Python Discord bot ! command permissions [duplicate]

Question

I was able to get a Discord bot up and running and have a few commands. One of the commands I have is an "!live" command that I can use to make the bot say "@here I'm live right now - urlhere"

How do I go about making the bot check user permissions so not just anyone can use the command?

This is the code I currently have. All it does is reply when a user uses the command "!live"

    if p_message == "!live":
        return "I'm live on Twitch - urlhere"

Answer 1

Use the actual prefix function that comes with discord.py. I haven't done discord bots in a long time but I can contribute to this.

For example, initiating the prefix is easy.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix = ">")

The client is the actual bot in the discord, and it has a prefix. (In this case, I set it to >)

Now how to define a function. The basic function has this syntax:

@client.command()

async def commmandName(ctx, otherparameters):
    pass

If you want a function with permissions,

@client.command()
@commands.has_permissions(manage_roles = True) //the permissions

async def function(ctx):
    pass

By the way, ctx means context. If you want the author of the message,

ctx.author

If channel,

ctx.channel

and such.

It can also be used in replies,

await ctx.reply

When you want to send a packet to the discord servers, use

await yourFunction

Await just makes it less likely for your program to return errors and stuff to not work.

For further information on command making you can refer to the docs

How to make an efficient command