channel

Useful helper functions for interacting with various discord 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 discord.ext.commands.Bot instance to use for getting/fetching.

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

Raises:

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

• discord.HTTPException – Retrieving the channel failed.

• discord.NotFound – Invalid Channel ID.

• discord.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.