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pythondiscorddiscord.py
pert
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Reputation: 85

pass the message variable out of the async def in discord.py

I am making a discord bot that detects spam and deletes the message, it works like this:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    global cont, msg
    msg = 0
    cont += 1
    msg = message.author

the variable cont counts every message and resets every 1 second, and to detect spam, I did this:

if cont > 6:
    print(f'spam from {msg}')
    cont -= 1

now to delete the message, I would need to delete the message, which is out of the async def statement, so, I need to pass the variable, at first I tried to do this

var=message

but the problem is that when you make a new variable in discord.py, it is a int, but for it to work, I need it to get it to the class discord.message.Message, how can I do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 543

Answers (1)

Billy
Billy

Reputation: 1207

you will have to store message each time when a user sends a message. and then match the new message with the old one. so create a list of users and their messages:

messages = {
    users = [
    ]
}

and when a message is received, append to list:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    user = message.user.id
    msg = message.content
    users = messages['users']:
    for i in users:
        if i['id'] = user:
            i['msgs'].append(msg)
            count = 1
            for j in i['msgs']:
                if j = msg:
                    count += 1
            if count > 3:
                message.author.send("you are spamming")
        else:
            config = {"id": user, "msgs": [msg]}
            users.append(config)

I typed it directly here, so there maybe bugs, contribute to the answer to improve it.

another better way of handling spam is to use discord-anti-spam it's usage is pretty simple:

from discord.ext import commands
from AntiSpam import AntiSpamHandler

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")
bot.handler = AntiSpamHandler(bot)

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"-----\nLogged in as: {bot.user.name} : {bot.user.id}\n-----")

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    bot.handler.propagate(message)
    await bot.process_commands(message)

bot.run("Bot Token")

read it's documentation for more details on changing it's moderation level.

Upvotes: 1

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