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•Created by chrissy on 12/18/2023 in #djs-questions

Unable to add attachments in InteractionType.APPLICATION_COMMAND

Hi there! I am new to creating Discord bots and recently followed the https://discord.com/developers/docs/getting-started tutorial, which uses discordJS with an interactions endpoint URL where Discord will send HTTP Requests and you return something of the form res.send(...). I am trying to do the following: respond with a local video file attached when a user does the /get-video command. I've looked through all of the attachments documentation but have not been able to find an answer. I do NOT want this in an embed, just want it to be a good old attachment Some more details - The video file is saved in the same place as my app.js where the code below lives, so the file path is "video.mp4" - My JS type is module, since I adapted it from the getting started tutorial, but I'm open to suggestions on refactoring my code to make it easier - Right now, the bot will respond to my "/get-video" command, but it doesn't include the embed Here is my code so far which does respond but fails to add an attachment

if (type === InteractionType.APPLICATION_COMMAND) {
    const { name } = data;

    // The command I'm working on
    if (name === 'get-video') {
      const userId = req.body.member.user.id;
      const videoPath = "video.mp4";
      const file = new AttachmentBuilder(videoPath);
      return res.send({
        type: InteractionResponseType.CHANNEL_MESSAGE_WITH_SOURCE,
        data: {
          content:

video for <@${userId}> and ${file} and path ${videoPath}

,
          flags: InteractionResponseFlags.EPHEMERAL,
          components: [
            {
              type: MessageComponentTypes.ACTION_ROW,
              components: [
                {
                  type: MessageComponentTypes.BUTTON,
                  // Append the ID to use later on
                  custom_id:

acceptbutton${req.body.id}

,
                  label: 'my button',
                  style: ButtonStyleTypes.PRIMARY,
                },
              ],
            },
          ],
          files: [file]
        },
      });

As you can see, I have put the attachment under "files", but nothing shows up! Would sincerely appreciate any help :)

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