[Fix] discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected

The Error “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected”, is an error that is invoked when you are working on python and are trying to use discord.

This error is a very common error seen when you are coding in python.

Given below is the snippet of the error you might get:

discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected

Given below is the detailed solution as to why the error, “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected” is seen and how to fix the error.

The error, “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected” is seen because of an unspecified change in the latest update of discord.py version 2.

In latest discord.python version 2, ‘Intents Are Now Required’, As per official documentation, it states that:

Earlier, the intents keyword argument was optional and defaulted to Intents.default(). In order to make clear to users on their intents and to also make it more explicit, this parameter is now required to pass in.

Below is the example snippet to use the Intents.default() function:

# before
client = discord.Client()

# after
intents = discord.Intents.default()
client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

These recent changes are applied to all the subclasses, including AutoSharedClient, AutoSharedBot and Bot.

The specific change which is causing the error is the ‘discord.intents function’ in your project.

You can read more about the change in the documentation of the latest update, which you can find here.

To fix the error, “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing, commands may not work as expected” change the discord.intents.default() function in your project to discord.intents.all(). Once done, error would be fixed.

This is the unmentioned change in recent discord.py version 2 which is causing the error.

To fix the error “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing”, you will have to follow the steps mentioned below:

First you will have to find the function named discord.intents.default() in your code then you will have to change it to discord.intents.all(). For example look at the below mentioned code:

intents = discord.Intents.default()

You will have to change the above mentioned code to the below mentioned code:

intents = discord.Intents.all()

This was the unmentioned change which is causing the error and we will have to change this to fix our error.

This should help you fix the error, “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing”.

Conclusion

To fix the error, “discord.ext.commands.bot: Privileged message content intent is missing” you will have to change the discord.intents.default() function in your project to discord.intents.all().

This was the unmentioned change which is causing the error and we will have to change this to fix our error.