Discord-py When a user is typing, how to make the bot to follow the typing and when the user stop, the bot also stop typing in a specific channel?

Question

When a user is typing, how to make the bot to also start the typing event in a certain channel and stop when the user who was typing stopped.

ctx.trigger_typing/ctx.typing cannot be used since we need to track the user if he/she is typing.

So how to do that?

Answer 1

EDIT:

enabling intents.typing and turning on the intents within the Discord developer portal can access the on_typing event, you can just enable all intents from your code like:

intents = discord.Intents.all()
client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

The typing event can be called simply using an on_typing event,

@client.event
async def on_typing(channel, user, when):
    print(f"{user} is typing message in {channel} {when}")

If you want to get your bot to have a typing status, you can use ctx.typing(): followed with what It would send.

Here's an on_message event example,

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    async with message.channel.typing():
        await message.channel.send('Typing status invoked')
        await client.process_commands(message)

Command usage, you can also add a sleep event to control the typing time

@client.command()
async def type(ctx):
    async with ctx.typing():
        await asyncio.sleep(2)
    await ctx.send("Typing...")