how to increase debouncing delay for autocompletion results

[last robin]

I have an autocompletion that relies on a rate limited API, and I'm finding that the default debouncing delay that discord has by default is still a tad bit faster than I'd like. Was wondering if there might be a way for me to increase the delay, or maybe rate limit the autocomplete callback function in some way

[frail imp]

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[haughty summit]

Unfortunately that's not possible. Discord forces you to respond within the time frame, 3 seconds I think?

You can technically (very loose use of the word) rate limit the autocomplete endpoint manually by just not responding, sending no results, or sending a single result which conveys a message, though I agree that's not very user friendly as the user can select this option and you'd have to handle that.

The above response also assumes you've done stuff like cache the responses from said rate limited API in order to try and reduce outbound requests to it.

[last robin]

Yeah, i read about the 3s response, which is not an issue to meet. It's just the frequency between de-bounced requests that's been suboptimal. This api i'm using has very stringent free use rate limits that i can trigger with just a single user typing a bit slowly 😅.

Also i can't really go with the option of sending blank responses, because I think discord's frontend (or backend?) does a bit of its own caching, and will reuse previous results on repeat queries.

But regardless, I'll probably throw on a quick in-memory cache anyways. This is just for a bot on a personal server so it doesn't need to function amazingly. Just wanted to see if such a thing were possible.

thanks for the ideas/suggestions though 🙏

[vague oriole]

id avoid sending blank responses, instead cache the api responses