Get number of messages in a channel?

[last seal]

Is there anyway to get the number of messages in a discord channel?

I know that I could do something like this:

num = 0
async for message in channel.history(limit=None):
  num += 1

but that would take a really long time in a channel with a lot of messages. Any way to do it without making all those API calls?

[torn karma]

Their isn’t any other option but you can shorten the code by writing this:

num = len(await channel.history().flatten())

Maybe it’s faster than before

[molten remnant]

That is creating a list with the messages instead of every message

https://docs.pycord.dev/en/master/api/models.html#discord.TextChannel.history

[torn karma]

Wdym by that? I know that you have the same content like before but I think it‘s based on the message count a bit faster

[molten remnant]

you should more run the command one time and after that store the amount

[torn karma]

Isn‘t it formated like for example this:
[{message1…}, {message2…}]

[molten remnant]

Can you test it at a small amount of messages?

[torn karma]

I‘m not at my pc right now

[molten remnant]

oh

[torn karma]

I can test it later or the thread creator can do it