chunk_guilds_at_startup workaround

[kindred frost]

I set chunk_guilds_at_startup=False in my Bot but now i still want to access the users.
so my idea would be a task that fetches every n minutes guilds like this? is this the way to go or are there better ways?

chunked_guilds = set()

@tasks.loop(minutes=10)
async def fetch_members_task(self):
  """Periodically fetch members for guilds that haven't been chunked yet"""

  for guild in self.bot.guilds:
    if guild.id not in chunked_guilds and not guild.chunked:
      try:
        await guild.chunk()
        chunked_guilds.add(guild.id)
        await asyncio.sleep(2)  # Add delay between requests to avoid rate limits
      except Exception as e:
        pass

[round marlin]

I don’t really get the point of doing that but not just do it at startup

Also I think chuck it once is enough since then it will be cached and so update by itself

[quiet quail]

why are you disabling it

[kindred frost]

the on_ready takes so long, and till that you cant use buttons as far as i know

[quiet quail]

is your bot in over 100 servers?

[kindred frost]

yes

[quiet quail]

rip

[kindred frost]

600 and 600k users about if that matters

so maybe an on_ready() function which iterates over every bot.guilds and do guild.chunk() ? @round marlin

[jolly canyon]

you can just add a check to your commands, check whether Guild.chunked is False, if so, call Guild.chunk

and done, you'll have the members cached just if they use any command

[kindred frost]

but user.mutual_guilds doesnt work like that sadly

[jolly canyon]

?

[kindred frost]

bot.fetch_user() doesnt "update" the mutual_guilds parameter afaik

[jolly canyon]

You should not use fetch_user

[round marlin]

The guild chunk should be pretty fast with that

Less than 5min

[jolly canyon]

And mutual_guilds is a helper property of pycord that is basically: [guild for guild in bot.guilds if guild.get_member(user.id)]

[kindred frost]

pretty fast

[round marlin]

Are you restarting ur bot often ?

[kindred frost]

no just for changes

[round marlin]

5 min every week is not that much

[kindred frost]

yeah i guess, what for is that chunk option then?

[round marlin]

Just guild check at startup mode True

[kindred frost]

wdym?

[round marlin]

Here remove the false

[kindred frost]

oh yeah i thought you meant something esle 👍

[hexed flint]

I think this was fixed recently on discords side, not sure if it would be an issue on the bots side

[balmy star]

well on_ready blocks everything, that's why buttons don't work

chunking is done through the gateway so chunk at startup halts on_ready to complete it

theoretically you could create a separate thread or something to chunk in the background, but i don't think that's something we'd officially implement and you'll need to adjust your bot with the possibility of missing members in mind (e.g. block if guild.chunked is false)

[wild umbra]

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1306673371571818526 maybe relevant?

[balmy star]

basically 2 parts

1. the gateway itself when sending chunks means other events are queued after; they attempted an adjustment, but it was reverted
2. the library assumes the first behaviour and so waits for all chunks first; even if we did try to chunk in background the bot wouldn't receive events well