Ability to click message buttons

[theAbdoSabbagh]

I think it'd be great if a feature was added to allow users to click buttons that are on messages. That will allow for more automation since major bots use buttons instead of messages nowadays.

[dolfies]

Coming in 2.0, but it might be a while until it comes out.

There will be one more v1.x release coming soon though.

[theAbdoSabbagh]

You mean clicking buttons is now possible?

[TheOnlyWayUp]

Yep,

components = message.components
firstButton = components[0].children[0]
await firstButton.click()

In discord, every row of buttons is an action row, even if it's just a single button ^^. The .components attribute gives you a list of all action rows in the message, I believe there can only be five per message, but I may be incorrect.

Once you have an action row object, to get all it's components, you can do action_row.children, Buttons have a .click() method.

I made a gist for someone which pressed buttons and chose options from a dropdown for dank memer, check it out for a better example.

[dolfies]

This will all be documented before release!

[theAbdoSabbagh]

LETS GO I'm really happy clicking buttons is possible. When is the release? :D

[dolfies]

When it's ready :)

Realistically, a little after upstream discord.py releases.

[kreo79]

I tried to reproduce this, I need to get an already posted post and click on the button below it. I have used self.http.get_message however this returns a dict and not a message.

msg = await self.http.get_message(channel_id=self.channel_id, message_id=self.message_id)

print(msg.components)

File "D:\PyCharm Projects\discord_farm\discord_client.py", line 64, in on_ready
    print(msg.components)
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'components'

[residex]

channel = self.get_channel(CHANNEL_ID)
message = await channel.fetch_message(MESSAGE_ID)
await message.components[0].children[0].click()