Discordbot read DM messages and log them-CodePudding

I want my bot to read DM messages only and send them to a discord channel, but my code spam the message infinitely, spamming 5 times and then it pauses for a few seconds then spam again, also the bot don't read only DM messages and reads also guild messages so if I send anything in the guild it spams the content.

What do I want? If someone sends 'Hello!' (message content) to the bot in DM, the bot needs to send 'Hello!' (message content) to the specified channel (logs channel).

const Discord = require("discord.js");  
const client = new Discord.Client({ intents:['DIRECT_MESSAGES'],
partials: ['MESSAGE'] });


client.on('ready', () =>{
    console.log('Bot Online!'); //bot successfully logged in

});


  client.on('message', async (message) => {
    await client.channels.cache.get('CHANNEL ID').send(message.content);
    console.log(message.content); //log messages
    return;
});
// Authorizing
client.login('LOGIN');

CodePudding user response：

Checking if the message comes from a guild should stop this. Return early if message.guild is truthy (in DM message.guild is null which is a falsey value)

if (message.guild) return;

You would put this at the top of the event callback so that nothing runs if it's in a guild

CodePudding user response：

The thing is that when the bot sends the message to the log channel. It also triggers the message event again. To avoid this simply add

if(message.author.bot) return;

You code would look like

  client.on('message', async (message) => {
    if(message.author.bot) return;
    await client.channels.cache.get('CHANNEL ID').send(message.content);
    console.log(message.content); //log messages
    return;
});

If you only want to get direct messages

You can use

if(message.guild) return;

  client.on('message', async (message) => {
    if(message.guild) return;
    await client.channels.cache.get('CHANNEL ID').send(message.content);
    console.log(message.content); //log messages
    return;
});