discord.js - Imagine an app•11mo ago

Getting Clients Connected to Voice Channels without Cache

I'm working on a bot that should help us see if people who signed up for an event are present in voice chat and if so assign them their attendance credit. For that I've created a slash command which loops through all voice channels and gets a list of all connected users and to what channels they are connected. The issue is: once the bot is running, if a new client joins voice, it won't be displayed. Furthermore if a client leaves voice chat it's still displayed. To me it seams clear there's a caching issue.

[...]
  async execute(client, message, args) {
    const peopleInAttendance = [];

    message.guild.channels
      .filter((c) => {
        return c.type === 2;
      })
      .each((c) => {
        c.members.each((m) => {
          peopleInAttendance.push({
            channel: c.name,
            channelId: c.id,
            member: m.user.username,
            memberId: m.user.id,
          });
        });
      });
    console.log(peopleInAttendance);
[...]

[...]
  async execute(client, message, args) {
    const peopleInAttendance = [];

    message.guild.channels
      .filter((c) => {
        return c.type === 2;
      })
      .each((c) => {
        c.members.each((m) => {
          peopleInAttendance.push({
            channel: c.name,
            channelId: c.id,
            member: m.user.username,
            memberId: m.user.id,
          });
        });
      });
    console.log(peopleInAttendance);
[...]

Question: how can I get an up to date list of members in a channel at command invocation? One thing I've already tried was refetching the guild channels, by using the fetch function of message.guild.channels, however even if I use that

[...]
  async execute(client, message, args) {
    const peopleInAttendance = [];

    const channels = await message.guild.channels.fetch();
    channels.filter((c) => {
        return c.type === 2;
      })
      .each((c) => {
        c.members.each((m) => {
          peopleInAttendance.push({
            channel: c.name,
            channelId: c.id,
            member: m.user.username,
            memberId: m.user.id,
          });
        });
      });
    console.log(peopleInAttendance);
[...]

[...]
  async execute(client, message, args) {
    const peopleInAttendance = [];

    const channels = await message.guild.channels.fetch();
    channels.filter((c) => {
        return c.type === 2;
      })
      .each((c) => {
        c.members.each((m) => {
          peopleInAttendance.push({
            channel: c.name,
            channelId: c.id,
            member: m.user.username,
            memberId: m.user.id,
          });
        });
      });
    console.log(peopleInAttendance);
[...]

I still get the stale/outdated list of users. The c.members doesn't have a fetch function. Intents used: ["Guilds", "GuildMembers", "GuildMessages", "MessageContent"] Versions: - Discord.JS: discord.js@14.11.0 - Node: v18.17.0

8 Replies

d.js toolkit•11mo ago

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duck•11mo ago

<GuildChannel>.members is just a getter that creates a collection based on the cached members that have permission to view the channel (or are connected to the channel in the case of voice channels) you'll want to fetch all members in the guild first with <Guild>.members.fetch() this only needs to be done once as the cache will be further updated by events

wawa (he/him)•11mo ago

To test this, I've added await message.guild.members.fetch(); at the start of the execute function, next I've joined voice with profile A and started the bot. I've invoked the command and as expected profile A shows up. Next I've joined with profile B on a different device, however, when invoking the command, still only A get's reported. After restarting the bot (while both A and B are connected to voice) both of them get reported...

duck•11mo ago

Sorry I somehow completely glossed over the word 'voice' You'll want the GuildVoiceStates intent if you want to receive updates relating to members' voice states

wawa (he/him)•11mo ago

Is there a convenient list of all intents and what they're needed for?

d.js docs•11mo ago

- Websocket intents limit events and decrease memory usage: learn more - See what intents you need here

duck•11mo ago

second link lists each intent and which event requires that intent

wawa (he/him)•11mo ago

Awesome, you are a live saver, I've been screaming at the javascript for 2 hours, now it just works... Thanks a lot!

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