Verify channel and role through discord.py

Question

I want to make it so that when someone types $verify in the #verify channel they receive the "Members" role and it deletes the $verify message. It should also be able to delete any other message sent that isn't $verify. This is my code that doesn't work:

async def on_message(message):
    delmessage = client.get_channel(976724314600644649)
    if message == "$verify":
        await message.message.delete(delete_after=5)
        user = message.message.author
        role = discord.utils.get(user.guild.roles, name="Members")
        await user.add_roles(role)
        embed = discord.Embed(title="Verified", description=f"You have been verified in LXVI", color=0x0000FF)
        await user.send(embed=embed)
    else:
        await delmessage.purge(limit=1)

This code which I've commented out-

#async def verify(ctx):
#    await ctx.message.delete()
#    user = ctx.message.author
#    role = discord.utils.get(user.guild.roles, name="Members")
#    await user.add_roles(role)
#    embed = discord.Embed(title="Verified", description=f"You have been verified in LXVI",
color=0x0000FF)
#    await user.send(embed=embed) 

-works to simply verify the user when they type $verify and it deletes the message and sends them a dm, but it doesn't account for any other messages sent in the channel.

Answer 1

This deletes every message in the channel with the id of 976724314600644649. It adds the role Members before deleting if the message content is $verify.

async def on_message(message):
  if message.channel.id == 976724314600644649:
    if message.content == "$verify":
        role = discord.utils.get(message.guild.roles, name="Members")
        await message.author.add_roles(role)
        embed = discord.Embed(title="Verified", description=f"You have been verified in LXVI", color=0x0000FF)
        await message.author.send(embed=embed)
    await message.delete()

Answer 2

There are 2 areas I would look at:

• What security context is the script running under, specifically what user is executing it? It is probably a system security context and that context doesn't have access to the files.

• Where is the script running and is the path to the place it is running not matching the relative paths defined.