I'm trying to make a discord.js bot which whenever someone types a certain command on Discord, it opens a program on my PC:
client.on("message", (message) => {
if (message.content == "!ping") {
//here I want to open a program on my pc
}
});
Assuming you are using Node you can include the execFile function from the child_process package and just call it from the command line.
const { execFile } = require("child_process");
client.on("message", (message) => {
if(message.content == "!ping") {
execFile("<path to file>", ["optional arg1", "optional arg2"]);
}
});
Or if you just want to run a command, just exec
const { exec } = require("child_process");
client.on("message", (message) => {
if(message.content == "!ping") {
exec("<shell command>", ["optional arg1", "optional arg2"]);
}
});
Check out https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_processexeccommand-options-callback for documentation.
You may need to "npm install child_process"