Discord.js | I'm trying to check if a role has a specific permission for a mute role

Question

Basically I'm making a ultra customizable discord bot, and you have to specify in the config file the name of the role you want to use when you mute someone. And as a fail-safe in case the role is invalid or misspelled the bot looks himself for a role that has the permission "SEND_MESSAGE" turned off.

Answer 1

Look in the guild's RoleManager for a role that does not have the permission by using .find() . This will return the first role that does not have 'SEND_MESSAGES'

const role = message.guild.roles.cache
   .find(r => !r.permissions.has('SEND_MESSAGES'));

role will return undefined if a role without 'SEND_PERMISSIONS' was not found.

If you want to increase accuracy of finding a muted role given that the name is misspelled check what the name of the role starts with.

// Account for spelling mistakes, given that "mu" in "muted" is correct
const role = message.guild.roles.cache
   .find(r => !r.permissions.has('SEND_MESSAGES') && r.name.toLowerCase().startsWith('mu'));