Forward DM message to guild channel

Question

I want to make that when my bot receives a direct message, it sends it to a channel in my guild. How do I achieve this?

I do know I have to use if (message.channel.type == "dm") {}, but how do I take what the bot receives and send it to a specific Server in a specific Channel?

Federico Grandi Federico Grandi · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-15T10:52:33

If you just want to send the text, just send its content:

client.on("message", msg => {
  if (msg.channel.type == "dm") mychannel.send(msg.content); //mychannel is your TextChannel object
});

If you want to make that you can see the author & stuff like that you could use an embed (see how to build & send one here).

If you want to make like it's almost identical to someone's message, you could use a webhook:

guild.fetchWebhooks().then(webhooks => {
  let myhook = webhooks.find("placeholder");

  client.on("message", msg => {
    if (msg.channel.type == "dm") myhook.send(msg.content, {
      username: msg.author.username,
      avatarURL: msg.author.avatarURL,
    });
  });
});

Hope this helped, let me know if you have any other question

Forward DM message to guild channel

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