From 80b2bbaa463eb51baa8d1a540d9bd9866acab400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: powermaker450 <support@povario.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:37:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically determine the bot's userId

---
 .env.example | 5 -----
 src/bot.ts   | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index b327828..825067c 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -34,8 +34,3 @@ ALLOWED_CHAT=
 
 SAFE_WORD=
 # When this character/string is detected anywhere in a message, the bot won't respond to it. Defaults to "\".
-
-
-SELF=
-# The user ID of your bot which you can get from the admin panel or database.
-# THIS IS NEEDED SO THAT THE BOT DOES NOT RESPOND TO IT'S OWN MESSAGES.
diff --git a/src/bot.ts b/src/bot.ts
index 42a55e6..823f3b2 100644
--- a/src/bot.ts
+++ b/src/bot.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ import { ImagesResponse } from "openai/resources";
 const HOST = process.env.HOST;
 const APPID = process.env.ID;
 const APPSECRET = process.env.SECRET;
-const SELF = process.env.SELF;
-const allVarsFilled = HOST && APPID && APPSECRET && SELF;
+const allVarsFilled = HOST && APPID && APPSECRET;
 
 if (!allVarsFilled) {
   console.log("Not all required variables are filled in.");
@@ -42,6 +41,11 @@ const client = new TailchatWsClient(HOST, APPID, APPSECRET);
 
 client.connect().then(async () => {
   console.log("Logged in.");
+  const SELF = await client.whoami().then((response) => {
+    return response.userId;
+  });
+  console.log("Our userId is:", SELF);
+  console.log("Messages from this userId are automatically ignored.");
 
   client.onMessage(async (message) => {
     const canRespondInGuild =