Why is guild.categories returning an empty list?

[robust rover]

Why is guild.categories returning []

[warped anvil]

not sure, maybe it isn't cached properly?
fwiw, you can get a categorychannel from guild.get_channel too

[robust rover]

Thats what I'm not sure about, can't see any changes

get_channel returns None too

[warped anvil]

hmmm

[robust rover]

checked permission they are the same

[warped anvil]

so guild.channels is also returning None? or is that fine

[robust rover]

returns an empty list []

[warped anvil]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[warped anvil]

just checking, what intents do you have set?

if all else fails, you can use await guild.fetch_channels() to return all channels and then check using that, but you shouldn't have to do that
https://docs.pycord.dev/en/master/api.html#discord.Guild.fetch_channels

[robust rover]

all of em

[warped anvil]

weird

[robust rover]

hmmm idt I can use await in __init__

[warped anvil]

wait

[warped anvil]

is this being run before on_ready?

like during a cog load

[robust rover]

yep

[warped anvil]

then it's always gonna fail

[robust rover]

lol

[warped anvil]

the cache is only gonna be filled after on_ready has fired

you should use an on_ready listener inside your cog, and inside that you can access the cache

[robust rover]

ooh

[robust rover]

is this correct? I dont think on_ready() gets run because I dont see --> Timers cog loaded in the output

oop I have a wait until ready there

removing it didnt make any changes

[warped anvil]

That should work, but maybe in the init include self.GUILD = None?

[robust rover]

f#ck it, I put a 2 seconds sleep in main on_ready() so it works now