Discord.js: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS

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I'm having my first go at making a Discord bot. The code is very basic, just a bot that logs its own tag into the console upon startup:

const Discord = require("discord.js");

const TOKEN = "REDACTED"

const client = new Discord.Client({
    intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES"]
})

client.on("ready", () => {
    console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}`)
})

client.login(TOKEN)

Upon typing node index.js into the VSCode terminal, however, I am given the following error:

PS C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter> node index.js
C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168
    throw new RangeError(ErrorCodes.BitFieldInvalid, bit);
    ^

RangeError [BitFieldInvalid]: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS.
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168:11)
    at C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:54
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:40)
    at Client._validateOptions (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:481:41)
    at new Client (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:78:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\index.js:9:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1112:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1166:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32) {
  [Symbol(code)]: 11
}

Node.js v18.4.0

I have installed discord.js with the command npm i discord.js so I'm using v14.

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3 Answers

In discord.js v14, intent flags are available from GatewayIntentBits.

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client({
  intents: [
    GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
    GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
  ]
})

List of changes:

v12/v13 v14
GUILDS GatewayIntentBits.Guilds
GUILD_BANS GatewayIntentBits.GuildBans
GUILD_EMOJIS_AND_STICKERS GatewayIntentBits.GuildEmojisAndStickers
GUILD_INTEGRATIONS GatewayIntentBits.GuildIntegrations
GUILD_INVITES GatewayIntentBits.GuildInvites
GUILD_MEMBERS GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers
GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions
GUILD_MESSAGE_TYPING GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageTyping
GUILD_MESSAGES GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages
GUILD_PRESENCES GatewayIntentBits.GuildPresences
GUILD_SCHEDULED_EVENTS GatewayIntentBits.GuildScheduledEvents
GUILD_VOICE_STATES GatewayIntentBits.GuildVoiceStates
GUILD_WEBHOOKS GatewayIntentBits.GuildWebhooks
DIRECT_MESSAGES GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages
DIRECT_MESSAGE_TYPING GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessageTyping
DIRECT_MESSAGE_REACTIONS GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessageReactions
N/A GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent
user_61263730

the solution I've found based on the documentation is :

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require("discord.js");

const client = new Client({
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages,
    ]});

Hope it helps

user_67820430

Based on the documentation, you can't use strings for intent names, but you import them from the package, so in your case something like

const Discord = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: [
  Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS,
  Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES,
]});

should do the trick.

AKX_516850
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