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Intents

What are intents?

Intents allow you to subscribe Discord events, such as MessageCreate and GuildUserAdd. If you don't specify certain intent, you will not subscribe certain events.

Privileged intents

Privileged intents are intents that you need to enable in Discord Developer Portal. Shows 'Privileged Gateway Intents' section in 'Bot' section

How to specify intents in NetCord?

Intents in NetCord are handled by GatewayIntents. You specify them like this:

builder.Services
    .AddDiscordGateway(options =>
    {
        options.Intents = GatewayIntents.GuildMessages | GatewayIntents.DirectMessages | GatewayIntents.MessageContent;
    });

If you have done this, you will receive guild and direct messages.

Note

MessageContent is a special, privileged intent that allows you to receive Content, Embeds, Attachments, Components and Poll of messages in events. Otherwise they are empty.

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