deleting messages in dms

[nrmu9]

How do I fetch all my messages in a direct message and delete them all?

[TheDevYellowy]

You can fetch the dm channel then use the channel.messages.cache.filter(msg => {}) function to filter the messages to ones you have sent then you can loop through all of them and see if they are deletable and if they are then delete it. If you need an example just tell me and I'll give you an example

[TheDevYellowy]

take in mind that you will have to add an artificial pause to deleting these messages, because if you don't then you'll 100% get rate limited and probably banned. Also you can't delete messages from later then 2 weeks ago, with that in mind use this code very carefully.

const channelId = '';
const channel = await client.channels.cache.get(channelId);
channel.messages.cache.filter(async msg => {
  if(msg.author.id === client.user.id && msg.deleteable) await msg.delete();
});

[aiko-chan-ai]

not bulkDelete, no time limit to delete

[TheDevYellowy]

I thought there was a limit on bulkDelete though

[aiko-chan-ai]

I thought there was a limit on bulkDelete though

you are deleting messages one by one, so there will be no time limit :3

[nrmu9]

take in mind that you will have to add an artificial pause to deleting these messages, because if you don't then you'll 100% get rate limited and probably banned. Also you can't delete messages from later then 2 weeks ago, with that in mind use this code very carefully.

const channelId = '';
const channel = await client.channels.cache.get(channelId);
channel.messages.cache.filter(async msg => {
  if(msg.author.id === client.user.id && msg.deleteable) await msg.delete();
});

This is almost exactly what I tried, it fails to get the channel for me, do I put it as "@me/targetuserid"? Because with just the user ID it didn't work

[NekoCyan]

Hmm, I suggest not to do this, you can just close DM (if the messages are not important).