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pythondiscorddiscord.py
Tyme
Tyme

Reputation: 3

Discord Python Delete Category and Channels within using ID

#deleted unused registered channels
@bot.command(pass_context=True)
#so that only an admin can run this command
@commands.has_role('Admin')
async def unregister(ctx, catID):
  cat = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.categories, id = catID)

  #await ctx.channel.send(cat)

  for channel in cat.voice_channels:
    await channel.delete()

  for channel in cat.text_channels:
    await channel.delete()
  
  cat.delete()

This is the code I have currently. I have also tried it with client.get_channel(). I seem to get the error that category doesn't have access to .voice_channels and .text_channels, or that cat is a "NoneType". I am new to python and coding a discord bot so any help with this command would be great. Thank you!

The command is meant to take the categoryID you can get from right clicking and copying a category on discord. Then delete every voice and text channel under it. Then delete itself.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1882

Answers (1)

Dominik
Dominik

Reputation: 3602

Your code is nearly correct in itself, but can be simplified in many places.

cat is not necessary at all, so it does not need to be defined, because we can simply say the following:

category: discord.CategoryChannel

Now we just have to enter the ID and the rest will take care of itself. Based on the definition we can now build the code further:

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
@commands.has_role('Admin')
async def unregister(ctx, category: discord.CategoryChannel):
    delcategory = category # delcategory is our ID (category)
    channels = delcategory.channels # Get all channels of the category

    for channel in channels: # We search for all channels in a loop
        try:
            await channel.delete() # Delete all channels
        except AttributeError: # If the category does not exist/channels are gone
            pass
    await delcategory.delete() # At the end we delete the category, if the loop is over

Upvotes: 2

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