discord.py Bot not responding before reaction add

Question

I've coded a discord bot that adds a role to a user who reacted to a message. The bot also replies to the message 'Hallo Bot'. But when I turn off the bot and turn it on again, the bot won't reply to the message before I reacted to the other message.

    async def on_raw_reaction_add(self, payload):
        mitglied = discord.utils.get(payload.member.guild.roles, name="Mitglied")
        if str(payload.emoji) == "????":
            await payload.member.add_roles(mitglied)

    async def on_message(self, message):
        if message.content.startswith("Hallo Bot"):
            await message.channel.send("Hallo " + str(message.author.name))

dharmey dharmey · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-25T12:12:22

Try this:

@client.event
async def on_reaction_add(reaction, user):
        mitglied = discord.utils.get(user.member.guild.roles, name="Mitglied")
        user_id = reaction.user.author.id
        user = client.get_user(user_id)
        if reaction == "👍":
            await user.add_roles(mitglied)

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
       if message.content.startswith("Hallo Bot"):
          await message.channel.send(f"Hallo <@{message.author.id}>")

Your code is being executed in one single event, and that should not be the case as message and reaction are 2 different events. I've separated them, now whenever you type "Hallo Bot" the bot should reply to you before you having to react to the message.

discord.py Bot not responding before reaction add

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