MessageCreate.Content is empty

[Vadmeme]

dg, err := discordgo.New("redacted")
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("error creating Discord session,", err)
    return
}

dg.AddHandler(func(s *discordgo.Session, m *discordgo.MessageCreate) {
    log.Printf("what: %s", m.Content)
})

err = dg.Open()
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("error opening connection,", err)
    return
}

// Wait here until CTRL-C or other term signal is received.
fmt.Println("Bot is now running.  Press CTRL-C to exit.")
sc := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Notify(sc, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM, os.Interrupt, os.Kill)
<-sc

on a discord user token (not a bot, and yes i know this is against discord TOS)
discordgo has the events .content be empty, everything else appears to be there (author, guild, channelid, etc) but the message content is missing

it however is NOT missing if the author is from your active account

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: outputs what: [message content]
ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:

[justindh]

able to confirm the same on both 22.0 and 23.2

[justindh]

This is a change on Discords side, not entirely sure what it is, but it only impacts Self bots (fixed by adding bot to your token) an example work around is to use the ChannelMessages to lookup the message like so..

`

func MessageCreate(s *discordgo.Session, m *discordgo.MessageCreate) {

	if m.Content == "" {
		chanMsgs, err := s.ChannelMessages(m.ChannelID, 1, "", "", m.ID)
		if err != nil {
			log.Errorf("unable to get messages: %s", err)
			return
		}
		m.Content = chanMsgs[0].Content
		m.Attachments = chanMsgs[0].Attachments
	}
}

`

[git-shochann]

Has this problem been resolved?

[justindh]

Not that I know of, because it is a problem with an unsupported mode, I doubt it will ever get traction

[Tumbler]

I'm having the same issue, but I'm not running a selfbot. And the workaround also doesn't have the content either. I'm at a bit of a loss here...

[Nv7-GitHub]

Make sure to enable the message intent in the developer dashboard

[Tumbler]

You are correct, that was my issue. I should have updated this. Thank you for responding!

[pyrgasm]

Guys please put somewhere with big text that you have to enable it i went through few tutorials none showed that

[syntaqx]

For those that run into this, be sure to visit the "Bot" tab under your Application, and

[dev-diver]

@syntaqx solved! thx