Discord.py add reaction role issue

Question

I've started to create a bot for my discord, trying to add a role after a user's reaction, but I still have a 403 forbidden (error code 50013): Missing permission when I've already put in the right permissions (8) to the bot.

@client.event
async def on_raw_reaction_add(payload):
    message_id = payload.message_id
    if message_id == 706945439945195551:
        guild_id = payload.guild_id
        guild = discord.utils.find(lambda g : g.id == guild_id, client.guilds)

        if payload.emoji.name == 'montmo':
            role = discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='membre')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\ProgramData\Python\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 312, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "c:/Users/bntth/Documents/Python/Projets/Bot discord/bot_elogic.py", line 47, in on_raw_reaction_add
    await member.add_roles(role)
  File "D:\ProgramData\Python\lib\site-packages\discord\member.py", line 641, in add_roles
    await req(guild_id, user_id, role.id, reason=reason)
  File "D:\ProgramData\Python\lib\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 221, in request
    raise Forbidden(r, data)
discord.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden (error code: 50013): Missing Permissions

Do you have any idea what might be causing this mistake? Did I forget something in the configuration or the code? Thank you in advance for your help

Diggy. Diggy. · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-13T22:42:58

The bot's highest role has to be higher than the role you're attempting to add.

Consider this list of roles:

Admin
Bot
Moderator
Member

Member is the default. They're not able to assign Moderator, Bot or Admin to other members.
In the same way, people with Moderator won't be able to assign Bot or Admin, but are able to assign Member roles.
And if a bot with role Bot tried to assign Admin to another user, it wouldn't have the permissions to. However, it would have the permissions to assign Moderator and Member roles.

To fix this, just move the Bot role to the top of the list, and then it'll be able to assign all roles.

Discord.py add reaction role issue

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