quitting heroku app from within python script

Question

I have a Heroku app running a discord.py bot and I want to make a remote shutdown command. If I was running from bash i could just do this with exit() or sys.exit() but neither of these work in Heroku as the app will startup again after the exit() because it thinks its a crash. I tried to use os.system but that didn't work either.

Here is my code:

@bot.command()
@commands.is_owner()
async def remoteshutdown(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Shutting down")
    exit()

Thanks in advance

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '20 at 18:59

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Use bot.close() or bot.logout().

answered Dec 11 '20 at 18:59

hayk4

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '20 at 07:47

If you want to remotely shutdown your bot consider using bot.logout(). Replace your code with this:

@bot.command()
@commands.is_owner()
async def remoteshutdown(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Shutting down")
    # Shuts down the bot
    await bot.logout()

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quitting heroku app from within python script

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