CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondiscord.py
user10232468
user10232468

Reputation:

How to mention a sender of a command? discord.py

I created a super simple .report <person> command. I have it so it will be sent to a certain channel when someone types it. What I wanted to do is have it display the name of the user who reported the other user. I don't know how to go about doing that. Does anyone know the best way?

@bot.command()
async def report(*, message):
    await bot.delete(message)
    await bot.send_message(bot.get_channel("479177111030988810"), message)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2466

Answers (2)

Akshat Shah
Akshat Shah

Reputation: 191

You can use ctx.author.mention for mentioning the user. The mention attribute (documented here) returns a string that you can use in the argument to send.

Example usage:

@bot.command("hello", help="Learn about this bot")
async def hello(ctx: discord.commands.Context):
    await ctx.send(f"Hi {ctx.author.mention}! I'm a bot!")

Upvotes: 0

Tristo
Tristo

Reputation: 2398

You could do something like this, where you take the context (ctx) and from it get the contents of the message and its author 

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def report(ctx):
    await bot.delete_message(ctx.message)
    report = f"\"{ctx.message.content[8:]}\"  sent by {ctx.message.author}"
    await bot.send_message(bot.get_channel("479177111030988810"), report)

Upvotes: 1

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