dinteractions-Paginator 2.0.2

Official interactions.py paginator

dinteractions-Paginator

Official interactions.py paginator

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Dependencies
• Examples
  • Example GIF:
  • Example
• API Reference
• Credits

Features

• Message per embed or persistent message
• Index select that can be turned on/off
• Select labels are generated based on embed's title
• Index button that can be turned on/off
• Ability to set the buttons to any emote, color or label
• Custom buttons

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Installation

pip install -U dinteractions-Paginator

Dependencies

• discord-py-interactions (version >=4.2.0)
• interactions-wait-for (version >=1.0.4)

Examples

These simple examples show how to easily create interactive, multiple page embeds that anyone can interact with that automatically deactivate after 60 seconds of inactivity:

Example GIF

Paginator with select:

Example

from interactions import Client, CommandContext, Embed
from interactions.ext.paginator import Page, Paginator

client = Client("token")

@client.command(name="paginator", description="Paginator example")
async def paginator_example(ctx: CommandContext):
    await Paginator(
        client=client,
        ctx=ctx,
        pages=[
            Page("Content 1", Embed(title="One")),
            Page("Content 2", Embed(title="Two")),
            Page("Content 3"),
            Page(embeds=[Embed(title="Four"), Embed(title="Five")]),
        ],
    ).run()

client.start()

API Reference

Page

This is an individual page to be added to the paginator.

Arguments

• ?content: str: The content of the page.
• ?embeds: Embed | list[Embed]: The embed(s) to be displayed on the page.
• ?title: str: The title of the page displayed in the select menu.
  • Defaults to content or the title of the embed with an available title.

Example

from interactions import Embed
from interactions.ext.paginator import Page, Paginator

pages = [
    Page("Content 1", Embed(title="One")),
    Page("Content 2", Embed(title="Two")),
    Page("Content 3"),
    Page(embeds=[Embed(title="Four"), Embed(title="Five")]),
]
...
p = Paginator(..., pages=pages)
await p.run()

class Paginator

Arguments

• Required
• Optional
• Attributes
• Returns

Required

• client: Client: The client instance
• ctx: CommandContext | ComponentContext: The context
• pages: list[Page]: The pages to paginate.
  • Use a list of Page objects.

Optional

• ?timeout: int: The amount of time in seconds before the paginator automatically deactivates.
  • Defaults to 60 seconds.
  • When timed out, the paginator will automatically deactivate, and by default, the components will be disabled.
    • To modify this behavior, modify disable_after_timeout or remove_after_timeout.
• ?author_only: bool = False: Whether the paginator should only be used by the author.
• ?use_buttons: bool = True: Whether the paginator should use buttons.
• ?use_select: bool = True: Whether the paginator should use the select menu.
• ?use_index: bool = False: Whether the paginator should use the index button.
• ?extended_buttons: bool = True: Whether the paginator should use extended buttons.
  • They are 2 buttons that skip to the beginning or the end.
• ?buttons: dict[str, Button]: Custom buttons to use.
  • The keys need to be one of the following: first, prev, index, next, last.
  • You can use the ButtonKind enum for this purpose.
• ?placeholder: str = "Page": The placeholder to use for the select menu.
• ?disable_after_timeout: bool = True: Whether the components should be disabled after the timeout.
• ?remove_after_timeout: bool = True: Whether the components should be removed after the timeout.
• ?func_before_edit: Callable | Coroutine: A function or coroutine that will be called before the embed is edited.
  • The function will be passed the Paginator and ComponentContext objects.
  • Raise StopPaginator to stop the paginator.
  • Return False to skip editing the paginator.
• ?func_after_edit: Callable | Coroutine: A function or coroutine that will be called after the embed is edited.
  • The function will be passed the Paginator and ComponentContext objects.
  • Raise StopPaginator to stop the paginator.

Attributes

All the parameters listed above are stored as attributes in the Paginator object.

Additional attributes:

• id: int: The paginator's ID.

  • A number between 0 and 999,999,999 to ensure that the paginator is unique.

• ?component_ctx: ComponentContext: The context of the paginator's components.

  • This is only available if or when a component is interacted with.

• index: int: The current index of the paginator.

  • This is the index of the current page.

• top: int: The index of the top page.

• ?message: Message: The message that the paginator is using.

• _msg: dict[str, ?Snowflake | int]: A dict with the message_id and channel_id of the message.

• _json: dict[str, Any]: The JSON representation of the paginator.

  • You can utilize this to create a paginator dynamically by doing this:

  p = Paginator(client, ctx, pages, ...)
  another = Paginator(**p._json)
  

Returns

class Data

---

class Data

Attributes

• paginator: Paginator: The Paginator object.
• original_ctx: CommandContext | ComponentContext: The original context supplied to the paginator.
• component_ctx: ComponentContext: The component context.
• message: Message: The message that was sent.

---

class ButtonKind

• FIRST: "first": The first button.
• PREVIOUS: "prev": The previous button.
• INDEX: "index": The index button.
• NEXT: "next": The next button.
• LAST: "last": The last button.

---

error StopPaginator

Raise this error in your function or coroutine to stop the paginator.

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Credits

• Contributors of interactions.py
  • GitHub
  • Discord server

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