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Kaspr
Kaspr

Reputation: 1616

Find channel using partial name

The scenario I need help with is this. I have several channels I want to send a message to whose names all end with the word “events” (pc events, Xbox events, etc).

Rather than typing the below code over and over again I’d like to find a way to search for all channels that include/end with the word events and then send a message to them.

const xboxEvents = bot.channels.cache.find(channel => channel.id === '111111111111111111')
const pcEvents = bot.channels.cache.find(channel => channel.id === '111111111111111111')
const psnEvents = bot.channels.cache.find(channel => channel.id === '111111111111111111')
xboxEvents.send(eventsEmbed)
pcEvents.send(eventsEmbed)
psnEvents.send(eventsEmbed)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 472

Answers (1)

Zsolt Meszaros
Zsolt Meszaros

Reputation: 23161

You can .filter() the collection by the channel's name and use the .endsWith() method to check if the channel's name ends with a certain string. As .filter() returns a new collection, you can iterate over it and send a message on each channel.

You can also check if the channel's type is either text or news as only these have a .send() method.

const channels = bot.channels.cache.filter(
  (channel) =>
    channel.name.endsWith('event') && ['text', 'news'].includes(channel.type)
);

channels.each((channel) => channel.send(eventsEmbed).catch(console.error));

If you want to check if the channel name includes the string "event", you can use .includes() instead of .endsWith().

Upvotes: 1

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