How to make a loop in discord.py rewrite?

Question

The bot must do something every 60 seconds. I tried to use create_task, but it does not work(the bot started but nothing happened). How can this be implemented?

Answer 1

client.loop.create_task should still work fine with the rewrite version. Example of a background task in the rewrite version can be found here.

from discord.ext import commands
import asyncio

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


async def background_task():
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    counter = 0
    channel = client.get_channel(123456) # Insert channel ID here
    while not client.is_closed():
        counter += 1
        await channel.send(counter)
        await asyncio.sleep(10)

client.loop.create_task(background_task())
client.run('token')