discord.js - Imagine an app•3w ago

Receiving non slash command messages

I'm trying to receive regular guild messages that aren't slash commands. I'm aware of the privacy issues, it's just a private bot for my friends and I running a local AI model for fun. I used to use discord.js but it's obviously changed a lot over the years e.g. slash commands and I can't figure out receiving messages without a slash command. I've enabled all privileged gateway intents on the discord dev dashboard and here is my code.

import { Client, Events, GatewayIntentBits } from 'discord.js';
import 'dotenv/config';

const client = new Client({ 
    verbose: true,
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, 
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessagePolls,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildModeration,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildVoiceStates,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildPresences,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages
    ]
});

client.on(Events.ClientReady, readyClient => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${readyClient.user.tag}!`);
});

client.on(Events.MessageCreate, async (message) => {
    console.log(message);
});

client.on(Events.InteractionCreate, async (interaction) => {
    console.log(interaction);
});

client.login(process.env.TOKEN);

import { Client, Events, GatewayIntentBits } from 'discord.js';
import 'dotenv/config';

const client = new Client({ 
    verbose: true,
    intents: [
        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, 
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessagePolls,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildModeration,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildVoiceStates,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildPresences,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages
    ]
});

client.on(Events.ClientReady, readyClient => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${readyClient.user.tag}!`);
});

client.on(Events.MessageCreate, async (message) => {
    console.log(message);
});

client.on(Events.InteractionCreate, async (interaction) => {
    console.log(interaction);
});

client.login(process.env.TOKEN);

Nothing is being logged when I send messages in the testing server (which the bot is in with full permissions).

3 Replies

d.js toolkit•3w ago

TheeJoshhhOP•3w ago

discord.js@14.21.0 node v24.5.0 I figured it out. I was missing the GuildMessages intent lol. Closing the issue.

d.js toolkit•3w ago

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