Feed of DMs sent to a discord.py bot

Question

I have this code:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    print(message.author)
    print(message.content)

this code prints a feed of all of the messages send from channels that the bot has permissions to see. basically i'm trying to write code that does the same with dms. and I can't figure out how.

Answer 1

To check if a message is a dm, check if the Guild is None .

if message.guild is None:
    print(f"DM: {message.content}")

Answer 2

As Stijndcl said above, you want to check if the message is sent in a guild, but you also want to check if the bot sends the message.

if message.author == client.user:
        return
if not message.guild:
    print(f"DM: {message.content}")

If you code your bot further you might end up DM'ing users, and you don't want to log your own messages.

Answer 3

You could use:

if isinstance(message.channel, discord.DMChannel):
    print(message.author)
    print(message.content)

Answer 4

You can also make the bot send DMs to a specific channel using the following -

Just make sure to replace 1234567890 with channel id you want the bot to send the DMs to.

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if isinstance(message.channel, discord.DMChannel):
        emb=discord.Embed(title=message.author, description=message.content)
        channel = client.get_channel(1234567890)
        await channel.send(embed=emb)```