How to make a embed message to be edited later

Question

I'm trying to develop some code that shows the bot when it went online, and let the embed message color change to something else every 2 seconds. (2000ms) But I don't know how, I get an error that says channel.send.edit is not a function or something along those lines.

What I did was... Create a timeout. Edit the message, but it'll show a different message / output for the uptime section. Delete and send a message.

var myInfo = new discord.RichEmbed()
.setAuthor(`${bot.user.username} is now ONLINE`,`${bot.user.avatarURL}`)
.setDescription(`The bot is now up, please check the following below to see when the bot was online.`)
.addField(`Ready At`,`${bot.readyAt}`,true)
.addField(`Timestamp`,`${bot.readyTimestamp}`,true)
.addField(`Uptime`,`${bot.uptime}`,true)
.setColor(0x008704)
.setFooter('Bot is now online.')
.setThumbnail(`${bot.user.avatarURL}`)

var myInfo2 = new discord.RichEmbed()
.setAuthor(`${bot.user.username} is now ONLINE`,`${bot.user.avatarURL}`)
.setDescription(`The bot is now up, please check the following below to see when the bot was online.`)
.addField(`Ready At`,`${bot.readyAt}`,true)
.addField(`Timestamp`,`${bot.readyTimestamp}`,true)
.addField(`Uptime`,`${bot.uptime}`,true)
.setColor(0x00c13a)
.setFooter('Bot is now online.')
.setThumbnail(`${bot.user.avatarURL}`)

bot.channels.get("523649838693482507").send(myInfo).edit(myInfo2);

I expect the bot when it gets online, it'll send the embed message, then 2 seconds later the bot edits the color, and so on.

The output is a bot giving an error, or just not working at all.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '19 at 23:59

You can use the result of message.channel.send(...) by attaching a then() method to the returned promise like so...

message.channel.send(myInfo)
  .then(m => m.edit(myInfo2)) // Note that this will edit the message immediately.
  .catch(console.error);

You'll notice I added a catch() method to catch the rejected promises in an event where an error is returned.

Alternatively, you can declare a variable as the fulfilled promise. However, the await keyword can only be in async functions. Here's an example...

client.on('message', async message => {
  try {
    const m = await message.channel.send('Hello.');
    await m.edit('Hi again.');
  } catch(err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
});

In this case, we can use a try...catch statement instead of individual catch() methods.

For more about promises, see this MDN documentation.
For more about the TextChannel.send() method, see the Discord.js documentation.

How to make a embed message to be edited later

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