I am working on this simple chatbot following the discord tutorial.
The chatbot has logged in to my server... I type in the chat room on Discord 'ping,' but the chatbot does not respond "Pong" as it should.
Below is the main.js code:
const { Client, Intents } = require('discord.js');
const client = new Client({ intents: [Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS] });
client.on('ready', () => {
console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`);
});
client.on('interactionCreate', async interaction => {
if (!interaction.isCommand()) return;
if (interaction.commandName === 'ping') {
console.log("we got a hello!")
await interaction.reply('Pong!');
}
});
client.login('token');
Note: I have a secret token where it has 'token'
In my Terminal it says Logged in as Quote.it#4979! and my bot is online when I view it in the server in Discord.
But nothing happens when in Discord I write in 'ping'. How can I better diagnose what is going on?
I see a couple of problems here, first, it doesn’t look like you are registering the ping command see here, and second, you don’t have the right intents, you need the GUILD_MESSAGES one see here.
Here’s a simple ping pong bot:
const { Client, Intents } = require('discord.js')
const client = new Client({
intents: [Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES],
partials: ['CHANNEL', 'MESSAGE'],
})
client.on('ready', () => {
console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`)
})
client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
if (message.content.startsWith('ping')) {
message.channel.send('pong!')
}
})
client.login('token')