🔒 discord bot i need help with this

[lean musk]

so i am currently making a discord bot that looks up a tiktok username and gives you the information about it
but i can't find the command when you hit enter it searches it for you example !search and then the bot starts doing its thing, this is the source https://paste.pythondiscord.com/3ZHQ

[silver night]

@lean musk

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[formal isle]

get inn

discord question

[lean musk]

what?

[formal isle]

is this a command or an on_message event?

[lean musk]

command

[formal isle]

also im pretty sure you can solve this with a simple get request

[lean musk]

i just started doing python not long

[formal isle]

there arent any commands in the code sample you showed me

[lean musk]

my friend helped me alot so i don't very know my bad but like

does it anywhere say what the command is?

[formal isle]

# event
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    ...

# command
@bot.command()
async def my_command(ctx):
    ...```

[lean musk]

so if i typr

!on_message @example

[silver night]

The discord.py `on_message` event

Registering the on_message event with @bot.event will override the default behavior of the event. This may cause prefix commands to stop working, because they rely on the default on_message event handler.

Instead, use @bot.listen to add a listener. Listeners get added alongside the default on_message handler which allows you to have multiple handlers for the same event. This means prefix commands can still be invoked as usual. Here's an example:

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(message):
    ...  # do stuff here

# Or...

@bot.listen('on_message')
async def message_listener(message):
    ...  # do stuff here

You can also tell discord.py to process the message for commands as usual at the end of the on_message handler with bot.process_commands(). However, this method isn't recommended as it does not allow you to add multiple on_message handlers.

If your prefix commands are still not working, it may be because you haven't enabled the message_content intent. See /tag message_content for more info.

[lean musk]

it sends the information ?

[formal isle]

nope

they're two fundamentally different things

an event listener just listens for when an event takes place

this could be a message, a profile change, a status change, etc

a command is exclusively run

and also has a lot more functionality than with a message listener

[lean musk]

i was literally trying to figure out what the command was bruh

for like 2 hours

[formal isle]

lmao

[novel escarp]

You should check out #discord-bots and read the pinned messages.

[formal isle]

[lean musk]

ty

[formal isle]

that code only runs when a message has "tiktok.com" in it

it doesnt even need a prefix

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