Sending private messages to user

Question

I m using the discord js library and node js to create a Discord bot that facilitates poker  It is functional except the hands are shown to everyone  and I need to loop through the players and send them a DM with their hand   bot on  message   message   gt      message channel sendMessage  string          This is the code that sends a message to the channel when any user sends a message  I need the bot to reply in a private channel  I ve seen dmChannel  but I do not understand how to use it  I have the username of the member that I want to send a message to  An example would be appreciated   Edit  After looking around for a user object  I found that I can get all of the users using the  users property of the client  bot   I will try using the user sendMessage  string   method soon

User · Accepted Answer

In order for a bot to send a message  you need  lt client gt  send     the client is where the bot will send a message to A channel  everywhere in the server  or a PM   Since you want the bot to PM a certain user  you can use message author as your client   you can replace author as mentioned user in a message or something  etc   Hence  the answer is  message author send  Your message here     I recommend looking up the Discord js documentation about a certain object s properties whenever you get stuck  you might find a particular function that may serve as your solution

User · Answer

If your looking to type up the message and then your bot will send it to the user  here is the code  It also has a role restriction on it     x000D   x000D  case  dm     mentiondm   message mentions users first      message channel bulkDelete 1     if   message member roles cache some role   gt  role name      Owner    return message channel send  Beep Boing  This command is way too powerful for you to use       if  mentiondm    null  return message reply  Beep Boing  No user to send message to       mentionMessage   message content slice 3     mentiondm send mentionMessage     console log  Message Sent      break  x000D   x000D   x000D

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The above answers work fine too  but I ve found you can usually just use message author send  blah blah   instead of message author sendMessage  blah blah     -EDIT-   This is because the sendMessage command is outdated as of v12 in Discord Js      send tends to work better for me in general than  sendMessage  which sometimes runs into problems   Hope that helps a teeny bit

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To send a message to a user you first need a User instance representing the user you want to send the message to   Obtaining a User instance  You can obtain a User instance from a message the user sent by doing message autor You can obtain a User instance from a user id with client fetchUser  Once you got a user instance you can send the message with  send Examples client on  message    msg    gt     if   msg author bot  msg author send  ok     msg author id        client fetchUser  487904509670337509   false  then  user    gt     user send  heloo

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This is pretty simple here is an example Add your command code here like  if  cmd       dm      let dUser     message guild member message mentions users first         message guild members get args 0     if   dUser  return message channel send  quot Can t find user  quot     if   message member hasPermission  ADMINISTRATOR      return message reply  quot You can t you that command  quot     let dMessage   args join      slice 22    if  dMessage length  lt  1  return message reply  You must supply a message       dUser send    dUser  A moderator from WP Coding Club sent you    dMessage       message author send       message author  You have sent your message to   dUser

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If you want to send the message to a predetermined person  such as yourself  you can set it so that the channel it would be messaging to would be their  your  own userID  So for instance  if you re using the discord bot tutorials from Digital Trends  where it says  to     you would continue with their  or your  userID  For instance  with how that specific code is set up  you could do  to  userID   and it would message that person  Or  if you want the bot to message you any time someone uses a specific command  you could do  to   12345678890    the numbers being a filler for the actual userID  Hope this helps

User · Answer

Make the code say if  msg content       trigger   msg author send  text

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