node bot.js not working

[StopPls]

I cannot host my bot via node, My bot code was working just fine last night(I even let my bot run through the night) but now when I try to node my bot it doesn't do anything, it just pauses for a second and does nothing. However, it does do things that are outside of the discord.io events, which has led me to believe that its a discord.io problem.

Source code(a tutorial bot I found online) var Discord = require('discord.io'); var logger = require('winston'); var auth = require('./auth.json'); // Configure logger settings logger.remove(logger.transports.Console); logger.add(logger.transports.Console, { colorize: true }); logger.level = 'debug'; // Initialize Discord Bot var bot = new Discord.Client({ token: auth.token, autorun: true }); logger.info('Initialized'); bot.on('ready', function (evt) { logger.info('Connected'); logger.info('Logged in as: '); logger.info(bot.username + ' - (' + bot.id + ')'); }); bot.on('message', function (user, userID, channelID, message, evt) { // Our bot needs to know if it will execute a command // It will listen for messages that will start with ! if (message.substring(0, 1) == '!') { var args = message.substring(1).split(' '); var cmd = args[0];

    args = args.splice(1);
    switch(cmd) {
        // !ping
        case 'ping':
            bot.sendMessage({
                to: channelID,
                message: 'Pong!'
            });
        break;
        // Just add any case commands if you want to..
     }
 }

});

Output:"info: Initialized"

before the output also did the information inside of bot.on('ready') and bot.on('message')

[metadan]

I think maybe this is a discord issue

[weq]

I don't think this is a discord issue. Because if I try the quick example with Discord.io it is still broken. But other Discord JS frameworks works just fine. So if discord has done something discord.io haven't been updated to conform.

[gaviarctica]

Discord's gateway protocol version 5, which discord.io uses, seems to be discontinued: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway

I got my bot working by changing line 5 of index.js from GATEWAY_VERSION = 5, to GATEWAY_VERSION = 6,

Also some channel type checks weren't working anymore since the types have apparently changed from 'text' and 'voice' to 0 and 2 respectively. So I changed those values too eg. the line if (channel.type !== 'voice') return handleErrCB(("Selected channel is not a voice channel: " + channelID), callback); to if (channel.type !== 2) return handleErrCB(("Selected channel is not a voice channel: " + channelID), callback);

With these changes it is working for my use case at least.

[izy521]

The NPM version of the lib is indeed out of date. The gateway it was using was shut-down in October. However, previously, Discord implicitly moved someone, using an out-of-date gateway version, to a current gateway version, automatically. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and it now kicks you off, and gives you the new 4012 gateway error code.

I can't update the NPM version until the https://github.com/izy521/discord.io/tree/next branch is finished. So you can use the git version of discord.io from this repo, or use npm install woor/discord.io#gateway_v6.

[AnnanFay]

One remaining problem is:

now when I try to node my bot it doesn't do anything, it just pauses for a second and does nothing.

I just tried using this library today for the first time. Eventually I figured it out. But after it running silently I had no idea if it was failing because I didn't install node correctly, or because a firewall was blocking the connection, or because I was using V9 version of node instead of V8.

[AlekEagle]

im using it right now, and after i tried to use bot.user.setStatus('On This Server'); it stopped working completely, it doesn't even output to a log anymore.