Timeout?

[Elliot01Sepiol]

How to set timeouts for users attempting to run bot commands?

[Elliot01Sepiol]

How to set timeouts for users attempting to run bot commands?

I mean in a way to prevent users spamming the bot commands in chat

[q31r]

This function sets a cooldown of 5 seconds for users to prevent spamming the commands (!help command for example in here). If the user tries to use the command within the cooldown period, their message will be deleted ;)

cooldowns = {} 
def check_cooldown(ctx):
  now = time.time()
  user_id = ctx.author.id
  if user_id in cooldowns and cooldowns[user_id] > now:
    return False
  cooldowns[user_id] = now + 5 
  return True

@client.command()
async def help(ctx):
  if not check_cooldown(ctx):
    await ctx.message.delete()
    return
  else:
    response_message = f"Hi <@{ctx.author.id}>, {SERVER_NAME} bot is here! If you have any questions/issues related to the Minecraft or Discord Server, you can ask in {DISCORD_QA_CHANNEL} or create a ticket at {DISCORD_TICKET_CHANNEL} and one of our staff members will reply as soon as possible!"
    await ctx.send(response_message)

[Elliot01Sepiol]

Thank you for providing exactly what I was looking for. It would be fantastic if you could add this feature for every command in the repository.

[q31r]

no problem, i will add this in the next update 😃