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discord.py
lizzie hopkins
lizzie hopkins

Reputation: 47

discord.py delete author message after executing command

I need the bot to delete the message from the command author, and leave the bot message. Any help will be appreciated! thank you.

I have already tried looking for a answer on google but nothing has worked

Upvotes: 2

Views: 21311

Answers (2)

alex
alex

Reputation: 31

I'm kinda late here. I tried implementing this with the new 1.0 terms but couldn't make it work. If anyone has an updated version, please do tell

Edit: I found that the new best way of doing it is to just add this at the end of the function:

await ctx.message.delete()

No need for a separate delete function anymore.

Upvotes: 3

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 60944

You can obtain the message that called the command by passing the context with the command using the pass_context option. You can use the Client.delete_message coroutine to delete messages.

from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def deletethis(ctx):
    await bot.say('Command received')
    await bot.delete_message(ctx.message)
    await bot.say('Message deleted')

bot.run('token')

Upvotes: 1

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