message.content blank

Summary

missing data from discord

Reproduction Steps

Running the code snippet below just prints blanks across multiple servers I’ve tried

Minimal Reproducible Code

`
import discord

class MyClient(discord.Client):
    async def on_ready(self):
        print('Logged on as', self.user)

    async def on_message(self, message):
        print(message.content)

client = MyClient()
client.run('token')
`

Expected Results

should print message

Actual Results

blank

Intents

bot=false

System Information

• Python v3.8.5-final
• discord.py v1.6.0-final
• aiohttp v3.7.3
• system info: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 17:25:17 UTC 2021 root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc1-01:~/discord#

Checklist

• I have searched the open issues for duplicates.
• I have shown the entire traceback, if possible.
• I have removed my token from display, if visible.

Additional Context

No response

[mcg88]

message.content can be blank if the message doesn’t feature any content, eg when the message is exclusively an embed.

Yes, I realize that but in my case this applies to all messages coming through the stream not exclusively embeds or any other message type that would cause the content to be blank. Pure text content is missing

[Rapptz]

Judging from the comments and the parent issue this seems to only affect self-bots. Self-bots are deprecated and unsupported in v1.7. They are getting removed in v2.0. If this issue can be reproduced with a real bot account then I would have heard about it from official sources and other libraries, but since I haven’t I’m assuming this doesn’t apply to real bots.