I want to make my bot react to a users message when they type a certain sentence.
My code to reply:
await ctx.message.reply("I just replied to you")
I get the error:
ctx.message has no attribute "reply"
What code can I do to make the bot reply to the message?
When I say reply, I mean the same as a user can press reply on a message
To any new user here, as of the 1.6.0 discord.py-rewrite update, you are now able to reply!
Every message or context now has a reply attribute. To reply, simply use
await ctx.reply('Hello!')
You can also not mention the author in the reply with mention_author=False
await ctx.reply('Hello!', mention_author=False)
You can also find a basic example Here
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
if message.content == "hi":
await message.channel.send("hello", reference=message)
The main thing here is reference=message. It is available since Discord.py 1.6.
Discord.py does not have support for the new "reply" feature yet. Unfortunately, you can't really use the reply feature unless they added it to the libary.
one option is to use a Cog.listener you can find documentation on Cog.listener here, but to answer your question, the way I did my Cog.listener was:
@bot.listen('on_message')
async def stuff(message):
if message.content.startswith("buttlerprefix"): # this tells the bot what to listen for. If a user types `buttlerprefix` in any text channel, it will respond with what's below
msg = await message.channel.send("my prefix is `>`") # set the sending message equal to a variable so that you can manipulate it later like I did with the timer, and delete function below
await asyncio.sleep(10) # tells the bot to wait 10 seconds before continuing below
await msg.delete() # deletes the send message after 10 seconds
if you have any further questions, or you encounter any errors that I don't see here, then please follow up with me :)