channel

Useful helper functions for interacting with various disnake channel objects.

async get_or_fetch_channel(bot, channel_id)

Attempt to get or fetch the given channel_id from the bots cache, and return it.

Parameters

• bot (Bot) – The disnake.ext.commands.Bot instance to use for getting/fetching.

• channel_id (int) – The channel to get/fetch.

Raises

• disnake.InvalidData – An unknown channel type was received from Discord.

• disnake.HTTPException – Retrieving the channel failed.

• disnake.NotFound – Invalid Channel ID.

• disnake.Forbidden – You do not have permission to fetch this channel.

Return type

GuildChannel

Returns

The channel from the ID.

is_in_category(channel, category_id)

Return whether the given channel in the the category with the id category_id.

Parameters

• channel (TextChannel) – The channel to check.

• category_id (int) – The category to check for.

Return type

bool

Returns

A bool depending on whether the channel is in the category.