How would I go about editing a message sent by a a discord bot? But only when reacted to by a user with a certain role?

Question

I'm trying to setup a bug report system. I have the token system and everything for it, however I need to know how to have the bot edit a message when it is reacted to by a user with a particular role, which for this sake is named 'Debugger'

Answer 1

The event you want to listen to is client.messageReactionAdd . Be aware, that it will not listen to non-cached messages. To listen to older messages, you must enable partials , like so:

//top of your code
const client = new Discord.Client({partials: [`MESSAGE`, `CHANNEL`, `REACTION`]});
.
.
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This will allow you to receive events for partial messages. In order to get full message from partial, you need to fetch it:

client.on('messageReactionAdd', async msgReaction => {
    let msg = msgReaction.message;
//note that messageReactionAdd event returns MessageReaction object, not Message.
//this line makes it simpler to write code.
    if (msg.partial) await msg.fetch().catch();
    //
    //rest of your reaction handler goes here
    //
});

You will be able to figure out the rest by reading the documentation.