List all text channels in 2 lines or less

[thin zephyr]

Is there anyway to list all text channels in a a small amount of code, all the example I have seen use for loops and I think there has to be a better way

[little basin]

list comprehension

[storm flare]

ctx.guild.text_channels is already a list

[thin zephyr]

How doI add CTX object sorry for being annoying

[calm haven]

what do you mean?

[thin zephyr]

I mean when I camm CTX I get undefined

[lapis shell]

example:

async def main(self, ctx):
  await ctx.respond(ctx.guild.text_channels)
  ...

also may have found a solution for this:

async def test(self, ctx):
  await ctx.respond([items.name for items in ctx.guild.text_channels])

[thin zephyr]

Am I able to pass this to the on_message(message) function, mainly since when I try I get an error about missing 1 requires positonal argument 'message'

[lapis shell]

probably would look something like this:

async def on_message(message):
    await ctx.respond([items.name for items in message.guild.text_channels])

[thin zephyr]

huh I tried something like that but it keeps saying ctx is undefined

do I need to import anything else other than discord

[thin zephyr]

I am pretty sure that is what is wrong

since I only have pycord imported

and asyncio and my keys file

[rocky stag]

async def on_message(message):
    await message.channel.send([items.name for items in message.guilds.text_channels])

This should prob work

[rocky stag]

you would normally use ctx in a command not an event

[lapis shell]

ah ok

[thin zephyr]

ah how would I go about it within a function

mainly since I need to run a function on startup for syncing channels

[rocky stag]

wdym by that

[lapis shell]

when the bot first starts up ?

[thin zephyr]

so this a discord to slack bridge, the bot get's a list of channels from both services and checks them

IE if one channels does not exist on slack it is added

or visa versa

[rocky stag]

what's slack

A list?

[thin zephyr]

slack is like work discord

[lapis shell]

just discord but for professionals

[rocky stag]

oh

[thin zephyr]

I already got most of the slack stuff worked out just the discord stuff is needed

[lapis shell]

so the way i would approach this is to create an asyncio task when the bot starts up, and within that task, constantly listen for any changes either discord's websocket gateway or slack's websocket gateway

there are many ways to do it, but this is how i would do it

[thin zephyr]

what I have done is I have slack in socket mode, and pycord both in asyncio task. The biggest issue I want is while I can listen to event to sync changes in real time, events that happen with the bot is offline can be an issue. so on startup I wanna list channels from both. I am just wondering how I could do this inside a function that can be called after both are connected

[rocky stag]

You could make a Boolean variable in your slack and set it to False and while it's False it won't run
When you startup your pycord bot make it connect to your slack and set the Boolean to true so that both your pycord and slack can run together in the same time

Also for this you would want to use an on_ready event

[thin zephyr]

both can run at the same time already, all I need is a list of channels so I can compare the two

so I would need to list all channels without using a bot command basically

[rocky stag]

Like-

@client.event
async def on_ready():
   #connect to your slack

Hmm

[thin zephyr]

I already run both using asyncio task

I just need a list of channels

[rocky stag]

Then in the on_ready function
Add this code-

guild = client.get_guild(yourguildid)
channels = guild.text_channels

So once your bot starts up it will automatically get the guild's channels for u

And channels var will store the all the channels

[thin zephyr]

Okay awesome