Implementing a cooldown on a single slash command

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Is there any way to add a cooldown the following slash command?

from discord import *
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents= Intents.all())


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    commandamount = await bot.tree.sync()
    print(f"There are {len(commandamount)} commands")

@bot.tree.command(name="cooldown", description="Cooldown")
async def on_ready(interaction: Interaction):
    interaction.response.send_message("Hello")

I tried searching up tutorials, but there are either py-cord (a different library), or isn't a slash command.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '23 at 02:40

How to implement cooldowns for discord.py

We can use the decorator: @discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown(rate, per, *, key=...) on our slash command to add a cooldown.

The rate is the:

The number of times a command can be used before triggering a cooldown.

The per is the:

The amount of seconds to wait for a cooldown when it’s been triggered.

Example

import discord
from discord import app_commands  # to use in app commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

client = discord.Client(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)  # Create client
tree = app_commands.CommandTree(client)  # Set up application tree


@discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown(1, 3)  # add cooldown for every command three seconds of cooldown
@tree.command(name="cooldowntest", description="Test the cooldown", guild=discord.Object(
    id=yourguildid))
async def first_command(interaction):
    await interaction.response.send_message("Worked!")


@first_command.error  # Tell the user when they've got a cooldown
async def on_test_error(interaction: discord.Interaction, error: app_commands.AppCommandError):
    if isinstance(error, app_commands.CommandOnCooldown):
        await interaction.response.send_message(str(error),
                                                ephemeral=True)  # https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html?highlight=checks%20cooldown#discord.app_commands.checks.cooldown


@client.event
async def on_ready():
    await tree.sync(guild=discord.Object(guildidhere))  # sync tree
    print(f'We have logged in as {client.user}')

Implementing a cooldown on a single slash command

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How to implement cooldowns for discord.py

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