Emoji reactions on bot's own message in separate channel

Question

I'm working on a bot in Discord.js. It should listen for its command being used, delete the message with the command, and post in a separate channel the command message's args.

For example, if I sent the bot -say Stack Overflow is a good place to get help it will post in the channel #said-and-repeated 'Stack Overflow is a good place to get help'. The problem is it needs to react with two emojis so the users can vote whether it's a good tip or not.

Code:

var textToEcho = args.join(" ");
        if(args.length === 0){
            message.reply('you need to add a `message` to use this command!!');
        } else {
            message.delete();
            Client.channels.cache.get('where it will send the message').send(textToEcho).then(message => {
                message.react("emoji");
                message.react("emoji");
            }
        }

But this doesn't work, and I can't see what's wrong with it. I know that custom emojis need to be written slightly differently, but the bot only reacts with two default emojis: the check and the cross.

I still cant understand what's the problem. is it not reacting with the custom emoji? please state the error. — Radnerus
The emoji's are unicode, but that is irrelevant, I know that I need to use the ID if it's custom @PerplexingParadox — CKStudios2018

Blind Spot Blind Spot · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-16T10:30:13

Reacting in Discord.js is completely different from sending emojis.

To react with local emoji:-

message.react("🕑")

// Don't use emoji name, use emoji symbol instead.

To react with custom emoji:-

message.react("emojiID here")

Also you said, you want to react to bot's message. So this thing is correct but, you are instructing to react to user's message i.e. *message*.react.

Here what you need is, this:-

//We declare that botMessage is bot's message send to channel

 let botMessage = await Client.channels.cache.get('where it will send the message').send(textToEcho).then{

   // We react here...
  await botMessage.react('emojiID or symbol');
  await botMessage.react('emojiID or symbol');

}

If you need any other help, tell me in comment and ping me.

Emoji reactions on bot's own message in separate channel

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