Simple Discord Python Bot Err0r

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apparently I am creating a simple discord reply bot and I have an error with my code. Even if I say the correct word with $ in chat, it is still using and replying to me with the else statement. I do not have this problem on the replit, but I do on my home PC, what could be the problem?

import discord
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

client = discord.Client(intents=discord.Intents.default())

load_dotenv()
TOKEN = 'TOKEN'

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
  if message.author == client.user:
    return

  if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
    await message.channel.send("Hello World!")
  else:
    await message.channel.send("Hello World! BUT ERROR")

@client.event
async def on_connect():
  print("Bot Connected")
    
client.run(TOKEN)

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2 Answers

If I understand your question correctly. I suggested that you use the following code instead for this simple task.

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
  if message.author == client.user:
    return

  if message.content.lower() == '$hello':
    await message.channel.send("Hello World!")
  else:
    await message.channel.send("Hello World! BUT ERROR")

What I have changed here is simply using the string matching instead of startswith() function.

SorawitC0

Your bot does not have the Message Content Intents, so it will not be able to read messages sent by users.

In discord.py 2.0, a bot must have the Message intent in order to read messages' content.

To enable Message Intents for your bot, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Discord's developer portal and click on your application's name.
  2. Click on "Bot" in the sidebar.
  3. Scroll down until you see "Privileged Gateway Intents".
  4. You should see the option named "Message Content Intent". Enable it.

The option for Message Content Intent

The next step: At the start of your bot code, you should have a line of code that creates a Client or Bot object, for example: client = discord.Client() or bot = discord.Bot(...)

First, you should define a variable intents:

intents = discord.Intents.all()  # define intents

Now, add the parameter intents to the object, like this:

client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

or:

bot = discord.Bot(..., intents=intents)

And you are all set!

Hope this helped.

J Muzhen0
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