Count amount of reactions on a message

[compact mauve]

"hikari.messages.Message.reactions" returns the class "hikari.messages.Reaction" which is where the data is or where i think it is

[compact mauve]

I think this is broken, I think it should work but the "hikari.messages.Message.reactions" always comes back with 0

The reactions on the message

---

Top: the ID of the original message
Middle: the ID of the message with reactions on (Just to make sure I am checking the right message)
Bottom: The amount of reactions

---

async def message(event):
    if event.author.id == 277512657957945346:
        global recent_message
        recent_message = event.message
        print(f"Message ID: {event.message.id}")
        await event.message.add_reaction(emoji="👍")

@bot.listen(hikari.ReactionAddEvent)
async def reaction(event):
    if event.user_id == 654715730264064040:
        return
    if event.message_id != recent_message.id:
        return
    if event.emoji_name != "👍":
        return
    print(f"Recent Message ID: {recent_message.id}")
    print(f"reactions length: {len(recent_message.reactions)}")```

[compact mauve]

This has to be a bug, because I use lightbulb.search.get()

and input the sequence of reactions and a attribute and it still wont work

is this disabled so the sequence always come back empty??

[fallow jasper]

./tag msgcnt

[rocky comet]

Why is some information about my messages from MessageCreateEvent unavailable?

You may have not enabled the Message Content Intent. This had been a thing for bots from August 31st, 2022 onward. For more info, refer to https://support-dev.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404772028055

Firstly, go to your discord developer portal. In your bot application, in the bot section, tick this to be on. (check the attached screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8Ps9Boi.png)
Secondly, in your bot's code, add the highlighted lines:

bot = hikari.GatewayBot( # or lightbulb.BotApp
    "your token",
    intents=hikari.Intents.ALL_UNPRIVILEGED | hikari.Intents.MESSAGE_CONTENT # Add this line
)

You should now receive all information about such messages. :)

Note: You will still receive this information for messages in which the bot is pinged and for any message in DMs, regardless of the intent.

[fallow jasper]

@compact mauve read that ^

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I tried doing all of that but it still comes back empty

I even gave it admin and more intent just incase

bot = lightbulb.BotApp(token="TOKEN", intents=hikari.Intents.ALL_UNPRIVILEGED | hikari.Intents.MESSAGE_CONTENT | hikari.Intents.DM_MESSAGES | hikari.Intents.GUILD_MESSAGES)

also done all the intents you said and the ones in the MessageCreateEvent

is it because its the creation of the message and it wont get updated so the reactions are always empty??

I tried the hikari.Intents.ALL and still don't work

I just tried "bot.cache.get_message(recent_message).reactions" and still wont work.

It isnt that the cache is old or anything like that because if i edit the message then fire the event it gets the new edited version

it just cant see the reactions

Also just switched it to hikari.GatewayBot() and still no work

I re-invited it after every change as well incase that would fix anything

Yh i am lost on this, seems like it should work but wont.

[fallow jasper]

lemme get a bot running to test this myself

@compact mauve

hikari should have warned you when starting your bot

if you have silenced warnings, I would recommend not

[compact mauve]

The event gets fired

but I cant get the reactions from the "Message"

The even got fired even when I didn't use the intents

[compact mauve]

Also i haven't got any warning, my IDE might be configured wrong not sure

[fallow jasper]

the warnings are being shown

that yellow line in your console is also a warning

[compact mauve]

yh but not the intent warnings, or do I have to enable the optimizations for the intent ones??

nvm i enabled optimizations and still no warnings about intent

[compact mauve]

I've tried everything that seems logical to me, i feel like this should work especially with the intents but it dont, I could just be completely wrong.

[fallow jasper]

yeah idk tbh

could be because you're using a global variable

but if you also got it from the cache I'm not sure