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python-3.xdiscord.py
Mogo
Mogo

Reputation: 121

Giving a role to another user with DiscordPy

I am trying to use a command to give a specific role using DiscordPy, but every search I use brings me to the same answers, that don't help: 1, 2, 3.

Clearly, I'm missing a fundamental part, but i have no idea what. The documentation, covers that there is a add_roles command, but that doesn't give any explanation of how to use it for another user. In fact, trying await add_roles("Team Captain") gives the error NameError: name 'add_roles' is not defined.

What am I missing here? Why does add_roles not exist when it's documented, and how do I use it against a different user.

This is (some of) what I have at the moment, but obviously, doesn't work:

import discord, discord.utils, random, os, re, json
from discord.ext import commands
from discord.utils import get
from dotenv import load_dotenv

client = discord.Client()

load_dotenv()
key = os.getenv('DISCORD_KEY')

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    print('Message from {0.author}: {0.content}'.format(message))

    #Want these commands in the right channel
    if str(message.channel).lower().startswith("bot"):
        if message.content.lower().startswith("$addcaptain"):
            if len(message.mentions) == 0:
                await message.channel.send("Needs a user to give Team Captain role.")
                return
            else:
                await add_roles("Team Captain") #Doesn't work, and I assume would be against the user who sent the message, not the mentioned one

client.run(key)
key = os.getenv('DISCORD_KEY')

Upvotes: 1

Views: 357

Answers (1)

Diggy.
Diggy.

Reputation: 6944

add_roles is a method that belongs to the Member object. This means that you'll need to get the target member, in your case message.mentions[0] as message.mentions returns a list of Members, and then stick .add_roles(..) on the end of it.

Additionally, when adding a role, it accepts Role objects, not just a name or ID. This means you'll need to fetch the role first, which can be done in a multitude of ways, but the one I'll use is utils.get() (other methods such as Guild.get_role() are also available)

This brings us to your code:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    # code
    if str(message.channel).lower().startswith("bot"):
        if message.content.lower().startswith("$addcaptain"):
            if len(message.mentions) == 0:
                await message.channel.send("Needs a user to give Team Captain role.")
                return
            else:
                role = discord.utils.get(message.guild.roles, name="Team Captain")
                await message.mentions[0].add_roles(role)

References:

  • utils.get()
  • Message.mentions - message.mentions[0] gets the first element of the list, which is the discord.Member that was mentioned.
  • Member.add_roles()
  • Guild.get_role() - If you want to use this, you'll do:
    role = message.guild.get_role(112233445566778899)
    where 112233445566778899 is the Team Captain's role ID.

Upvotes: 3

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