await user pins in discord.py?

Question

When awaiting a pin with on_guild_channel_pins_update , both pin and unpin actions are detected. I am looking to get the message ID of a message the second it is pinned. However, this method's only parameters are channel , returning the channel where the pin action was detected, and last_pin , which returns only a UTC timestamp of the most recently pinned message in channel , regardless of the message that triggered the function in the first place. If this function did not include unpin actions, I could simply use await channel.pins() to get a list of all the pins in the channel and use the message ID of whatever is at index 0, but because this function triggers even when a pin is removed, this creates several cases where the bot would return something that has been pinned for months.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can do this using on_message_edit() , which triggers whenever something happens to a message, which includes being pinned.

@client.event
async def on_message_edit(before, after):
    if not before.pinned and after.pinned:  # check if the action was a message being pinned
        print(after.id)                     # do whatever you want with the ID