Discord bot check if user is admin

Question

Hi i\'m new to python coding with discord and I have tried to make a command that tells the user if they are a admin or not but well... its not working in the slightest

Answer 1

You can use the has_permissions check to see if a user has the administrator privilege.

We can then handle the error that failing that check will throw in order to send a failure message.

from discord.ext.commands import Bot, has_permissions, CheckFailure

client = Bot()

@client.command(pass_context=True)
@has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def whoami(ctx):
    msg = "You're an admin {}".format(ctx.message.author.mention)  
    await client.send_message(ctx.message.channel, msg)

@whoami.error
async def whoami_error(error, ctx):
    if isinstance(error, CheckFailure):
        msg = "You're an average joe {}".format(ctx.message.author.mention)  
        await client.send_message(ctx.message.channel, msg)

Answer 2

If message.author.server_permissions.administrator doesn't work.

Change it to message.author.guild_permissions.administrator

Or try message.author.top_role.permissions.administrator, this will return you a bool.

One thing is, normally the server owner sets the administrator to the server top role, so this will work most of the time. But if they don't, the third sol won't work.

Answer 3

Change

@client.command(name="whoami",description="who are you?")
async def whoami():

to

@client.command(pass_context=True)
async def whoami(ctx):

Then you can use ctx to get all kinds of stuff like the user that wrote it, the message contents and so on

To see if a User is an administrator do
if ctx.message.author.server_permissions.administrator: which should return True if the user is an an Administator

Your code should look like this:

import discord
import asyncio
from discord.ext.commands import Bot

client = Bot(description="My Cool Bot", command_prefix="!", pm_help = False, )
@client.event
async def on_ready():
  print("Bot is ready!")
  return await client.change_presence(game=discord.Game(name='My bot'))

@client.command(pass_context = True)
async def whoami(ctx):
    if ctx.message.author.server_permissions.administrator:
        msg = "You're an admin {0.author.mention}".format(ctx.message)  
        await client.send_message(ctx.message.channel, msg)
    else:
        msg = "You're an average joe {0.author.mention}".format(ctx.message)  
        await client.send_message(ctx.message.channel, msg)
client.run('Your_Bot_Token')