Self-bot can only see its own messages

[dolfies]

Summary

When using a self-bot, message.content and message.embeds are both empty. This does not occur on a real bot. I can still view information such as message.author.id, etc.

Reproduction Steps

1. Run a simple bot with a user token (NOT a bot token).
2. Add the on_message event.
3. Add a command or some sort of response to a message, or just print(message.content)

Minimal Reproducible Code

import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print('Logged on as', self.user)

    async def on_message(self, message):
        if message.content == 'ping':
            await message.channel.send('pong')

client = MyClient()
client.run('token', bot=False)

Expected Results

It responds to the command / prints the contents of the message.

Actual Results

It doesnt respond to anyone but itself / message.content is blank.

Intents

None, I don't think they work for self-bots either.

System Information

• Python v3.8.9-final
• discord.py v1.7.1-final
• aiohttp v3.7.4.post0
• system info: Linux 5.4.0-1042-gcp Allow sending raw file objects in memory with client.send_raw_file #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 13 01:44:53 UTC 2021

Checklist

• I have searched the open issues for duplicates.
• I have shown the entire traceback, if possible.
• I have removed my token from display, if visible.

Additional Context

I know self-bots are against ToS, and I accept the risks related to that.

[lgaan]

Duplicate of #6820, and is a wontfix.

[dolfies]

Does anyone at least know where I should start if I were to try and fix it myself?

[apple502j]

Easy fix: don't use selfbots
Or: run pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py

[dolfies]

Easy fix: don't use selfbots
Or: run pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py

Does that version even support self-bots? The bot parameter on start(), run(), or login() doesn't work. Checking the code it doesn't even exist.

[Tari-dev]

selfbot methods are deprecated from 1.7.
You won't find help/support for selfbotting as it's against ToS of discord

[Vexs]

It appears discord started doing this to anyone who connects as a user with intents- if you remove that, you'll get these.

[dolfies]

It appears discord started doing this to anyone who connects as a user with intents- if you remove that, you'll get these.

Trying the discord.py example code with discord.Intents.none() did not seem to work. With no intents it doesn't even acknowledge a message has been sent, while without overriding any intent settings it does recognize a message, but content is blank.

[Rapptz]

User-bots and self-bots have been deprecated in the library since v1.7 and will no longer receive support. As of v2.0, they have been completely removed from the library as well. Consider using a real bot instead.