Discord.py: Send message to specific channel

[FelixEcker]

Hello There again!

How do i send a message in a specific channel? For example on join of a member i wan't to send a message in the welcome channel. I tried copying the Channel ID and did this:
await client.send_message(442646501433540608, "Welcome to The Hole of Freedom @" + str(member))

But i don't get any message. Or could it be that i test this with a discord bot?

[OneEyedKnight]

http://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-send-a-message-to-a-specific-channel

[FelixEcker]

Thank You! Somehow couldn't find it myself...

[01X2]

Couple of things here:

• You can't just specify an id as a destination, it needs to be a channel object, refer to this: http://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-send-a-message-to-a-specific-channel
• ID's are strings on v0.16
• You shouldn't be mentioning anything by formatting it like this, you can mention a user using: http://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.User.mention

For future questions like these, join the discord.py support server: https://discord.gg/r3sSKJJ

[ahmadallouch]

Hi!
What needs to be imported for this to work?

[numbermaniac]

You only need to import discord to use this.

[Etika-py]

await channel.send('hello') ^ SyntaxError: 'await' outside function i get this error when i try to run it, anyone has a fix for this?

[Richie-Moon]

await channel.send('hello') ^ SyntaxError: 'await' outside function i get this error when i try to run it, anyone has a fix for this?

What have you set channel equal to?

[lganWebb]

Don’t necrobump old issues, and as your error says, you can only use await within an asynchronous function.

[McJoe21]

Can i do this by getting the user args with the channel tagged?

[lganWebb]

Don’t necrobump old issues, and as your error says, you can only use await within an asynchronous function.

Please do not necrobump old issues, especially when the last comment in the issue was telling somebody not to do this. If you'd like help with the library, please join the Official Support Server as the README suggests.