on_member_join does not work, Discord.py

Question

I was developing a bot and then I decided to create a feature that would receive members and send a short message in your DM.

I made the following code:

Instance of the Client class:

client = discord.Client()

Function on_member_join

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
    await member.send(
        f'Olá {member.name}, bem vindo ao server!'
    )

But the code didn’t work. I made sure that the argument guild_subscriptions was valuable True and I’m in the version 1.5.1.

What may have occurred and how I could solve this problem?

Answer 1

To send a DM for the user you need to first create a private chat with the user and then send a message to that channel.

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
    await member.create_dm()  # cria um chat privado
    await member.dm_channel.send(  # envia a mensagem para o chat privado
        f'Olá {member.name}, bem vindo ao server!'
    )

References:

• https://realpython.com/how-to-make-a-discord-bot-python/#welcoming-new-Members
• https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?ght=on_member#Discord.on_member_join