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user5405648
user5405648

Reputation:

Discord bot not sending message on member joined?

I'm trying to send a message to the annoucements channel when members join. This works if I don't use welcomeChannel as a const and define it inside the function, but I don't want to do that.

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

bot.login('*****************************************');

const welcomeChannel = bot.channels.get("name", "annoucements") // also tried .find here

bot.on('guildMemberAdd', member => {
    if (welcomeChannel) {
        welcomeChannel.send(member + ', welcome to the server.');
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

Views: 772

Answers (2)

Federico Grandi
Federico Grandi

Reputation: 6816

I don't think there's a way to do that: you can't await client.login() since it would be top-level, and you can't redefine a constant.
The only way you can keep using that value as a constant is by putting all the rest of your code inside the ready event so that you don't have to change its value.
It would be way easier if you didn't use constants.

Also, you have to use guild.channels.find('name', 'channel_name'), since .get() only works with IDs

Upvotes: 0

Sjoerd Dal
Sjoerd Dal

Reputation: 696

The login method of discord.js is async, meaning that when you define that constant, the bot hasn't logged in yet. If the bot isn't logged in, it can't find any channels. Either keep the constant defined locally or make it a global let and assign it when the ready event is emitted by the client object.

Upvotes: 1

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