development

[quartz kindle]

Discord.SnowflakeUtil.generate()

[tulip ledge]

Does canvas has a way to get a url from the image?

Or do I have to set up an express server

[quartz kindle]

custom emojis have a url

[rocky hearth]

https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/GuildEmoji?scrollTo=url

[quartz kindle]

get the url from the custom emoji object

then download/fetch the image from that url

[tulip ledge]

Ok

And then I add that image onto a canvas image, what’s the best way of using that image in an embed?

[quartz kindle]

you can use canvas.loadImage

[errant flax]

what does the time does in the params of .generate([time])

[quartz kindle]

the timestamp of the snowflake

by default it uses the current date (Date.now())

[rocky hearth]

convert canvas image to buffer, and use buffer to generate a image file, and then attach the file to the embed

[tulip ledge]

What does it do?

[quartz kindle]

you dont need to generate an image file

[errant flax]

wait what is a snowflake again
ik snowflake as like an id or somth

[tulip ledge]

I dont want to us emessage attachments

[vivid fulcrum]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID

[quartz kindle]

snowflake is a unique ID that is built with 3 variables

[tulip ledge]

As when you edit it the image just appears at the top

[errant flax]

im just confused on why does time correlates to snowflake if u know what i mean

[vivid fulcrum]

read the link

[quartz kindle]

timestamp is one of the variables in the snowflake

[rocky hearth]

I too wanted that behaviour back before, to edit the image in embed. But couldn't find any solution.
Tell me, if you could find any

[tulip ledge]

Creating an express server is an option or sending the image in a dummy channel and getting the link from there

That’s what I’ve been doing

[errant flax]

ohhh now i get it

[quartz kindle]

im not understanding what you mean

[errant flax]

thx!

[tulip ledge]

But I wanna know if there’s a better solution

[quartz kindle]

why do you need to save an image to a dummy channel?

[tulip ledge]

To get the url

And use that as image for an embed

[rocky hearth]

u can save the image to a storage, and get the link

[modest maple]

why not just.... upload as an attachement

or use an actually content serving system

[quartz kindle]

you want to use embeds without the actual file?

[rocky hearth]

than we cant change it

[tulip ledge]

Cuz I said earlier when you edit it and dont use the image it just sits there ontop of the message

[quartz kindle]

then you need to host the image somewhere

you could upload to somthing like imgur

[tulip ledge]

Can you upload to imgur using code?

[modest maple]

or (shameless plug) depending on your needs: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust

[quartz kindle]

hot

[errant flax]

this will be a unique snowflake right?

[tulip ledge]

So I can use this to get a url to the image?

[lyric mountain]

we get it, you vape

[modest maple]

discord embeds

[quartz kindle]

somewhat yes, depends on what you're using it for

[modest maple]

you can yes

[valid frigate]

threads were available for a while but what the fuck does "dropped" mean

as in being added or being removed

[vivid fulcrum]

removed

[valid frigate]

ic

[quartz kindle]

wait what

dropped in what sense

not removed from the api i presume

[vivid fulcrum]

deprecated ig

[lyric mountain]

ah, little bobby tables we call him

[valid frigate]

and then

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/threads#gateway-events

literally what

[vivid fulcrum]

the events will probably get replaced with something uniform in later gw versions

[valid frigate]

they did say it was not stable but v9 is available without those gateway events

[quartz kindle]

oh

[valid frigate]

aka the library cant pick up those events when i tell it to listen for them

[quartz kindle]

no thats not what it is

[valid frigate]

maybe skill issue or discord just said nah

[quartz kindle]

those events are dropped in api v8-

in the sense that if you dont have api v9, you will not receive any of those events

from messages inside threads

or messages using the threads system

[valid frigate]

i see

[quartz kindle]

thread events you obviously dont receive if you dont use api v9

and the others may be dropped if they are part of threads

[valid frigate]

yeah ive already updated it to use v9 but raw events dont show any thread events being received

so im curious if its just not a thing yet or something

[quartz kindle]

well they are being rolled out slowly

not many servers have them yet

[valid frigate]

this was tested on a server with threads enabled

[tulip ledge]

Mine has it!

[valid frigate]

i really want to believe this is a issue with my code but im wondering if anyone else's bots can pick up these events

[tulip ledge]

Do you think threads will be usefull for bots?

[quartz kindle]

hmm, maybe they didnt enable thread events for bots yet

idk

[valid frigate]

also

private threads are hard to test since theyre limited to servers with tier 2 or higher

as for this

[valid frigate]

depends, your bot will still receive message create events for messages inside threads

when on v9

[tulip ledge]

Essentially we can make private “channels”?

For users

[quartz kindle]

tbh i dont get the whole idea of threads

[valid frigate]

the idea of a private thread was that the person who instantiated it can invite other people

and yeah me neither, though i guess the implication was keeping chat tidy

[lyric mountain]

wait, really?

[valid frigate]

discord really gonna make it hard for everyone who doesnt have a partnered server

[lyric mountain]

the whole thing about threads was about allowing users to continue a topic on private, if that's limited to tier 2 or above then wtf?

[valid frigate]

mfw not enough vc funding

[quartz kindle]

just create group dms

[valid frigate]

yeah

i really do not know the motivation behind threads but im going on a tangent here

[nimble kiln]

But to create group DMs you have to add that person as friend

I dont like having friends 😦

[vivid fulcrum]

threads are genuinely pointless imo

[valid frigate]

but its not like its gonna be removed or anything

[vivid fulcrum]

they say people have been requesting them for years but i haven't met a single person who said that

[valid frigate]

same

[nimble kiln]

People have been requesting custom statuses for bots for years, but they're not here yet

:]

[vivid fulcrum]

it's just their attempt to copy slack and cater to a wider audience

[lyric mountain]

I mean, in my case I'd have a GREAT use-case for threads, but the private ones

public threads are fckin pointless

[valid frigate]

the issue is not necessarily why they implemented threads its how

because i think i have confirmation that no bot is receiving thread events

[lyric mountain]

also why tf can't I send ephemeral messages at will?

[valid frigate]

limited to interactions mfw

[lyric mountain]

datsucks

[novel oar]

Public threads are only useful to side-talk about something in chat
ie someone said something in chat and you wanna talk about it, but can't do it in general

But yeah it's pointless to make private threads accessible to tier 2...

[vivid fulcrum]

it's their business model

they know it's dumb

[novel oar]

Yeaah

[valid frigate]

if they want people to like it at least make it easy to implement

instead of dispatching a "thread delete" event every time the client loses access

this happens

[cinder stratus]

const { appID } = require("../config.js");
module.exports = {
  players: {
    data: {
      [appID]: {
        queue: [],
      }
    }
  }
}
``` hey anyone know's how do I push and pull data from that queue array

[valid frigate]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/threads#losing-access-to-a-channel

[lyric mountain]

can you please don't bump it that way?

[valid frigate]

"no we dont send you thread delete events, youll have to use context to figure it out"

[quartz kindle]

yourthing.players.data[appid].queue.push()

[cinder stratus]

.push() works in mongodb offical package?

[quartz kindle]

wut

[small tangle]

push is an array operation

[quartz kindle]

your code doesnt say anything about mongo

[cinder stratus]

oh my bad, I forgot to tell it's the data structures for my mongodb document

[lyric mountain]

what's the inverse of pop()? poll()?

like, pop removes first element, what removes last element?

[nimble kiln]

pop removes the last element

[small tangle]

pop removes the last element

[nimble kiln]

shift removes the first one

[valid frigate]

unshift adds an element to the beginning

[lyric mountain]

ah yeah, gotta think like a stack

[valid frigate]

now imagine unpop adds an element to the end

winning

[nimble kiln]

add element to end is push(), how sad 😦

[small tangle]

[lyric mountain]

could be push/pull

[quartz kindle]

in js, the opposite of push/pop is unshift/shift

[small tangle]

i was about to type

[median moss]

do I need any extra lib for buttons, or discord.js can handle it out?

[quartz kindle]

buttons are supported in v13/master

in v12 you need to either use a library or implement them using raw events

[median moss]

yeah, I'm on v12

do you know any library for this?

[summer torrent]

i don't recommend 3rd party lib

[quartz kindle]

most people use discord-buttons

[summer torrent]

just use dev version

[median moss]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/discord-buttons this one?

[quartz kindle]

yes

i just use the raw event

[median moss]

but I'm on v12

.-.

[summer torrent]

tim do you know there is https://npmjs.com/discord-reply

[median moss]

how does that work exactly?

[quartz kindle]

yes someone else was asking me about that

[quartz kindle]

listen to the raw event for INTERACTION_CREATE, then use client.rest to send the response

[median moss]

hm

is there any docs with that?

[summer torrent]

no

[quartz kindle]

nope, raw events are not documented

[summer torrent]

its not public thing

[quartz kindle]

i can show you my code tho

[summer torrent]

also tim, it is client.api

[median moss]

oh, I see

[median moss]

well, if you don't mind that would help me

[median moss]

this you put on your main file?

[quartz kindle]

yes

[median moss]

ok

[quartz kindle]

and in my interactions function i have

[median moss]

hm

ok

thx

[quartz kindle]

and my createButtons makes the button structure

that you can find in the discord api docs

[median moss]

ok

I'll try it

thx

[median moss]

just one more thing, this code is in what file?

[summer torrent]

holy hell

[quartz kindle]

anywhere

[summer torrent]

just use v13

[median moss]

so it can be on the main file?

[quartz kindle]

yes

[median moss]

ok

thx

[quartz kindle]

nah fuck v13

[summer torrent]

why

[quartz kindle]

i will use it once its released, not while its in dev

not for a prod bot

[summer torrent]

im using it in dev too

[quartz kindle]

plus the caching changes screwed me over

i have to redesign djsl around them, which i didnt do yet

[spark flint]

anyone good at flask

[summer torrent]

do we need djsl now

[earnest phoenix]

[spark flint]

i'm using flask for a log system

basically, my bot creates a html file and saves it to a folder. I want people to be able to login with Discord and if their ID is on a list of allowed Id's, they can access the html file

[vivid fulcrum]

is there any need for that

[spark flint]

yeah, i don't want unauthorised users to be able to access the html file

[wheat mesa]

Is there a type that's similar to Map except I can just have 2 keys and no value? I'm trying to associate a server id and user id together, but there might be multiple entries of both. I'm thinking Map<string[], string> except I don't know what do put in the value portion of the map

[vivid fulcrum]

can't you just send the html file in dms is what i was implying

[quartz kindle]

a Set is basically a Map of keys

there is no get(), only has() and delete()

[spark flint]

i mean true, but its a moderation bot which multiple people will be there working on it and it will be hosted on a url

[wheat mesa]

Oh alright

Perfect

[spark flint]

like i have it on backend.(botdomain).xyz and its just login redirect looping atm

[vivid fulcrum]

seems like you want a proper dashboard then

[spark flint]

so the login feature works, its just looping and I need help with making it not loop

[vivid fulcrum]

not just generating html files

[quartz kindle]

an html file by itself has no backend

you need the backend to verify the authorization before sending the contents

[spark flint]

i know but i am currently restricting access to the directory with discord login

i'm now looking at discordbotdash module

[quartz kindle]

so you can read the file into flask, then send the file as text from flask

if the user is authorized

[vivid fulcrum]

it isn't really a proper way to do it

don't generate html files in the first place

[sage bobcat]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[vivid fulcrum]

do SSR with flask or create an SPA that makes calls to your backend api

[sage bobcat]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[quartz kindle]

/hug

[acoustic elm]

you need a /login endpoint and a /auth endpoint,
the /auth should return an object of the user or a 401 error, the /login should handle all the stuff and redirect you to the discord oauth page

[quartz kindle]

SSR is essentially the same

[vivid fulcrum]

the end result is

the process isn't

why in the hell would you save html files in a directory and then save/update them constantly

and then serve them

[acoustic elm]

that makes no sense

[quartz kindle]

you save the html template/unchanged parts

[spark flint]

its never updated, it generates the html when i run the command

[acoustic elm]

if you want to do that use a library like ReactJS

[quartz kindle]

then serve it with changes

if all you're doing is authorization and nothing else, then you dont need SSR, you just send the entire unchanged html contents

after the proper authorization

[limber mica]

N:\Desktop\ColdRP bot\node_modules\kurasuta\dist\Sharding\ShardingManager.js:85
                    this.emit(Constants_1.SharderEvents.ERROR, new Error(`Cluster ${cluster.id} failed to start`));
                                                               ^

Error: Cluster 0 failed to start
    at ShardingManager.spawn (N:\Desktop\ColdRP bot\node_modules\kurasuta\dist\Sharding\ShardingManager.js:85:64)
Emitted 'error' event on ShardingManager instance at:
    at ShardingManager.spawn (N:\Desktop\ColdRP bot\node_modules\kurasuta\dist\Sharding\ShardingManager.js:85:26)

;-;

debug time!

[velvet pewter]

ok

[quartz kindle]

ok

[wheat mesa]

I now have a set containing an array of 2 strings, as [userid, guildid], however when I use the Set.has([userid, guildid]), it's not seeming to find my entries. Anyone have an idea why?

[quartz kindle]

you cant do that

Set doesnt store the contents of the array, it stores the reference to it

[wheat mesa]

Oh

What should I use as an alternative

[quartz kindle]

every time you do [a,b] you create a new array, so the reference will never be the same

unless you save the ref in a variable

a = [1,2]
Set.set(a)
Set.has(a) // true

you want to store a unique combination of user id and guild id?

[wheat mesa]

Yup

[quartz kindle]

you can store it as a bigint

or a string

[wheat mesa]

Like... concatenated?

[quartz kindle]

yes

[wheat mesa]

Then just split by length since it's always the same

Seems like a solution

[quartz kindle]

its not always the same

[wheat mesa]

Oh

[quartz kindle]

for string you need a separator

for bigint you can use bit length

[wheat mesa]

Alright

[earnest phoenix]

Is it possible to run js stuff and inject it in the script before building the file in esbuild?
Astro does this but I want to do it with vanilla js

[wheat mesa]

I'll try that out

[quartz kindle]

a bigint will be much more memory efficient than string

[quartz kindle]

probably yes. i never used esbuild, but most builders/packagers can be configured with pre-scripts and post-scripts

[earnest phoenix]

imma look for a plugin that does that

[spark flint]

how do i make a discord.py bot panel lol

[earnest phoenix]

wdym bot panel

[spark flint]

dashboard

like panel to manage bot settings for your server

[wheat mesa]

I'll look into the bigint solution in a little bit (no pun intended), but the string solution should do as a temporary fix for now. Thanks tim!

[earnest phoenix]

Spin up an http server that serves the html for the page
Add some javascript in the html to send the updated settings to an endpoint on your server
The server should update the settings in your db

[spark flint]

i use json for storing data

[earnest phoenix]

I dont know python but flask seems like a good server

[earnest phoenix]

good job

sarcasm intended

[wheat mesa]

Is there a way to get typescript (or eslint) to require me to put semicolons? I seem to forget sometimes, and even though they're not necessary I like using them for consistency

[near stratus]

just use prettier
It automatically puts semicolon everywhere

[wheat mesa]

I have prettier, not sure why it's not doing that

[dense flame]

You have to configure it in the settings. Just search for prettier

[near stratus]

Or do

"semi": ["error", "always"]

in eslintrc.json

I suggest using this tho

"semi": ["error", "always", { "omitLastInOneLineBlock": true }]

[wheat mesa]

Doesn't seem to do anything for me

Whatever, I'll figure it out later

[quartz kindle]

eslint does work for me

[near stratus]

idk it's what the doc says
https://eslint.org/docs/rules/semi

[lilac bridge]

APA INI ANJAY

[wheat mesa]

Got it to work, thanks!

[near stratus]

#general-int

[near stratus]

np

[lilac bridge]

Where u from:v

[near stratus]

I'm from #general

[rocky hearth]

will the Structures be removed in djs13?

[earnest phoenix]

[rocky hearth]

yes it is already removed

[earnest phoenix]

wtf

[rocky hearth]

https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/pull/6027

[earnest phoenix]

ah yes structures fix: remove structures

[rocky hearth]

the devs are saying, it is removed, and shouldn't be able to be imported now with djs13

but for some reason I'm able to do

I'v cleared my yarn cache, tried deleting node_modules, but no luck

[woeful pike]

oh did they finally remove the pointless class extending abstraction? lol

good

[cinder patio]

really though

[woeful pike]

Please don't remove Structures. My bot's entirely dependent on it. If someone adds something that doesn't work, its them to blame, not you. They should've known what they're messing with before updating the structure.
lmao

"please don't remove this so I can continue to incorrectly use it"

[cinder patio]

they can be useful, but yeah the disadvantages outweigh the advantages

[earnest phoenix]

Imagine storing your custom server prefixes in a mongodb collection
You'll only need to fetch the collection ONCE then djs will cache the prefixes because you extended Guild with a customPrefix property

[cinder patio]

you can store the prefixes in a map which is attached to your client instance

[woeful pike]

don't do that either, just pass a context to your commands that has all the data you need to run commands

[quartz kindle]

everything that people did with structure extensions you can easily do without them

[rocky hearth]

can someone confirm , if Structures been removed from discord.js@dev, bcoz for me it is still there.

[quartz kindle]

yes it was removed lol

[woeful pike]

type CommandContext = {
  client: Client,
  message: Message,
  db: Database,
  prefixes: Map<string, string>
}

[earnest phoenix]

wtf ts bad!!!

[woeful pike]

just pass this around why would you need to fuck with the discord.js API just to check a prefix

[quartz kindle]

why would you even need to pass prefix around after the initial check in the message event?

[woeful pike]

yep

[rocky hearth]

I can still import and use it.
What do i do

[quartz kindle]

vsc?

[rocky hearth]

yes

[earnest phoenix]

delete djs and install detritus

[cinder patio]

Attaching the database instance to your client could be useful when you need it in an event rather than a command

[quartz kindle]

close and reopen

after updating deps

[woeful pike]

you could create an EventContext too

[quartz kindle]

vsc caches typings for dependencies

[woeful pike]

this is how you deal with problems like this in any other language

[rocky hearth]

no, even the files are there

[quartz kindle]

then you didnt update your dependencies

[cinder patio]

how would you do that tho

[rocky hearth]

i tried these

[rocky hearth]

i did to the latest

[cinder patio]

oh nvm just thought of a way of doing it

[quartz kindle]

how did you do it

[woeful pike]

type EventContext = {
  client: Client,
  db: Database,
}

type CommandContext = EventContext & {
  message: Message,
}

[earnest phoenix]

what's &

[quartz kindle]

and

[woeful pike]

merges 2 types

[quartz kindle]

use the github version

[cinder patio]

That's not what I meant by how would you do it, how would you replace the argument in the event

[quartz kindle]

github:discordjs/discord.js

npm i discordjs/discord.js

[earnest phoenix]

what if my code is on gitlab

[quartz kindle]

ur fuxed

[rocky hearth]

I did this discord.js@dev

[earnest phoenix]

or macrohard excel

[quartz kindle]

ye dont do that

do what i said

[rocky hearth]

ok

[woeful pike]

const ctx = createContext({ client, db })
client.on("memberAdd", (...args) => f(ctx, ...args))

[quartz kindle]

or... just use member.client?

lel

[earnest phoenix]

what is that code supposed to do

[woeful pike]

I'm talking about how you can pass around a context without modifying the discord.js api

adding random shit on top of client isn't the best either

[earnest phoenix]

yo how did you reply to my message before i typed it

[quartz kindle]

you can keep all your stuff in a single client property object

[woeful pike]

basically lets you create a context that is passed around to every event handler as the first parameter

[quartz kindle]

to keep it orgnized

but yeah you can also create contexts like that

more upkeep tho

[earnest phoenix]

why would i need that

[woeful pike]

you're essentially doing the same thing as Structures there and it's a pain to work with in typescript

I don't want to pass client everywhere if I don't need to

this way you can create different kinds of contexts and pass the things you need to different things

[cinder patio]

Most discord.js objects have the client attached to em

[quartz kindle]

thats the thing, you dont need to. client exists everywhere inside djs

[cinder patio]

Though yeah contexts are definitely more organized

at least imo

[rocky hearth]

that solved my problem, but how?

[quartz kindle]

because thats how you install master versions

not the way you did it

[rocky hearth]

then y they say to install this discord.js@dev

[earnest phoenix]

what is the equivalent of window in node

[quartz kindle]

the way you did it looks into npm for a version with that tag, which requires the devs to actually publish that tag to npm. and dev versions are not regularly published to npm, if ever

[woeful pike]

if you were executing a command and wanted to include the current command being executed in the function you would need to pass it as an extra positional argument whereas with ctx pattern you can just create a separate CommandContext that has a non-nullable command property on top of it that extends from a base context

that's just how I like to organize my programs I guess though

[quartz kindle]

in short: discord.js@dev = the latest version that the devs explicitly put on npm
discordjs/discord.js = the latest version directly from github including the very latest commits

[cinder patio]

Up to preference, If I had a huge codebase I'd use the context pattern

but with a small bot I'll just attach everything to the client

[woeful pike]

I don't like mutating things because it's extra work to represent it in typescript

[cinder patio]

true, there's always the ! postfix tho

eslint has a rule against that operator by default

[woeful pike]

when Client gets created it doesn't have any of those properties, you just have to remember to add them and fool the typescript compiler into believing they exist when you try to access them

which is not an approach I like

contexts can be safely typechecked

[rocky hearth]

#824411059443204127 message (on djs server)
here they were saying discord.js@dev should work fine.

[quartz kindle]

well it didnt for you

and apparently they didnt know why either

or you did something wrong

[rocky hearth]

i dont think so. I cleared yarn cache, than removed node_modules, reinstalled all packages again

[quartz kindle]

did you actually run npm i discord.js@dev again?

or just npm i?

[brave garnet]

Is it a good idea for a bot to automod stearn scam?

[quartz kindle]

probably?

[brave garnet]

O rly?

[quartz kindle]

as long as people know the bot is doing it

[brave garnet]

IK. Now it filters swears and its said on bot's page

[lethal trout]

https://srcb.in/hfRbBBWgGC

[lyric mountain]

show where you defined graph

[slender thistle]

https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/database/sqlite.html#insert-and-select-data Having a look at this code example, I presume that ?1 would refer to color.to_string() because it's an an array?

[sudden geyser]

yes

[valid frigate]

no it would not be an array

i dont know jack about rust but iirc that sql statement produces a single value for cat color

[sudden geyser]

By array he means the parameter list is in an array and ?1 refers to the first element in the array

[valid frigate]

AH

[sudden geyser]

Though, it could be shortened to just ? if the same value doesn't need to be represented in multiple parts of the query

[warped lintel]

Nekomaki. Who

[sudden geyser]

heck, you can even give named parameters (https://docs.rs/rusqlite/0.25.3/rusqlite/struct.Connection.html#method.execute)

[warped lintel]

@ripe prairie

[sudden geyser]

Are you looking for #support?

[warped lintel]

yes

[warped lintel]

I don't know why they rejected my bot for some emojis

[wheat mesa]

That’s why

[sudden geyser]

Your bot's commands have emojis or gifs that could cause epileptic seizures due to its flashy and flickering nature. Please remove all content of such nature in your commands.
It means the emoji/gif your bot presents is too flashy/flickery.

e.g. a blob rainbow dance emoji

if you know what one I'm talking about

But you'll want to explain your issue in #support or contact a moderator via DMs.

[warped lintel]

I already contacted, I'm going to change them and wait again

[slender thistle]

Ooooo

That's best

Neat

Thanks a lot

Watch me corrupt my db within seconds

[small tangle]

first time with docker

[sudden geyser]

what is docker useful for

[small tangle]

u can use already configured docker container e.g. for db and they are pretty fast up and running

but thats probably not the best explanation for dockers advantages

[wheat mesa]

Is it considered a privacy breach if I create a command to list the servers my bot is in (by name) as long as the command is only available to me, in a private channel?

[quartz kindle]

if its only available to you then no

[wheat mesa]

Alright

[brazen epoch]

For some reason its not sending a webhook when i vote for a server any idea why?

[earnest temple]

What was the command to show on the status in how many guilds are the bot (discord.js)

[lament rock]

client.guilds.cache.size

[earnest temple]

Ty

[proven lantern]

const x = "hello [go here](http//websitelink.com) blah blah [another link](http//websitelink2.com) blah blah"
i am trying to split out the markdown links, but this isn't working.

x.split(/\[.*\]\(.*\)/)

i need to use a different character set than .

can i say all characters besides [ ] ( ) somehow?

[lament rock]

You can use [^chars] to specify any characters except for those specified in the Array (the ^ is necessary)

[proven lantern]

[.^\[^\]]

something like that?

[lament rock]

\[[^\[\]]\]\(([^\(\)])\)

That's for

[proven lantern]

ouch

let my brain work for a second

also thanks

[modest maple]

pub struct TimedCache<K, V>
where
    K: Eq + Hash + Clone + Send + 'static,
    V: Eq + Hash + ShallowCopy + Send + 'static,
{
    state: RandomState,
    internal_queue: DelayQueue<K>,
    internal_map: MultiValueMap<K, V>
}

impl<K, V> TimedCache<K, V>
where
    K: Eq + Hash + Clone + Send + 'static,
    V: Eq + Hash + ShallowCopy + Send + 'static,
{
    
}
``` Ngl really wish there was a simpler way of defining large blocks of traits combinations other than super traits

[viral spade]

My statistics bot is not receiving any messages coming from threads. Is there a way with discord.js to also get the message events from threads, not only from the main channels?

[lament rock]

You'd need to upgrade to djs master and add logic to listen for thread related events

v12 does not support threads

or you use the raw gateway :)

[quartz kindle]

you need to be in the api v9 to even receive events

[proven lantern]

shouldn't this work?
"hello [go here](http//websitelink.com) blah blah [another link](http//websitelink2.com) blah blah".split(/\[[.^\]]*\]\([.^\)]*\)/);

[quartz kindle]

and even then someone here said they were on v9 and were still not receiving events from threads

so we dont know the current state of the threads api

[modest maple]

v9 is a lil all over the place

[lament rock]

nope. Does not work

I messed up my regex by mistake. This is the fixed one: /\[[^\[\]]+\]\(([^\(\)]+\))/

You can use this to make and test regular expressions. It's very helpful https://regexr.com/

[lament rock]

and you shouldn't use split since it would remove the link

[proven lantern]

my isn't as helpful

[proven lantern]

i want to remove it and then put it back in, but as a react component

and make the strings react components too

[.] matches the . not all characters

[lament rock]

then you can match the string with the regex I provided and string.replace(match[0] /* The matched string */, "") and then do something with the match[1]
If you include the g flag and don't iterate over the string, then you'd have to chain replaces

[proven lantern]

the split function will iterate for me

[lament rock]

matching the string with the g flag will reduce the amount of iterations you have to do when using the regex against the string. Using regexs should be done sparingly

[proven lantern]

first i will get a list of markdown links. then a list of the text with links missing. then i iterate over the text and add back in the links

["[go here](http//websitelink.com)", "[another link](http//websitelink2.com)"]```

i want to get these two lists

then i'll make <React.Component>hello <React.Component2 href="asdfasd">go here</React.Component2> ... </React.Component>

there must be a way to do .split and .match at the same time

[lyric mountain]

\[(?<text>.+)\]\((?<link>.+)\)

then just get named groups, "text" will be the text, and "link" will be the link inside parentheses

[lament rock]

That regex doesn't work

the . matches outside of the bounds

[viral spade]

does the most actual version of discord.js support threads?

[lament rock]

yes

[lyric mountain]

nope, it won't match outside

it'll stop at )

note the \) after it

[lyric mountain]

ye, nothing wrong

click "details"

[lament rock]

FF doesn't support named groups

[lyric mountain]

ah I see what you mean

[proven lantern]

dang, that would be nice

i need to support ie 11

lol

[lyric mountain]

you can still use numbered groups

[proven lantern]

let me try it out

i finally got this to work \[[^\]]*\]\([^\)\s]*\)

[eternal osprey]

Hey! Why did I get a message that my bot got approved?

[proven lantern]

those number groups are magic

[eternal osprey]

My bot was approved for like half a year already or something

never pushed any other bot

[lament rock]

If someone listed you as a collab, it probably DMs you about that as well

[lyric mountain]

how would you explain regex if not magic?

[lament rock]

Logical expressions

[fathom tiger]

very dumb question, but I'm new to this. How do I determine the webhook URL for my bot?
like, I know where to enter it on my top.gg page, but I don't know what it should be

[lament rock]

Once you create a route on your web server which is designed to handle requests from topgg, then you pass that route to topgg

[fathom tiger]

Ah so I need a webserver intermediary between my bot and top.gg? I can't just directly link my bot to top.gg?

[lyric mountain]

ye

[lament rock]

No lol. How is your bot supposed to know what to do if you don't provide any code for it

[lyric mountain]

the bot is just a connection between your code and discord

the actual bot is the code

[fathom tiger]

i have a bot, just dont know how to webhook lol

im still confused

[eternal osprey]

Ah nvm, how bad can it be

[lament rock]

Look into how to make a web server and how to handle topgg requests with their docs

[lyric mountain]

a webhook is just a reverse api, you handle requests made to it

[boreal iron]

Topgg sends a request to your endpoint (webserver) and it will manage the request, for example running your code sending a message via your bot

[lyric mountain]

if you setup a webserver together with your bot you can grab the requests directly and pass to the bot

[fathom tiger]

do you have a link? I've been reading docs for an hour and obviously missing something. (this is what I've been reading https://docs.top.gg/resources/webhooks/)

[lament rock]

what don't you understand

[fathom tiger]

so I have my bot I've had for 6 months now but want to add this integration. what I don't understand is how to also setup a webserver for this top.gg integration

[lyric mountain]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_web_server

here

mozilla explains it well

[fathom tiger]

like i know what a webserver IS, I just dont know HOW to easily set one up alongside the bot

[vivid fulcrum]

you have a common misconception that your bot == your app

[lyric mountain]

express.js, @ripe niche/sdk, etc

oh fck

I'll not edit, it's his fault

[vivid fulcrum]

your bot is merely something you're using inside of your app

it isn't your app entirely

you can add anything you want into your app

your app just happened to run the discord bot as well

[fathom tiger]

my understanding is the follow:
python code running on my AWS server is connecting discord API to send/receive requests.

[vivid fulcrum]

correct

but it doesn't have to do that exclusively

[lament rock]

How to efficiently do it which is scalable is to have the website be independent from the bot and then have some form of IPC like a websocket layer. and your web server would act as a coordinator for front facing requests

[lyric mountain]

you what?

[boreal iron]

Or simply follow the docs and it’s examples to host the webhook service (webserver), importing your discord client to it, spawn a second instance and if a request comes from topgg, do whatever you want the bot to do

[vivid fulcrum]

this is the best choice, allows for multi-process sharding as well. however if you can't afford to do that yet, taking the monolithic design approach where your bot and your webserver are running in the same app is fine

[fathom tiger]

yeah definitely sticking the monolithic approach. but tbh this sounds kinda confusing I might just not integrate with top.gg

I assume I'd have to mess with something like Flask

or django

[lament rock]

Not entirely necessary unless that's what you absolutely want to go for

[fathom tiger]

all I want at the end of the day is getting notified when a user votes for the bot

my users keep asking me for vote command lol

(mainly cause they want free stuff lmao)

[lament rock]

Fair... A simple back end server without any fancy front end should be more than sufficient to process that

[boreal iron]

#development message

It’s surprisingly easy, it really is.

[lament rock]

the website logic should still follow what I suggested

[earnest phoenix]

How can i download node js raspberry pi

[lament rock]

The package manager should offer node since node should support rpi

[earnest phoenix]

I can only download version 10.24.0

[lament rock]

Then you'd have to build the latest version of node yourself or find builds online

[fathom tiger]

is there a guide i can follow for how to set something simple up for this purpose in python?

[lament rock]

google

[earnest phoenix]

Version of linux i can not

[fathom tiger]

that's what ive been doing for an hour now

[lament rock]

Then don't do top gg specifically. Get a basic structure laid out first and then try to adapt what the docs say to your structure

[fathom tiger]

i guess ill ask just one more question: what python package do you recommend for this?

[lyric mountain]

flask

[lament rock]

I don't code in python, so I wouldn't know

[fathom tiger]

awesome. I will move ahead with flask then thank you

[boreal iron]

The docs are providing the code for the webhook already.
All you need to do is to import your discord client and spawn a second instance.

[lament rock]

what

[boreal iron]

Not that this the most decent way but it will donuts job

WTF

Auto correct…

[lyric mountain]

donuts

[boreal iron]

*do its job

iOS "AI“ is great

[boreal iron]

And the is after that has gone as well 🤦‍♂️

[vagrant sedge]

ig if i have two word commands, should i keep the words separate, underscored, combined, or dashed?

[lyric mountain]

up to you

[vivid fulcrum]

whatever's the easiest to type

that as well

[lyric mountain]

EDIT: now I understood what you mean

ye, anything but spaces are fine

[wheat mesa]

Anyone know how to respond to button interactions using detritus?

[chrome silo]

Do I get the Bot Developer role when my bot get's verified on top.gg?

Wrong Channel sry

[wheat mesa]

Yes

[chrome silo]

Thx 👍

[lofty cedar]

in socket when trying to connect, how could i make that if the connection didn't worked:
do something
(python)

[earnest phoenix]

The connection object should return a state

[lofty cedar]

idk how to see that, when i try to connect with the server offline it seems it's a windows error, it is in my language, not in english and also it stops the process

[earnest phoenix]

Well you could always try showing me

[lofty cedar]

    s.connect((host, port))
ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] Impossibile stabilire la connessione. Rifiuto persistente del computer di destinazione

C:\Users\Eugenio\Desktop\hexye developing\automation>```
translation: Impossible to connect. Persistent refusal from the destination computer

[earnest phoenix]

You could simply try to

try catch it

[half solstice]

Hi

[earnest phoenix]

Try except in your case

[half solstice]

:3

I'm bored

:3 XD

[earnest phoenix]

hi sir

[half solstice]

Hi

[earnest phoenix]

hru sir

[lofty cedar]

gonna try

it works, thx 🙂

[half solstice]

Nice

[lofty cedar]

now how could i make an infinite loop so while except it try to connect again?

[earnest phoenix]

maybe with a cool down

like wait a few seconds before retrying

[lofty cedar]

yes actually good idea

[half solstice]

Is js?

You can use

[earnest phoenix]

python

[half solstice]

setTimeout

[half solstice]

Oh F

[earnest phoenix]

You should probably use asyncio

so it doesn't block the rest of your code

then asyncio.sleep for the cool down

[half solstice]

An async function?

[lofty cedar]

ye

also could use time

[earnest phoenix]

asyncio is the async library for python

[half solstice]

Well I'm gonna sleep bye guys have a nice day

[half solstice]

Yh I know :D

[lofty cedar]

gn

[robust fern]

embed.image.url: Could not interpret "{'name': 'welcome-image.png'}" as string.

y tho

i give code once someone pings or somthn lol

oh look someones here

[earnest phoenix]

or just give it

[lofty cedar]

how could i make the loop of the exception? because using While True would not break the exception when it connects

[robust fern]

const canvas = Canvas.createCanvas(700, 250);
    const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

    const background = await Canvas.loadImage('link lol');
    ctx.drawImage(background, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);

const attachment = new Discord.MessageAttachment(canvas.toBuffer(), 'welcome-image.png')
  const welcembd = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
  .setTitle(`Welcome to ${member.guild.name}, ${member}`)
  .setImage(attachment)
  message.channel.send(welcembd);```

[earnest phoenix]

have a global variable isConnected or something

[robust fern]

me

[earnest phoenix]

set to true if you connect

so while not isConnected

[robust fern]

me

[dawn kernel]

Does medal use

C#

for their back-end?

[robust fern]

sigh i didnt get help

[earnest phoenix]

you have no patience at all bud

[robust fern]

lmayo

so help

sigh no help

fixed it on my own

now i have other issues

[robust fern]

and i need help with those issues

ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(125, 125, 100, 0, Math.PI * 2, true);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.clip();
const avatar = await Canvas.loadImage(member.user.displayAvatarURL({ format: 'jpg' }));
ctx.drawImage(avatar, 25, 25, 200, 200);

y does the begin path arc closepath and clip not work lol

[lyric mountain]

I'm pretty sure clip doesn't work like that

[south vector]

Hello there deos anyone have a bot that when someone is banned by a bot or a user it displayes a message in a channel saying like user is banned for reason.

[vivid fulcrum]

wrong channel

[south vector]

Um

What is the right channel

[split hazel]

probably #general but people there will tell you to find the bot yourself

[robust fern]

dang i just copied that part off of google

[quartz kindle]

remove closePath

[earnest phoenix]

how can i add codeblocks in my embed description?

[sudden geyser]

```language
code here
```

[earnest phoenix]

i tried that but it messes with the rest of the description and the bot cant start bc of it

[sudden geyser]

then you're doing it wrong

[earnest phoenix]

like i only want certain words highlighted

[sudden geyser]

it should be in a string

so you should show what you're doing

[river peak]

do thread id's act the same as channel ids?

[hybrid cargo]

Yep, it is also a type of channel

[river peak]

ok

[hybrid cargo]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel you can read this to get more infos

[wheat mesa]

Escape the backticks with \

[valid frigate]

anyone know what channel_ids is supposed to represent in THREAD_LIST_SYNC?

[wheat mesa]

(Assuming you’re using js, not sure how it works in py)

[valid frigate]

this is what the docs say https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#thread-list-sync-thread-list-sync-event-fields

but i really dont understand its use

do events like CHANNEL_DELETE register for channels that the client cannot see?

[solemn latch]

seems like something to test yourself, people here will shout random answers at that.

[valid frigate]

ok

[paper isle]

watchbot.app might be something you could be interested in.

Uptime of your own bot, right? You could save when the bot starts and stops in your db and calculate the uptime yourself. More hassle than it's worth imo. Especially the part where you save the stop time.

I use watchbot and it's pretty much what you're asking for; get the % uptime of your bot.

Or list your bot on discord.bots.gg. They add all their bots to their server and monitor their uptime % that you can see by using a command.

[honest gorge]

anyone how to get notification of my vote bot?

[lament rock]

It's the parent channels which are being synced to the client. Those IDs can either belong to a News Channel or a Text Channel

[long crow]

Any general idea how I can stress test memory usage of my bot?

I don't I can just throw it to public for testing

[lament rock]

Spin up a dev bot and add to large servers you have authority over and add the presence intent

or store user data in a db and then create fake message create payloads and fill in the user data with stored which you can fill from live and then your lib will cache those users

[valid frigate]

when syncing threads is member already included in the channel object or am i required to use the members field

[long crow]

^ I don't have presence intent, only ['GUILDS', 'GUILD_MESSAGES', 'GUILD_VOICE_STATES']

[lament rock]

Users and Messages are what take the most memory

[valid frigate]

you could consider increasing the amount of messages your library is allowed to store per channel

you don't necessarily need a large server for that but it might be hard to write messages over and over

[long crow]

that why I ask on it since I dont think I can measure with me all alone spamming message

[valid frigate]

lol

[long crow]

client.sweepMessages(10 * 60 * 1000); djs master branch have this feature now, what I fear is the hidden one

[valid frigate]

this is what i have so far, i'm replacing channels in the cache if a channel is sent through the thread sync event

[lament rock]

That's why I mentioned making fake message payloads and filling in with users you store in a database from live

The channel ID has to be real and cached is the only requirement for message create on Discord.js's end

you should also be making those fake message payloads for a guild text channel as DM channels won't work

[wheat mesa]

Just so I'm prepared in the future... how many guilds per shard should I be using?

[long crow]

I just return when it is a DM, now the real question how am I executing it 🤔

[lament rock]

The max amnt is 2500 before Discord says you can't connect. If you're a music bot owner, consider 1500. Otherwise, 2000-2500

[wheat mesa]

Alright

[lament rock]

Discord.js' web socket manager exposes the handlers for raw gateway events iirc

[valid frigate]

it does

listen for "raw"

unless they changed that, i havent used the lib since v11

[lament rock]

Not listen

injecting fake payloads

[sudden geyser]

For stress testing, it really depends on what you're testing and how it'll be used. I find it more efficient to calculate the cost of something ahead of time and see how that would scale in the future (like SQL's EXPLAIN clause) rather than trying to simulate the real environment and hoping it's accurate enough.

For a developer working on an algorithms library, it would mean reviewing the amount of processing your functions does. Maybe it looks fine at first until you realize it's n * n.

[long crow]

What step by step I should go? I think I can do test run online few days on my test server first? and does process.memoryUsage().heapUsed / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(2) is suffice to measure it?

[sudden geyser]

Use a benchmarking library

If node has one

It'll probably give you more insight than just standard calculation of the memory (and some console.time)

[long crow]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-memwatch

This might be a starter, though 3 years ago published

nvm, failed to install on v16

[bitter turret]

My bot got declined loo

Lol

[lethal trout]

https://srcb.in/hfRbBBWgGC

[earnest phoenix]

I need some help with my battery
My battery is having trouble charging. I've changed sockets and tried charging the phone in short blasts and it seems to be charging a bit better but still takes way too long. The problem ain't with the charger because my mom's phone (same brand as mine and older model) charges fine and WAY quickly.
Last night I put it on charge at 5% and I wake up to see it at 1%
I tried to clear off apps in the background but then my phone died

Specs
vivo 1173
FuntouchOS (vivo doing a great job at vendor lock in)

Help

[lethal trout]

ur phone is hacked

ngl

[earnest phoenix]

big brain

why dont you use it for coding GOOD bots

[wary flame]

this.graph isn't defined, define the graph function before module.exports and call it using graph

You can still export it if needed

[earnest phoenix]

Will erwin lend me a free usbc charger for saying detritus rules?

[valid frigate]

this is a bit random

but does anyone know if thread sync event syncs only channels the client couldnt see before

this is because if not, then the event would wipe the message cache of channels which the client could see before the event happened

[wheat mesa]

👀

Learn the ways of the discord bot library king itself, detritus!

[earnest phoenix]

lol

[earnest phoenix]

any suggestions on how to fix this?

[lament rock]

imagine shilling for a lib

npm i request
request gud
ignore deprecation warning is good.
a 1GB install size is a small price to pay for request
/s

[wheat mesa]

npm i is-odd

[near stratus]

Well my Samsung had the same problem
It had fast charging but for some reason it stopped fast charging with original charger
I cleaned the charging port, bg apps nothing happened
So I changed the charging cable and it started working
But the old cable still works with other phones

[wraith solar]

Is it normal for my charger to just stop working bc I've had to change the charger way too many times

[earnest phoenix]

function isOdd(num) {
return /\d/.test(String(Number(num) / 2).split(".")[1])
}

[lament rock]

want a very low memory usage bot?
npm i cloudstorm
learn raw gateway
npm i snowtransfer
learn raw rest

[earnest phoenix]

I only have one usbc charger

[near stratus]

[lament rock]

🗑️

[near stratus]

Try changing the usb connector

[earnest phoenix]

?

The adapter that goes in the wall?

[near stratus]

huh ?

[novel oar]

O no-

[foggy kestrel]

someone pls help in #topgg-api

[wheat mesa]

Anyone know why my host (temporarily a free heroku dyno) is incredibly slow? I'm getting a response of about 2300ms when posting a simple message to a channel. On my local machine, the process takes only about 60mb of ram. Can heroku just not handle that, or is the connection on their end bad?

[rocky hearth]

what does this error mean

[cinder patio]

function is in strict mode

you know, "use strict" this thing

[eternal elbow]

How are these temporary messages made?

[near stratus]

Well this may be because the server is way too far from the discord server (unlikely)
Or the shard is faulty
Or maybe you have a shitty code (also unlikely)
Because my Heroku has a 23ms ping

[near stratus]

use flag 64 when sending slash command reply

[rocky hearth]

yes, is it bcoz I hv set strict to true in tsconfig?

[cinder patio]

most likely

[near stratus]

or 16 I don't remember

[eternal elbow]

Can we do this whenever we want? Is it only valid for slash commands?

[wheat mesa]

Anyone here hosted a bot using AWS? I need some help with connecting to an instance. It tells me to run these commands, but I'm on a windows pc, not linux.

[cinder patio]

Only valid for interaction responses, and yeah, it's 64

[eternal elbow]

oh ok thanks

[rocky hearth]

bot.on("ready", function () {
  bot.removeListener("ready", arguments.callee)
})

so this wouldn't work in strict mode. What are other alternatives, other that using bot.once()

[paper surge]

Anyone know anything about the buttons ??

[wheat mesa]

How would I make the key not publicly available (basically a windows alternative to chmod)

[cinder patio]

const readyFn = () => {
  bot.removeListener("ready", readyFn);
}

bot.on("ready", readyFn);

[copper cradle]

what's the point of that anyway

[copper cradle]

you just create a listener and then instantly remove it

wouldn't it be better if u didn't create it in the first place?

[cinder patio]

you remove it after the first time it's emitted*

[inner fulcrum]

is that replit

[copper cradle]

well yeah but still

makes no sense

[rocky hearth]

frees up memory

[cinder patio]

it does if you want to remove it only if a condition is met

[paper surge]

ya lol

[cinder patio]

ok that's not a good reason

[copper cradle]

then don't use it

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rocky hearth]

I want it to listen only once

[cinder patio]

then use .once

[pale vessel]

Not on your PC. It says there open your SSH client?

[wheat mesa]

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions for 'WaffleBot.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
Load key "WaffleBot.pem": bad permissions
myAWSserver: Permission denied (publickey).

That's the error I get when attempting to open an ssh client to it

It says to run chmod 400 WaffleBot.pem if I need to, but I can't do that without being connected to the server, as I'm running windows not linux

Got it to work

Followed a yt tutorial on how to do the equivalent on windows using icacl

[near stratus]

also button clicks

[wheat mesa]

How do I update node from a linux terminal window? I've tried this so far, but it keeps outputting v10.19.0 whenever I type node --version

Also throws this when I try to run my normal startup command

I'm gonna assume that's just thrown because of the outdated node version

Actually that's a slightly big problem, every npm command throws that error

Just tried uninstalling and reinstalling nodejs and npm, still throws that error :/

[regal jacinth]

guys, how do i store a text with emojis in sqlite3 ?

[rocky hearth]

does mee6 uses discord.js?

[cinder patio]

most likely no

[rocky hearth]

then which popular bot uses discord.js?

[cinder patio]

Most popular bots use a custom library

[stable eagle]

Mudae

[cinder patio]

Okay wh-

new RegExp("git\+|\.git", "g")

eslint is telling me to remove the \ because they're unnecessary but they are not

[nimble kiln]

You forgot to censor your IP in this screenshot, and the screenshot below.

Regarding that error:
You're require-ing semver somewhere in your script, so I guess do npm install semver in the directory where the package.json is

[cinder patio]

oh nvm

[wheat mesa]

The IP is fine, whatever

But no, it's not an issue with my code

It's likely an issue with NPM itself

[nimble kiln]

No I didnt say it's an issue with your code

I'm saying that you require semver in your code but it's not installed as a module

[wheat mesa]

Npm will not run any commands I give it

Even just typing npm causes that error

[nimble kiln]

oh alright, what OS are you running on that VPS?

And what node version does your script need?

[wheat mesa]

My script needs v14 or above (I believe that's when null-coalescing was introduced into node)

[nimble kiln]

Alright, and which OS? Debian, Ubuntu, etc.?

[wheat mesa]

Ubuntu

My current method of installing is running the commands as follows:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs sudo apt-get install npm

However this is my first time ever using Linux, so I'm not entirely sure if that's correct or not

[nimble kiln]

That itself is correct

But it may be that your current package repository doesnt have v14 in it

[wheat mesa]

How would I get that to have v14?

[nimble kiln]

If you're fine in copy pasting commands do this:
sudo apt-get remove nodejs && sudo apt-get remove npm && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nodejs && sudo apt-get install npm

Uninstalls both nodejs and npm, updates, and reinstalls

After that please go run
node --version and tell me if it works and what it says

[wheat mesa]

Alright, doing that rn

Still v10.19.0

[nimble kiln]

alright that means your package repository is just behind

Let me get you the commands for v14

I'm getting the commands from here:
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-node-js-14-on-ubuntu-debian-linux/

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get remove nodejs && sudo apt-get install nodejs

[restive furnace]

so he's using either <=ubuntu 18.04 or <=debian 8

[nimble kiln]

First command downloads the v14 package repository URLs and puts it in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

[wheat mesa]

It's ubuntu 20.something I believe

[nimble kiln]

cat /etc/*-release will show you your ubuntu version if you wanna know

[wheat mesa]

20.04.2 LTS

[nimble kiln]

yup I have the same on my server

(not an AWS server tho)

[shut veldt]

I see...

[nimble kiln]

Go do the commands from here which should install you node v14

[shut veldt]

So that's how you do it

Hmm

[nimble kiln]

Do what?

[shut veldt]

What you just explained

[nimble kiln]

oh

[shut veldt]

[nimble kiln]

Yeah the (official OS) package repositories are usually behind

[shut veldt]

Ohh

[wheat mesa]

Perfect, node is now on v14.17.2

[nimble kiln]

awesome

[shut veldt]

Great

[nimble kiln]

Does your script now just work out of the box?

[shut veldt]

Yes

[wheat mesa]

Not yet, still have to figure out how to add in env vars

[shut veldt]

Hmm

[wheat mesa]

Is that something I should just create the file for manually or...

[nimble kiln]

Yes you create the .env file in the directory where your script.js is

But you do have to install it first:
npm install dotenv

[wheat mesa]

Yeah, I'll run npm install to get all my dependencies

[nimble kiln]

ah alright so it should be mostly set up

[wheat mesa]

I just found a guide on injecting config vars into aws

I'll see what I find there

[shut veldt]

Where did you guys learned this stuffs...I can just develop simple games with coding till now...

[wheat mesa]

Probably easier to just manually create the env file though

[nimble kiln]

Yeah

[nimble kiln]

I'm using Linux for a long time now, I've seen alot and tried alot. Over time you just remember stuff "oh I did this before, so in order that it works I gotta do X"

[shut veldt]

i see ..

[wheat mesa]

How would I manually create the env file in the terminal?

[nimble kiln]

touch .env creates an empty .env file in your current directory

[wheat mesa]

Or is that not a possibility

[nimble kiln]

You can also use your favorite text editor directly
nano .env
vi .env

[wheat mesa]

damn you AWS, not letting me copy paste my token...

I have to type it out manually, ugh

[nimble kiln]

hold up

[wheat mesa]

Wait a minute

[nimble kiln]

Usually SSH client are: Right click to paste

[wheat mesa]

That worked

lmao

[nimble kiln]

yeah

[wheat mesa]

Literally right as you typed that

I accidentally right clicked

[nimble kiln]

If you highlight something and left click it, that usually is copy

depends on the ssh client tbh

[wheat mesa]

I can just exit once I'm done editing the file right, or is there a keybind to save?

[nimble kiln]

Which editor are you using? Nano?

[wheat mesa]

Yeah

[nimble kiln]

nano is:
CTRL+X
Press Y
Press Enter

[wheat mesa]

Thank you

[nimble kiln]

CTRL+X to close the file
Then it asks if you wanna save -> Y
Then it asks if the file name/path is right: Enter

[wheat mesa]

hmmmm... it's decided to tell me that I still need a token...

[nimble kiln]

Go check your script for process.env

Did you type the variable correct for the bot token?

[wheat mesa]

The code is all correct, it works perfectly when hosting through VSC

[wheat mesa]

Should it list the .env when I type ls -a?

[nimble kiln]

yes

[waxen bough]

i do ctrl + s then ctrl + x

[wheat mesa]

Okay, it's there

[nimble kiln]

Oh yeah that also works

[wheat mesa]

Not sure why it's not working

[nimble kiln]

@wheat mesa If you do cat .env does it also show you the content?

[wheat mesa]

Yup

[nimble kiln]

Ok then go check your bot script where it logs in

Check that the variable in your .env is the same as in your script, case sensitive

or maybe, yeah no check that first

[wheat mesa]

dotenv.config({ path: __dirname + '/.env' });

const prefixes = config.prefixes;

const startup = Date.now();

console.log('Starting bot...');

const commandClient = new CommandClient(process.env.BOT_TOKEN ?? '' // Other stuff after this doesn't matter

[nimble kiln]

ok yeah and I assume you put BOT_TOKEN = 'asdf' in your .env file?

[wheat mesa]

Yes

[nimble kiln]

ok that should work then

[nimble kiln]

Is the .env file in the same directory as this file?

[lethal trout]

err: if anyone joins to any server it is coming in my server smh

const canvas = require('discord-canvas'),
    welcomeCanvas = new canvas.Welcome(),
    leaveCanvas = new canvas.Goodbye()
const Discord = require('discord.js')
const client = require('../index')

client.on('guildMemberAdd', async member => {
client.guilds.cache.forEach(guild => {
        if (!guild || !guild.id) return;

const Schema = require("../models/joinchannel")
 Schema.findOne({ guild: guild.id }, async (err, data) => {
if (!data) return;
                if(!data.channel) return;
    let image = await welcomeCanvas
        .setUsername(member.user.username)
        .setDiscriminator(member.user.discriminator)
        .setMemberCount(member.guild.memberCount)
        .setGuildName(member.guild.name)
        .setAvatar(member.user.displayAvatarURL({
            format: 'png'
        }))
        .setColor("border", 'BLUE')
        .setColor("username-box", 'RED')
        .setColor("discriminator-box", 'GREEN')
        .setColor("message-box", 'BLACK')
        .setColor("title", 'YELLOW')
        .setColor("avatar", 'PINK')
        .setBackground('https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/847794443180048394/863973336035885056/wallpaper.jpg?width=1178&height=662')
        .toAttachment()


    let attachment = new Discord.MessageAttachment(image.toBuffer(), "welcome-image.png");

    client.channels.cache.get(data.channel).send(attachment)
 })
})
})```

[wheat mesa]

could it be something to do with the __dirname?

Yes it is

[nimble kiln]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking

[nimble kiln]

Try modifying it to:
dotenv.config();

It'll default to .env in current directory

[wheat mesa]

Oh wait...

I might be incredibly stupid

[nimble kiln]

Is your script in /src/? 😄

[wheat mesa]

Perhaps 😅

[nimble kiln]

Yeeeah

[wheat mesa]

That would do it!

[nimble kiln]

You could do 2 things

either make it go 1 directory back or move the .env file 😉

[wheat mesa]

I'm gonna move the env

I really don't feel like pushing an update to the repo then grabbing it and all that stuff

[nimble kiln]

mv .env src

mv is also used for renaming, fyi
mv .env hurrdurr renames .env to hurrdurr

[wheat mesa]

Finally, it works!

[nimble kiln]

👌

[wheat mesa]

In your opinion, do you think pm2 or Forever is better for keeping the bot up?

[nimble kiln]

tbh I never used any of those

[wheat mesa]

Does your vps do it automatically?

[nimble kiln]

start.sh

do
        node discord-bot.js
done

[wheat mesa]

Ah

[nimble kiln]

A while loop to start the script when it exits 😄

But I started using pm2 on other projects and I really like it

[wheat mesa]

I think I'll use pm2 because I'm lazy and want a module to do the work for me

[nimble kiln]

and you can use pm2 plus (free version) to have a neat-o webinterface to remotely restart your bot (and more)

In case you didnt know 🙂

[wheat mesa]

Stupid question, but is there a way to get out of this window without closing the terminal?

[nimble kiln]

how did you start that: node bot.js?

[wheat mesa]

npm start runs node -r ts-node/register/transpile-only ./src/index.ts

[foggy kestrel]

ctrl+c

[nimble kiln]

alright so it's running in your current SSH session

[bitter turret]

My bot got declined even tho I have a help command. :|

[nimble kiln]

The only way is like Tsukuyomi said is to kill it entirely with CTRL+C

[wheat mesa]

Sounds good

[nimble kiln]

You have to use something like screen, tmux or straight up pm2 for it to run in the background

[wheat mesa]

Yeah, was just testing for the sake of my sanity lol

[waxen bough]

i use screen -S node

then i press ctrl + a then ctrl +d

when i go back i type screen -x node

[nimble kiln]

He's gonna use pm2

But you should write that down Waffle

[waxen bough]

oh right

[nimble kiln]

Screen is a nice tool

[wheat mesa]

When I run sudo npm install -g pm2 does it matter what directory I run it in?

[nimble kiln]

nope it doesnt matter

[wheat mesa]

Alright

[nimble kiln]

cause you install it -globally

[bitter turret]

Waffle

I voted ur bot

[wheat mesa]

Thanks!

[bitter turret]

Wc!

[wheat mesa]

Is there a way for pm2 to run npm start, or should I just have it run node -r ts-node/register/transpile-only ./src/index.ts

[nimble kiln]

I dont have much experience in pm2 but I think you can achieve it by using a pm2.json start file

[balmy rivet]

@wheat mesa your bot looks cool

[nimble kiln]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/42619477

[wheat mesa]

Thank you 🙂

[wheat mesa]

I think I'll make a start.sh script that runs npm start then run that with pm2

[nimble kiln]

tbh a pm2.json is simpler than your approach

But if you wanna do it, make sure that your start.sh is executable after you create it:
chmod +x start.sh

[pale vessel]

Tf

I only heard of ecosystem.json or whatever

[nimble kiln]

pm2.json = ecosystem file

[wheat mesa]

Looking at this (https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/application-declaration/) I'm thinking I write something along the lines of this

module.exports = {
  apps : [{
    name   : "app1",
    script : "npm start"
  }]
}

Is that allowed?

[nimble kiln]

Either do it that way, then you have to create a .js file

or do it the way I sent up there, with a pm2.json

[pale vessel]

Why not pm2 start "npm start"

[nimble kiln]

would work

But with a ecosystem you can do pm2 stop all and pm2 start all 😄

[wheat mesa]

Okay, the bot is up and running now

Let's hope it stays that way lol

[nimble kiln]

Do you have an eval command?

[wheat mesa]

Nope