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+from discord.ext import commands
+import discord
+
+
+class PersistentViewBot(commands.Bot):
+ def __init__(self):
+ super().__init__(command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned_or('$'))
+
+ async def on_ready(self):
+ print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})')
+ print('------')
+
+
+# Define a simple View that persists between bot restarts
+# In order 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, button: discord.ui.Button, interaction: discord.Interaction):
+ 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, button: discord.ui.Button, interaction: discord.Interaction):
+ 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, button: discord.ui.Button, interaction: discord.Interaction):
+ await interaction.response.send_message('This is grey.', ephemeral=True)
+
+
+bot = PersistentViewBot()
+
+# Register the persistent view for listening
+# 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.
+bot.add_view(PersistentView())
+
+
+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')