How to go about getting a list of ids that respond to a message sent out

[stiff gyro]

Making something like a giveaway bot and I want to have the bot dm a certain amount of people who react.
How do I go about doing this? I'm a beginner to hikari btw

[modern lichen]

https://docs.hikari-py.dev/en/latest/reference/hikari/api/rest/#hikari.api.rest.RESTClient.fetch_reactions_for_emoji

This endpoint should point you In the right direction

[stiff gyro]

thanks, how do I give my bot permission to send dms?

[modern lichen]

You can use member.send to send a message to them in dms

[stiff gyro]

users = await sent_embed.fetch_reactions_for_emoji(<channel_id>, message, "emoji")

    for user in users:
        await user.send('Thanks for reacting!')

Like this?

[stiff gyro]

sent_embed = await message.respond(embed) # message object
    
    await asyncio.sleep(endtime_int) # wait for the end of a timer

    users = await sent_embed.fetch_reactions_for_emoji(1006722737668104325, embed, "moneybag") # collect users reactions to message object with moneybag emoji

    for user in users: #loop thry users
        await user.send('Thanks for reacting!') #send dm to each user who reacted

I wrote comments on it so I can understand what's going on, but am I missing something?

[modern lichen]

Have a look at what fetch_reactions_for_emoji returns and check if it's like that :)

[modern lichen]

That should work

And I recommend you don't spam dm people btw

[stiff gyro]

If I’m not mistaken it returns an object u can iterate through to fetch the users that reacted to the message

[stiff gyro]

That’s strange then bc when I check by printing my users variable I don’t see anything in the console

[stiff gyro]

How do you mean

[modern lichen]

Don't DM everyone that joined the giveaway, only DM that one who won (or just ping them in the same channel)

It makes no sense to DM them all

[stiff gyro]

Oh yeah yeah I’m just testing to see that it works

[modern lichen]

That "moneybag" is wrong. Google the unicode emoji literal and paste it there

[stiff gyro]

will do!

[stiff gyro]

I don't think it worked

[modern lichen]

I mean, considering you have a sleep before it, idk

[stiff gyro]

ooooo

I took out that line and got an error

ResponseProxy object has no attribute fetch_reactions_for_emoji

I'm assuming its referring to my message in the form of an embed?

Does it have something to do with the way the message is sent to the channel by the bot? I'm not sure lol

[modern lichen]

Check lightbulb docs for how to get a message from a ResponseProxy

[stiff gyro]

ah ok so i see that I can use .message() to return the response's created messsage

I reran it and now theres a new error

that has something to do with the function itself right?

[modern lichen]

await (await sent_embed.message()).whatever

[stiff gyro]

interesting now it gives the error saying that the "Message" object doesn't have the attribute fetch_reactions_for_emoji

looking in the docs rn

[modern lichen]

because it doesnt

its in bot.rest.fetch_reactions_for_emoji

[stiff gyro]

OHHH

yknow that makes much more sense

[stiff gyro]

Now I would need to figure out how to get the snowflake from the ResponseProxy to pass into fetch_reactions

So to do this would it be something like: sent_embed.message().id() ?

where I turn the proxy into a message object and then get the id of the message obejct?

I tried the above and the result is this:

also, I get this warning

[modern lichen]

because you never awaited it

you just called .id() on a corroutine

[modern lichen]

same thing as here

[stiff gyro]

ok so a couple of things happened

I got this error and realized emd_msg is a snowflake object and so I passed it into the fetch method

I fixed that (yay) then I got this error:

It said 'Unknown Emoji' so i replaced it with the actual emoji again

Then I got this error:

It says it got a list, which is what I'm expecting, so I took the async out for the for loop

Now it runs without errors, but it still doesn't send a dm 😭

Here is the code:

bot = lightbulb.BotApp(token='', intents=hikari.intents.Intents.GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS, default_enabled_guilds=(1006722736074264677))

@bot.listen(hikari.StartedEvent)
async def on_started(event):
    print('Bot has started')

@bot.listen(hikari.ReactionAddEvent) 
async def get_reaction_user(event):
    pass
    #if not event.is_for_emoji('U+1F4B0'):
        

@bot.command()
@lightbulb.option('amount','how much robux?',type=int, min_value= 500)
@lightbulb.option('time','how many minutes?',type=int, min_value= 1)
@lightbulb.command('startrain', 'starts giveaway')
@lightbulb.implements(lightbulb.SlashCommand)
async def embed_msg(message):
    
    rbux_val= message.options.amount  # robux amount
    rain_start = datetime.datetime.now() # datetime start time
    rain_end = rain_start + timedelta(minutes=message.options.time) #datetime end time
    endtime_int = int(rain_end.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")) #end time in secs

#Initialize Embed
    embed = hikari.Embed(title="💸 Enter the ROBUX rain! 💸",  #initialize embed
                        description="**RAIN AMOUNT:** " + str(rbux_val) +
                                 "\n**RAIN ENDS: **" + "<t:"+ str(int((time.mktime(rain_end.timetuple()))))+ ":R>" +
                                 "\n\nReact to enter the rain!",
                        color='#FFFF00'
    ) 
                    
    embed.set_footer("ROBUX RAIN started by" + " " + message.author.username) # set footer

    sent_embed = await message.respond(embed) # message object
    embed_msg = await sent_embed.message()
    

    #await asyncio.sleep(endtime_int) # wait for the end of a timer

    users = await bot.rest.fetch_reactions_for_emoji(1006722737668104325, embed_msg, "💰") # collect users reactions to message object with moneybag emoji

    for user in users: #loop thru users
        await user.send('Thanks for reacting!') #send dm to each user who reacted

bot.run()

[modern lichen]

print what users is and see if its empty or what @stiff gyro

[stiff gyro]

its empty

which is weird cause I reacted to it

[modern lichen]

well there is your issue :P

@stiff gyro you do the iteration over it right after you send the message

so you have no time to react

add the asyncio.sleep before and set it to 3 and then quickly react

and it should work

[stiff gyro]

bet bet bet

It worked!!

Much thanks @modern lichen