When a user start a game bot says something or trigger an event

[xNero321]

Hey ! I just started a discord bot today, the main purpose of this is to track the time we spent on each game and cumulating it.
Since i'm a pretty big noob with this API and python in general.
I would like to know if there is a way to fetch when a user start and stop any game.
I look at the doc and find something with discord.on_member_update(before, after) but i'm not quite sure how it works.

Thanks to everyone for this API !

[trevorflahardy]

Heya!

Although you've got the correct idea, it's not quite there yet. When working with events, such as on_member_update, we set them up a certain way. I can walk you a little bit on how to get things up and running.

Let's take a look at the Bot Example using the commands ext:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>')

@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.send('pong')

bot.run('token')

Here, we can see that we use simple decorators in our code to perform certain actions. In this case, @bot.command() being to add a command to our bot. With an event such as on_member_update, we can use @bot.event to denote an event.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>')

@bot.event
async def on_member_update(before, after):
   # do our code

bot.run('token')

So with this idea in mind, we can use it to store member data based on game activity, status, nickname, etc.

Hope this helps clear things up, cheers!