I tried making a discord bot..

I looked for some tutorials but my code doesn't seem to work..

I created a simple ping pong mand but for some reason its not working!

Heres my bot.js code:

require('dotenv').config();

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

client.on('ready', () => {
console.log(`Thunder bot is ready! Tag is ${client.user.tag}`);
});

client.on('message', (messageCreate) => {
if (message.content === 'ping'){
    message.reply('Pong!')
}
});

client.login(process.env.TOKEN);

But the ping pong mand is not working!

I tried making a discord bot..

I looked for some tutorials but my code doesn't seem to work..

I created a simple ping pong mand but for some reason its not working!

Heres my bot.js code:

require('dotenv').config();

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

client.on('ready', () => {
console.log(`Thunder bot is ready! Tag is ${client.user.tag}`);
});

client.on('message', (messageCreate) => {
if (message.content === 'ping'){
    message.reply('Pong!')
}
});

client.login(process.env.TOKEN);

But the ping pong mand is not working!

• javascript
• node.js
• discord
• discord.js

• Dont you need to use it like messageCreate.content and messageCreate.reply since you write messageCreate on client.on function? – Batu.Khan Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 6:05
• In the client.on('messageCreate') event listener, you have named the message you get as messageCreate. Then you are trying to reply to a variable which doesn't exist which is message. So you just have to change that – Caladan Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 6:29
• Voted to close as it's typo: client.on('message', (messageCreate) should be client.on('messageCreate', (message) =. You'll also need the GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent intent. – Zsolt Meszaros Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 12:17
• @Batu.Khan I did that.. still not working! – Ravioli Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 14:34
• @Caladan still not working – Ravioli Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 14:35

4 Answers 4

There are 2 reasons your bot isn't responding to you:

1. Your bot doesn't have 'MessageContent' intent

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

2. client.on('message'... may result to a DeprecationWarning
   Here is the correction:

client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
    if (message.content === 'ping'){
        message.reply('Pong!')
    }
});

1. You need to use the following intents to read and react to messages:

{ intents: [GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages, GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent] }

2. The event you want to listen for is called "messageCreate" (you were listening for "message"):

client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
if (message.content === 'ping'){
    message.reply('Pong!')
}
});

This should work:

require('dotenv').config();

const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require('discord.js');
const client = new Client({ intents: [GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages, GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent] });

client.on('ready', () => {
console.log(`Thunder bot is ready! Tag is ${client.user.tag}`);
});

client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
if (message.content === 'ping'){
    console.log("!")
    message.reply('Pong!')
}
});

client.login(process.env.TOKEN);

2 reasons this is happening;

1. You put message instead of messageCreate and vice versa in your client.on(). Put this instead:

client.on('messageCreate', message => {
    if (message.content === 'ping'){
        message.reply('Pong!')
    }
});

2. You're missing the messageContent intent.

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

Following above solutions initially gave me this error:

This error was solved by having the 'message content intent' toggled on in the 'Bot' section of the developer portal: