How can I dm a specific User by using Discord.py?

Question

I'm making a discord bot with discord.py and I want to a specific user when a user uses a specific command.

from discord import DMChannel

client = discord.Client()
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix=']')

@client.command(name='dmsend', pass_context=True)
async def dmsend(ctx, user_id):    
  user = await client.fetch_user("71123221123")
  await DMChannel.send(user, "Put the message here")

When I give the command ]dmsend nothing happens. And I've tried dmsend also. But nothing happened.

are you sure `client.fetch_user("71123221123")` is doing what you think it's doing? Due to the addition of intents, you might need to update the user cache before you are allowed to do something like this. — Lucas Roy, Sep 30 '21 at 02:42

Dominik · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-01T15:36:15.580

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A few things I noticed:

You defined client twice, that can only go wrong.

First) Remove client = discord.Client(), you don't need that anymore.

If you want to send a message to a specific user ID, you can't enclose it in quotes. Also, you should be careful with fetch, because then a request is sent to the API, and they are limited.

Second) Change await client.fetch_user("71123221123") to the following:

await client.get_user(71123221123) # No fetch

If you have the user you want the message to go to, you don't need to create another DMChannel.

Third) Make await DMChannel.send() into the following:

await user.send("YourMessageHere")

You may also need to enable the members Intent, here are some good posts on that:

A full code, after turning on Intents, could be:

intents = discord.Intents.all()

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix=']', intents=intents)

@client.command(name='dmsend', pass_context=True)
async def dmsend(ctx):
    user = await client.get_user(71123221123)
    await user.send("This is a test")

client.run("YourTokenHere")

edited Oct 01 '21 at 15:36

answered Sep 30 '21 at 11:44

Dominik

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So how I mange the `client.run ("token")` – Rovindu Thamuditha Oct 01 '21 at 15:32
Just to get it right: You accepted my answer and unaccepted it because you have another question? That is a weird way of handling it. `client.run("YourToken")` has to be at the end of the code, even though this was not part of your question. I just provided the relevant code. – Dominik Oct 01 '21 at 15:33
Oh Sorry bro but when I do it like that it gives me an error.. – Rovindu Thamuditha Oct 01 '21 at 15:39
And what is the error? – Dominik Oct 01 '21 at 15:40
error is too long to type this is the error [error] (https://ghostbin.com/OHkqK) – Rovindu Thamuditha Oct 01 '21 at 15:45
Then you have not read my post. Intents need to be enabled. The error even tells you where to do that. Go to the [Developer Portal](https://discord.com/developers/applications), select your `Application`, go to `Bot` -> `Privileged Gateway Intents` and turn them on. – Dominik Oct 01 '21 at 15:53
Oh Thank you I adjust edited the code and now it is working thank you – Rovindu Thamuditha Oct 01 '21 at 16:45
Questionable why you have accepted the other answer as correct, because this one is incorrect/respectively not complete. You can only mark one answer as "correct" on StackOverflow. – Dominik Oct 01 '21 at 17:03
Yeah It was a mistake so I undo it :) – Rovindu Thamuditha Oct 04 '21 at 07:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '21 at 08:04

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Use await user.send("message")

answered Sep 30 '21 at 08:04

Aditya Tomar

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How can I dm a specific User by using Discord.py?

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