# This example requires the 'message_content' privileged intent to function. from discord.ext import commands import discord # Define a simple View that persists between bot restarts # In order for a view to persist between restarts it needs to meet the following conditions: # 1) The timeout of the View has to be set to None # 2) Every item in the View has to have a custom_id set # It is recommended that the custom_id be sufficiently unique to # prevent conflicts with other buttons the bot sends. # For this example the custom_id is prefixed with the name of the bot. # Note that custom_ids can only be up to 100 characters long. class PersistentView(discord.ui.View): def __init__(self): super().__init__(timeout=None) @discord.ui.button(label='Green', style=discord.ButtonStyle.green, custom_id='persistent_view:green') async def green(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button): await interaction.response.send_message('This is green.', ephemeral=True) @discord.ui.button(label='Red', style=discord.ButtonStyle.red, custom_id='persistent_view:red') async def red(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button): await interaction.response.send_message('This is red.', ephemeral=True) @discord.ui.button(label='Grey', style=discord.ButtonStyle.grey, custom_id='persistent_view:grey') async def grey(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button): await interaction.response.send_message('This is grey.', ephemeral=True) class PersistentViewBot(commands.Bot): def __init__(self): intents = discord.Intents.default() intents.message_content = True super().__init__(command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned_or('$'), intents=intents) async def setup_hook(self) -> None: # Register the persistent view for listening here. # Note that this does not send the view to any message. # In order to do this you need to first send a message with the View, which is shown below. # If you have the message_id you can also pass it as a keyword argument, but for this example # we don't have one. self.add_view(PersistentView()) async def on_ready(self): print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})') print('------') bot = PersistentViewBot() @bot.command() @commands.is_owner() async def prepare(ctx: commands.Context): """Starts a persistent view.""" # In order for a persistent view to be listened to, it needs to be sent to an actual message. # Call this method once just to store it somewhere. # In a more complicated program you might fetch the message_id from a database for use later. # However this is outside of the scope of this simple example. await ctx.send("What's your favourite colour?", view=PersistentView()) bot.run('token')