Discord.js: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS

I'm having my first go at making a Discord bot. The code is very basic, just a bot that logs its own tag into the console upon startup:

const Discord = require("discord.js"); const TOKEN = "REDACTED" const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES"] }) client.on("ready", () => { console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}`) }) client.login(TOKEN) 

Upon typing node index.js into the VSCode terminal, however, I am given the following error:

PS C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter> node index.js C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168 throw new RangeError(ErrorCodes.BitFieldInvalid, bit); ^ RangeError [BitFieldInvalid]: Invalid bitfield flag or number: GUILDS. at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:168:11) at C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:54 at Array.map (<anonymous>) at IntentsBitField.resolve (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\util\BitField.js:163:40) at Client._validateOptions (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:481:41) at new Client (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\node_modules\discord.js\src\client\Client.js:78:10) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\15055\Documents\Alt Formatter\index.js:9:16) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1112:14) at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1166:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32) { [Symbol(code)]: 11 } Node.js v18.4.0 

I have installed discord.js with the command npm i discord.js so I'm using v14.

3 Answers

In discord.js v14, intent flags are available from GatewayIntentBits.

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

List of changes:

the solution I've found based on the documentation is :

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

Hope it helps

Based on the documentation, you can't use strings for intent names, but you import them from the package, so in your case something like

const Discord = require('discord.js'); const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: [ Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Discord.Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES, ]}); 

should do the trick.