Discord.js: How can you check if a specific user has a role?

Question

I'm looking to see if you can check if you can test for a specific user having a role. Only problem is that I'm fairly new to Discord.js and everything I searched up was either outdated, was something I couldn't fully understand or only showed how to test if the author of the message has the role, which is not what I'm trying to find out. What should I change in my current coding?

if (message.member.permissions.has("MANAGE_ROLES")) {

            const member = message.mentions.users.first();
            const memberTarget = message.guild.members.cache.get(member.id);
            const role = message.guild.roles.cache.find(role => role.name === "Awesome Role Name");

            if (memberTarget.roles.cache.has(role)) {
                message.channel.send(`${memberTarget} has the role!`);

            } else {
                message.channel.send(`${memberTarget} does not have the role!`);
            }
        }
    }
};

Does this answer your question? [Find out if someone has a role](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45317305/find-out-if-someone-has-a-role). The first answer is outdated, but the other answers are up-to-date. — theusaf, Aug 25 '21 at 14:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '21 at 15:04

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All you have to do is check if the GuildMember.roles.cache has the role. Also, the reason your code isn’t working is because you are using the role object. You need to use the role ID.

if (memberTarget.roles.cache.has(role.id))

More related things:

Getting role by any property

if (memberTarget.roles.cache.some(r => r.name === 'role-name'))
//does not need to be the name

Getting message author's roles

if (message.member.roles.cache.has(role.id))

answered Aug 25 '21 at 15:04

MrMythical

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Could not thank you more, I really appreciate the help! I was starting to grow tired of trying to find the answer, and I cannot believe it was just because I needed to add '.id'! – Pepega Pingu Aug 25 '21 at 15:13
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Please mark the answer as correct if it helped! (Use the checkmark under the upvote/downvote button) – MrMythical Aug 25 '21 at 15:41
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Thanks for letting me know! I ticked it immediately :) – Pepega Pingu Aug 25 '21 at 16:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 24 '21 at 03:42

To check for a role you can do the code:

if (member.roles.cache.has("ROLE_ID"))

If you wanted to check if the sender has the role you could do:

if (message.member.roles.cache.has("ROLE_ID")) {
    console.log(true);
} else {
    console.log(false);
}

If you wanted to check if someone else has a role you could do:

if (memberTarget.roles.cache.has("ROLE_ID")) {
    console.log(true);
} else {
    console.log(false);
}

To get a member you could do it in many different ways, one method would be to get them by mentions:

// This will get the first mention who is a member in the server
const memberTarget = message.mentions.members.first()

Read about guild member roles here

Discord.js: How can you check if a specific user has a role?

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