I way toying arround with Discord and Python because I wanted to record the messages and reactions of users.
Therefore I wrote a bot with the library discord.py My first attempts with Python…or let’s say a try and error session….

But in the end I was able toget the reactions and log messages.

below some good references and instructions and an example of my discord bot

Prerequisits:

Installation of Python 3.5<

Python Discord API – https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py

py -3 -m pip install -U discord.py

Python await – https://pypi.org/project/await/

pip install await

Python async – https://pypi.org/project/async/

pip install async

References:

Documentation

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/intro

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discord.html

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/

Tutorial

https://realpython.com/how-to-make-a-discord-bot-python/

My own Bot

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='.')

@client.event
async def on_ready():
   #a = discord.utils.get(client.get_all_members(),name="Test-User", discriminator="9635").id  #GetUserID
    print('Bot is ready.')


"""  crawl message
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if str(message.author) == 'Test-user#111':
         print(f'{message.content} RECEIVED!.')
    else:
        print(f'{message.content} wrong User!.')
"""

#get reaction an log it on another channel crawl message with some condition as an example
@client.event
async def on_reaction_add(reaction, user):
    channel = client.get_channel(6637461198)
    print(f'{reaction}')
    if str(reaction.message.author.id) == '579155970803':
        if str(user.id) != '57915597803':
            await channel.send('[{0.display_name}] -  {0} has reacted with {1.emoji}!; ID = {1.message.id} '.format(user, reaction))
client.run(' some API-DiscordServer String here ')