Images saved in Discord automatically expire #4

Images, when saved in discord, naturally expire after sometime, and deleting the "hosting" message makes the image itself disappear, this issue gets compounded with quotes over time, meaning that the older a message is, the more likely it is that a quoted image no longer exists.

It is CRUCIAL that a solution to that problem DOES NOT need any new supporting infrastructure.

One possible solution (For images hosted in discord):

User uploads a link to some sort of media hosted in Discord (Ending in .png,.jpg and other extensions specified in f43520e51d/settings/config.py (L62) )
The bot downloads the image in an specified directory by using requests and writing directly to a file:

import requests
url = 'https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1007369896822317178/1189268533285236808/image.png'
file = requests.get(url)
filedir = str(os.environ.get('DOWNLOADED_QUOTES', '/mnt/downloadedquotes/') + '<quote id>.png'
open(filedir, 'wb').write(myfile.content)

When the quote is called, the bot uploads the file:

#The quote will be saved in the database as "#FILE=/mnt/downloadedquotes/<id>.png", for example
if content[:6] == "#FILE=": 
	filedir = content[6:] 
	with open(filedir, 'rb') as f:
    	picture = discord.File(f)
    	return await bot.send(file=picture)

Naturally, we expect all quotes to be saved in the same table.

This solution will, naturally need to be replicated in all "quote-responding" references:

f43520e51d/utils/commands.py (L185)

f43520e51d/utils/commands.py (L215)

f43520e51d/utils/commands.py (L249)

Maybe it is also time to make this a single function :þ

Images, when saved in discord, naturally expire after sometime, and deleting the "hosting" message makes the image itself disappear, this issue gets compounded with quotes over time, meaning that the older a message is, the more likely it is that a quoted image no longer exists. It is **CRUCIAL** that a solution to that problem **DOES NOT** need any new supporting infrastructure. One possible solution (For images hosted in discord): 1. User uploads a link to some sort of media hosted in Discord (Ending in `.png`,`.jpg` and other extensions specified in https://brejela.club/gitea/neeble-club/neeble/src/commit/f43520e51db9db145813e4d6f294ac21a67b9d65/settings/config.py#L62 ) 2. The bot downloads the image in an specified directory by using `requests` and writing directly to a file: ```py import requests url = 'https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1007369896822317178/1189268533285236808/image.png' file = requests.get(url) filedir = str(os.environ.get('DOWNLOADED_QUOTES', '/mnt/downloadedquotes/') + '<quote id>.png' open(filedir, 'wb').write(myfile.content) ``` 3. When the quote is called, the bot uploads the file: ```py #The quote will be saved in the database as "#FILE=/mnt/downloadedquotes/<id>.png", for example if content[:6] == "#FILE=": filedir = content[6:] with open(filedir, 'rb') as f: picture = discord.File(f) return await bot.send(file=picture) ``` Naturally, we expect all quotes to be saved in the same table. This solution will, naturally need to be replicated in all "quote-responding" references: https://brejela.club/gitea/neeble-club/neeble/src/commit/f43520e51db9db145813e4d6f294ac21a67b9d65/utils/commands.py#L185 https://brejela.club/gitea/neeble-club/neeble/src/commit/f43520e51db9db145813e4d6f294ac21a67b9d65/utils/commands.py#L215 https://brejela.club/gitea/neeble-club/neeble/src/commit/f43520e51db9db145813e4d6f294ac21a67b9d65/utils/commands.py#L249 Maybe it is also time to make this a single function :þ

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Images saved in Discord automatically expire #4