Discord.py Detecting Reactions

I am making a Discord.py bot that uses DMs. I have a command where the bot will DM you asking for you to react to the action you are trying to do the issue is when the user adds th

Solution 1:

So it turns out

return user == msg.author andstr(reaction.emoji) == '<:Yes:755187983585509517>'

I was checking the BOT adding a reaction not the user, hopefully this saves someone else time.

Solution 2:

Here is a suggestion command I came up with:

@client.command()asyncdefsuggest(ctx, *, suggestion):
    author = ctx.message.author
    file = open("suggestions.txt", "a+")
    file.write(str(author) + " : " + suggestion + "\n")
    embed = discord.Embed(title='Suggestion',
                          description="This Was Suggested By",
                          color=0xE0B802)

    embed.set_footer(text=f"Made By {ctx.author.mention}")
    embed.set_author(name=f"{author}")
    embed.add_field(name=author, value=suggestion)
    await ctx.send("Suggestion Submitted")
    msg = await channel.send(embed=embed)
    await msg.add_reaction('👍')
    await msg.add_reaction('👎')
    await ctx.send(f"{ctx.author.mention} suggested {suggestion}!")

It will send an embed with the suggestion and add the reactions along with having the author that created the suggestion in its footer.

Solution 3:

you could try a wait_for. Examples are here

@client.eventasyncdefon_message(message):
    if message.content.startswith('$thumb'):
        channel = message.channel
        await channel.send('Send me that 👍 reaction, mate')

        defcheck(reaction, user):
            return user == message.author andstr(reaction.emoji) == '👍'try:
            reaction, user = await client.wait_for('reaction_add', timeout=60.0, check=check)
        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
            await channel.send('👎')
        else:
            await channel.send('👍')

(taken from the discord.py API reference https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#discord.Client.wait_for