How do I add a delay between sending messages discord.js

Question

Here is the code:

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const client = new Discord.Client()
const KeepClientOn = require('./KeepClientOn.js')

client.on("message", function(message) {
message.reply('my message');
})

client.login('client login')

after the message is replied I want there to be a 5 minute delay before it can reply again BUT not reply to any messages sent before then. Here is pretty much what I want: Me: hi Bot: my message Me (2 minutes later): hi again Bot: (Sends nothing) 5 minutes later: Me: Hello once again Bot: my message

(Sorry for so much stuff)

Does this answer your question? [Make a bot wait for some time before continuing the code](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69578474/make-a-bot-wait-for-some-time-before-continuing-the-code) — MegaMix_Craft, Oct 21 '21 at 14:35
The different reply things are supposed to be on new lines sorry — Tamthejam, Oct 21 '21 at 14:35

Staxlinou · Answer 1 · 2021-11-01T11:21:04.940

Well, I have two solutions for you.

1# Wait for some time then execute a piece of code

You can use setTimeout(), it's a javascript function who only needs two arguments. The first one is the function who's going to get executed after a certain timeout and the second one is how much milliseconds does you code need to wait before doing that function.

message.channel.send('Hi!')
setTimeout(function(){
message.channel.send('Hi again.. !')
},1000 * 10) // 1000 milliseconds multiplied by 10, therefore 10 second.

2# Wait for some time then execute the rest of the code

This one is pretty similar to the one before but this time you won't put your code on a function. You can just create a function like so :

let sleep = async (ms) => await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r,ms));

And here you have a sleep function, it will freeze your current code for x milliseconds then continue as if nothing happens,

let sleep = async (ms) => await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r,ms));
message.channel.send('Going to sleep!')
await sleep(2000)
message.channel.send("I'm awake!!")

That gave me the following error: await sleep(60000) ^^^^^ SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function — Tamthejam, Oct 22 '21 at 20:26
The code looks like this: client.on("message", function(message) { let sleep = async (ms) => await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r,ms)); message.reply('My message'); await sleep(60000) }) — Tamthejam, Oct 22 '21 at 20:26
@Tamthejam you need to make the function async, replace `function` with `async function` and it should work — Staxlinou, Oct 25 '21 at 11:17

How do I add a delay between sending messages discord.js

1 Answers1

1# Wait for some time then execute a piece of code

2# Wait for some time then execute the rest of the code