User-info Command

Question

Am trying to do the userinfo command for the most part I have most of the fields down but I can't seem to get status field down it says am offline when am online and permissions no matter what I try it doesn't send it sends me a error in the terminal saying undefined and for the nickname field it gives me undefined in the embed

const Discord = require('discord.js');
module.exports = {
name: 'user',
description: 'Get your or someone else\'s user info',
aliases: ['u',],
cooldown: 2,
execute(message) {
    if (!message.mentions.users.size) {
        const embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
            .setTitle(message.author.username)
            .addField('Created',message.author.createdAt)
            .addField('ID',message.author.id)
            .addField('Nickname',message.author.nickname, true)
            .addField("Status",`${ message.author.presence.status}`, true)
            .addField('Joined current server on', message.member.joinedAt)
            .addField('Currently in', message.guild.name)
            .addField('Roles', `<@&${message.guild.member(message.author)._roles.join('> <@&')}>`, true)
            .addField('Permissions',`${message.author.permissions}` )
            .addField('Status',message.author.presence.status)
            .setColor(0x00ffff)
            .setThumbnail(message.author.displayAvatarURL({ format: 'png' }))
            .setFooter(`Requested By:${message.author.username}`)
            .setTimestamp();
        return message.channel.send(embed);

Lioness100 · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-29T12:30:23.447

There are a few things wrong with this code. First of all, Message.author returns a User, which does not have a nickname. Since nicknames can be modified per server, you're looking for a GuildMember.

Learn more about the difference

Also, GuildMember.nickname will return undefined if the GuildMember doesn't actually have a nickname. There are a few ways you can fix it. You can either use GuildMember.displayName, which will try to display the nickname but will display the username if none is found, or you could simply handle it with the logical OR operator ||

// method 1:
.addField('Nickname', message.author.displayName, true)

// method 2:
.addField('Nickname', message.author.nickname || 'This user has no nickname', true)

Speaking of GuildMembers and Users, you are using a very overcomplicated way to get the GuildMember instance of the author at this line:

message.guild.member(message.author);

There's actually an easier way to use this: Message.member. It's the same thing as Message.author, but returns a GuildMember. Also, I'm not sure why you're using the _roles getter instead of the much more efficient roles.

You have the same problems with message.author.permissions, as permissions are modified per guild and do not have one global value. Even then, it's going to return [object Object]. And even if it didn't, it would probably return a bitfield representation which would not be legable by the average discord user.

Instead, you should use the Permissions.toArray() method, which will return an array of bitfield names based on the bits available (all of the member's permissions). It might look a bit like this:

[
 CREATE_INSTANT_INVITE,
 ADD_REACTIONS,
 STREAM,
 VIEW_CHANNEL,
 SEND_MESSAGES,
 EMBED_LINKS,
 ATTACH_FILES,
 READ_MESSAGE_HISTORY,
 USE_EXTERNAL_EMOJIS,
 CONNECT,
 SPEAK,
 USE_VAD,
 CHANGE_NICKNAME,
];

You can use Array.prototype.join() to join these elements by a line break, or a comma and space, etc.

Also, you shouldn't be using template literals unless you want to add a variable to a string with other characters/template literals, or you need to coerce the variable's data type to string. message.author.presence.status for example, is already a string, so:

- `${ message.author.presence.status}`
+ message.author.presence.status

Presence.status is returning 'offline' because you don't have the GUILD_PRESENCES intent enabled

User-info Command

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