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Reputation: 345

How can I properly parse for a tagged user in my Discord bot?

I am adding profile cards onto my Discord bot, but I've come across one issue. When someone types !profile @user I am not sure how to properly parse for @user so the bot knows which profile card to lookup.

I first parse message.content and then remove the 9 first chars of the message content (which is always !profile) but the rest of the message content returns the user_id which looks <@289583108183948460> instead of the user's discrim. I have tried using re.sub to remove the special characters (@, >, and <) like this:

a = str(message.content[9:])
removeSpecialChars = re.sub("[!@#$%^&*()[]{};:,./<>?\|`~-=_+]", " ", a)
print(removeSpecialChars)

But the weird characters are still there when I only want the number so I can search it in the database easily. I'm sure there's a way better way to do this though but I can't figure it out.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1602

Answers (1)

mental
mental

Reputation: 836

discord.py's message objects include a Message.mentions attribute so you can iterate over a list of Member. Here are the doc listings for async and rewrite.

With this you can simply iterate over the mentions as so:

for member in ctx.message.mentions:
    # do stuff with member

what you actually want

discord.py allows you to grab discord.Member objects from messages with type hinting. simply add the following to the command

@bot.command()
async def profile(ctx, member: discord.Member=None):
    member = member or ctx.message.author

Upvotes: 2

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