Discord.py AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'send'

Question

i am trying to make my bot send a message in my log channel whenever someone leave or join the server but i am getting the error AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'send' in my console. I have already tried many solutions i found on StackOverflow and other websites but nothing seems to work in my case.

Here is my code:

@bot.event
async def on_member_remove(member):
   logChannel = bot.get_channel(id=myLogChannelIdHere)
   embed = discord.Embed(
      title= "**🚪 Un membre est parti**",
      description = f"${member} a quitté le serveur",
      color=0xda291c,
      set_thumbnail = member.avatar_url,
      )
   embed.timestamp = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
   await logChannel.send(embed=embed)

The thing i don't understand is that i have the exact same thing in other event like for my on_ready event (When my bot come online it send a message in my log channel) and it work perfectly

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
   logChannel = bot.get_channel(id=myLogChannelIdHere)
   await bot.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=discord.Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.watching, name=""))
   await logChannel.send("Le bot est en ligne")
   print(bot.user.name + " est en ligne")

Thanks!

Answer 1

It seems like your logChannel = bot.get_channel(id=myLogChannelIdHere) isn't actually catching the channel, this could happen for a couple of reasons.

The value stored in myLogChannelIdHere is either not a valid channel id that the bot can see, or it is not an Integer. If it's a string, wrapping int() around it will solve it.

One other point may or may not be relevant, when I use get_channel I don't specify the id= parameter, I just pop the channel id straight in.

Answer 2

import discord
from discord import Member
from discord.utils import get

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member:Member):
    if member.bot:
        guild:discord.Guild = member.guild
        role = guild.get_role(config.botRoleID)
        channel:discord.TextChannel = guild.get_channel(YOUR_CHANNEL_ID)
        await member.add_roles(role)
        await channel.send(f'Set Bot role to "{member.display_name}" 😌')

Answer 3

Try to first print out what get_channel returns because if get_channel can't find a channel it will return None.

Try it out by hardcoding an int in bot.get_channel()

and see what it returns

Also check so the Bot actually can see that channel and write to it.

I tried it out on my own bot and it works fine for me.

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