Trying to get user input for a Wordle game (interaction.channel is null)
Hi, I'm trying to create a slashcommand which takes in user input as guesses and compares it against a random word. I'm getting a TypeError though when running the code (below), which I feel I've narrowed down to interaction.channel being null itself. How do I fix this?
here's the error:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'createMessageCollector')
and here's the code:
``
const { SlashCommandBuilder } = require('discord.js');
// const fs = require('node:fs');
const { OpenAI } = require('openai');
module.exports = {
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('startwordle')
.setDescription('starts a game of wordle~'),
async execute(interaction) {
// const dictionary = fs.readFileSync('dictionary.txt', 'utf-8').split('\n').filter(word => word.length === 5).map(word => word.toLowerCase());
await interaction.reply({ content: Hi, ${interaction.user}. Starting a game of Wordle., ephemeral: true });
// const randomWord = await dictionary[Math.floor(Math.random() * dictionary.length)];
// const randomWord = await getRandom5LetterWordFromChatgpt();
const randomWord = 'SILLY';
let numGuesses = 3;
await interaction.followUp({ content: randomWord, ephemeral: true });
const gameStatus = true;
while (numGuesses > 0 && gameStatus == true) {
const collectorFilter = m => m.content.includes('discord');
const collector = interaction.channel.createMessageCollector({ filter: collectorFilter, time: 15_000 });
collector.on('collect', m => {
console.log(Collected ${m.content});
});
collector.on('end', collected => {
console.log(Collected ${collected.size} items`);
});
numGuesses--;
}
},
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node.js is version 9.5.1
and the code is heavily adapted from the discord tutorial if that helps
oh im working collaboratively with people in a test server and don't want to spam them with bot messages while testing
well yeah that's true
but what could be the source of interaction.channel being null? @Qjuh
oh i see, sounds like a lot of things. I checked guilds intent and it should be good ([GatewayIntentBits.Guilds] + checked off messages in the app). What exactly does missing bot scope mean?
oh wait no
i'm gonna add it real quick
ok just added it
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ohhhh that makes sense
that was why i was able to print stuff
alright it's all settled out now, input is working! thanks guys
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