Get emoji from reaction in discord.py

Question

I'm trying to make an 'accept/decline' embed with reactions, but I cannot get with which emoji the user reacted.

message = await guild.owner.send(embed=embed)

await message.add_reaction('✔')
await message.add_reaction('❌')

def check(reaction, user):
    print(f"reacted")
    return guild.owner == message.author and str(reaction.emoji) in ["✔", "❌"] and isinstance(message.channel, discord.DMChannel)

reaction, user = await bot.wait_for('reaction_add', timeout=1000.0, check=check)

if reaction.emoji == "✔":
    print("tick")
elif reaction.emoji == "❌":
    print("cross")

I get the

reacted

but I don't get anything in what refers to the cross and tick. Is there any way to get it?

Thanks in advance

It seems like return statement of the check function is not going off. I would try printing out the result of it — Graygood
@Graygood I tried but it only worked if I reacted with cross. With tick it stayed the same. I tried making a print("code continued running") after the function, but it only ran when I reacted with cross — Rafael Bradley
Try switching elif part to just if, cause right now it goes into this if statement only once — Graygood
Could you share the function it's in? which I assume also would include the embed — Lemon.py

Łukasz Kwieciński Łukasz Kwieciński · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-24T12:39:55

Simply do the same you did in the check func, also discord by default doesn't have this reaction ✔ you're looking for ✅.

if str(reaction) == '❌': # or str(reaction.emoji)
    print('cross')
elif str(reaction) == '✅':
    print('tick')

Get emoji from reaction in discord.py

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