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Portevent
Portevent

Reputation: 744

Discord Bot can't find channel by name or id

I'm trying to make a discord bot with DiscordJS

I want to fetch a specific channel :

    const Discord = require('discord.js');

    var bot = new Discord.Client();
    var myToken = 'NDQ2OTQ1...................................................';

    var channelFind = bot.channels.find("id","XXXXXXXXXXX"); // null
    var channelGet = bot.channels.get("id","XXXXXXXXXXX"); // undefined

Whenever I run my bot, it returns null with find and undefined with get. I also tried to find my channel by name

Upvotes: 10

Views: 81745

Answers (5)

Silvia O'Dwyer
Silvia O'Dwyer

Reputation: 254

Make sure you've placed your "find" line within an event listener. For example, let's say you wanted to find the specific channel when the bot connects successfully:

bot.on('ready', () => {
    console.log(`Logged in as ${bot.user.tag}!`);
    var offTopic = bot.channels.get("448400100591403024");
    console.log(offTopic);
});

Of course, there are a huge range of event listeners available, which will suit the scenario in which you want to find the channel. You'll find event listeners in the Events section of the Client Class in the DiscordJS docs. Try this out, and let me know if it works.

Update: 2022

In discord.js v12 and above, bot.channels.get(); should now be bot.channels.cache.get();

Upvotes: 18

Nabeel Khan
Nabeel Khan

Reputation: 3993

You can do it either via .then promise call or via async await as explained here: .

Code will be like this (change the variable client to your bot if needed):

let channel = await client.channels.fetch('channel-id-here')

// or you can use:

client.channels.fetch('channel-id-here').then( () => {
  // do something here
})

I hope it helps both sort of scenarios.

Upvotes: 0

thatmagicalcat
thatmagicalcat

Reputation: 11

    bot.on('ready', (message) => {
        var offTopic = client.channels.cache.get("448400100591403024")
        console.log(offTopic)
    })

Upvotes: 0

Few Tries
Few Tries

Reputation: 23

The way you retrieve information from client changed in discordjs v12, that applies if the information was cached tho.

var offTopic = bot.channels.cache.get('448400100591403024'); //.get('448392061415325697');
console.log(offTopic);

If the information isn't cached, you will need to use the fetch method that Taylan suggested. This method uses Discord API to get the Discord object by an ID.

client.channels.fetch('448400100591403024')
  .then(channel => console.log(channel.name));

You can read more about changes brought with discordjs v12 here

Upvotes: 1

Taylan
Taylan

Reputation: 3157

It seems like the new version of the library uses .fetch instead of .get and it returns a promise:

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const client = new Discord.Client();

client.on('ready', () => {
  client.channels.fetch('448400100591403024')
    .then(channel => console.log(channel.name));
});

Upvotes: 20

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