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Cyanomous
Cyanomous

Reputation: 1

How to get the first message in a channel

I would like to know how to get the first message in a channel. But more preferably could you point me to the part of the documentation that explains this, please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2484

Answers (2)

Techscool
Techscool

Reputation: 1

 messages = [message async for message in channel1.history(limit=1, oldest_first=True)]

Upvotes: 0

Ali Hakan Kurt
Ali Hakan Kurt

Reputation: 1037

TextChannel has a history method. If you type await channel.history() you can get all messages in that text channel. But this starts from last message. To start from first message, use oldest_first=True in method. Also you can limit the amount of message with a keyword argument limit.

Upvotes: 2

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