"]) async def evaluate(self, ctx, *, code): codeblock = f"{code}```"
end_code = codeblock.strip("`")
evaluated_result = exec(f"async def eval():\n{end_code}")
captured_errors = traceback.format_exc(limit=None, chain=True)
embed = discord.Embed()
embed.add_field(name="Code evaluation finished!", value=f"{captured_errors}")
await ctx.send(embed=embed)

tried this code, and I got a indention error

[pliant gulch]

indention error where exactly?

[shy roost]

the traceback is leading to this line: ```py
evaluated_result = exec(f"async def eval():\n{end_code}")

[pliant gulch]

Hmmm I don't see a problem here? Can you print end_code

[shy roost]

okay

[pliant gulch]

ah wait

I know

Its because the codeblock after cleaned, the code is not indented

[shy roost]

LMAO

I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

[pliant gulch]

I think you need textwrap.indent for that

[shy roost]

okay, I just realized that i was outputting the captured errors i got, not the result

[shy roost]

where should I put this?

[pliant gulch]

You will need to redefine end_code and assign to to textwrap.indent(end_code, prefix="\t")

[shy roost]

so replace what I currently have assigned to end_code and replace it with what you said?

[pliant gulch]

Well, you can do end_code = what you had originally

then under that redefine it as end_code = textwrap.indent(end_code, prefix="\t")

[slate swan]

How do you use jumpurls

[pliant gulch]

Or just call textwrap.indent on strip

[shy roost]

i'm just going to the first option, since that seems more clear to me.

@pliant gulch after calling this variable: ```py
evaluated_result = exec(f"async def eval():\n{end_code}")

in this line: ```py
embed.add_field(name="Code evaluation finished!", value=f"{evaluated_result}")

[pliant gulch]

[slate swan]

How do you make these

Jump urls

[shy roost]

wait so I would have to do this?

[slate swan]

yo so im making a giveaway bot

and the giveaway section works

but the reoll bit doesnt

    pos = ["s","m","h","d"]
    time_dict = {"s" : 1, "m" : 60, "h" : 3600, "d" : 3600*24}
    unit = time[-1]
    if unit not in pos:
        return -1
    try:
        val = int(time[:-1])
    except:
        return -2
    
    return val * time_dict[unit]

@bot.command()
@commands.has_role('👑CEO👑')
async def giveaway(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Lets start with this giveaway! Answer these questions within 15 seconds! ")
    questions = ["Which channel should it be hosted in? ",
                            "What should be the duration of the giveaway?  (s|m|h|d)",
                            "What is the prize of the giveaway?"]
    answers = []
    def check(m):
        return m.author == ctx.author and m.channel == ctx.channel
    for i in questions:
        await ctx.send(i)
        try:
            msg = await bot.wait_for('message', timeout = 15.0, check = check)
        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
            await ctx.send('You didn\'t answer in time, please be quicker next time!')
            return
        else:
            answers.append(msg.content)
    try:
        c_id = int(answers[0][2:-1])
    except:
        await ctx.send(f"You didnt mention a channel properly. Do it like this {ctx.channel.mention} next time.")
    channel = bot.get_channel(c_id)
    time = convert(answers[1])
    if time == -1:
        await ctx.send(f"You didn't answer the time with a proper unit. Use (s|m|h|d) next time!")
        return
    elif time == -2:
        await ctx.send(f"The time must be an integer. Please enter an integer next time.")
        return
    prize = answers[2]
    await ctx.send(f"The giveaway will be in {channel.mention} and will last {answers[1]} seconds!")
    embed = discord.Embed(title = "Giveaway!", description = f"{prize}", color = 0xA5FF1C)
    embed.add_field(name = "Hosted by: ", value = ctx.author.mention)
    embed.set_footer(text = f"Ends {answers[1]} from now on!")
    my_msg = await channel.send(embed=embed)
    await my_msg.add_reaction("🎉")
    await asyncio.sleep(time)
    new_msg = await channel.fetch_message(my_msg.id)
    users = await new_msg.reactions[0].users().flatten()
    users.pop(users.index(bot.user))
    winner = random.choice(users)
    await channel.send(f"Congratulations! {winner.mention} won {prize}")

@bot.command()
@commands.has_role('👑CEO👑')
async def reroll(ctx, channel : discord.TextChannel, id_ : int):
    try:
        new_msg = await channel.fetch_message(id_)
    except:
        await ctx.send("The id was entered incorrectly.")
        return
    users = await new_msg.reactions[0].users().flatten()
    users.pop(users.index(bot.user))
    winner = random.choice(users)
    await channel.send(f"Congratulations! {winner.mention} won {prize}!")```

[pliant gulch]

There might be another way

[slate swan]

That doesn't seem to bad send the errors

[pliant gulch]

But this is how I do it as well

[slate swan]

it says prize is not defined when i reroll

does anyone know why

[shy roost]

@pliant gulch so I would have to define a dictionary beforehand called "variables" and what should I put in it? could you walk me through it?

[pliant gulch]

erm well

You don't need a variables

I was just showing that as an example

exec will make a function eval and you call that

i.e in your embed you call eval()

[shy roost]

could you give me an example?

[pliant gulch]

eval()

[shy roost]

can you vc rn?

[pliant gulch]

exec makes the eval function

I can't vc right now

!e ```py
exec("def eval():\n\tprint(2+2)")
eval()

[unkempt canyon]

@pliant gulch :white_check_mark: Your eval job has completed with return code 0.

4

[pliant gulch]

Oh you might want to change the name if you don't want to overwrite eval as well

[shy roost]

wait so I could just do that in ```py
evaluated_result = exec(f"async def eval():\n{end_code}")

[slate swan]

so can anyone help me with my code then or what

[shy roost]

and replace "async def eval():"?

[pliant gulch]

well, evaluated_result is worthless here

as exec returns None

Just, wherever you are sending the return of the command to

[shy roost]

yeah, after I called the embed, it returned none for exec

[pliant gulch]

i.e in an embed

you would call eval

[pliant gulch]

Are you returning anything in the code you input?

As it only returns whatever you returned

[shy roost]

i just tested it with a code block ```py
print("Hello world!")

and i added the evaluated_result variable as a field in an embed, then returned that embed, which returned none.

[slate swan]

great thanks for the help

[shy roost]

sorry, andy is busy helping me, maybe try the d.py server?

[pliant gulch]

Yea, because it only returns whatever you returned in the code

if you did print it will return None

Check the terminal and you will see the print

[shy roost]

ah, maybe trying return?

[pliant gulch]

but if you want something returned you need to return it

return 2+2 in your eval command

[slate swan]

this is a server for python and were in a bots channel

[pliant gulch]

and it should return