Member join on Discord

Hey guys,

So I wanted to have a few custom things happen when a member joined my guild on Discord.

First I wanted a custom Gif to play and I also wanted their role to be set to the newb role.

In order to do both of these, I needed the bot.event to be set on member join. Easy enough with

@bot.event
async def on_member_join(member):

Next I needed the bot to pull the Channel ID for the #general chat. When I got that, all I needed to do

channel = bot.get_channel(channel_ID)

I needed to pull the guild ID next and set it for the bot to retrieve

guild = bot.get_guild(GUILD_ID)

Great, now I added an exception for if the channel did not exist and after that, I wanted the script to open and read the GIF i wanted to play. Then I set that to a variable I could call with the File attribute.

if channel is not None:
        with open('summon.gif','rb') as f:
            picture = discord.File(f)

Noiw the last part was to send the message and, with the role ID, set the role of the new member

await channel.send(f'Welcome to the server, {member.mention}!')
        await channel.send(file=picture)
        role = get(guild.roles,id=ROLE_ID)
        await member.add_roles(role)

And that was that. Now when a new member joined, a GIF would play, they would get a notification mention, and their role would be set.