I'm using the discord.js library and node.js to create a Discord bot. Right now I need to code the bot such that when you send a message ie: "!send @ hello" it would send a DM to the user mentioned in the message, in this case the string: "hello"
Right now I'm trying to do that by doing the following (code is flawed and definitely will not work but I hope you can understand what I am trying to accomplish):
//get the user mentioned in the message
user = message.mentions[0]
//sending the message to said user
user.send("message")
Is there any way to do this?
this is the error it returns when I try the above code:
console.log((message.mentions)[0])
^ TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')
Message.mentions returns MessageMentions object, which is not an array.
You should be able to get the users by using MessageMentions.users
let user = message.mentions.users.first();
// You need to check whether user exists, because the message could mention noone.
if (user) {
user.send("message")
}
You wil also probably need to check whether User.dmChannel exists, and if it doesn't, you should create it using User.createDM
Try this:
message.mentions.members.first().send("message");