Discord bot suddenly stopped working after updating discord.py - getting login token errors

[ClimbingLion]

My Discord bot was working perfectly fine last week but now it’s throwing a bunch of errors after I tried to upgrade discord.py to support slash commands. I’m getting a 401 Unauthorized error that says “Improper token has been passed” but I haven’t changed my token at all.

Here’s my bot code:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

from config import *

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=['?', '#', '~', '+', '%'])

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Bot is online!')
    print('==================')

@bot.event
async def greet(ctx):
    await ctx.send('Hi there!')

@bot.event
async def on_member_join(member):
    with open('welcome_image.jpg', 'rb') as f:
        image = discord.File(f)
        welcome_channel = bot.get_channel(123456789012345678)
        await welcome_channel.send('Welcome to the server! Here is your starter pack!', file=image)

@bot.event
async def farewell(ctx):
    await ctx.send('See you later!')

@bot.event
async def explode(ctx):
    with open('boom.gif', 'rb') as f:
        boom_gif = discord.File(f)
    await ctx.send('KABOOM!!!', file=boom_gif)

bot.run(BOT_TOKEN)

The error traceback shows LoginFailure and HTTPException errors. I double checked my token in the config file and it looks correct. Should I reinstall discord.py or is there something else I’m missing? This is really confusing for someone new to Python like me.

[JumpingRabbit]

The token error might be from discord.py version changes, but there’s another issue that could cause problems. You’re using commands.Bot() without intents, which newer versions require. Add intents = discord.Intents.default() and intents.members = True before creating your bot, then pass intents=intents to the Bot constructor. Also regenerate your token from the Discord Developer Portal - tokens can get corrupted during library updates even if they look fine in your config.

[Sky24]

Had the same issue when I updated discord.py. Your token’s probably fine - the real problem is that version 2.0+ requires intents for most events. Add intents = discord.Intents.default() then use it when you initialize your bot: bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix=['?', '#', '~', '+', '%'], intents=intents). Also, switch your greet, farewell, and explode functions to use @bot.command() instead of @bot.event. That should fix the login failure.

[bellagarcia]

i think ur mixing up @bot.event with @bot.command. if u want users to trigger greet, farewell, and explode, they need to be commands with @bot.command() not events. that should help with the token issue.