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Vince
Vince

Reputation: 129

Discord Bot pin message

Im kinda new to discord bot and python so I am running into a little trouble understanding where I am going wrong. Basically I want to get my bot to pin a message. I found a documentation for python code which says to use pin_message() so i have:

if "pinm()" == message.content.lower():
   #to pin a message
   message.channel.pin_message(messageID)

but i get the following error AttributeError: 'TextChannel' object has no attribute 'pin_message'

When I look at the Discord documentation it says PUT /channels/{channel.id}/pins/{message.id} I dont really understand how to translate this down to code so i have something like this:

    if "pinm()" == message.content.lower():
        #to pin a message
        allPins = message.channel.pins(messageID)

but i get the error pins() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given. The sources i am following are

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#add-pinned-channel-message

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#message

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong with this? :(

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7064

Answers (1)

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 60994

Edit: You're actually using , so you need to do 

msg_to_pin = await message.channel.get_message(int(messageID))
await msg_to_pin.pin()

Original:

You need to use the Client.pin_message, passing a Message object (not the id). You frequently already have the message object, but otherwise you'll have to use Client.get_message, which requires you to also know the channel the message is in.

msg_to_pin = await client.get_message(message.channel, messageID)
await client.pin_message(msg_to_pin)

Make sure your bot has the manage_messages permission, or this will fail.

Upvotes: 1

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