# Sending Attachments

In here you'll see a few examples showing how you can send an attachment using discord.js.

## Sending an attachment using a URL

There are a few ways you can do this, but we'll show you the easiest.

The following examples use [Attachment](/#/docs/main/stable/class/Attachment).

```js
// Extract the required classes from the discord.js module
const { Client, Attachment } = require('discord.js');

// Create an instance of a Discord client
const client = new Client();

/**
 * The ready event is vital, it means that only _after_ this will your bot start reacting to information
 * received from Discord
 */
client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log('I am ready!');
});

client.on('message', message => {
	// If the message is '!rip'
	if (message.content === '!rip') {
		// Create the attachment using Attachment
		const attachment = new Attachment('https://i.imgur.com/w3duR07.png');
		// Send the attachment in the message channel
		message.channel.send(attachment);
	}
});

// Log our bot in using the token from https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
client.login('your token here');
```

And here is the result:

![Image showing the result](/static/attachment-example1.png)

But what if you want to send an attachment with a message content? Fear not, for it is easy to do that too! We'll recommend reading [the TextChannel's "send" function documentation](/#/docs/main/stable/class/TextChannel?scrollTo=send) to see what other options are available.

```js
// Extract the required classes from the discord.js module
const { Client, Attachment } = require('discord.js');

// Create an instance of a Discord client
const client = new Client();

/**
 * The ready event is vital, it means that only _after_ this will your bot start reacting to information
 * received from Discord
 */
client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log('I am ready!');
});

client.on('message', message => {
	// If the message is '!rip'
	if (message.content === '!rip') {
		// Create the attachment using Attachment
		const attachment = new Attachment('https://i.imgur.com/w3duR07.png');
		// Send the attachment in the message channel with a content
		message.channel.send(`${message.author},`, attachment);
	}
});

// Log our bot in using the token from https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
client.login('your token here');
```

And here's the result of this one:

![Image showing the result](/static/attachment-example2.png)

## Sending a local file or buffer

Sending a local file isn't hard either! We'll be using [Attachment](/#/docs/main/stable/class/Attachment) for these examples too.

```js
// Extract the required classes from the discord.js module
const { Client, Attachment } = require('discord.js');

// Create an instance of a Discord client
const client = new Client();

/**
 * The ready event is vital, it means that only _after_ this will your bot start reacting to information
 * received from Discord
 */
client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log('I am ready!');
});

client.on('message', message => {
	// If the message is '!rip'
	if (message.content === '!rip') {
		// Create the attachment using Attachment
		const attachment = new Attachment('./rip.png');
		// Send the attachment in the message channel with a content
		message.channel.send(`${message.author},`, attachment);
	}
});

// Log our bot in using the token from https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
client.login('your token here');
```

The results are the same as the URL examples:

![Image showing result](/static/attachment-example1.png)

But what if you have a buffer from an image? Or a text document? Well, it's the same as sending a local file or a URL!

In the following example, we'll be getting the buffer from a `memes.txt` file, and send it in the message channel.
You can use any buffer you want, and send it. Just make sure to overwrite the filename if it isn't an image!

```js
// Extract the required classes from the discord.js module
const { Client, Attachment } = require('discord.js');

// Import the native fs module
const fs = require('fs');

// Create an instance of a Discord client
const client = new Client();

/**
 * The ready event is vital, it means that only _after_ this will your bot start reacting to information
 * received from Discord
 */
client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log('I am ready!');
});

client.on('message', message => {
	// If the message is '!memes'
	if (message.content === '!memes') {
		// Get the buffer from the 'memes.txt', assuming that the file exists
		const buffer = fs.readFileSync('./memes.txt');

		/**
		 * Create the attachment using Attachment,
		 * overwritting the default file name to 'memes.txt'
		 * Read more about it over at
		 * http://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Attachment
		 */
		const attachment = new Attachment(buffer, 'memes.txt');
		// Send the attachment in the message channel with a content
		message.channel.send(`${message.author}, here are your memes!`, attachment);
	}
});

// Log our bot in using the token from https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
client.login('your token here');
```

And of course, the results are:

![Attachment File example 3](/static/attachment-example3.png)