How to pull message data from discord.js?

@elisha_langworth 

To pull message data from Discord.js, you can use message event listeners. Here's an example of how you can access message data using Discord.js:

1. First, you need to create a new Discord client and listen for the 'message' event:

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const Discord = require('discord.js');
const client = new Discord.Client();

client.on('message', message => {
  // Your code to handle message data goes here
});

1. Inside the event listener, you can access various properties of the message object such as content, author, and channel. For example, to access the content of the message, you can use message.content:

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client.on('message', message => {
  console.log(message.content); // Outputs the content of the message
  console.log(message.author.username); // Outputs the username of the message author
  console.log(message.channel.name); // Outputs the name of the channel the message was sent in
});

1. You can also check if the message is from a specific user or in a specific channel by adding conditionals in the event listener. Here's an example of how you can check if the message is from a specific user:

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client.on('message', message => {
  if (message.author.id === 'YOUR_USER_ID') { // Replace YOUR_USER_ID with the user ID you want to check
    console.log('Message is from specified user');
  }
});

Overall, by using the 'message' event listener in Discord.js, you can easily access and pull message data from your Discord server.