discord.py Fetching messages by content

Question

I'm trying to build a discord bot for reaction roles. To do this, I'm trying to use the on_reaction_add combined with fetch_message to check if the reaction added was to the message that the bot sent but I keep getting various error with fetch_message. Here is the code:

@bot.command()
async def createteams(ctx):
    msg = await ctx.send("React to get into your teams")
    await msg.add_reaction("1️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("2️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("3️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("4️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("5️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("6️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("7️⃣")
    await msg.add_reaction("8️⃣")




@bot.event
async def on_reaction_add(reaction, user):
    id = reaction.message.id
    if await reaction.message.author.fetch_message(reaction.message.id) == "React to get into your teams":
        print("Success")

This gives me the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 312, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "hypixel.py", line 60, in on_reaction_add
    fetch = await reaction.message.author.fetch_message(id)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/abc.py", line 955, in fetch_message
    channel = await self._get_channel()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/member.py", line 243, in _get_channel
    ch = await self.create_dm()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/member.py", line 109, in general
    return getattr(self._user, x)(*args, **kwargs)
AttributeError: 'ClientUser' object has no attribute 'create_dm'

But when I go and copy the ID of the message I reacted to, its the same as the printed variable id but it still says Message Not Found

Thanks

Are you sure you've pasted all your code? It looks like you're trying to call to an unexisting create_dm function somewhere in your code. — Marc Sances
This is all the code that relevant but ill put the whole thing if it helps — Tanuj KS
its calling the create_dm from the on_Reaction_add according to the error message — Tanuj KS

Tanuj KS Tanuj KS · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-13T18:00:09

I figured out the issue, you can't use fetch_message with user it needs to be channel so I changed my code to

await reaction.message.channel.fetch_message(id) and it worked :)

discord.py Fetching messages by content

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