discord.js - Imagine ❄•4mo ago

Message collector not working

I'm configuring my bot so that it will respond to the slash command /validate by creating a new thread and asking the user to post their email. This is my the function that is called when the slash command is invoked.

async function threadSetup(interaction) {
  const thread = await interaction.channel.threads.create({
    name: `Welcome, ${interaction.user.username}!`,
    autoArchiveDuration: ThreadAutoArchiveDuration.OneHour,
    type: ChannelType.PrivateThread,
    reason: "Welcome to the Server!",
  });

  await thread.join();
  await thread.members.add(interaction.user.id);
  await thread.send("Please post your email in this thread.");

  interaction.reply("I've created a thread for validation. You can open it from the sidebar!");

  const collector = thread.createMessageCollector({ max: 1, time: 3600000 });

  collector.on("collect", (m) => {
    console.log("For debugging");
    const emails = fs.readFileSync(EMAILS_PATH);
    if (emails.includes(m.content)) m.reply("Identified");
    else m.reply("Not identified");
    collector.stop();
  });
}

async function threadSetup(interaction) {
  const thread = await interaction.channel.threads.create({
    name: `Welcome, ${interaction.user.username}!`,
    autoArchiveDuration: ThreadAutoArchiveDuration.OneHour,
    type: ChannelType.PrivateThread,
    reason: "Welcome to the Server!",
  });

  await thread.join();
  await thread.members.add(interaction.user.id);
  await thread.send("Please post your email in this thread.");

  interaction.reply("I've created a thread for validation. You can open it from the sidebar!");

  const collector = thread.createMessageCollector({ max: 1, time: 3600000 });

  collector.on("collect", (m) => {
    console.log("For debugging");
    const emails = fs.readFileSync(EMAILS_PATH);
    if (emails.includes(m.content)) m.reply("Identified");
    else m.reply("Not identified");
    collector.stop();
  });
}

The thread is successfully created, but the message collector just won't work. It doesn't return any errors anything, but it doesn't respond to any messages in the channel. The "For debugging" console.log is not printed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, any advice would be appreciated.

7 Replies

d.js toolkit•4mo ago

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treble/luna•4mo ago

do you have the Guilds, GuildMessages and MessageContent intent

LiamOP•4mo ago

I just double checked and it does

lupus•4mo ago

Just to make sure, try to create a messageCreate event handler and see if that catches the message.

LiamOP•4mo ago

an event handler for this isn't working either, so I guess it is an issue with it reading messages? I have it added as an administrator, and all the guild intents enabled, so I don't know why it wouldn't be able to read messages For reference this is the event handler I made:

client.on(Events.MessageCreate, (message) => {
  // Neither of these work
  console.log("HERE!!");
  message.channel.send('Hello there!');
});

client.on(Events.MessageCreate, (message) => {
  // Neither of these work
  console.log("HERE!!");
  message.channel.send('Hello there!');
});

treble/luna•4mo ago

and where are the intents in your client constructor

LiamOP•4mo ago

this was it, I wasn't listing the intents in the client constructor thank you guys for your help

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