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Reputation:

How to create background task inside a cog in discord.py?

I am trying to create a task inside a cog. This is code I currently have,

import discord
import asyncio
import schedule
from discord.ext import commands


class BotTasks(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot

        self.bg_task = self.loop.create_task(self.mytask())
        

    def job():
        print("task")
        
    schedule.every().day.at("19:44").do(job)

    async def mytask():
        
        while True:
            schedule.run_pending()
            await asyncio.sleep(1)



def setup(bot):
    bot.add_cog(BotTasks(bot))

I feel the code is correct but the problem is with self.bg_task = self.loop.create_task(self.mytask()), idk what else to put in place of that. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2104

Answers (1)

Łukasz Kwieciński
Łukasz Kwieciński

Reputation: 15689

You can simply use discord.ext.tasks

from discord.ext import tasks

class BackgroundTasks(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
 
    @tasks.loop(seconds=5) # <- will do this every 5 seconds
    async def my_background_task(self, *args):
        # do something

To start it

my_background_task.start(some_arguments) # <- you can put this in a command or in the on_ready event

Here are a few more useful functions

loop.stop()
loop.cancel()
loop.restart()

Reference:

Upvotes: 2

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