Set a cooldown in commands

Question

I wanted to set a cooldown for my bot in discord.py, I tried to do this with time.sleep(30), but it didn't work because it stops the full bot, but I need that you can do other commands in the time. Please in content.split and not discord ext. Can someone help me?

Answer 1

What you want is to use a decorator on your command. The decorator for a cooldown is @commands.cooldown

@bot.command()
@commands.cooldown(x, y, commands.BucketType.z)
#your code here
...

x is how many times a command can be used in a given timeframe

y is that timeframe (in seconds)

z is who this applies to (a user, a channel, a server, or even global(default))

So: ...cooldown(2, 10, commands.BucketType.user) will allow every user to use the command 2 times within 10 seconds.

Good luck!

You can read up on it here: Discord.py commands.cooldown

As a sidenote: time.sleep() is something you can use to "pause" the bot within a command

print("hi")
time.sleep(30)
print("there")

This will put a delay between the two messages, instead of having them be printed immediately, one after the other. You should test this out in!

Answer 2

You can use asyncio.sleep() for waiting inside the function, ex. inside on_ready() event or @commands.cooldown decorator (designed only for commands):

asyncio.sleep()

import asyncio 

asyncio.sleep(seconds)

Asyncio.sleep works like time.sleep, but it doesn't block the entire code. It stops only one event. You can read more about the difference between time.sleep and asyncio.sleep here.

---

@commands.cooldown()

@client.command()
@commands.cooldown(rate, per, type)
async def example(ctx):
...

• rate - The number of times a command can be used before triggering a cooldown.
• per - The number of seconds to wait for a cooldown when it’s been triggered.
• type - The type of cooldown (cooldown that blocks only one user would be commands.BucketType.user. Check all types and choose one that suits your needs.

Answer 3

this is because time.sleep is blocking, you can use

@commands.cooldown(1, 5, commands.BucketType.user)