Add Automatic Post Feature for Daily Reading Plan

Here's an implementation:
from discord.ext import commands
from datetime import datetime, time, timedelta
import asyncio

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="$")
WHEN = time(18, 0, 0)  # 6:00 PM
channel_id = 1 # Put your channel id here

async def called_once_a_day():  # Fired every day
    await bot.wait_until_ready()  # Make sure your guild cache is ready so the channel can be found via get_channel
    channel = bot.get_channel(channel_id) # Note: It's more efficient to do bot.get_guild(guild_id).get_channel(channel_id) as there's less looping involved, but just get_channel still works fine
    await channel.send("your message here")

async def background_task():
    now = datetime.utcnow()
    if now.time() > WHEN:  # Make sure loop doesn't start after {WHEN} as then it will send immediately the first time as negative seconds will make the sleep yield instantly
        tomorrow = datetime.combine(now.date() + timedelta(days=1), time(0))
        seconds = (tomorrow - now).total_seconds()  # Seconds until tomorrow (midnight)
        await asyncio.sleep(seconds)   # Sleep until tomorrow and then the loop will start 
    while True:
        now = datetime.utcnow() # You can do now() or a specific timezone if that matters, but I'll leave it with utcnow
        target_time = datetime.combine(now.date(), WHEN)  # 6:00 PM today (In UTC)
        seconds_until_target = (target_time - now).total_seconds()
        await asyncio.sleep(seconds_until_target)  # Sleep until we hit the target time
        await called_once_a_day()  # Call the helper function that sends the message
        tomorrow = datetime.combine(now.date() + timedelta(days=1), time(0))
        seconds = (tomorrow - now).total_seconds()  # Seconds until tomorrow (midnight)
        await asyncio.sleep(seconds)   # Sleep until tomorrow and then the loop will start a new iteration

if __name__ == "__main__":
    bot.loop.create_task(background_task())
    bot.run('token')
kreendurron / BRC-Bot

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