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lofty folio Dec 30, 2022, 12:26 AM

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How can you retrieve the message ID of either the last message a user sent or of a message that contains a specific string?

noble sequoia Dec 30, 2022, 12:43 AM

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Well Discord doesn't expose the search API to bots, so you'd have to either keep track manually, or fetch and filter

lofty folio Dec 30, 2022, 12:50 AM

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How do you fetch and filter?

noble sequoia Dec 30, 2022, 12:51 AM

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@deft bone GetMessagesAsync

deft boneBOT Dec 30, 2022, 12:51 AM

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Docs:

Source:

Summary:

Returns a list of messages from the last message in the channel.
The amount of messages to fetch.

Overloads:

1- Task<IReadOnlyList<DiscordMessage>> GetMessagesAsync(int limit = 100)

Also found in (2/2):

DiscordThreadChannel
DiscordDmChannel

noble sequoia Dec 30, 2022, 12:51 AM

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From there, you iterate the results and grab whatever message is relevant for you

lofty folio Dec 30, 2022, 12:51 AM

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I see I'll look into this thank you!

topaz wolf Dec 30, 2022, 2:34 AM

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Also, you can subscribe to the MessageCreated event and track the last message a user sent in real time

noble sequoia Dec 30, 2022, 2:36 AM

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Smh my head

topaz wolf Dec 30, 2022, 2:37 AM

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They might not know what you meant by that

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Smh my smh

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