How to send a message in general chat?

[Ivansing23]

Sorry if it's a bit of a silly question, but I'm new to this and I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to send a message in a selected text channel. I tried to use client.channels.fetch(channel_id) but it keeps returning a promise of some kind. I cannot actually access a channel, So I can use channel.send(). Does anyone have a bit of code to send a message?

[TheDevYellowy]

You can await client.channels.fetch(channel_id) and that should remove the promise and allow you to access the send function

[Xtendera]

Your function needs to be asynchronous to use that method, so if you have

function doSomething () {
    let channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id');
}

You need to add async before the declaration:

async function doSomething () {
    let channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id');
}

[GillHoang]

sir pls find on google the way to fix :(

var channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id')
I tried this and it gave me a syntax error. It says SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions and the top level bodies of modules
Am I doing something wrong?

sir pls find on google the way to fix :(

Why do you think I'm here bro? 😢

it is not rarely question on google bro
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69089471/async-await-syntaxerror-await-is-only-valid-in-async-functions-and-the-top-le

[Ivansing23]

Your function needs to be asynchronous to use that method, so if you have

function doSomething () {
    let channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id');
}

You need to add async before the declaration:

async function doSomething () {
    let channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id');
}

I've tried this function, however it still doesn't work and prints out the channel as null

async function GetChannel() {
let channel = await client.channels.fetch('my_channel_id');
console.log(channel)
}

What should I do now?

[TheDevYellowy]

you need to replace my_channel_id with the actual id of the channel, you get that by right clicking the channel and at the bottom of the menu there should be a button that says Copy Channel ID. If you don't see that go to settings > Advanced > and make sure Developer Mode at the top is turned on

[Ivansing23]

you need to replace my_channel_id with the actual id of the channel, you get that by right clicking the channel and at the bottom of the menu there should be a button that says Copy Channel ID. If you don't see that go to settings > Advanced > and make sure Developer Mode at the top is turned on

I have the actual channel id in my code. I put my_channel_id there to post my question here. It doesn't work regardless