python-snowflake-2
Based on falcondai and fenhl's Python snowflake tool, but with documentation and simliarities to Discord.
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make_snowflake
This is a function to generate a snowflake.
This function does not return an integer snowflake - it returns a string.
Paramters are listed below.
Here's an example if you want to look at it after reading the below docs:
make_snowflake(time.time(), 0, 0, 0)
timestamp_ms
This is an epoch time paramter. You can get one by running time.time().
Basically, an oversimplified description of the way a snowflake works is by looking at a "twepoch", then subtracting a normal epoch from it (but there are other factors in it, as detailed in the rest of this documentation). That is why you need a timestamp_ms.
Note that the default twepoch is 1639853814 here, but Twitter's is 1288834974657
Discord has some information on this as well. 
worker_id
This can be used internally to keep track of the worker for each snowflake, inspired by Discord's snowflake system.
process_id
This can be used internally to keep track of the process for each snowflake, inspired by Discord's snowflake system.
Discord's documentation shown in worker_id also applies here.
increment_id
This can be used to keep track of 12-bit increments for every generated ID on the aforementioned process.
snowflakeToTime
Converts a snowflake to a Python datetime.
Takes a snowflake ID argument only and converts it to a datetime.
Example:
snowflakeToTime(make_snowflake(time.time(), 0, 0, 0))
24 Sep 21, 2022
3 Jan 8, 2022
4 Jun 12, 2022
140 Dec 21, 2022
2 Sep 14, 2021
1 Jul 27, 2022
2 Dec 14, 2022
9.6k Jan 3, 2023
128 Dec 6, 2022
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145 Sep 14, 2022
5 Dec 24, 2021
3 Apr 26, 2022
6 Dec 26, 2021
3 Nov 03, 2022
5 Mar 12, 2022
1 Dec 21, 2021
1 Jan 04, 2022
8 Nov 18, 2022
1 Feb 06, 2022
2 Feb 09, 2022
2 Jan 03, 2022
49 Jan 01, 2023
8 Nov 14, 2022
0 Jul 17, 2021
3 Nov 17, 2021
57 Nov 06, 2022
2 Dec 16, 2022
1 May 04, 2022
7 Jan 30, 2022