How to get message author id in discord.py? - Discord Python

Question

Problem is, if i try to use message.author.id, it will say

"Cannot find reference 'author' in 'message.py'

Basically what i want to do in the code bellow is: a command that only certain id's have access to and that they can use to give their role away to someone.

Thanks for any help!

@client.command(pass_context=True)
@commands.has(939236844137226290)
async def asteroid(ctx, user: discord.Member):
    if  message.author.id == 939236844137226290:
        role = ctx.guild.get_role(939236844137226290)
        await user.add_roles(role)
        await ctx.send(f"{user.name} has received {role} from {ctx.author.name}!")
    else:
        await ctx.send("Only asteroidblues has permission to give the role away")

Answer 1

The problem is probably that you imported discord.Message but you have to use message.author.id when message is a variable containing a discord.Message instance, which you don't have in this case. But what you do have is ctx, the context, from which you can access the author id by using ctx.author.id.