Permissions issues

[vivinano]

I keep trying to set roles using bot but it saying I don't have permissions even tho I sent intents to true and within the developer portal set the options to true

When I do a print discord.permissions it is still set at 0

[cibere]

Intents and permissions are 2 separate things. Intents are global, and it tells discord what data to send to your bot. Permissions is per guild, and limits what your bot can and can't do.

If discord.Permissions is set to 0, then your bot has no permissions. As mentioned in the docs on this,

You must have manage_roles to use this, and the added Roles must appear lower in the list of roles than the highest role of the member.

[vivinano]

Okay so first I need to set intents
Is there a way to confirm this

Second I need to check permissions in the client side ? And then the development portal side ?

[vivinano]

Discord.pemissions()
Discord.pemissions().manage_roles
Intents

[cibere]

Once again, intents and permissions are 2 completely separate items. Regarding the permissions.manage_roles returning false however, you are creating a brand new permissions object via discord.Permissions(). And by default, it has no permissions, which would explain it having value set to 0. To get an instance of a permissions object which has your bots permissions, you first have to get the guild, then you can use guild.me to get your bots member object, then member.guild_permissions returns a permissions object that contains your bots permissions.

If this is confusing, consider learning OOP (object oriented programming) before attempting to use discord.py