Send private direct message with bot-CodePudding

I'm going to send someone a message from a bot, The following code snippet is what I wrote to do that when I type $sendpm it will ask for an id and then for a message to send.

if message.content == "$sendpm":
    await message.channel.send("What is the users ID?")
    userid = await bot.wait_for('message')
    print(userid.content)
    user = bot.get_user_info(userid.content)
    await message.channel.send("What would you like to send them?")
    pm = await bot.wait_for("message")
    await user.send(user, pm.content)

when I do this I get this error: AttributeError: 'Bot' object has no attribute 'get_user_info'

CodePudding user response：

Based on your error, you will not be able to use get_user_info in this situation. get_user_info also makes an API call to discord every time instead of looking in discord.py's cache, which you shouldn't do too often either. Instead, you should use

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CodePudding user response：

You can use bot.get_user method to find user by ID:

await message.channel.send("What is the users ID?")
userid = await bot.wait_for('message')
print(userid.content)
user = bot.get_user(userid.content)
await message.channel.send("What would you like to send them?")
pm = await bot.wait_for("message")
await user.send(pm.content)

CodePudding user response：

AttributeError: 'Bot' object has no attribute 'get_user_info'

commands.Bot has no attribute called get_user_info. I'm guessing you meant get_user/get_member, which returns a User or Member object which has various attributes to get the relevant "info".

if message.content == "$sendpm":
        await message.channel.send("What is the users ID?")
        userid = await bot.wait_for('message')
        print(userid.content)
        user = bot.get_member(int(userid.content)) # Since message.content would always return a str, we have to make it an int in-order to get a valid "ID"
        await message.channel.send("What would you like to send them?")
        pm = await bot.wait_for("message")
        await user.send(pm.content)

But however, if you want bot.get_user_info, which could be a custom method, to be available globally(where you have access to your bot instance), you can create a 'bot variable'. Essentially a custom attribute in your bot instance.

bot = commands.Bot(...)

def get_user_info(user_id: int):
    user = bot.get_member(user_id)
    return user.name, user.id

bot.get_user_info = get_user_info

As a sidenote: instead of checking if message.content is equal to a user command in an on_message event, you can start using the commands framework