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Wide
Wide

Reputation: 339

The storage file is not properly formatted (Unexpected end of JSON) discord.js

I'm working on a giveaway bot and got that error. This is the full error

(node:4) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: SyntaxError: The storage file is not properly formatted (Unexpected end of JSON input).
at GiveawaysManager.getAllGiveaways (/app/node_modules/discord-giveaways/src/Manager.js:308:27)
at async GiveawaysManager._init (/app/node_modules/discord-giveaways/src/Manager.js:391:30)

Here is my code:

const { GiveawaysManager } = require("discord-giveaways");
const manager = new GiveawaysManager(bot, {
    storage: "./giveaways.json",
    updateCountdownEvery: 10000,
    default: {
        botsCanWin: false,
        embedColor: "#FF0000",
        reaction: "🎉"
    }
})

bot.giveawaysManager = manager;
    }
})

I'm new to coding so it wil be great if you explain in baby steps

Upvotes: 0

Views: 691

Answers (2)

unfestive chicken
unfestive chicken

Reputation: 373

I had this same issue, and it turns out that the giveaways.json file only had a [] in it. It is best if you just don't add a file because the module should add one for you!

Upvotes: 2

Mineko Kayui
Mineko Kayui

Reputation: 761

The storage file is your ./giveaways.json. As seen in the npm documentation, it saves the file in JSON format which is highly likely to go wrong, make sure that you haven't touched the giveaways.json file, much less change it. Adding even a single line in the giveaways.json file may cause the GiveawaysManager to append wrongly and not be able to read it.

My suggestion is basically delete the ./giveaways.json file. This should refresh the file and be rid of all syntax errors unless it was from the npm module itself. Note that deleting it, will delete and therefore, stop all the giveaways in process, so make sure you have no giveaways in progress.

If this doesn't fix the issue, then delete the ./giveaways.json file again, and create a new ./giveaways.json file with this as it's contents:

{}

Upvotes: 0

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