Changelog

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Releases

Note

The library first started as a single file script that I didn’t make versions of. When I decided to turn it into a library, I’ve set the version number based on the amount of commits I have made since the start.

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[Breaking change]

Means that the change will break functionality from previous version.

[Potentially breaking change]

The change could break functionality from previous versions but only if it was used in a certain way.

[Not yet released]

Documented changes are not yet available to use.

Releases

v3.0.5

• Updated aiohttp, in order to add support for Python 3.12

v3.0.4

• Fixed AutoGUILD not working if the messages parameter is None.

• Fixed verify_ssl being ignored on the WebSocket connection.

v3.0.3

• Fixed “Loading from JSON template causes live object reference to be lost”.

v3.0.2

• Fixed AutoGUILD not sending messages (events emitted prematurely).

• Fixed TextMESSAGE and VoiceMESSAGE not being removed after n sends when using AutoCHANNEL.

• Added missing daf.guild.AutoGUILD.removed_messages property.

v3.0.1

• Downgraded Selenium version from 4.13 to 4.12 since 4.13 does not support headless, which undetected-chrome-driver is trying to set.

v3.0.0

• SQL analytics:

  • Counts now have better error reporting when an invalid value was passed.

• GUI:

  • Higher refresh rate due to threading redesign - instead of calling Tkinter’s root.update inside an asyncio task, the root.mainroot is called directly, while the asyncio event loop is running inside another thread.

  • The GUI will not block the asyncio tasks (explained in previous bullet).

  • When saving a new object definition, if the type of a parameter is literal, the value will be pre-checked inside the GUI and an exception will be raised if a valid value is not given.

  • Properties that start with _ will no longer be displayed when viewing live structured objects.

  • Toast notifications for trace().

  • Parameter validation for literals, enums and bool.

  • Copy / Paste globally for both drop-down menus and list menus.

• Core:

  • New events system and module Event reference

  • Updated PyCord API wrapper to 2.5.0 RC5

  • New property daf.client.ACCOUNT.removed_servers for tracking removed servers.

  • New property daf.guild.GUILD.removed_messages daf.guild.USER.removed_messages for tracking removed messages.

  • New parameter removal_buffer_length to daf.client.ACCOUNT for setting maximum amount of of servers to keep in the daf.client.ACCOUNT.removed_servers buffer.

  • New parameter removal_buffer_length to daf.guild.GUILD and daf.guild.USER for setting maximum amount of messages to keep in the daf.guild.GUILD.removed_messages / daf.guild.USER.removed_messages buffer.

  • Event loop based API - All API methods that get called now submit an event in the event loop, which causes the API call to happen asynchronously unless awaited with await keyword. This also makes DAF much more efficient.

  • Remote:

    • Persistent WebSocket connection for receiving events from the core server (eg. trace() events).

  • Removed remaining_before_removal property from all message classes.

  • Added remove_after property to GUILD, USER, TextMESSAGE, VoiceMESSAGE and DirectMESSAGE.

v2.10.4

• Fixed prematurely exiting when waiting for captcha to be completed by user.

v2.10.3

• Fixed Chrome driver not working with newer Chrome versions (115+).

• Fetching invite links better bypass.

• Remove invalid presence

• Fixed remaining_before_removal properties

• Fixed SQL queries not working on direct messages.

v2.10.2

• Fixed Unclosed client session warning when removing an user account.

• Fixed documentation of daf.core.shutdown() - removed information about non existent parameters.

• Selenium better waiting avoidance

• Fixed ACCOUNT not being removed from the list if the update failed and the re-login after update failed.

v2.10.1

• Fixed files in DirectMESSAGE.

• Fixed file paths over remote not having the full patch when returned back.

• Fixed files not having full path in the logs.

• Added daf.dtypes.FILE.fullpath to support the previous fix.

• Fixed exception when adding messages inside AutoGUILD, when one of the cached guilds fails initialization.

• Fixed serialization for discord.VoiceChannel, which included slowmode_delay, even though the attribute doesn’t exist in the VoiceChannel.

v2.10

• GUI:

  • GUI can now be started with python -m daf_gui

  • Deprecation notices are now a button.

  • Certain fields are now masked with ‘*’ when not editing the object.

  • Old data that is being updated will now be updated by index

  • View properties of trackable objects. This can be used to, eg. view the channels AutoCHANNEL found.

  • ‘Load default’ button when editing discord.Intents object.

  • A warning is shown besides the method execution frame to let users know, the data is not preserved.

  • Fixed accounts not being deleted when using delete / backspace keys in live view.

• Accounts:

  • Intents:

    • Added warnings for missing intents.

    • Intents.members is by default now disabled.

• Messages:

  • [Breaking change] Removed deprecated feature - YouTube streaming, in favor of faster startups and installation time.

  • New property: remaining_before_removal, remaining_before_removal, remaining_before_removal

  • New parameter: auto_publish to TextMESSAGE for automatically publishing messages sent to announcement (news) channels.

  • TextMESSAGE and VoiceMESSAGE’s remove_after parameter:

    • If integer, it will now work independently for each channel and will only decrement on successful sends.

    • If datetime or timedelta, it will work the same as before.

  • Moderation timeout handling (messages resume one minute after moderation timeout expiry)

  • Message content:

    • Deprecated daf.dtypes.AUDIO, replaced with daf.dtypes.FILE.

    • daf.dtypes.FILE now accepts binary data as well and will load the data from filename at creation if the data parameter is not given.

• Web browser (Selenium):

  • Time between each guild join is now 45 seconds.

  • Selenium can now be used though remote, however it is not recommended.

  • Querying for new guilds will not repeat once no more guilds are found.

v2.9.7

• Fixed channels not being visible though GUI, when using SQL logging.

v2.9.6

• Fixed crash if start_period is larger than end_period.

• Fixed local update not showing errors if updating objects under AutoGUILD

v2.9.5

• Fixed incorrect caching of the SQL logs, causing incorrect values to be returned back to the GUI.

• Fixed detection of browser automation on searching for new guilds to join.

v2.9.4

• Fixed AutoGUILD concurrent access. When updating AutoGUILD, the update method did not block causing exceptions.

• Chrome driver fixes regarding to proxies and timeouts.

v2.9.3

• Fixed AutoGUILD and AutoCHANNEL regex patterns. Users can now seperate names with “name1 | name2”, instead of “name1|name2”. #380

v2.9.2

• Fixed viewing dictionaries inside the GUI

• Other bug fixes present in v2.8.5

v2.9.1

• Security update for yt-dlp

v2.9

• GUI:

  • Template backups for each structured objects.

  • Rearanging of list items inside GUI listboxes

  • Connection timeout to a remote core is now 10 minutes for large datasets.

  • Dictionary editing - GUI nows allows to edit / view dictionary types (JSON). This could eg. be used to view SQL log’s content which is saved to the database into JSON format.

  • Deprecation notices when creating a new object.

  • When opening color chooser and datetime select, the window now opens next to the button instead of window.

• Deprecation:

  • Deprecated Youtube streaming in AUDIO in favor of faster loading times. (Scheduled for removal in v2.10)

• Logging:

  • SQL logs can now be deleted though the delete_logs().

• Web (browser) layer:

  • Time between guild joins increased to 25 seconds to prevent rate limits.

  • Searching for invite links will be ignored if the user is already joined into the belonging guild.

v2.8.5

• Fixed “Object not added to DAF” when accessing broken accounts from remote

v2.8.4

• Fixed web browser waiting time being too little when searching invite links

• Fixed web browser could not create directory (username had a new line after it, now it auto strips that)

• Fix GUI not allowing to define inherited classes (eg. logging manager’s fallback that inherits LoggerBASE)

• Fix item not in list error upon saving if an item was written inside a GUI’s dropdown menu directly and then edited.

v2.8.3

• Fixed new guilds being added whenever daf.client.ACCOUNT’s update method failed.

• Fixed error if passing None inside update method of account for the servers parameter.

• Removed unneded check in object serialization (for remote) which slightly increases performance.

• Fixed Enum values being converted to objects when viewing live items / importing schema from live view.

v2.8.2

• Fixed auto installation of ttkboostrap not opening the main window at the end.

v2.8.1

• Fixed bug timezone required argument 'offset' when trying to save TextMESSAGE #325

• Fixed bug AutoGUILD incorrect type hints #326

v2.8

• Remote control though HTTP access:

  • The core can be started on a remote server and then connected to and controlled by the graphical interface.

  • The GUI now has a dropdown menu where users can select between a local connection client and a remote connection client. Local connection client won’t use the HTTP API, but will start DAF locally and interact with it directly.

• GUI:

  • Method execution

  • Executing method status window.

  • When editing objects, the Y size will now be set to default size every time the frame changes.

  • When executing async blocking functions, a progress bar window will be shown to indicate something is happening.

• Logging:

  • daf.logging.LoggerJSON will create a new file once the current one reaches 100 kilobytes.

  • Improved performance of daf.logging.LoggerJSON.

  • Loggers will now trace their output path, so users can find the output logs more easily.

• State preservation

  • When using the state preservation (introduced in v2.7), accounts that fail to login will, from now on, not be removed from list to prevent data loss.

v2.7

• Preserve objects state on shutdown (accounts, guilds, …,) [logger not preserved]:

  • daf.core.run() function’s save_to_file parameter or Preserve state on shutdown checkbox inside Schema definition tab of the GUI to configure.

• Analytics:

  • Invite link tracking

  • GUILD: invite_track parameter for tracking invite links

• File outputs:

  • Changed all paths’ defaults to be stored under /<user-home-dir>/daf/ folder to prevent permission problems

• AutoGUILD interval default changed to timedelta(minutes=1)

• xMESSAGE start_in now accepts datetime.datetime - send at specific datetime.

• GUI:

  • Live object view for viewing and live updating objects.

  • Invite link analytics

  • Intents can now also be defined from the GUI.

  • Fixed schema save for enums (enums are not JSON serializable)

• Lowered logging-in timeout to 15 seconds

• [Breaking change] Removed DEPRECATED parameters for daf.core.run() and daf.core.initialize():

  • token

  • server_list

  • is_user

  • server_log_output

  • sql_manager

  • intents

  • proxy

• [Breaking change] Removed DEPRECATED function client.get_client. This is replaced with daf.core.get_accounts(), from which the Discord client can be obtained by daf.client.ACCOUNT.client for each account.

• [Breaking change] Parameter debug in function daf.core.run() / daf.core.initialize() no longer accepts bool. This was deprecated in some older version and now removed.

• [Breaking change] Removed DEPRECATED functionality inside add_object that allowed guilds to be added without passing the account to snowflake parameter. Before it implicitly took the first account from the shill list. This has been deprecated since v2.4.

• [Breaking change] Removed DEPRECATED functionality inside add_object that allowed snowflake ID and Discord’s objects to be passed as snowflake parameter.

• [Breaking change] Removed DEPRECATED function get_guild_user, which has been deprecated since v2.4.

• [Breaking change] xMESSAGE types no longer accept bool for parameter start_in. This has been deprecated since v2.1.

v2.6.3

• Restored support for Python v3.8

v2.6.1

• Fixed logger not being converted properly when exporting GUI data into a script.

v2.6.0

• Graphical User Interface - GUI for controlling the framework, defining the schema (with backup and restore) and script generation!

• Logging:

  • Added author field to all logging managers (tells us which account sent the message).

  • SQL analysis

v2.5.1

• Fixed failure without SQL

v2.5

• [Breaking change] Removed EMBED object, use daf.discord.Embed instead.

• [Breaking change] Removed timing module since it only contained deprecated objects.

• [Breaking change] Minumum Python version has been bumbed to Python v3.10.

• WEB INTEGRATION:

  • Automatic login and (semi-automatic) guild join though daf.web.SeleniumCLIENT.

  • Automatic server discovery though daf.web.GuildDISCOVERY

v2.4.3

• Fixed missing documentation members

v2.4.2 (v2.3.4)

• Fixed channel verification bug:

  • Fixes bug where messages try to be sent into channels that have not passed verification (complete button)

v2.4

• Multiple accounts support:

  • Added daf.client.ACCOUNT for running multiple accounts at once. Proxies are strongly recommended!

  • Deprecated use of:

    • token,

    • is_user,

    • proxy,

    • server_list,

    • intents

    inside the daf.core.run() function.

  • New function daf.core.get_accounts() that returns the list of all running accounts in the framework.

• Deprecated add_object() and remove_object() functions accepting API wrapper objects or int type for the snowflake parameter.

• Deprecated daf.core.get_guild_user function due to multiple accounts support.

• Deprecated daf.client.get_client function due to multiple accounts support.

v2.3

• [Breaking change] Removed exceptions module, meaning that there are no DAFError derived exceptions from this version on. They are replaced with build-in Python exceptions.

• Automatic scheme generation and management:

  • daf.guild.AutoGUILD class for auto-managed GUILD objects.

  • daf.message.AutoCHANNEL class for auto-managed channels inside message.

• Debug levels:

  • Added deprecated to TraceLEVELS.

  • Changed the daf.core.run()’s debug parameter to accept a value from TraceLEVELS, to dictate what level trace should be displayed.

• Messages objects period automatically increases if it is less than slow-mode timeout.

• The data_function’s input function can now also be async.

v2.2

• user_callback parameter for function daf.core.run() can now also be a regular function instead of just async.

• Deprecated daf.dtypes.EMBED, use discord.Embed instead.

• [Breaking change] Removed get_sql_manager function.

• daf.core.run():

  • Added logging parameter

  • Deprecated parameters server_log_output and sql_manager.

• Logging manager objects: LoggerJSON, LoggerCSV, LoggerSQL

• New daf.logging.get_logger() function for retrieving the logger object used.

• daf.core.initialize() for manual control of asyncio (same as daf.core.run() except it is async)

• SQL:

  • SQL logging now supports Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

  • [Breaking change] LoggerSQL’s parameters are re-arranged, new parameters of which, the dialect (mssql, sqlite, mysql, postgresql) parameter must be passed.

• Development:

  • doc_category decorator for automatic documentation

  • Removed common module and moved constants to appropriate modules

v2.1.4

Bug fixes:

• Fix incorrect parameter name in documentation.

v2.1.3

Bug fixes:

• [Bug]: KeyError: 'code' on rate limit #198.

v2.1.2

Bug fixes:

• #195 VoiceMESSAGE did not delete deleted channels.

• Exception on initialization of static server list in case any of the messages had failed their initialization.

v2.1.1

• Fixed [Bug]: Predefined servers' errors are not suppressed #189.

• Support for readthedocs.

v2.1

• Changed the import import framework to import daf. Using import framework is now deprecated.

• remove_after parameter:

  Classes: daf.guild.GUILD, daf.guild.USER, daf.message.TextMESSAGE, daf.message.VoiceMESSAGE, daf.message.DirectMESSAGE

  now support the remove_after parameter which will remove the object from the shilling list when conditions met.

• Proxies:

  Added support for using proxies. To use a proxy pass the daf.run() function with a proxy parameter

• discord.EmbedField:

  [Breaking change] Replaced discord.EmbedField with discord.EmbedField.

• timedelta:

  start_period and end_period now support timedelta object to specify the send period. Use of int is deprecated

  [Potentially breaking change] Replaced start_now with start_in parameter, deprecated use of bool value.

• Channel checking:

  daf.TextMESSAGE and daf.VoiceMESSAGE now check if the given channels are actually inside the guild

• Optionals:

  [Potentially breaking change] Made some functionality optional: voice, proxy and sql - to install use pip install discord-advert-framework[dependency here]

• CLIENT:

  [Breaking change] Removed the CLIENT object, discord.Client is now used as the CLIENT class is no longer needed due to improved startup

• Bug fixes:

  Time slippage correction:

  This occurred if too many messages were ready at once, which resulted in discord’s rate limit, causing a permanent slip.

  

  Fig. 5 Time slippage correction

  Slow mode correction:

  Whenever a channel was in slow mode, it was not properly handled. This is now fixed.

v2.0

• New cool looking web documentation (the one you’re reading now)

• Added volume parameter to daf.VoiceMESSAGE

• Changed channel_ids to channels for daf.VoiceMESSAGE and daf.TextMESSAGE. It can now also accept discord.<Type>Channel objects.

• Changed user_id/ guild_id to snowflake in daf.GUILD and daf.USER. This parameter now also accept discord.Guild (daf.GUILD) and discord.User (daf.USER)

• Added .update method to some objects for allowing dynamic modifications of initialization parameters.

• daf.AUDIO now also accepts a YouTube link for streaming YouTube videos.

• New Exceptions system - most functions now raise exceptions instead of just returning bool to allow better detection of errors.

• Bug fixes and other small improvements.

v1.9.0

• Added support for logging into a SQL database (MS SQL Server only). See Relational Database Log (SQL).

• daf.run() function now accepts discord.Intents.

• daf.add_object() and daf.remove_object() functions created to allow for dynamic modification of the shilling list.

• Other small improvements.

v1.8.1

• JSON file logging.

• Automatic channel removal if channel get’s deleted and message removal if all channels are removed.

• Improved debug messages.

v1.7.9

• daf.DirectMESSAGE and daf.USER classes created for direct messaging.