Ephimeral messages

[MicheleTerzo]

Hi!

Is there a way to read ephimeral messages? The normal fetch seems not to get them. Is it completely impossible to see them with this library? Its strange because giving your token to the library you impersonate your self and you should able to see them. Am I missing something?

Thank you in advance for you help.

[TheDevYellowy]

you can get them through the messageCreate event.

client.on('messageCreate', message => {
  if(message.flags.has("EPHEMERAL")) {
    console.log(`Ephemeral message: ${message.content}`)
  }
})

you don't have to use the message flags unless you want to do something specific with ephemeral messages

[MicheleTerzo]

It finds the message but doesen't display anything. :(
To answer your question, I just have to read the content a bot send me through a command

[TheDevYellowy]

oh, does the bot respond with an embed?

[MicheleTerzo]

Yes it does

[TheDevYellowy]

then you should use message.embeds[0] instead of message.content. message.embeds[0].description will get the embed description and such

[NekoCyan]

Duplicated #258

[MicheleTerzo]

Thank you very much! I have managed to find the desired content using the messageUpdate event:


It is a little bit convoluted, also because I have to format and send this info to a Front End client, but I am really happy I have found the data I needed. And thanks also to @TheDevYellowy for the quick response of yesterday.