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ViewsDiscordJS (Node) Sending PM to user and await reply
I'm trying to get my bot to send a user a private message when a user types a command, and then wait for a reply to the private message.
Expected flow:
- Jim types:
!auth - bot sends Jim a private message
- Jim replies to the message with
blablabla - Bot sees the
blablablareply and outputs to terminal =>console.log( replyResponse );
I have tried numerous examples I have found from here and in the docs but none of them works.
message.author.send('test').then(function () {
message.channel
.awaitMessages((response) => message.content, {
max: 1,
time: 300000000,
errors: ['time'],
})
.then((collected) => {
message.author.send(`you replied: ${collected.first().content}`);
})
.catch(function () {
return;
});
});
1 answers
Answer question0
message.author.send('test') returns the sent message so you should use that returned message to set up a message collector. At the moment, you're using message.channel.awaitMessages and that waits for messages in the channel where the user sent the !auth message, not the one where the bot sent a response.
Check out the working code below. It uses async-await, so make sure that the parent function is an async function. I used createMessageCollector instead of awaitMessages as I think it's more readable.
try {
// wait for the message to be sent
let sent = await message.author.send('test');
// set up a collector in the DM channel
let collector = sent.channel.createMessageCollector({
max: 1,
time: 30 * 1000,
});
// fires when a message is collected
collector.on('collect', (collected) => {
collected.reply(`✅ You replied: _"${collected.content}"_`);
});
// fires when we stopped collecting messages
collector.on('end', (collected, reason) => {
sent.reply(`I'm no longer collecting messages. Reason: ${reason}`);
});
} catch {
// send a message when the user doesn't accept DMs
message.reply(`❌ It seems I can't send you a private message...`);
}
Make sure, you don't forget to enable the DIRECT_MESSAGES intents. For example:
const { Client, Intents } = require('discord.js');
const client = new Client({
intents: [
Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES,
Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGES,
],
});