Getting a discord bot to mention other users

Question

I am working on a bot to do some simple commands for my discord server and I haven\'t been able to figure out how to get the bot to mention people who aren\'t the author.

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Answer 1

The specific error you are getting is caused by not awaiting a coroutine. client.get_user_info is a coroutine and must use await.

If you want "+prank" to work by mentioning by username, you can find a member object by using server.get_member_named.

Example code provided below. This will check the server the command was called from for the specified username and return the member object.

if message.content.startswith("+prank"):
    username = message.content[7:]
    member_object = message.server.get_member_named(username)
    await client.send_message(message.channel, member_object.mention + 'mention')

Answer 2

It looks like you're trying to implement commands without actually using commands. Don't put everything in the on_message event. If you're not sure how to use the discord.ext.commands module, you can look at the documentation for the experimental rewrite branch.

import discord
from discord.ext.commands import Bot

bot = Bot(command_prefix='+')

@bot.command()
async def prank(target: discord.Member):
    await bot.say(target.mention + ' mention')

bot.run('token')

You would use this command with +prank Johnny. The bot would then respond in the same channel @Johnny mention