Fetch more than 100 messages in a channel
Hey, I know that I shouldn't fetch more than 100 messages but it's a bot in one server so I wanted to know if there is a way to fetch all messages.
Is it possible to slowly cache all messages at bot startup? There will be less than 1'000 messages for now. Currently about 500.
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There is no error stack trace, except for the 100 limit in fetch.
It would be great if I can slowly cache all messages at bot startup, can even take a few minutes, as long as I don't spam the API.Unknown User•16mo ago
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It's going to be a personal small bot. The bot will restart every day I do plan on deleting the cache
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Thanks, I'll take a look
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Basically I want to pick a random message from all specified channels and post it, sounds silly, I know
But would be great if I can find a workaround to the limit
Unknown User•16mo ago
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Can I cache 500+ messages?
It doesn't need to be *cached at once
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Hmm.. so it's probably impossible to do that
I forgot about the 14 days delay too
One more question: Can I get a random message by index? Let's say I want the 103rd message from the bottom. I guess no, right?
Like is there a way to get the 103rd message from a channel?
All I need is to get a random message across all messages from specific channels 😢
<Collection>.at(index)
But that collection would only contain 100 messages at most, right? Also messages within 14 days
You can fetch messages from anytime. Just not bulk delete
I don't plan on deleting any messages
Cacheing the message ids somewhere persistent to retrieve later might be a better approach
You can also send the options
before, after or around when fetching. It’s basically a timestamp in snowflake form.Just for my understanding. Is it possible for me to get the
X message since the beginning? With ignoring the 100 fetch and 14 days limit?
Let's say I need the 430th message from the top. Can I somehow get it? I don't have any information on that message.
Otherwise I think I should really store the IDs somewhere and pick a random oneUnknown User•16mo ago
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I see
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100 messages is the max discord will ever send from the api for one api request.
There’s not a way to request a message by index from the api. From the cache you can.
Can't I fetch like the first 100, then the next 100 and so on? It's fine if I add delays to not spam the api
Yes i thing you can do that