Adding to the Discord bot

So I’ve been tinkering a bit with my Discord bot and recently got a request to add functionality to know how long someone has been in the Discord and associating it with a rank. Not too bad of an ask.

I opened by Discord bot script I had been working on and got to work. The first thing I needed to add was a bot.event to listen for the set of words to trigger the action.

@bot.event

Now that I had that started, I could add the parameters I needed for the script. I wanted to take an input from the user like “join time” so I started with

async def jon_message(message):
if message.content.startswith('join time')

I knew that there was going to be a time element to the script so I added from datetime import datetime, timezone to the top of the script.

It was time to get into the time part of the script. First I needed to take the current time (setting the timezone to UTC) as well as the time that the member joined. I did that with

currentTime = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
timeLapsed = member.joined_at

Nice and simple. Now I needed to get the time that had been earned by the member. I did that with

timeEarned = currentTime - timeLapsed

Now, if I had printed out this string for datetime, it would be in a particular format and I wanted it to be in days, hours, minutes. To do that, all I did was

days = timeEarned.days
seconds = timeEarned.seconds
hours = seconds // 3600
minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
remaining_seconds = seconds % 60

Alright now that that was sorted, I could send that as a reply with

await ctx.send(f'{member} joined on {member.joined_at} which is {days} days {hours} hours {minutes} minutes ago.')

Now I wanted to set ranks by day brackets. I started with days

First, I created a role that everyone started with named newb. I took that ID from the Server settings and set that as the CurrentRole

CurrentRole = get(message.guild.roles,id=ROLE_ID)

note: for this to work, I had to include from discord.utils import get to the import list

Next, I set a parameter for days less than 5, it would change your rank to tester. I would have to remove the old role, get the new role ID, and add that to the member. Then I posted a message about what role the person was

if days < 5:
    role = get(message.guild.roles,id=1363178475305042051)
    await member.remove_roles(CurrentRole)
    await member.add_roles(role)
    await message.channel.send(f'{message.author} joined on {member,joined_at}      
        which is {days} days {hours} hours {minutes} minutes ago.')
    await message.channel.send(f'That\'s the {role} role')

and that was that. When members would type “join time”, their rank would be set to their joined time on the server.