# discord-ext-pager
[](https://pypi.org/project/discord-ext-pager/)
A simple view-based paginator library for discord.py 2.0. Works with Python 3.8+.
## Usage
[discord-ext-pager] is available on PyPI, and as such can be installed using pip.
Users of Danny's [discord-ext-menus] will find some familiarity
in this library. Provided are the following classes:
- PaginatorView:
The view class that manages pagination and navigation.
- PageSource:
The base class for sources the paginator view can accept.
- ListPageSource:
The base class for formatting a list of items.
- AsyncIteratorPageSource:
The base class for formatting an asynchronous iterator of items.
- PageOption:
A subclass of `discord.SelectOption` used for presenting navigation options.
- TimeoutAction:
An enum for customizing PaginatorView's timeout behaviour.
[discord-ext-pager]: https://pypi.org/project/discord-ext-pager/
[discord-ext-menus]: https://github.com/Rapptz/discord-ext-menus
The `PaginatorView` can be instantiated and used by itself, but page formatting
is handled by subclassing one of the `PageSource` base classes.
```py
from typing import Any, List
from discord.ext.pager import ListPageSource, PaginatorView
class EmbedListPageSource(ListPageSource[Any, None, PaginatorView]):
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# These type parameters denote the page item type,
# source type for page options (demonstrated later),
# and view type. Only needed for static typing.
"""Takes a list of items and formats it in an embed."""
def format_page(self, view: PaginatorView, page: List[Any]):
index = self.current_index * self.page_size
description = "\n".join(
f"{i}. {x}"
for i, x in enumerate(page, start=index + 1)
)
return discord.Embed(description=description)
# Anywhere a channel or interaction is available:
fruits = ["🍎 Apple", "🍊 Orange", "🍋 Lemon"]
source = EmbedListPageSource(fruits, page_size=2)
view = PaginatorView(sources=source, timeout=180)
await view.start(interaction)
```
If the navigation select menu is desired, the `get_page_options()` method
should be overridden to return a list of `PageOption` objects for the user
to select from:
```py
from typing import List
from discord.ext.pager import ListPageSource, PageOption, PageSource, PaginatorView
class MessageSource(PageSource[str, None, PaginatorView]):
"""A single page for displaying a string."""
def __init__(self, message: str, *, current_index: int = 0):
super().__init__(current_index=current_index)
self.message = message
def get_page(self, index: int):
return self.message
def format_page(self, view: PaginatorView, page: str):
# If we don't specify both content and embed, either will
# persist as the user clicks between options
return {"content": page, "embed": None}
class MessageNavigator(ListPageSource[MessageSource, MessageSource, PaginatorView]):
"""A list of messages for the user to select from."""
def get_page_options(self, view: PaginatorView, page: List[MessageSource]):
# PageOption() takes the same arguments as discord.SelectOption,
# except that source= is also required
return [PageOption(source=source, label=source.message) for source in page]
def format_page(self, view: PaginatorView, page: List[MessageSource]):
description = "\n".join(source.message for source in page)
embed = discord.Embed(description=description)
return {"content": None, "embed": embed}
hands = "👈👉👆👇🫵🤞🫰🤘🤙🤛🤜✊👊👋👏🙌"
source = MessageNavigator([MessageSource(s) for s in hands], page_size=5)
view = PaginatorView(sources=source)
await view.start(ctx)
```
When an option is selected, the `PageSource` contained within that option
is appended to `PaginatorView.sources`, causing that source to be displayed.
Another button is automatically provided for users to back out to the last
page source. This can be manually triggered by passing a list of page sources
to the `PaginatorView(sources=)` argument.
## Examples
Click on an example below to see its source code:
[](https://github.com/thegamecracks/thegamebot/blob/04d9909877685acd24654a911b1853e2143fc316/bot/cogs/tags/__init__.py#L123-L162)
[](https://github.com/thegamecracks/thegamebot/blob/04d9909877685acd24654a911b1853e2143fc316/bot/cogs/helpcommand.py#L26-L249)