CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondiscorddiscord.py
jzb
jzb

Reputation: 21

I'd like my Discord.py bot to display a random embedded message from a single channel

I have a discord channel that is full of embedded messages. I would like have the bot display a random embedded message from this channel in to any other channel where the command is called, similar to the functionality shown below.

When I call this code while pointed at the embed channel it returns an error: "discord.errors.HTTPException: 400 Bad Request (error code: 50006): Cannot send an empty message"

I believe this is caused by the channel being totally embeds, but I am very stupid and open to being corrected. I have confirmed that the bot has full admin privileges and thus can see/write into any channel. I've also confirmed that the below code works on non-embeds in other channels.

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.

@client.command()
async def bestpost(ctx):
        channel = client.get_channel(channelID)
        best_posts = []

        async for message in channel.history(limit=500):
                best_posts.append(message)
        random_bestpost = random.choice(best_posts).content

        await ctx.send(random_bestpost)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 109

Answers (1)

TahBaconPerson
TahBaconPerson

Reputation: 106

If the channel is totally embeds, then you have to look into the message's embed rather than the message content. From there you can just send the embed or access a property of the embed and send that.

For example:

@client.command()
async def bestpost(ctx):
        channel = client.get_channel(channelID)
        best_posts = []

        async for message in channel.history(limit=500):
                best_posts.append(message)
        random_bestpost = random.choice(best_posts).embeds[0]

        await ctx.send(embed=random_bestpost)

Upvotes: 2

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