Why is my python discord bot rate limited?

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So I made a discord bot two years ago which filters certain channels and deletes messages which don‘t start with %z in one channel and %v in the other. It worked well for like 1 and a half years, but now it always states to be rate limited. This is the error I‘ve been consistently getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 196, in 
    bot.run(os.getenv("TOKEN"))
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 723, in run
    return future.result()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 702, in runner
    await self.start(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 665, in start
    await self.login(*args, bot=bot)
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 511, in login
    await self.http.static_login(token.strip(), bot=bot)
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 300, in static_login
    data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me'))
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 216, in request
    raise HTTPException(r, data)
discord.errors.HTTPException: 429 Too Many Requests (error code: 0): 



  

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And here is my code:

import os
from keep_alive import keep_alive
import discord
import asyncio
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
from datetime import *
import pytz
import re

client = discord.Client()
intents = discord.Intents().all()

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="%", intents=intents, help_command=None)

msg_counter = 0


@bot.command(help="...")
async def help(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Please add %z before your message in the one channel, otherwise the message will be deleted after 24 hours. Same goes with %v for the other channel...")


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"{bot.user} is now online")
    await bot.change_presence(activity=discord.Game(name="%help"))


@bot.event
async def on_message(ctx):
    global forbidden_words
    if is_name(ctx.content, forbidden_words):
        await ctx.delete()
    elif not ctx.author.bot:
        await bot.process_commands(ctx)


async def automatic_clear(channel, prefix):
    print("Started clearing %s" % channel.name)
    async for message in channel.history(limit=250, oldest_first=False):
        now = datetime.now(tz)
        msg_sended = message.created_at.astimezone(tz)
        difference = now - msg_sended
        difference_in_s = difference.total_seconds()
        bot_start = {
        "zitate": datetime.strptime("10.05.2021", "%d.%m.%Y").astimezone(tz),
        "vorstellungsrunde": datetime.strptime("12.11.2021", "%d.%m.%Y").astimezone(tz)
    }
        if not msg_sended < bot_start[str(channel.name)]:
            if difference_in_s > 86400:
                if not message.content.startswith(prefix):
                    print(f"		Deleting: {str(message.author)}: {message.content}")
                    txt_print(f"{str(message.author)}: {message.content[:20]}")
                    await message.delete()
                    await asyncio.sleep(1)  # to avoid rate limits?!
                else:
                    print(f"		Skipped: {str(message.author)}: {message.content[:20]}")
            else:
                print("	zu aktuell (vor %i Sekunden)" % difference_in_s)
        else:
            print("			" + message.content[:20] + str(msg_sended))
            break


@tasks.loop(hours=1)
async def clear_channel():
    global tz
    tz = pytz.timezone("Europe/Berlin")
    now = datetime.now(tz).strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S")
    print(f"{now}: DOING TASK!!!")
    channel1 = bot.get_channel(CHANNEL_NUMBER1)
    channel2 = bot.get_channel(CHANNEL_NUMBER2)
    try:
        await automatic_clear(channel1, "%z")
        await automatic_clear(channel2, "%v")
    except AttributeError:
        print("AttributeError (normal at the start of the bot)")
    print("Finished Task")

def txt_print(t):
    f = open("console.txt", "a")
    f.write(t + "
")
    f.close()

forbidden_words = [
SOME SPAM WORDS
]


def is_name(s, fw):
    s = s.lower()
    for e in fw:
        if e in s:
            return False
    s = s.replace(" ", "")
    for letter in s:
        if letter not in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzäöüß":
            s = s.replace(letter, "")
    final_word = re.sub(r'(.)\1+', r'\1', s)
    print(final_word)
    for e in fw:
        if e in final_word:
            return True
    return False

@bot.event
async def on_message_edit(before, after):
    global forbidden_words
    if is_name(after.content, forbidden_words):
        await after.delete()
    else:
        await bot.process_commands(after)

async def keep_alive_msg(): #don‘t know if that actually helps, but at first I thought the bot would always be offline because it doesn‘t have to do anything, although I‘m using UptimeRobot and it says the bot was never down the last half year
    while True:
        try:
            keep_alive_channel = bot.get_channel(CHANNEL_NUMBER)
        await keep_alive_channel.send(str(random.randint(1, 100)))
    except AttributeError:
        print("Bot has just started")
    await asyncio.sleep(600)


keep_alive() #should keep the bot alive by creating kind of a website or something? idk it always worked
clear_channel.start() # start loop

bot.run(os.getenv("TOKEN")

I‘ve been pondering for days now but I cannot solve it. I even had to create a new discord application because discord deleted the first version of this bot after some time due to rate limits...

Why is my python discord bot rate limited?

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