#How to let the bot read the chat history?

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covert sand
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I have come across something like "channel.messages.fetch", but I'm not sure if this is still a working way to make the bot read the chat history, because I could not find any official document related to that 😢 Does anyone has any experience on this function?

grim peakBOT
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woven cobalt
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that is the method for fetching existing, previously sent messages
currently the docs are experiencing issues, so I'll mention a few details:

  • it's asynchronous and therefore returns a promise
  • it can fetch up to 100 messages at a time, with the (mutually exclusive) options before, after, and around accepting snowflakes to control which 100 messages are fetched
  • when fetching multiple messages, it will resolve in a Collection<string, Message> keyed by message id
  • it can also be used to fetch a single Message by id in which case it will just resolve in the Message object
covert sand
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Thanks @woven cobalt!
I'm wondering when the last update of this function was. If I saw some related resources but it's from 2021, are they still applicable now?
I'm also thinking to fetch the history using timestamp (e.g. within 5mins), should I take a look into the snowflakes thing?
I'm very new to the discord api and JS stuffs🙈

woven cobalt
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If I saw some related resources but it's from 2021, are they still applicable now?
potentially not
it's probable that you'd be looking at the v13 usage, and I don't remember off the top of my head whether it was a single object param back then
I'm also thinking to fetch the history using timestamp (e.g. within 5mins), should I take a look into the snowflakes thing?
because you can only fetch up to 100 messages at a time, it's entirely possible that you won't be able to fetch all messages within a given time frame without making copious amounts of requests, which would be considered api spam
probably just best to work with a smaller amount of the most recent messages and simply <Collection>.filter() to ensure that you're only working with ones within the given time frame