Client.__init__() "missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'intents'", or "takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given"

I was trying to make a quick bot for discord and I used this code:

import discord
from discord.ui import button, view
from discord.ext import commands
client = discord.Client()
@client.event
async def on_ready(): print('Autenticazione riuscita. {0.user} è online!'.format(client))

But this error pops up:

Client.__init__() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'intents'

I tried providing an argument by putting something between the brackets, like this:

import discord
from discord.ui import button, view
from discord.ext import commands
client = discord.Client(0)
@client.event
async def on_ready(): print('Autenticazione riuscita. {0.user} è online!'.format(client))

But instead I get this error:

Client.__init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

On another PC the exact same code, with exact same modules and same Python version works just fine. What am I missing?

4 Answers

You could use the default Intents unless you have a particular one to specify.

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

As the first error message says, it is a keyword-only argument, so you cannot write discord.Client(discord.Intents.default()) without intents=.

See Intents for more details.

With older versions, you can't get the messages.

Try using this

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
client = discord.Client(intents=intents)

My suggestion here would be to uninstall the version of discord.py you currently have and install version 1.7.3.

I was having the same issue and realized that a new version of the module had been released recently. Once I reverted back to an older version, everything worked by just using