数据准备好后，如何使Discord机器人编辑自己的最后一条消息

Question

My discord bot has a command to lookup data from an API and sometimes it takes time so I want my bot to tell the user that.

The initial message is: message.channel.send({embed: { color: 0x80ff00, description: "Looking for data"}})

How can I make the bot edit the message with the data after the data embed is ready?

Answer 1

message.channel
  .send({embed: { color: 0x80ff00, description: "Looking for data"}})
  .then(embed => {
    // here `embed` is the message that was sent to the channel
    someAsyncOperation().then(data => {
      embed.edit({embed: {description: "Found the data: " + data}});
    });
  });

See TextChannel#send and Message#edit .

Answer 2

Using .then:

message.channel.send({embed: { color: 0x80ff00, description: "Looking for data"}})
    .then(msg => {
        msg.edit('Something');
    });

Using async await:

const msg = await message.channel.send({embed: { color: 0x80ff00, description: "Looking for data"}});
msg.edit('data');