I'm writing a Discord bot that uses the following code to detect and process user messages:

bot.on('message', function (user, userID, channelID, message, evt) {
  //Message handling and response code goes here
});

I want to add a command that only works if the user who sent it has the Administrator permission. Is there a way I could do this?

I'm writing a Discord bot that uses the following code to detect and process user messages:

bot.on('message', function (user, userID, channelID, message, evt) {
  //Message handling and response code goes here
});

I want to add a command that only works if the user who sent it has the Administrator permission. Is there a way I could do this?

• javascript
• node.js
• bots
• discord
• discord.io

• Are you sure this is a Discord.JS question? DiscordJS events don't really look like that, and that tag should only be used for questions for DiscordJS – André Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 8:27
• 1 @André OP appears to be using discord.io (this is why my discord bots event handlers look like) – Nick is tired Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 15:41

2 Answers 2

Here is an example how you could do this:

bot.on('message', function (user, userID, channelID, message, evt) {
    if (message.member.hasPermission("ADMINISTRATOR")) return console.log('THIS USER HAS ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSIONS!')
  });

More up to date answer:

function isAdmin(msg) {
  return msg.member.permissionsIn(msg.channel).has("ADMINISTRATOR")
}