I have some code that runs in the background, 24/7, in JavaScript of course. I'd like to set a discord.js bot to output a message if something (like an errror) happens on the code that is constantly running.
How do you send a message to any channel without listening for a messagge? All the tutorials create mands that rely on COMMAND to make the bot "reply" to you. I want the bot to be the one sending the first message, and reading back my response and acting accordingly.
I'm currently using the discord.js node library (/).
Is this possible?
I have some code that runs in the background, 24/7, in JavaScript of course. I'd like to set a discord.js bot to output a message if something (like an errror) happens on the code that is constantly running.
How do you send a message to any channel without listening for a messagge? All the tutorials create mands that rely on COMMAND to make the bot "reply" to you. I want the bot to be the one sending the first message, and reading back my response and acting accordingly.
I'm currently using the discord.js node library (https://discord.js/).
Is this possible?
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Reset to default 4Get the list of channels from the channel cache by name, and add an event listener for the error event to window. When an error is detected, send a message to the channel:
var client = new Discord.Client();
var channel = client.channels.get('name', nameOfChannel); // or client.channels.get("the channel id")
window.addEventListener('onError', function(e) {
channel.send(e.error.message) // or client.sendMessage(channel, e.error.message) in older versions;
});