Eris: A Discord Bot Guide

Eris Functions

The <Client> in the following examples would be bot, if you followed the first few sections.

Editing your bot's status

You have probably seen users change statuses on Discord. Well, bots can, too!
There are a few Discord statuses:

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You can edit the bot status by using the following:

<Client>.editStatus('dnd');

A list of statuses:

  • DnD
  • Online
  • Idle
  • Invisible

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Get a member

const guild = message.channel.guild; // get the guild object
const member = guild.members.get('<UserID>');

Edit a member

const options = {
  nick: 'simp',
  deaf: true,
};
const reason = 'For being a jerk';
<Member>.edit(options, reason);

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DM Someone

const channel = <Client>.getDMChannel('<UserID>');
channel.createMessage('This is a DM!');

Create channel

const options = { // NOTE: Every option is optional
  nsfw: false,
  bitrate: 64, // Voice Channel only
  reason: 'For fun',
  rateLimitPerUser: 5, // slowmode, in seconds
}
<Client>.createChannel('<GuildID>', '<ChannelName>', '<ChannelType>', options);
// Channel type: 0 (text), 2 (voice), 4 (category), 5 (news), 6 (store), or 13 (stage)

Edit a text channel

const options = {
  name: 'Edited Channel',
  rateLimitPerUser: 5, // slow mode in seconds
  nsfw: false,
};
const channel = message.channel;
channel.edit(options, 'The channel was wrong');

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