Question about Discord.JS's rate limit handling | discord.js - imagine an app | Page 1

magic temple Mar 23, 2025, 10:43 PM

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I used ChatGPT just to have it summarize how Discord.JS handles rate limiting.

My scenario was something along the lines of: "How will Discord.JS handle rate limits if I sent 1 message to 100 different webhooks?"

I wouldn't hit the webhook rate limit, but I would hit the global rate limit.

1: The response from ChatGPT was that Discord.JS (for example) will send 50 of those messages and then queue the remaining requests once the rate limit retry-after time has passed, is this true?

2: If yes to question 1: If not 50, how many requests will Discord.JS send at a time?

3: Is there any sort of method/technique I should be using for my given scenario, or is relying on Discord.JS's rate limit handing fine enough?

Thanks for any answers!

timid iceBOT Mar 23, 2025, 10:43 PM

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fringe steppe Mar 23, 2025, 10:45 PM

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what exactly is the "given scenario"? why would you send the same message to 100 different webhooks?

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and also: how do you send them, with Webhook instances you fetched from a Guild or Channel?

magic temple Mar 23, 2025, 10:54 PM

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fringe steppe what exactly is the "given scenario"? why would you send the same message to 100...

To pass a message from one user across all servers with the bot into a specific channel (1 message to however many servers).
Yes, I believe

fringe steppe Mar 23, 2025, 10:56 PM

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magic temple - To pass a message from one user across all servers with the bot into a specifi...

Sounds like you’d want an AnnouncementChannel instead then

magic temple Mar 23, 2025, 10:59 PM

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fringe steppe Sounds like you’d want an AnnouncementChannel instead then

Possibly, I was considering that, but:

The idea was not for it to be an one-way announcements channel (e.g, from dev guild to servers), but a global channel where the owner from any server can post their message, will an AnnouncementChannel still work?

fringe steppe Mar 23, 2025, 11:00 PM

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You‘d have an AnnouncementChannel in each guild then

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Or have your bot read your global channel idea and post and publish an announcement in your announcement channel rather

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Using native AnnouncementChannels is way better in terms of strain on the API and won‘t need to worry about ratelimits at all then

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(Apart from not being able to publish more than a certain amount of messages in a short timeframe)

magic temple Mar 23, 2025, 11:03 PM

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fringe steppe Or have your bot read your global channel idea and post and publish an announcem...

I'm not sure I quite understand this.

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Also, I'm not sure 10 publishes per hour will be enough in the future. If that's the case and I decide not to use AnnouncementChannel, although it may put some strain on the API, will it generally be fine to just to use text channels?

fringe steppe Mar 23, 2025, 11:07 PM

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You‘ll be heavily rateLimited and possibly still not get more messages done than you would with announcementChannels. And hitting those ratelimits repeatedly can get you into other issues

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