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pythondiscord.py
jarod
jarod

Reputation: 11

How to write text channel message history to .txt?

I am trying to create a command for my Discord bot that will write the channel history to a .txt.

I have tried several different attempts using channel.history().flatten(). I'm sure there are significant issues with my code and I apologize for that. I am quite new to this and haven't entirely grasped the concepts. Thanks so much.

@client.command(name="history")
async def history():
    channel_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    messages = await channel.history(channel_id).flatten()
    with open("channel_messages.txt", "a", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        f.write(f"{messages}")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3285

Answers (1)

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 60944

you don't need to pass an id to TextChannel.history

@client.command()
async def history(ctx, limit: int = 100):  
    messages = await ctx.channel.history(limit=limit).flatten()
    with open("channel_messages.txt", "a+", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        print(*messages, sep="\n\n", file=f)

Other changes: removed the name= because it uses the name of the callback by default, every command needs an invocation context to be passed, I added a limit argument so you can control how many messages to get, and I changed the write to a print with a file argument, because I think that make it easier to control what gets written to the file.

Upvotes: 1

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