How do I get the avatar of a specific user using his user id with discord.py

Question

I used discord.py to make a bot that stores the user ids in its database to identify them but I can't figure out how to get the avatar of a specific user just by using their id. I searched around and found about something like this - Client.get_user() but it doesn't work for me as I couldn't understand it's working from the documentation. Is there any way I can pick up a user's id string from my database and pass it through a function to get that user's avatar and use that in an embed?

I found another question on StackOverflow like mine but the solution in that one doesn't work for me as well.

Answer 1

According to the article, you get the user's id and request the avatar data of the user. It looks like string. Here is the sample JSON response from the request:

{
  "id": "80351110224678912",
  "username": "Nelly",
  "discriminator": "1337",
  "avatar": "8342729096ea3675442027381ff50dfe",
  "verified": true,
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "flags": 64,
  "premium_type": 1,
  "public_flags": 64
}

Now when you get this: "avatar": "8342729096ea3675442027381ff50dfe", you know that the avatar data is 8342729096ea3675442027381ff50dfe. After that, you will use Image Base Url for images: https://cdn.discordapp.com/.
To request an image you have to chose format (jpg, gif, png etc...). So your final request should be:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/{user_id}/{user_avatar}.png

where user_id and user_avatar are variables to be changed. For example:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/80351110224678912/8342729096ea3675442027381ff50dfe.png