Using giphy for my discord bot

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Hello. I’m new to glitch and I’m having problems with some of my code. I want a randomized gif from giphy when a certain command is used, and I’ve got the code. The only problem is that I get the error:

TypeError: GphApiClient is not a function

It worked while I used it in VSCode, but not after I moved it to Glitch. My project’s name is weeabot1.

Any help is appreciated, as I’m completely new to Glitch.

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Wecome to Glitch, @TheGameGamerInt!

According to what the error signifies, it seems that GphApiClient is not a function and you’re still trying to call that function, which would further throw a TypeError, as it did.
Solution: Do not call the GphApiClient as function.

Cheerio!

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Then how would I get a gif from Giphy?

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Can you please provide the code you were recently working on?

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const GphApiClient = require('giphy-js-sdk-core')
var giphy = GphApiClient(giphyToken)



giphy.search('gifs', {"q": "punch, anime"})
                .then((response) => {
                    var totalResponses = response.data.length;
                    var responseIndex = Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) % totalResponses;
                    var responseFinal = response.data[responseIndex]
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Which package are you working with to connect to the Giphy API?

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I’m using giphy-js-sdk-core

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So do you have any advice for that, or know someone who has any?

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Is giphy-js-sdk-core installed/added in the package.json file? That could be the issue.

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Yeah, but I think I fixed the problem now. Just had to change the code to
var giphy = GphApiClient + giphyToken

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Hmm, according to the API docs on the NPM package page this is how you initialise a GphApiClient:

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yeah, and when i did that i got an error

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but now, whenever i try to boot up the bot, i get the error code (node:3927)UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning error: an invalid token was provided

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not sure if it’s connected or not, but it’s still a problem

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Looks like you’ve supplied invalid KEY to the client, which causes the error.

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Where and which key?

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Ok, fixed. And why must a post be 20 char-long?

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I am not quite sure about that, please ask the Giphy staff for the internal questions.

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To avoid people posting ‘spam’ answers/replies. However half of them aren’t.

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Well, I fixed it somehow. Now everything is working. May be a new post where I need help with some of the stuff I plan on implementing

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