Common tasks

These are some things that you might need to do often when using decent.py.

Receiving messages

Create a function named on_message with a single argument message, and decorate it with Server.event().

@server.event
def on_message(message):
    print("Received message with text", message.text)

def on_message(message):
    print("Received message with text", message.text)
server.event(on_message)

Sending messages

Just use the Channel.send() method.

channel = server.channels[0]
channel.send("I'm alive! 🎉")

@server.event
def on_message(message):
    message.channel.send("Received a message")

for channel in server.channels:
    channel.send("IMPORTANT ALERT")

Getting recent messages

Use the Channel.latest_messages() method:

channel = server.channels[0]
for message in channel.latest_messages():
    print(message.text)