🔒 why the on_message event not working?

[tardy narwhal]

@ivory basin

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[ivory basin]

!paste

[tardy narwhal]

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[ivory basin]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/FATQ

[shadow folio]

You leaked your bot token btw

[ivory basin]

shit at least i didnt leak my ip port ad pwd

[shadow folio]

Doesn't message.channel.send need await?

[ivory basin]

right but the prints dont run either

[rotund kestrel]

    if message.author == client.user:
        return```

make sure the bot doesnt trigger on message

and put a print outside the if statement to see if on_message works in the first place

[ivory basin]

it never replys starting with . but thx i was trying to find that

[ivory basin]

there is the one in the else that dont trigger either

[rotund kestrel]

remove the else part and put print("sad") outside of the if statement for now

run it again and lmk how it goes

[ivory basin]

still nothing happens

[rotund kestrel]

what is this part

with mcrcon.MCRcon(HOST,PWD,PORT) as server:

[ivory basin]

it starts an rcon connection to my mc server bc this bot is supposed to send commands to it

[rotund kestrel]

yeah ive never used it before, so if on_message isnt working because of it then idk what else it could be

[ivory basin]

huh i removed it and than the check function runs and it prints ran

i see just now that also didnt run until now

i added the with in the duncs separately and the check runs the bot runs but the on_message dont work

[brave yoke]

I'll assume you refreshed your bot token

Could this be an intents issue

!intents

[tardy narwhal]

Using intents in discord.py

Intents are a feature of Discord that tells the gateway exactly which events to send your bot. Various features of discord.py rely on having particular intents enabled, further detailed in its documentation. Since discord.py v2.0.0, it has become mandatory for developers to explicitly define the values of these intents in their code.

There are standard and privileged intents. To use privileged intents like Presences, Server Members, and Message Content, you have to first enable them in the Discord Developer Portal. In there, go to the Bot page of your application, scroll down to the Privileged Gateway Intents section, and enable the privileged intents that you need. Standard intents can be used without any changes in the developer portal.

Afterwards in your code, you need to set the intents you want to connect with in the bot's constructor using the intents keyword argument, like this:

from discord import Intents
from discord.ext import commands

# Enable all standard intents and message content
# (prefix commands generally require message content)
intents = Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

For more info about using intents, see discord.py's related guide, and for general information about them, see the Discord developer documentation on intents.

[ivory basin]

i get no errors and 8 is administrator privilage

[brave yoke]

Are you sure?

In [11]: discord.Intents(8).messages
Out[11]: False

[ivory basin]

https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=122473588945211554&permissions=8&scope=bot i left an error in it so u cant use it but this is the link i use to add the bot

it says premissions=8

[brave yoke]

that's different to intents

[ivory basin]

and says that when i specify scope bot premissions Administrator

[ivory basin]

oh

[brave yoke]

if you want all the intents then you can do discord.Intents.all()

you also need to make sure you've enabled them in the developer portal

[ivory basin]

Shard ID None is requesting privileged intents that have not been explicitly enabled in the developer portal. It is recommended to go to https://discord.com/developers/applications/ and explicitly enable the privileged intents within your application's page. If this is not possible, then consider disabling the privileged intents instead.

[brave yoke]

intents is a separate thing in the portal

[ivory basin]

this?

[brave yoke]

no, see https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intents.html#privileged-intents

[ivory basin]

ah so its different for slash and prefix commands and ect

thx it works now

[brave yoke]

👍

[ivory basin]

by any chance do u know how to get all the users currently in a vc?

[brave yoke]

There's a .members attribute on the VoiceChannel object, and if you know the channel ID you can use get_channel to get the VoiceChannel object https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=get_channel#discord.Client.get_channel

[ivory basin]

(method) def get_channel(
id: int,
/
) -> (GuildChannel | Thread | PrivateChannel | None)
it dosent seem to be able to find voice channels

[brave yoke]

it should, a VoiceChannel is a type of GuildChannel

[ivory basin]

when i run it i get
Exception has occurred: AttributeError
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'members'
File "/home/opc/python/console.py", line 15, in check
members=bot.get_channel(1226117248154861572).members
File "/home/opc/python/console.py", line 25, in <module>
check(10)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'members'
for members=bot.get_channel(1226117248154861572).members

and i am sure the id is correct

1226117248154861572
right click the channel
click copy channel id how could i get an in valid channel with that

!close

[tardy narwhal]

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