pythonbotsdiscorddiscord.py

How to send a message with discord.py without a command

import discord
import asyncio

client = discord.Client()
@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print("I'm ready.")

async def send(message):
    await client.send_message(client.get_channel("123456789"), message)

client.run("token")

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(send("hello"))

Hi, i want to make a GUI. When someone put in his name and press "OK" my discord bot should send a message. Basically i thought i call the async by it's name, didn't work. Then i made a event loop. worked with a print(), but the bot doesn't send a message, so i thought it is not ready, when i put wait_until_ready() there it executed nothing, so i thought i have to put the client.run("token") before the event loop, didn't work either.

can you guys help me? :)

Solution

  • The reason your code is not working is because client.run is blocking, meaning that nothing after it will execute. This means your loop will never be reached.

    To get around this, you can use the tasks extension, which was introduced in version 1.1.0 of discord.py. The GitHub has an example of a background task. The below code will post the current iteration of the loop to a channel every minute, but you can easily modify it to wait for a specific action.

    import discord
from discord.ext import tasks

client = discord.Client(intents=discord.Intents.all())

@tasks.loop(seconds=60)
async def my_background_task():
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    channel = client.get_channel(123456789)  # replace with channel_id
    await channel.send(my_background_task.current_loop)

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Logged in as')
    print(client.user.name)
    print(client.user.id)
    print('------')
    my_background_task.start()

client.run('token')

    Older versions of discord.py

    For older versions of discord.py, use client.loop.create_task. An example of a background task can also be found here.

    discord.py < 1.1.0 versions

    import discord
import asyncio

client = discord.Client()

async def my_background_task():
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    counter = 0
    channel = client.get_channel(id=123456789) # replace with channel_id
    while not client.is_closed():
        counter += 1
        await channel.send(counter)
        await asyncio.sleep(60) # task runs every 60 seconds

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Logged in as')
    print(client.user.name)
    print(client.user.id)
    print('------')

client.loop.create_task(my_background_task())
client.run('token')

    discord.py < 1.0 versions

    import discord
import asyncio

client = discord.Client()

async def my_background_task():
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    counter = 0
    channel = discord.Object(id='channel_id_here')
    while not client.is_closed:
        counter += 1
        await client.send_message(channel, counter)
        await asyncio.sleep(60) # task runs every 60 seconds

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Logged in as')
    print(client.user.name)
    print(client.user.id)
    print('------')

client.loop.create_task(my_background_task())
client.run('token')