I have been trying for days but cant find a way to log all messages into a text file

Here is the code:

 module.exports = {
  name: 'log',
  description: "",
  async execute(message, args) {
    const fetched = await client.channels.get("907278968212824164")
    .fetchMessages({limit: 1})
    .then(messages => writeFile('.\MessageLog.txt.')); 
  }
}

CodePudding user response：

to get the messages, you need to get the messages from messageCreate and use fs to write it to your text file.

client.on("messageCreate", message => {
            if (message.channel.id == "id") {
                fs.writeFile("chat.txt", `${message.author}: ${message}`, function(err) {
                    if (err) {
                        throw err;
                    } 
                })
            }
        }

Replace chat.txt with the path of your supposed text file. And its done!

CodePudding user response：

Heyo, the best way imo to do this is to start fetching messages in the desired channel then push them to an Array.

You can find the code below i modified from this answer on another post

 module.exports = {
  name: 'log',
  description: "",
  async execute(message, args) {
    const fetched = await client.channels.cache.get("907278968212824164");
    fetched.fetchMessages().then(async messages => {
      console.log(`${messages.size}.`);

      let finalArray = []; // define array

      const putInArray = async (data) => finalArray.push(data); // this will place items in array
      const handleTime = (timestamp) => moment(timestamp).format("DD/MM/YYYY - hh:mm:ss a").replace("pm", "PM").replace("am", "AM"); // this will format the timestamps

      for (const message of messages.array().reverse()) await putInArray(`${handleTime(message.createdTimestamp)} ${message.author.username} : ${message.content}`); 

      console.log(finalArray); // content in array
      console.log(finalArray.length); // length of array

    }).catch(console.error);
  }
}

Of course you can change this code around as needed, and add in the "write to text file" where you need it to be.