Discord.py: Is it possible to do this?

[ThiefYT]

I am trying to make a discord bot for my advertising server, and I am still sort of new to coding with discord.py (I have been doing it for about 2 months). I would like to know if someone can type something in chat and then post the author's message in another channel

Example:
User: $ad (in a channel different from the channel the bot will post the message in).
and then the bot posts the author's ad in a certain channel (like a channel for advertisements)

Further Example:
User: $ad join my discord server!
Bot: User said: join my discord server!

I know I haven't really explained it much, but I hope someone can help me, thanks!

[RDIL]

If you get the author's message's ID, you should be able to work off of that if I'm not wrong...

[ThiefYT]

      If you get the author's message's ID, you should be able to work off of that if I'm not wrong...

yeah, that would work thanks

[Harmon758]

Yes, this is possible.
You can simply use Message.content or, if you're using the commands extension, a keyword-only argument parameter to get the content of the message.
You can get the Channel by ID using Client.get_channel or Server.get_channel (Guild.get_channel on the rewrite branch) or you can filter for the Channel by using Server.channels (Guild.text_channels on the rewrite branch) and utils.find/utils.get.
If you're using the commands extension on the rewrite branch, you can accept the TextChannel as a parameter using TextChannelConverter. On the async branch, to accept it as Channel parameter with the commands extension, you can use ChannelConverter:
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/1863a1c6636f53592519320a173ec9573c090c0b/discord/ext/commands/converter.py#L106

For further help, you should join either the official discord.py server or the Discord API server, as the README recommends.

[RDIL]

Was that email really necessary