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Tester3
Tester3

Reputation: 111

How to fetch x amount of Messages

I would like to fetch x amount of messages to later send them a rich embed. How can I fetch that amount?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6427

Answers (2)

Federico Grandi
Federico Grandi

Reputation: 6796

When you call TectChannel.fetchMessages() it returns a Promise that is resolved with a Collection of messages.
To send them in a RichEmbed, you have to either use .array() and transform the Collection into an Array or use .forEach(). I'll show you how to use the Array.

let x = 10, // x should be form 0 to 25
  embed = new Discord.RichEmbed().setTitle('Fecthed messages');

channel.fetchMessages({ limit: x }).then(messages => {
  let arr = messages.array(); // you get the array of messages

  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { // you loop through them
    let curr = arr[i],
      str = curr.content.trim();
    if (str.length > 2048) str = str.substring(0, 2045) + '...';
    // if the content is over the limit, you cut it

    embed.addField(curr.author, str); // then you add it to the embed
  }

}).catch(console.error);

Upvotes: 2

Bligglenuber
Bligglenuber

Reputation: 222

The following is the example given in the discord.js docs:

// Get messages
channel.fetchMessages({ limit: 10 })
  .then(messages => console.log(`Received ${messages.size} messages`))
  .catch(console.error);

This will retrieve the latest 10 messages from the text channel.

You can read more about the method and its options here: https://discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/TextChannel?scrollTo=fetchMessages

Upvotes: 1

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