message.author.content not working discord.js

Question

i tried to make a ping command for DM channel so if an author says ping in DM channel bot could reply pong but its not working, console is not giving any error and bot is not providing any output.

client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
  if(message.author.bot) return

  //command
  if (message.author.content === `ping`) {
    message.author.send(`pong`);
  }
});

edit: message.content doesnt work in DMs

client.on('messageCreate', (message) => {
  if(message.author.bot) return

  //command
  if (message.content.toLowerCase() === `ping`) {
    message.author.send(`pong`);
  }
});

Answer 1

go to discord developers site and make sure that your message content intents are on, and DM messages will work properly

Answer 2

message.author doesn't have any content property. If you want to check the message content, use MessageComponent#content as stated in the documentation.

Also make sure you enabled the correct intents and asked for verification if you bot is over 100 guilds.

Answer 3

While the other answer is something that needs to be done, it may not be the full answer to the problems you are having. Something else you will want to make sure that you have enabled in the bot code is your intents. Somewhere in your code you have a line that starts off like this: (may not be exactly this)

const client = new Client({})

Make sure you have your intents enabled there

Example 1 enable minimum intents

const client = new Client({
    intents: ['GUILDS', 'GUILD_MEMBERS', 'GUILD_MESSAGES', 'DIRECT_MESSAGES'],
})

Example 2 enable all intents

const client = new Client({
    intents: 131071,
})

Example 3 enable all intents with partials

const client = new Client({
    intents: 131071,
    partials: ['CHANNEL', 'GUILD_MEMBER', 'GUILD_SCHEDULED_EVENT', 'MESSAGE', 'REACTION', 'USER']
})

UPDATE intents: 32767 no longer includes all intents, all intents is now 131071

Answer 4

You are missing an intents

Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGES,
Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGE_REACTIONS,
Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGE_TYPING,

or

const client = new Discord.Client({ intents: ["GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILD_MEMBERS","DIRECT_MESSAGES","DIRECT_MESSAGE_REACTIONS","DIRECT_MESSAGE_TYPING"] });