JSON File Counter
I am trying to make a simple word counter in discord.js I have managed to get the bot counting the specific word i want to be counted but how do i permanently store this data in a JSON file and update it when the bot is active.
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but i am using it for a bot through discord.js
don’t store data in a json file, it’s not a file storage solution
its for a small scale thing
just messing around
It’s slow, prone to failure and slower to write and read than most databases
SQLITE etc are very easy to setup and learn
much quicker and more efficient that json
Okay I will look into it now and see
You can handle processes within an sql db too, for example with a JSON file you have to fetch and filter the whole data, whereas with sql you can grab any data from any any column or row in w few words
SELECT * FROM table WHERE condition
will get you a row of data dtored
depeneds if you want to use SQL or NoSQL though
see i wanted it so when the bot saw the word "example" it would reply saying "this user has said 'example' 4 times" or something
I want to use something lite and easy to setup
nothing to complex
i find mongodb very easy to work with
For something like this use a table then, NoSQL might be difficult to understand
and keep organised
You don’t need to store that though, discord has history as an attribute if you’re only doing stuff locally.
Plus, why make this if discord search enables this anyway?
uhh
bots cannot access search
no but people can
yes but this is about using a bot
Im aware
Im just saying that if this is a feature already enabled in discord, there isn’t a large point in making a feature like that
depends on use case
regardless
for db
each to their own though
this is what is being done now
and essentially when i restart the bot it looses its count
all i want to do is permantly store the count
use a db then
is there an easier way without setting up a whole db though?
I have never used dbs thats why im trying to avoid it 😭
you can store it in a file but thats slow and if something happens when your bot writes to the file funky stuff might happen with that file
I understand
So mongodb and sqlite
are the recommendations?
i personally use mongodb since dont want to use SQL
Okay thank you, I will mark this question as solved. Thank you!