I've tried to create a bot on discord, and with multiple tutorials, I've followed all of the instructions, and it seems to work fine in the beginning. However, with all of the tutorials, I'm met with one problem. In my index.js file for my bot, when I open the VSCode terminal and type in the command node index.js (which is supposed to make my bot go online, I get the following error messages:
/Users/myname/Desktop/testbot/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/Client.js:544
throw new TypeError('CLIENT_MISSING_INTENTS');
^
TypeError [CLIENT_MISSING_INTENTS]: Valid intents must be provided for the Client.
at Client._validateOptions (/Users/myname/Desktop/testbot/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/Client.js:544:13)
at new Client (/Users/myname/Desktop/testbot/node_modules/discord.js/src/client/Client.js:73:10)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/myname/Desktop/testbot/index.js:2:13)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
[Symbol(code)]: 'CLIENT_MISSING_INTENTS'
}
I have node.js 16.13.0, and discord.js installed. My bot is a member of my server, but it's always offline. What can I do to fix it?
Here's the code for index.js:
const Discord = require('discord.js');
const bot = new Discord.Client();
const token = '[not putting my token online]';
const PREFIX = '';
bot.on('ready', () => {
console.log('Online!');
});
bot.login(token);
It seems like you don't have intents added with your bot which is needed to get it running according to the discord.js starter guide
// Require the necessary discord.js classes
const { Client, Intents } = require('discord.js');
const token = 'your token here';
// Create a new client instance
const client = new Client({ intents: [Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS] });
// When the client is ready, run this code (only once)
client.once('ready', () => {
console.log('Ready!');
});
// Login to Discord with your client's token
client.login(token);