Check for if a user with a specific id exists

[weary harness]

How would I check if a user exists without having an exception thrown due to a failure to send a request to discord?

This is probably a pretty basic question, but I think it's a good one to ask

[weary harness]

for the record, try/catch blocks don't seem to work. I think it's because the callable methods queue a request to discord.

[frank hill]

wdym

[weary harness]

ah, okay

provided an id, how would I check whether a user with that id exists? I'm attempting to guard crashes when attempting to unban a user

[frank hill]

what error are you getting?

[weary harness]

404 Unknown User

I've been testing the unbanning function with a non-existent user id

oop

[frank hill]

you said try catching doesn't work, that sounds strange, it should afaik

[weary harness]

okay, it works now

I had to add await to my unbanMember method.

[25/07/2024 11:42:47 pm] INFO BOT > Attempting to unban user: 1249012409.
[25/07/2024 11:42:47 pm] ERROR BOT > Could not unban user 1249012409 from guild Greenhouse Modding

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thanks for the help, it was just my code

I think warn might be better here

[frank hill]

try/catch without an await goes out of scope of the try so you don't get the error catch afaik