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ViewsSend an ephemeral message to person who clicked button
I want to show buttons on a message, but only allow the original requester of the message to interact with the buttons. If anybody else clicks the buttons then I want to send them a secret message telling them that their click was ignored.
I've been looking into this for a while and I keep finding people saying that it's not possible, but yet the Dank Memer bot already does exactly this! If you click a button on somebody else's message then the bot will send you a message saying "This menu is not for you." and it will say "Only you can see this message"
Currently I have this code
const collector = message.createMessageComponentCollector({ componentType: "BUTTON", time: 15000});
collector.on("collect",collected => {
if(collected.user.id !== interaction.user.id){
//collected.member.send("This command is being controlled by somebody else.");
// What can I put in here to send an ephemeral message to collected.user?? I can send them a DM using .send(), but that's not what I want.
return;
}
if(collected.customId === "confirm"){
interaction.followUp("Success");
}else{
interaction.followUp("Ignore");
}
});
Here's a picture of Dank Memer doing it... Which leads me to believe it's possible. (He said this in response to me asking for a leaderboard on one account and then trying to navigate it on a different account.)
Please tell me how this is done!
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Answer question0
Based on this example from the discord.js guide you are able to do this by replying to the collected object as it represents an interaction:
collector.on("collect",collected => {
// Replies to the user who clicked a button that wasn't theirs
if(collected.user.id !== interaction.user.id){
collected.reply({ content: `These buttons aren't for you!`, ephemeral: true })
return;
}
if(collected.customId === "confirm"){
interaction.followUp("Success");
} else {
interaction.followUp("Ignore");
}
});
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To make your reply ephemeral you have to use interaction.reply and get such code:
interaction.reply({ content: `text`, ephemeral: true })