How to send message to a specific user from discord bot using discor.js

Question

I want to send a message from my discord bot to a specific user like myself using my discord id. I have tried the following code where my client object is named as bot:

bot.users.get("My Id copied from discord").send("Message to Send");

but it gives the following error in the terminal:

bot.users.get is not a function

Please help me in resolving this error. Thank you

Answer 1

Since discord.js v12 you need to use cache to access the users collection

bot.users.cache.get('ID').send('hello')

You need to use users.fetch() instead since the user might not be cached

const user = await bot.users.fetch('ID')
user.send('hello')