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I'm coding a discord Bot with the discord.js library on a nodeJs server. Here is my question: is that possible when an event occure (like someone sending a message) that the bot answers to members of a role, or to everyone. The message.reply("my reply") method only answer to the author of the message as I use it for now...

Xan
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  • You can find all the members of an role and make a foreach to all members in that role – Cursed Oct 09 '19 at 16:50
  • Possible duplicate of [Sending private message to a group of user (Discord.js)](https://stackoverflow.com/q/56263758/1092820) – Ruzihm Oct 09 '19 at 16:52
  • I understand how to do that but what I don't get is how to send the message to the role member through the reply method. – LucasF Oct 09 '19 at 16:53
  • on a foreach you will have the member promise and you can make member.reply – Cursed Oct 09 '19 at 16:55
  • You're asking an [XY question](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/405359). Why bother using `msg.reply` here if it's not going to be of any use to you? [The accepted answer at the proposed duplicate](https://stackoverflow.com/a/56264694/1092820) does exactly what you need, you just need to put it in a `client.on("message", msg => {...});` call, and get the guild from `message.guild` or whatever. – Ruzihm Oct 09 '19 at 17:00
  • You teach me something ( I didn't know what is a XY Question), I saw the previous answer you posted and it half answer to my question. I now know how to target users with a private message but not how to send a message on a channel, mentionning to every member of the role. – LucasF Oct 09 '19 at 17:23
  • `message.channel.send(member+"Your message")` – Cursed Oct 10 '19 at 09:21

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Your problem is that message.reply() is a very limited method: it always mentions the author of the message, and you can't override that.

You need to use a more generic method, channel.send(), and construct the mention yourself. .reply() is just a shortcut for a frequently used form of it, but you need something custom.

Presumably, you want it to happen in the same channel as the message, so you need message.channel.send("Whatever content you want").

Now, to add a role, you need to decide how to pick one. Is it fixed? Then you could hard-code a role mention by role ID: <@&134362454976102401> (of course, it needs to be the role ID you require).

If you want to find a role, for example by name, you need to do that via searching through the guild in question. You can access it though message.guild, but be warned that it will be undefined for DMs.

Then you can do something like

const role = message.guild.roles.find(role => role.name === "NameYouWant");
message.channel.send(`${role} something something`);

because Role objects become mentions when converted to strings.

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  • Thanks Xan, this perfectly answers to my problem. I have already retrieved the role through the guild.I think I would have hardly find by myself that roles convertion turns them into strings so the last part of code is of great use. – LucasF Oct 12 '19 at 21:56
  • @Xan please see [my question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/58541634/11253551) – Codey Oct 27 '19 at 07:46