My Discord bot won't go online

Question

I've already tried using the ' node index.js ' and ' node index ' commands, but I receive a syntax error message every time.

Here's what my .js file looks like. I'm using Visual Studio Code.

const Discord = require("discord.js");

const TOKEN = "MYTOKENHERE";

var Discord = require("discord.js");
var schedule = require('node-schedule');
var bot = new Discord.Client();

bot.on("message", function(message) {
    var channel = bot.channels.find("name", "general");
    channel.sendMessage("Hello Owner Just Restarted Me!");

    var rule = new schedule.RecurrenceRule();
    rule.minute = 0;
    rule.hour = [14, 19, 20];

    var j = schedule.scheduleJob(rule, function() {
        bot.channels.get("id", channel).sendMessage("Testing");
    })

    console.log("Bot is ready.");
});

bot.login(TOKEN);

The error is:

SyntaxError: Identifier 'Discord' has already been declared.

@MariellaDeDios you just need to delete the second Discord — Mike Tung
@MariellaDeDios I edited your question to include the error. As Mike said, you should just remove var Discord = on line 5. — Nate Barbettini

newbie newbie · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-12T11:24:34

As the error states SyntaxError: Identifier 'Discord' has already been declared., it indicates that you have declared 'Discord' and then re-declared it... Which you have done here:

const Discord = require("discord.js"); // you've declared 'Discord' here

const TOKEN = "MYTOKENHERE";

var Discord = require("discord.js"); // and here again

Simply, remove the var Discord = require("discord.js"); line to fix the error, here is what that should look like:

const Discord = require("discord.js");

const TOKEN = "MYTOKENHERE";

var schedule = require('node-schedule');
var bot = new Discord.Client();

bot.on("message", function(message) {
    var channel = bot.channels.find("name", "general");
    channel.sendMessage("Hello Owner Just Restarted Me!");

    var rule = new schedule.RecurrenceRule();
    rule.minute = 0;
    rule.hour = [14, 19, 20];

    var j = schedule.scheduleJob(rule, function() {
        bot.channels.get("id", channel).sendMessage("Testing");
    })

    console.log("Bot is ready.");
});

bot.login(TOKEN);

My Discord bot won't go online

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