Discord.py - how to detect if a user mentions/pings the bot

Question

So I am just wondering, how can I create an event in discord.py where if a user pings the bot it will respond with a message?

I have not found anything concrete anywhere on how to do this and I would appreciate it if someone could help get my feet wet on how to do this. I appreciate it!

Answer 1

I found that the default function discord.User.mentioned_in works

In order for it to check for our bot, we add client.user (which is our bot) in front of the function, making it client.user.mentioned_in(message). The argument message, should be the same argument that you gave for the async def on_message(message) line

Example:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if client.user.mentioned_in(message):
        await message.channel.send('You mentioned me!')

I'm not sure why but I haven't seen any others use this function though. Maybe they just aren't aware of this, and instead use client.user.id in message.content