Discord.py How to ping users?

How do I let my discord bot ping users? I'm using it for a welcome style message. I still need to figure out how to add channel ID but the pinging problem has stopped me before

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
await member.send(f"{member.name} has joined")

This is what I used

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CircuitSacul

Discord uses special formatting for pings: <@user_id>. With discord.py, there are two easy ways to ping a user:

#  If you have the ctx object (inside a command)
await ctx.send(ctx.message.author.mention)

# If you have a message object (such as the on_message event)
await message.channel.send(message.author.mention)

# If you know their ID
await ctx.send("<@" + str(user_id) + ">")

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slavstic

Thank you! Now I just need to figure out how to use it in the on_member_join event @LD1

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Coder100

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
  await member.send(f"@{member.name} has joined")

if that doesn't work, maybe try

@client.event
async def on_member_join(member):
  await member.send(f"<@!{member.id}> has joined")

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CircuitSacul

@Coder100 It's always <object>.mention, .name and .id will send just their name or their id.

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Coder100

yeah so i encapsulated with the ping <@! and > @LD1

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CircuitSacul

@Coder100 Oh sorry I missed that.

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slavstic

So i tried those commands and also kind of combined it with LD1's response, and now i think it's the channel id that's the problem.

@client.event
async def on_member_join(welcomeChannel, member):
  welcomeChannel = client.get_channel(490042165926428672)
  await welcomeChannel.send("<@" + str({member.name}) + ">")

Do you know how to make it message the specific channel?
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CircuitSacul

@slavstic See if this fixes it

@client.event
async def on_member_join(welcomeChannel, member):
  welcomeChannel = client.get_channel(490042165926428672)
  await welcomeChannel.send("<@" + str(member.id) + ">")

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slavstic

@LD1 Nope. No error or anything. Pretty odd

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CircuitSacul

Try this then

@client.event
async def on_member_join(welcomeChannel, member):
  try:
    print("Event Called")
    welcomeChannel = client.get_channel(490042165926428672)
    print("Welcome Channel": welcomeChannel)
    await welcomeChannel.send(member.mention)
    print("Sent")
  except Exception as e:
    print(type(e), e)

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Teslestien

@client.event async def on_message(message): if message.content.startswith("$summon"): await message.channel.send(f"{message.author.mention} has been summoned.")