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Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 305

Change the permissions of a discord text channel with discord.py

I would have liked to make a command that allows to modify the permissions of a particular text channel discord with discord.py. For example, disable sending messages in a specific channel.

I looked at the documentation of discord.py and I saw that there is a PermissionOverwrite class (https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=app#permissionoverwrite) allowing to do some things at the level of the permissions (notably with the function update)

@client.command()
async def perm(ctx):
        perms = discord.Permissions()
        ctx.channel.perms.update(send_messages=False)

Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'TextChannel' object has no attribute 'perms'

Upvotes: 7

Views: 25898

Answers (1)

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 61052

Use TextChannel.set_permissions:

@client.command()
async def perm(ctx):
    await ctx.channel.set_permissions(ctx.guild.default_role, send_messages=False)

Upvotes: 9

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