Every 30 minutes I want to delete all messages inside a channel besides ones that are pinned.
My code works and all, but I get an error when it has to delete more than five messages, because of the rate limit.
My question is: Does the library block my requests being sent, when it knows they will be rate-limited? Or do my requests go through and the library just detect the error from the discord api?
Also: Is there a way to catch those errors? I tried wrapping the message.delete() in a try catch, catching all exceptions but it never went into the catch block
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slow lava
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heady kelp
- Don't individually delete them, purge them
- You get ratelimited by the discord api
- Should be possible
slow lava
Welp thank you
Purging was the right call and then using a lambda
For anyone in the future looking at this:
This is what my code looks like now
ornate path
btw, the lib does requests and then respects ratelimits as needed, as theyre too dynamic to hardcode or anything
slow lava
ah thanks