Is there any way to notify about ADDITONAL boosts to a server via the bot?

[Florararie]

So I already wrote a form of boost notification as a service in the on_member_update event like so-

import logging
import discord
from discord import app_commands
from discord.ext import commands



class BoostShoutoutHandler(commands.Cog, name="Discord Boost Announcement Service"):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot


    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_member_update(self, before: discord.Member, after: discord.Member):
        config = self.bot.config

        if after.premium_since != before.premium_since:
            boost_announce_channel_id = config.get_value(after.guild.id, "BOOST_ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL")
            if boost_announce_channel_id:
                msg = f"Thank you, {after.name}, for boosting {after.guild.name}!"
                embed = discord.Embed(
                    title="Server Boost Alert!",
                    description=msg,
                    colour=discord.Colour.purple(),
                )
                embed.set_thumbnail(url=after.display_avatar.url)

                # Fetch the announcement channel and send the embed
                channel = await self.bot.fetch_channel(boost_announce_channel_id)
                await channel.send(embed=embed)



async def setup(bot):
    await bot.add_cog(BoostShoutoutHandler(bot))

Basically attempts to see if premium_since changes from its previous value, and then proceeds to notify based on that after the event fires. This works fine.. for first time boosts, but as far as I can tell there's a few issues with it.

Firstly: as far as I'm aware, premium_since never updates past the datetime object of that first initial boost. So checking against it wouldnt yield any further notifications since it doesnt change even with the user in question adding an additional boost.

Secondly: Even if that did change, I'm not sure it would actually cause the on_member_update event to fire in the first place, since what I assume causes it to go through with that first boost is the addition of the booster role to their profile.

So with those things in mind.. does anyone know of a method I could use to include additonal user boosts to that notification? (IE: user already boosted once, and then adds another boost to the server on top of that already existing boost).

Basically the only ideas I could think of is possibly using the on_guild_update event instead if that does fire when a new boost is supplied, then checking to see the number of boosts a user has and if it's higher than the cached value, it would send the notification (if that value is even available to be read). But I'm not too keen on this idea as it requires storing that information for those users and fetching them on each event update. Not entirely a problem, but just a headache to implement more than anything. So while annoying I'm not entirely opposed to that.

The other would be to check for the system boost message and piggyback off of that. But that somewhat defeats the purpose of this as the person I'm helping with make it wanted it to be more personalized than the system message anyways, and has already turned it off 😅 (I could however convince them to turn it back on and supply the message to a private channel and keep the personalized one public)

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Anyways with those thoughts out of the way, if anyone has any ideas I would be appreciative!! Thank you <3

(Also I am aware that there was a similar discussion here, but I just wanted to see if anything has changed since then or to get further clarification on the topic. Both sorry and thanks in advance!)

[exorcize]

Hello, I would probably check this using the on_message listener and wait for a MessageType equal to 8 (premium_guild_subscription), which already identifies the messages announcing boost on the server, something like this:

@commands.Cog.listener()
async def on_message(self, message):
    if message.type == discord.MessageType.premium_guild_subscription:
        booster = message.author

This is the best way I can see to do what you want

[Florararie]

That's about what I figured would end up being the solution. I already touched on using that as an option, but was exploring to see if there were any other avenues of possibilities for it since the person I was making this bot for wanted all system messages disabled- so it ended up not being a preferred solution for them. Oh well, their loss.

Thank you for your answer though. I'll implement this method in my own bot instead.

[acendvgnt]

from https://docs.discord.food/resources/guild#get-premium-guild-subscriptions:

GET: /guilds/{guild.id}/premium/subscriptions

there's no mention of this specific endpoint in the official API documentation so use it at your own risk 🤷