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Events in discord.py 🐍

terabyte. on March 05, 2021

discord.py has an extensive collection of features. Events are one of the most useful of these. Events are used for welcoming bots, reaction roles,...
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vertigo-blip •

hey, very helpful guide. I was wondering how to trigger an event only if a certain user triggers it? For example, if I wanted to kick a certain user that said 'hello', but not have that kick apply to anyone else who said 'hello', how would I do that?

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terabyte. •

Events are always sent through to the bot, no matter who it's from. However, you can filter them using an if statement. For example, this snippet would work:

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content.lower() == "hello" and message.author.id == person_you_dont_like_id:
        await message.author.kick(reason="your reason goes here")
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You'll want to make sure you use .lower() on the text, because if you don't, they can send hEllo or just change the case of other letters to dodge your system.

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Alexander G •

Hi friend! very good post, and how I see you are also pythonist xD, I really like Python hehe, I have a bot in Discord.py, I do not know much every day I'm getting new things,For now Search by: YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, among other things :slight_smile: I plan to write more post and translate them so that everyone can read, to my bot also translates texts

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terabyte. •

That's actually really cool! So you're making a translation bot?

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Alexander G •

Hello, good exactly no, I mean my bot is of general purpose, translates and make searches also that if interacting with users and so, and good at discord.py because I really like python :p dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...

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terabyte. •

Well your bot looks really nice!

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ffbboy30 •

HI,
Thanks for all this explanation.
I need to make a py script that only receive message from a server.
The server is not mine, how can I register to this server ?
Do you have tips to help me.
Thanks

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terabyte. • • Edited

You can see a guide created by the discord.py creator here to add the bot to the server, which is what you want to do. Make sure that you have the Manage Server permission.

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ffbboy30 •

I haven't this permission , the channel is not mine that why I'm looking for another way

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terabyte. •

You'll need to ask a channel admin to add the bot.

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hemantshukla01 •

hey can any can help how i can add backend trigger url in my code
@client.command(aliases=['AVN'])
async def AVN(ctx):
await ctx.send(f'@everyone Please all join AVN immediately!!!')