@bot.listen() not doing anything

[mrracoonman]

I'm running this code, and its supposed to delete what a user says and have my bot say it with certain stuff around it.

@bot.listen()
async def on_message(message):
    channel = bot.get_channel(channel I want)
    author = message.author
    if author == user id:
        await channel.delete_message(message)
        await channel.send(f"A Message!?,\n"
                           f"It reads: {message.content}")
    else:
        return

and its not throwing any errors, and when that user says something, the bot does nothing at all.
Could someone explain what I'm doing wrong?

Win 10, py 3.8

[Rapptz]

There are a few issues with this code as-is.

1. author is of type discord.Member (or discord.User). You cannot compare this to a numeric ID. If you want to compare it with an ID you need to do author.id == 123456...
2. There is no method called delete_message in any channel class.

[Cyanomous]

Here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42182243/deleting-user-messages-in-discord-py

[Cyanomous]

also, I think it might be message.delete

[bandwiches]

I think you're looking for discord.TextChannel.delete_messages.