Method: Discordrb::Channel#history

Defined in:
lib/discordrb/data.rb

#history(amount, before_id = nil, after_id = nil, around_id = nil) ⇒ Array<Message>

Retrieves some of this channel's message history.

Examples:

Count the number of messages in the last 50 messages that contain the letter 'e'.

message_count = channel.history(50).count {|message| message.content.include? "e"}

Get the last 10 messages before the provided message.

last_ten_messages = channel.history(10, message.id)

Parameters:

  • amount (Integer) —

    How many messages to retrieve. This must be less than or equal to 100, if it is higher than 100 it will be treated as 100 on Discord's side.

  • before_id (Integer) (defaults to: nil) —

    The ID of the most recent message the retrieval should start at, or nil if it should start at the current message.

  • after_id (Integer) (defaults to: nil) —

    The ID of the oldest message the retrieval should start at, or nil if it should start as soon as possible with the specified amount.

  • around_id (Integer) (defaults to: nil) —

    The ID of the message retrieval should start from, reading in both directions

Returns:

  • (Array<Message>) —

    the retrieved messages.



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# File 'lib/discordrb/data.rb', line 1799

def history(amount, before_id = nil, after_id = nil, around_id = nil)
  logs = API::Channel.messages(@bot.token, @id, amount, before_id, after_id, around_id)
  JSON.parse(logs).map { |message| Message.new(message, @bot) }
end