I need help making a discord bot

[yeet45a333]

i want to make a discord bot that responds to a certain user with a horse emoji anytime he sends a message tried doing it for the last 4 hours with 0 experience it was painful still didn’t work

[OmegaOrbitals]

Welcome to the forums!

I’d be happy to help. Please send a link to the Repl.

[yeet45a333]

https://replit.com/@yeet45a333/Horse2ElectricBoogaloojs#index.js

thank you

[OmegaOrbitals]

You should start by importing discord, and creating a client. Then go to the Secrets tab and create a new key called TOKEN with the value set to your bot’s token. You can track messages by doing:

client.on("message", (msg) => {
  msg.reply("🐴")
})

Then use

client.login(process.env.TOKEN)

This isn’t the full code as I don’t want to spoon-feed.

[yeet45a333]

how should i go about importing discord?

[OmegaOrbitals]

const discord = require("discord.js")

[yeet45a333]

thank you man i owe you

[OmegaOrbitals]

Oh wait, also note that the bot will infinitely reply to itself. You can fix this by adding

if(message.author.bot) {
  return
}

Or just

if(message.author.bot) return

to make it shorter

[yeet45a333]

thank you man hopefully after my exams i can dedicate my time here to finally learn coding thank you for all the help

[OmegaOrbitals]

You’re welcome! If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to reply to me!

[yeet45a333]

small question how do i make it respond to a single specific discord user? in reaction form if it’s not any trouble

[OmegaOrbitals]

You must get the specific user’s ID, then use this code

if(!msg.author.id === "THE_USER_ID") {
  return
}

or

if(!msg.author.id === "THE_USER_ID") return

to make it shorter

If the user’s ID does not match the specific ID, then it’ll return.

Now, if you want the bot to react to the user’s message, you just have to use

msg.react("🐴")

See .react() documentation for more information.

[yeet45a333]

it works for the react part but not the specific ID it reacts to anyone that uses the specified message but it crashes after the first reaction

[OmegaOrbitals]

Could you send the error message?

[yeet45a333]

I FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM it was the code you gave me to keep it from spamming the horse emote i forgot to remove it when we made it horse react instead of using the emote it’s fixed now thank you