Discord.py | add role to someone

Question

I have trouble with making an "add role" command in discord.py. I don't know what is wrong; it just doesn't work.

@client.command()
@commands.has_role("Admin")
async def addrole(ctx):
    user = ctx.message.author
    role = discord.utils.get(user.server.roles, name="Test")
    await client.add_roles(user, role)

Answer 1

from discord.ext import commands
from discord.utils import get

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
@commands.has_role("Admin") # This must be exactly the name of the appropriate role
async def addrole(ctx):
    member = ctx.message.author
    role = get(member.server.roles, name="Test")
    await bot.add_roles(member, role)

I think the only real mistake in your code is the lack of pass_context=True in the @bot.command decorator. You may have seen some code without this, but that likely belongs to the experimental "rewrite" branch of discord.py

Answer 2

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def giverole(ctx, user: discord.Member, role: discord.Role):
    await user.add_roles(role)
    await ctx.send(f"hey {ctx.author.name}, {user.name} has been giving a role called: {role.name}")