Auto Send an embed every hour

[chrome lantern]

What i want to achieve is that as soon as the bot logs in it will start sending an embed every hour or two hours, but i don't want to run an command to start it this process up i want it to start as soon as the bot starts automatically. Now:

1. Can you tell me how to achieve that?
2. Can you please provide me with an code example?

Thanks!

[golden lily]

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[bold egret]

I think you can put your "ready" call. for example in nodejs you can do client.on("ready", () => { CODE HERE }) This will execute immediately.

[chrome lantern]

https://paste.gg/p/anonymous/7b09fd89e2324c559e5f30c493ccd42b
Can you please help me with the error?

[bold egret]

yeah, are you working in Nodejs?

[chrome lantern]

yes

btw Happy New Year!

[bold egret]

and you need it to trigger immediately when the server starts?

happy new year to you as well.

[chrome lantern]

yes i am alrdy using client.on ready

[bold egret]

I'm no expert but I did run into this very recently. I wanted some things to run immediatly and others to run on command

immediate execution I put all the code inside the client.on('ready', ...

if I want to trigger it manually, like with an call to the server, i'll use the emit

I'll show you example of my code that executes immediately

and one that executes with emit

[chrome lantern]

^ this

[bold egret]

this executes when the server starts

and to execute the "ready" commands when you want, like within a specific function, just use the following

client.emit("ready");

that'll call all ready processes

I put that inside an app.get so a certain ready gets called when someone hits a certain address on the server

like I said, not my expertise but I'm getting by. Hope it helps

[chrome lantern]

i think my error is in

await interaction.reply({
embeds: [catEmbed],
});```

somehwer around interaction thing ig

[bold egret]

This I do not know. I haven't worked with interactions much. Sorry I can't help further. But as I found out the hard way, make sure the docs you are working with are for the correct version number as they are changing often.

[chrome lantern]

Ok thanks!

[bold egret]

np, good luck

[cloud plume]

Your error isn’t from that, it is from a <TextChannel>.send(…) call you have somewhere in your code and you don’t seem to pass any content to it (or at least none containing a content, embeds, components, files or similar properties)

[chrome lantern]

i tried to look for it but I was not able to, can you try to find where the problem is exactly happening?

[cloud plume]

And how would I be able to do that? You have your code, you can even do a project wide search for .send and look through them…

[unreal charm]

This code sends message every 1 hour

client.on('ready',() => {
setInterval(function(){
Your sent message code goes here
}, 3.6e+6)
})

@chrome lantern

[outer helm]

You can use for loops for that
Or setInterval as well... .

setInterval(()=>{
   let e = new MessageEmbed()
    ...... 
}, 3.6e+6)

setInterval will be good for that because it works like a loop.
( Use this in your event handler)

[chrome lantern]

how to get embeds working in it?

[chrome lantern]

i think i didn't get the part inside of setInterveral. Can you please give me an example of an embed that will send hello world every hour? Thanks!

const channelIds = ['CHANNEL_ID_1', 'CHANNEL_ID_2', ...];

const client = new Discord.Client();

client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`);

  // Set the interval for the message to be sent
  setInterval(() => {
    // Iterate over the array of channel IDs
    for (const channelId of channelIds) {
      // Get the channel object from the ID
      const channel = client.channels.cache.get(channelId);
      // Send the message to the channel
      channel.send({
        embed: {
          description: 'Hello World!',
        },
      });
    }
  }, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000); // 2 hours in milliseconds
});

client.login(token);```
Will this work?

[outer helm]

Nope I guess

.setInterval(() => {
    const channel = client.channels.cache.get('channel-id');
    channel.send('Hello, world!');
  }, 1000 * 60 * 60); // 1000 milliseconds * 60 seconds * 60 minutes```

[cloud plume]

No, embeds: […] and you need intents in your client constructor

[outer helm]

@chrome lantern don't use for loop in interval because setInterval loop itself

[chrome lantern]

i have multiple channels in which i want to send the embed

[outer helm]

Make client.on("interactionCreate", ()=> {} then use.

Umm ok

[chrome lantern]

hence i will have to use for loop right? or are there any alternatives

[outer helm]

const channelIds = ['channel-id-1', 'channel-id-2', 'channel-id-3'];
    channelIds.forEach((channelId) => {
      const channel = client.channels.cache.get(channelId);
      channel.send('Hello, world!');
    });
  }, 1000 * 60 * 60); // 1000 milliseconds * 60 seconds * 60 minutes```

[chrome lantern]

i want to send it as embed not a normal text message

[chrome lantern]

wdym

[outer helm]

let embed = new MessageEmbed()
.setDescription("Text Here");

const channelIds = ['channel-id-1', 'channel-id-2', 'channel-id-3'];
    channelIds.forEach((channelId) => {
      const channel = client.channels.cache.get(channelId);
      channel.send({
embeds: [embed]
});
    });
  }, 1000 * 60 * 60); // 1000 milliseconds * 60 seconds * 60 minutes```

[acoustic wagon]

however its still api spam

[outer helm]

yes

[chrome lantern]

it will send it after every 2 hours

[acoustic wagon]

how often you do it, doesnt matter

[chrome lantern]

will my bot get into trouble for doing it?

[minor tree]

Ratelimits are dynamically assigned by the API based on current load and may change at any point.
• The scale from okay to API-spam is sliding and depends heavily on the action you are taking
• Rainbow roles, clock and counter channels, and DM'ing advertisements to all members are all examples of things that are not okay

[chrome lantern]

2 hours gap is enough then?

[outer helm]

Try it, if you face any problem, don't use it.

[chrome lantern]

ok thanks 👍🏻

[outer helm]

Your welcome ☺️

[patent minnow]

I have looked at various references, and after reviewing the topic above, there are some similarities, but my error is different, where .send doesn't work for EmbedBuilder but works if it's just text.

[balmy jungle]

realistically this should have been its own post rather than reopening a 10 month old post that doesn't cover your actual issue
that being said, your error is caused by you passing a channel object to a function that expects a Message
<Channel>.reply() doesn't exist
ts might tell you this if you didn't assert the channel as any