How to clear previous Discord.MessageEmbed data in Discord.js

June 30, 2022

I’m trying to make a snipe command for the dc bot but I can’t get the embed to reset. Tried putting embed = {} in different locations, then it tries sending an empty message the next time and errors out. Also it’s let embed now since I was testing, tried const first. Edit: works now when checking messages elsewhere, should have done that to start with. Code:

bot.on('messageDelete', message => {
        let embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
          .setAuthor(`${message.author.username} (${message.author.id})`, message.author.avatarURL())
          .setDescription(message.content || "None")
          
          bot.on('message', message => {
          const args = message.content.slice(PREFIX.length).split(/ +/);

          const cmd = args.shift().toLowerCase();
      
              if (cmd === 'msg'){
                message.channel.send(embed)
                }
              
            })

      })

>Solution :

Every time a message is deleted you are resubscribing to the message event.
I would suggest taking some of that logic to the outside of that scope.

let embed = null;

bot.on('messageDelete', message => {
    embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
        .setAuthor(`${message.author.username} (${message.author.id})`, message.author.avatarURL())
        .setDescription(message.content || "None")
})

bot.on('message', message => {
    const args = message.content.slice(PREFIX.length).split(/ +/);
    const cmd = args.shift().toLowerCase();

    if (cmd === 'msg' && embed){
        message.channel.send(embed)
    }
})