Discord bot creates infinite loop when responding to messages

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I’m trying to create a Discord bot that responds with a message each time someone posts in the channel. However, something is wrong with my code because the bot starts sending endless messages instead of just one response. Here’s what I have so far:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print("Bot is ready to go")
    await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=discord.Game('!help'))

@client.event
async def on_message(msg):
    keep_going = True
    while keep_going:
        await msg.channel.send(f"some text here")
        break

client.run("TOKEN_HIDDEN")

The bot connects fine but when I type anything, it goes into some kind of spam mode. What am I doing wrong here? I just want it to send one reply per message.

2

Your bot’s stuck in a feedback loop because it responds to its own messages. Here’s what happens: you send a message → bot sees it and replies → bot sees its own reply as a new message → replies again → infinite loop. I made this same mistake when I started with Discord.py. Just add if msg.author == client.user: return at the top of your on_message function so the bot ignores itself. And ditch that while loop - it’s doing nothing since on_message already runs once per message.

3

dude your while loop is completely unnecessary here. just remove the while keep_going: and break lines and keep only await msg.channel.send(f"some text here"). the on_message event already triggers once per message so no need for loops at all

4

Your bot’s stuck in an infinite loop because it’s responding to its own messages. Every time you use msg.channel.send(), it triggers the on_message event again, causing the bot to keep talking to itself. You can fix this by adding if msg.author.bot: return at the start of your on_message function to ignore messages from bots. Additionally, the while loop is unnecessary since you break immediately; simply remove it to streamline your code. The solution is to check if the author is a bot first, and then respond only to messages from actual users.