"DiscordAPIError: Cannot send an empty message"

Question

I am trying to make a profanity discord bot. Whenever I run it, it is fine but when I type a word that it's supposed to filter out, it stops. This is the error I get when typing in a blocked word.

DiscordAPIError: Cannot send an empty message
at RequestHandler.execute (C:\Users\loser\Desktop\word filter bot\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:350:13)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async RequestHandler.push (C:\Users\loser\Desktop\word filter bot\node_modules\discord.js\src\rest\RequestHandler.js:51:14)
at async TextChannel.send (C:\Users\loser\Desktop\word filter bot\node_modules\discord.js\src\structures\interfaces\TextBasedChannel.js:175:15)
at async Client.<anonymous> (C:\Users\loser\Desktop\word filter bot\index.js:33:19) {
method: 'post',
path: '/channels/954840804466257921/messages',
code: 50006,
httpStatus: 400,
requestData: {
json: {
  content: undefined,
  tts: false,
  nonce: undefined,
  embeds: undefined,
  components: undefined,
  username: undefined,
  avatar_url: undefined,
  allowed_mentions: undefined,
  flags: undefined,
  message_reference: undefined,
  attachments: undefined,
  sticker_ids: undefined
  },
  files: []
  }
  }

and here is my code

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES"] });
const prefix = '-'

client.once('ready', () => {
console.log('woohoo, Im ready to get online and block some words!')
client.user.setActivity('-help', {type: 'LISTENING'})
})

client.on('message', async message => {
if(message.channel.type === 'dm' || message.author.bot) return;

const logChannel = client.channels.cache.find(channel => channel.id === '954845946326450206')
let words = ["banana", "orange"]

let foundInText = false;
for (var i in words) {
    if (message.content.toLowerCase().includes(words[i].toLowerCase())) foundInText = true;
}

if (foundInText) {
    let logEmbed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setDescription(`<@${message.author.id}> Said a bad word`)
    .addField('The Message', message.content)
    .setColor('RANDOM')
    .setTimestamp()
    logChannel.send(logEmbed)

    let embed = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setDescription(`That word is not allowed here`)
    .setColor('RANDOM')
    .setTimestamp()
    let msg = await message.channel.send(embed);
    message.delete()
    msg.delete({timeout: '3500'})
}
})

is there anyway you guys can help me out? I would really like to get this up and running.

Answer 1

I assume you're using discord.js v13.

The send method only take one parameter since v13. You can to use send({ embeds: [your, cool, embeds] }); to send embeds or any message that contain not only contents.

Also the Message.prototype.delete() does not take any parameter now. You have to use setTimeout if you want to delete messages after a certain amount of time.