I'm beginning programming a discord bot, and I did my first command which is to hug another member. The answer is along with an anime hug gif. But now, what I would like to do is, instead of only setting one gif, to put on some others which would be selected randomly. However, I don't know how to proceed to a random gif.
const Discord = require("discord.js");
const { UserAgent } = require("discord.js/src/util/Constants");
const ytdl = require("ytdl-core");
const Client = new Discord.Client({
intents : [
Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES
]
});
const prefix ="<";
Client.on("ready", () => {
console.log("bot opérationnel")
});
Client.on("message", message => {
if (message.author.bot) return;
if (message.content.startsWith (prefix + "hug")){
let mention = message.mentions.members.first();
if(mention === undefined){
message.channel.send("u have to hug someone who actually exists");
}
else {
const embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
.setColor("DARK_RED")
.setTitle(":hugging: " + mention.displayName + " recieved a hug from " + message.author.username + " !")
.setImage("gif.gif");
message.channel.send({embeds: [embed]});
}
}
});
Client.login("token");
So this would be selecting a random element from an array of gifs,
const hugs = ['gif1.gif', 'gif2.gif'];
const randomHug = hugs[Math.floor(Math.random() * hugs.length)];
You would then of course use the variable randomHug as the gif. .setImage(randomHug);
@Michel Mano answer is perfect.
Also, if you have a large number of gifs and you don't want to add all on the list, you can save them as gif{num}.gif on a folder, and then select a random gif just using:
const fs = require('fs')
const randomHug = 'gif' + Math.floor((Math.random() * fs.readdirSync('gifs_directory').length) + 1) + '.gif'