I want my bot to respond once to a mand such as .on. However, it responds multiple times per input:

The code is:

client.on('message', message =>{
    if(message.content === '.on'){
        message.channel.sendMessage('Testing Bot is now Online, Greetings, ' + message.author.username);
    }

If anyone could point me in the right direction to make the bot respond once that would be great.

I want my bot to respond once to a mand such as .on. However, it responds multiple times per input:

The code is:

client.on('message', message =>{
    if(message.content === '.on'){
        message.channel.sendMessage('Testing Bot is now Online, Greetings, ' + message.author.username);
    }

If anyone could point me in the right direction to make the bot respond once that would be great.

• javascript
• discord
• discord.js

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• Here is the answer on Duplicated question - https://stackoverflow./questions/51064042/discord-bot-still-answering-multiple-times-on-one-event – Oysho Boy Commented Jun 27, 2018 at 13:37
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sendMessage is deprecated. Try using send instead.

client.on('message', message => {
    if(message.content === '.on') {
        message.channel.send('Testing Bot is now Online, Greetings, ' + message.author.username);
    }
}

Also, if this still causes issues consider checking the id/content of the message event as well as the returned promise to make sure you didn't make a mistake elsewhere. It'll be obvious very quickly what's going on. That'd be:

client.on('message', message => {
    if(message.content === '.on') {
        console.log('Received #' + message.id + ': ' + message.content);
        message.channel.send('Testing Bot is now Online, Greetings, ' + message.author.username)
        .then(message => console.log('Sent #' + message.id + ': ' + message.content))
        .catch(console.error);
    }
}

I'm late, but I think you had multiple instances of your bot running at the same time.

Try to change the token, so all bots will stop working and then make sure, you just starting one instance.