I need help making a discord bot direct message someone on typing a command

Question

I am currently trying to create a discord bot and am stumped on a command i am trying to make it do. The command is supposed to be a secret DM message sent by the bot. I was wondering if there was anyway to do this? the command is supposed to look like this:

/dm @PLAYER#000 [message_goes_here]

Pleas help!!

LW001 · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-17T12:17:01.310

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Let's do this step by step:

If the @Player#0000 is a mention, you can get Player#0000's User Object using msg.mentions[0]. Now on to sending that User a message:

Firstly you'll need to separate the message from the command: Using msg.toString() you'll be able to grab the message with the mention being turned into <@ID>, which will also account for spaces in usernames. Now split the message using msg.toString().split(' '), shift() it twice, join(' ') it and you'll have the message.

Using User.send() you will be able to message that user.

Here's how the final result will look:

bot.on('message', message => {
    if (message.content.startsWith('/dm ') && message.mentions.users.size) {
        var v=message.toString().split(' ').shift().shift().join(' ') // Takes the DM content from the message
        var member=message.mentions.users[0] // The mentioned user
        member.send(v) // send that user a DM
    }
})

Note that this example doesn't really cover errors (in case the message doesn't send, etc.)

edited Nov 17 '17 at 12:17

answered Nov 16 '17 at 18:53

LW001

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When i try to run this code I get the error `message.startsWith is not a function on line 2`. Why is that? – David J Nov 17 '17 at 11:21
my bad, `message.content.startsWith()`, message is not a String. – LW001 Nov 17 '17 at 12:16
So then what should I replace `message.content.startsWith()` with? – David J Nov 17 '17 at 20:27
What should I replace `message.content.startsWith()` with then? – David J Nov 18 '17 at 18:39
NVM. Now its giving me the error: `message.toString(...).split(...).shift(...).shift is not a function`. What does that mean? Do I just change it to `message.content.toString(...).split(...).shift(...).shift`? @LW001 – David J Nov 18 '17 at 20:24
Can anybody else help me? Please? – David J Nov 21 '17 at 23:07

I need help making a discord bot direct message someone on typing a command

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