CODEWITHSUNDEEP
discord.js
Cookid
Cookid

Reputation: 71

Discord server with many members formats tags into a <!@> type, how can I make a discord.js bot handle these?

I have a command that is repeating a message, and replacing the first 2 parts of the message with nothing, which are 'c!fquote @user' in the actual message. This works on any server with few members, but at some threshhold (im not sure when) discord changes tags to a format using . When pasted into chat, it does tag the person but my bot reads off the actual tag.

 let user = message.mentions.users.first()
 let saymsgchecked = saymsg.replace("c!fquote " + user," ")
     if(saymsgchecked.endsWith(" ")){
       message.channel.send(helpquoteEmbed)
     }
     else{
       const quoteEmbed = new Discord.RichEmbed()
       .setColor('#00abff')
       .setAuthor(user.username + " said:", user.avatarURL, '')
       .setTitle(saymsg.replace("c!fquote " + user,""))
       .setTimestamp()
       message.channel.send(quoteEmbed)
       message.delete(1)
     }

So the main part here; "(saymsg.replace("c!fquote " + user,""))", is replacing these two in the message. User, in small servers, reads as @username. Works good! But in larger servers, it reads as "< !@659818749185728 >" (random numbers for example, without the spaces) but the message contains @username, not that string of numbers, so it doesnt replace it. How can I handle this formatting? I've thrown the bot into 2 servers with 200+ members and into 3 random new ones with under 5 users, and it does the same exact thing in the large servers but works perfectly in small servers.

So basically what I'm looking for is, either: How can I make it stop reading the usertag as a number string in large servers? or; How can I change the "+ user" into something that includes both the actual tag text (eg. @username) and the string (eg. < !@4598572198454523>)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1670

Answers (3)

yaas
yaas

Reputation: 144

I think the best way to do this is once you have the user, use their id.

// don't use this if you need the user object later, and not just the id.
const { id } = message.mentions.members.first();
// to mention that person as the bot
message.channel.send(`Hey there, <@${id}>`);

There shouldn't be a problem with this, but if there is feel free to comment below and let me know what is happening if the problem changes.

Upvotes: 0

Cookid
Cookid

Reputation: 71

An update:

I've done a double filter for the ID with:

setTitle(saymsg.replace("c!fquote <@!" + userlarge.id + "> ",""))

it works, but is an ineffective solution because i'm creating a duplicate once it checks if the server has over N members. I have it set at, if the server has over 100, use this format instead of the tag format, because 100 is a nice round number. But I don't know exactly when the formatting changes to <@!>, it could be 250 or maybe even 23. I don't know, so I'm still looking for an alternate solution to this.

Upvotes: 1

ByteFlowr
ByteFlowr

Reputation: 500

The mesaage contains <@ID> or <@!ID, you have to filter for it. The display of the message might be different. Moreover you can take a look at https://discord.js.org and search for mention to get the mentions of a message very easy.

Upvotes: 1

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