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DiscordAPIError: Cannot send an empty message with Discord embed

My code is the following:

const { Client, Intents, MessageEmbed, MessageAttachment } = require("discord.js");
const client = new Client({ intents: [Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES] });
client.on("message", function (message) {


    // inside a command, event listener, etc.
    const exampleEmbed = new MessageEmbed()
        .setColor('#0099ff')
        .setTitle('Some title')
        .setURL('https://discord.js.org/')
        .setAuthor('Some name', 'https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png', 'https://discord.js.org')
        .setDescription('Some description here')
        .setThumbnail('https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png')
        .addFields(
            { name: 'Regular field title', value: 'Some value here' },
            { name: '\u200B', value: '\u200B' },
            { name: 'Inline field title', value: 'Some value here', inline: true },
            { name: 'Inline field title', value: 'Some value here', inline: true },
        )
        .addField('Inline field title', 'Some value here', true)
        .setImage('https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png')
        .setTimestamp()
        .setFooter('Some footer text here', 'https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png');

    message.channel.send({ embeds: [exampleEmbed] });
    return;

But it's giving the following error:

DiscordAPIError: Cannot send an empty message
    at RequestHandler.execute (C:\Users\Federico\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:154:13)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async RequestHandler.push (C:\Users\Federico\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:39:14) {
  method: 'post',
  path: '/channels/908380877506089000/messages',
  code: 50006,
  httpStatus: 400
}

It should not do errors, it's code from the original Discord.js documentation: https://discordjs.guide/popular-topics/embeds.html , but it does. I am running the latest version of Discord.JS (13.3.1); and Node.js v16.9.0.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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Fixed: For some reasons, npm install discord.js wasn't actually installing version 13, but version 12. Thank you, @Christoph Blüm !

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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I don't know how did you get "cannot send an empty message". But in discord.js v13, it's messageCreate instead of message. This works for me (it sends the embed when you type "test"):

client.on("messageCreate", message => {

if (message.content === 'test') {
    const exampleEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
        .setColor('#0099ff')
        .setTitle('Some title')
        .setURL('https://discord.js.org/')
        .setAuthor('Some name', 'https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png', 'https://discord.js.org')
        .setDescription('Some description here')
        .setThumbnail('https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png')
        .addFields(
            { name: 'Regular field title', value: 'Some value here' },
            { name: '\u200B', value: '\u200B' },
            { name: 'Inline field title', value: 'Some value here', inline: true },
            { name: 'Inline field title', value: 'Some value here', inline: true },
        )
        .addField('Inline field title', 'Some value here', true)
        .setImage('https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png')
        .setTimestamp()
        .setFooter('Some footer text here', 'https://i.imgur.com/AfFp7pu.png');

    message.channel.send({ embeds: [exampleEmbed] });
   }
});
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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