Error: 'Client' Object Lacks send_message Method in Discord Bot

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I’ve run into an issue with my Discord bot where it claims that the send_message method is missing from the Client object. I’m receiving an AttributeError each time I attempt to call it. Here’s the updated code I’ve been using:

import asyncio
import discord

bot = discord.Client()

@bot.event
async def on_message(msg):
    user = msg.author
    if msg.content.startswith('!greet'):
        print('!greet command detected')
        await reply_to_user(user, msg)

async def reply_to_user(user, msg):
    print('inside the reply function')
    await bot.send_message(msg.channel, 'Hello %s, I received your message.' % user)

bot.run("your_token")

This is the error message I see:

!greet command detected
inside the reply function
Ignoring exception in on_message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bot.py", line 20, in reply_to_user
    await bot.send_message(msg.channel, 'Hello %s, I received your message.' % user)
AttributeError: 'Client' object has no attribute 'send_message'

Can anyone help me understand what’s going wrong and how to resolve it?

2

totally get ur frustration! discord.py did change stuff, and that method is gone now. try using await msg.channel.send(‘ur message here’) instead to fix it. should work fine!

3

You’re mixing API versions. Discord.py removed send_message around version 1.0. Replace await bot.send_message(msg.channel, 'Hello %s, I received your message.' % user) with await msg.channel.send('Hello %s, I received your message.' % user). Way more intuitive - you’re calling send directly on the channel instead of going through the client. Had this exact problem when I updated my bot last year, fixed it instantly. Check your discord.py version with pip show discord.py to make sure you’re not running something ancient.

4

You’re using old discord.py syntax. The send_message method got deprecated in version 1.0 - they replaced it with something cleaner. Instead of bot.send_message(msg.channel, message), just use msg.channel.send(message) directly. Here’s how your reply_to_user function should look:

async def reply_to_user(user, msg):
    print('inside the reply function')
    await msg.channel.send('Hello %s, I received your message.' % user)

This is way cleaner since you’re calling send directly on the channel object instead of passing it through the client. Also make sure you’re running a recent version of discord.py - the library’s changed a lot over the years.