Guild Member nickname

[moosah-edge]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a user's server nickname and I've been wracking my brain on this for hours.

I've tried a number of things, however the closest I can get is to see the value I want in the console when I print the following. However I can't seem to grab the values in this promise object.

var guildMember = message.guild.members.fetch(message.author);
console.log(guildMember);

Prints this:

Promise {
GuildMember {
guild: Guild {
id: '.....',
name: '.....',
icon: '.....',
features: [],
commands: [GuildApplicationCommandManager],
members: [GuildMemberManager],
channels: [GuildChannelManager],
bans: [GuildBanManager],
roles: [RoleManager],
presences: PresenceManager {},
voiceStates: [VoiceStateManager],
stageInstances: [StageInstanceManager],
invites: [GuildInviteManager],
deleted: false,
available: true,
shardId: 0,
splash: null,
banner: null,
description: null,
verificationLevel: 'NONE',
vanityURLCode: null,
nsfwLevel: 'DEFAULT',
discoverySplash: null,
memberCount: 401,
large: true,
applicationId: null,
afkTimeout: 3600,
afkChannelId: '.....',
systemChannelId: '.....',
premiumTier: 'NONE',
premiumSubscriptionCount: 0,
explicitContentFilter: 'DISABLED',
mfaLevel: 'NONE',
joinedTimestamp: 1634274571032,
defaultMessageNotifications: 'ALL_MESSAGES',
systemChannelFlags: [SystemChannelFlags],
maximumMembers: 250000,
maximumPresences: null,
approximateMemberCount: null,
approximatePresenceCount: null,
vanityURLUses: null,
rulesChannelId: null,
publicUpdatesChannelId: null,
preferredLocale: 'en-US',
ownerId: '.....',
emojis: [GuildEmojiManager],
stickers: [GuildStickerManager]
},
joinedTimestamp: 1515668511934,
premiumSinceTimestamp: null,
deleted: false,
nickname: 'TestNickname',
pending: false,
_roles: [ '.....', '.....' ],
user: User {
id: '*****',
bot: false,
system: false,
flags: [UserFlags],
username: '.....',
discriminator: '4058',
avatar: '.....',
banner: undefined,
accentColor: undefined
},
avatar: null
}
}

Can someone please help me understand how to access these values? All I'm trying to do is assign the value of nickname to a string variable.

I assumed it should be as simple as guildMember.nickname or something similar, but nothing I've tried works...

[moosah-edge]

Replace

var guildMember = message.guild.members.fetch(message.author);
console.log(guildMember);

with

console.log(message.member.nickname);

[almostSouji]

True for this specific use case, accessing it via Message#member is preferable, however, I still want to address the source of the error in OP. The #fetch method returns a Promise, which itself does not have the member's properties (for example .nickname).

How to properly deal with promises is explained in the following (and many more) resources, and is a topic you should invest some time into, since any method calling the API returns a Promise instance.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_promises
• https://discordjs.guide/additional-info/async-await.html#how-do-promises-work