"on_reaction_add" not triggering on messages send before login

[Akuba-]

That title can be confusing.

I noticed that on_reaction_add does not trigger on messages that have been send before the bot logged in.

Like:

• User 1 sends a message.
• Bot started and logged in
• User 2 sends a message.
• User 2 reacts to User 1s message (<-- this does not trigger)
• User 1 reacts to User 2s message (<-- this does trigger)

[jayktaylor]

Similar to on_message_edit, if the message is not found in the Client.messages cache, then this event will not be called.

http://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.on_reaction_add

[Akuba-]

Huh, how could I miss that part. Well, thats what I figured already.

~Close

[vrumger]

Would it be possible to trigger the event and pass an empty message?

[Harmon758]

Please don't necrobump issues. You should look into using on_socket_raw_receive or on_raw_reaction_add on the rewrite branch. For further help, you should join either the official discord.py server or the Discord API server, as the README recommends.

[vrumger]

Okay. Thanks.