(429) TOO MANY REQUESTS.

[Xeltor]

The bot for our server is used to parse a lot of data and sometimes it needs to send 10 ~ 15 messages to a single person.

is there a way to have it wait for however long the discord server requires me to wait and then resend the message?

I have tried using a try with catch (RateLimitException ex) but it seems to be completely ignored.

[DuaneTheDev]

string msg = "Top line: \n"; msg += "Middle line\n"; msg += "End line"; e.Channel.SendMessage(msg);

That's a example for sending multiple messages, but it really depends on what you're doing. You could also create a while loop and let it sleep for 1-2 seconds then message until count >= maxMessage

[CPSibo]

If this is something that you're doing frequently, blocking the main thread with a loop is going to become a headache. You might be better kicking off a new thread and putting the loop in there. Either creating a short-lived worker thread for the immediate string of messages or a long-lived consumer thread that reads from some message queue.

As well, if you don't want to rely on a blind flood limit timer (ie. sleeping for x seconds), you can put a nested loop at the end of the first that sleeps, retrieves the contents of the channel, and breaks once your latest message is in there (or fails after x cycles). It'd be more robust but potentially much slower.

[Xeltor]

To give a bit of backstory on what it is i am trying to do.

The bot i maintain is for my EVE Online alliance, we have a !pos command which can return anywhere up to 60+ lines of text, i have already created a loop to put up to the max of 2000 characters in 1 string before sending it out, but there are still times where i would have 10 ~ 15 messages.

Currently i have a blind flood timer that just sleeps the thread the command runs in, for 1 second but that does not always seem to be enough.

What i was hoping for, was some way to catch the error when it happens and have it wait, retry and continue. (Discordsharp.Objects.RateLimitException has a RetryAfter which i was hoping to use for this)

What i will probably end up doing is increasing the timer to 2 ~ 3 seconds, if that still does not work properly i will probably end up making what @Siegen suggested, although i really do still hope that there is some way to catch the error properly and wait for whatever time the server needs me to wait.

[foxbot]

DiscordSharp doesn't have an internal ratelimit manager? @luigifan get on it

The solution I'd reccomend is

   foreach (var m in messagesToSend)
    {
        //send m
        Thread.Sleep(1000);
    }

This will allow you to conform to Discord's ratelimits, which are 5msgs/5seconds, or 1m/1s.