I'm trying to make a discord bot say a certain message when it first joins a Discord Server, so when the bot first joins a Discord Server, it will say something along the lines of "Hello everyone....". I looked at a lot of sources but none seem to be JavaScript. Can anyone help?
client.on('guildCreate', joinedGuild => {
//Blah
}
Documentation for the guildCreate handler here.
You can set up an event listener to execute whenever it registers a new guild.
For example:
Client.on("guildCreate", guild => {
// Code to be executed whenever a new guild is registered
});
You can find out more here.
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I am trying to execute bot functions from a node express server and it seems the best option is the DiscordJs package (correct me if I'm wrong for this use-case). For example, a user takes some action on my web application that would grant them a role to access different channels. The DiscordJs docs all seem to focus on actions like this being prompted from the discord server through bot commands or detecting changes with members.
I would like to execute bot functions from my express server by instantiating one client, logging that client in, and executing functions from the server. Something to the effect of
const client = new Discord.Client({intents: [Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, "GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILD_MEMBERS"]});
client.on("<some event on express server>", (event) =>{
//event actions
});
client.login(token)
Is DiscordJs the right tool for this use case? Should I be using something other than Discord.Client to do this? Any suggestions/input would be appreciated.
DiscordJs is a great package, I have a fair amount of experience using it.
For your use case I think it would work great.
client.on(event, function) will only take Discord events as event arguments. These are listed here:
https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/stable/class/Client
You could however use events from your web server using something similar to below
const client = new Discord.Client({intents: [Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, "GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILD_MEMBERS"]});
yourWebServer.on("yourEvent", (event) => {
client.doSomething()
}
client.login(token)
The main problem to tackle if you wish to use the discord client in this way is identifying the Guild/Message/Role/Whatever you want to change.
Normally, discord bots react to messages so they have access to a lot of data very quickly. In the below example, the bot can get a great deal of information from the message data alone, like the author, the guild it was posted in, the roles in that guild etc. You can see a list of properties here: https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/stable/class/Message
const client = new Discord.Client({intents: [Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, "GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILD_MEMBERS"]});
client.on("messageCreate", (message) => {
client.doSomething()
});
client.login(token)
If you plan to use this discord bot on just 1 server messing around with your friends or whatever (i do this a lot), you can find your server's Guild ID and hardcode it somewhere into your bot. You can then fetch all roles/messages/users/whatever as you wish.
For any wider usage you'd have to get the context from somewhere else, e.g. inputting ids on a form on your web server.
Have a good read of the discord.js documentation, its very well made in my opinion. Get an idea of what information you want to access, and how you can access it. It will then be easier to determine what context you need to give the bot to find this information.
For those wondering how to use discordjs client commands outside of an event listener it is possible but requires diligent use of async/await. Check this thread for more insight https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/issues/3100
I have a Bot I have built with MS BotFramework, hosted on Azure. The Bot is built to start the convo with a Welcome Message. When I test the bot through emulator, or on Azure test webchat, the bot will initiate the conversation as expected with the welcome message.
However, in my chat client using BotFramework-DirectLineJS, it isn't until I send a message that the bot will respond with the Welcome message (along with a response to the message the user just sent).
My expectation is that when I create a new instance of DirectLine and subscribe to its activities, this Welcome message would come through. However, that doesn't seem to be happening.
Am I missing something to get this functionality working?
Given this is working for you on "Test in Webchat", I'm assuming your if condition isn't the issue, but check if it is if (member.id === context.activity.recipient.id) { (instead of !==). The default on the template is !== but that doesn't work for me outside of emulator. With === it works both in emulator and other deployed channels.
However, depending on your use cases you may want to have a completely different welcome message for Directline sessions. This is what I do. In my onMembersAdded handler I actually get channelId from the activity via const { channelId, membersAdded } = context.activity;. Then I check that channelId != 'directline' before proceeding.
Instead, I use the onEvent handler to look for and respond to the 'webchat/join' event from Directline. That leaves for no ambiguity in the welcome response. For a very simple example, it would look something like this:
this.onEvent(async (context, next) => {
if (context.activity.name && context.activity.name === 'webchat/join') {
await context.sendActivity('Welcome to the Directline channel bot!');
}
await this.userState.saveChanges(context);
await this.conversationState.saveChanges(context);
})
You'll still want to have something in your onMembersAdded for non-directline channel welcome messages if you use this approach.
I have created a discord bot by taking reference from this digital ocean link.
Now I can send message to any channel using the bot but my requirement is to send dm to user of that server.
For that I have tried many SO answers and followed other links, but all the solutions end up to be same.
I have tried this two way to get the users of a guild and send dm to any one selected user.
1st way - Get all users of guild (server)
const client_notification = new Discord.Client();
client_notification.on('ready', () => {
console.log("Notification manager ready");
let guild = client_notification.guilds.cache.get("Server ID");
guild.members.cache.forEach(member => console.log("===>>>", member.user.username));
});
client_notification.login("login");
Output
Notification manager ready
===>>> discord notification
By this way it only returns me the bot name itself. Although the membersCount is 6.
2nd way - send dm to user directly (server)
client.users.cache.get('<id>').send('<message>');
It gives me undefined in output.
My configs,
Node version: 10.16.3
discord.js version: 12.5.1
My question is how to get all the guild members in discord.js?
Discord added privileged gateway intents recently. So to fetch all member data you need to enable that in the developer portal. After that you need to fetch all the members available, for that we can use the fetchAllMembers client option, and then we need to filter out bot users, so that we don't message them.
const client_notification = new Discord.Client({fetchAllMembers:true}); //Fetches all members available on startup.
client_notification.on('ready', () => {
console.log("Notification manager ready");
let guild = client_notification.guilds.cache.get("Server ID");
guild.members.cache.filter(member => !member.user.bot).forEach(member => console.log("===>>>", member.user.username));
});
client_notification.login("login");
The .filter() method filters out all the bots and gives only the real users.
You should avoid using fetchAllMembers when your bot gets larger though, as it could slow down your bot and use lots of memory.
I think the problem is related to updating the bot policy for discord. Do you have this checkbox checked in the bot settings?
https://discord.com/developers/applications
Some info about client.users.cache:
Its a cache collection, so if you restart bot, or bot never handle user message or actions before, this collection will be empty. Better use guild.members.cache.get('')
I want my bot to DM all members in my server, but i have no clue on how to go about this. if you can help I'd appreciate it!
Discord.js v12
message.guild.members.cache.forEach(member => { // Looping through each member of the guild.
// Trying to send a message to the member.
// This method might fail because of the member's privacy settings, so we're using .catch
member.send("Hello, this is my message!").catch(e => console.error(`Couldn't DM member ${member.user.tag}`));
});
I made a discord bot and now I want to make it even more complex and I want the bot to also tell me when a user joins and leave the server in a Channel
I made the code like this and it sends only Welcome but doesn't take the users Name or ID.
Can someone help me with this, please?
client.on('guildMemberAdd', member => {
member.guild.channels.get('channel id').send("Welcome");
});
The bot sends the "Welcome" but without telling me the users Name and ID like other bots do.
client.on('guildMemberAdd', member => {
member.guild.channels.get('channel id').send("Welcome ${member.user.username} ${member.id}");
});