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Discord bot adding reactions to a message discord.py (no custom emojis)

I've been trying to make a bot using discord.py add a reaction to a message using discord.py after reading this (which is not what I wanted because I am not using custom emojis) but it ends up giving this error:

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: InvalidArgument: message argument must be a Message

I tried this code

@commands.command(pass_context=True)
async def emoji(ctx):
    msg = "working"
    await bot.say(msg)
    reactions = ['dart']
    for emoji in reactions: await bot.add_reaction(msg, emoji)

Any other related questions here on discord.py are just not helpful for this Any ideas on how to implement this

Solution

  • The error message is telling you what the error is: "message argument must be a Message"

    In the line

    await bot.add_reaction(msg, emoji)

    msg is a string, not a Message object. You need to capture the message you send and then add the reactions to that message:

    @commands.command(pass_context=True)
async def emoji(ctx):
    msg = await bot.say("working")
    reactions = ['dart']
    for emoji in reactions: 
        await bot.add_reaction(msg, emoji)

    Note that in later versions of discord.py, add_reaction has changed from bot.add_reaction(msg, emoji) to await msg.add_reaction(emoji).