DELETING messages in discord.py Discord bot

Question

i wrote a bot using Python 3.6 IDLE and i want to add a purge command but i don't know how to add it. Can some of you people help me with giving any examples or suggestion i will be pleased thanks.

Answer 1

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def purge(ctx, amount):
    await bot.purge_from(ctx.message.channel, limit=amount)

pretty sure that would work.

Answer 2

@client.command(pass_context = True, aliases=['Clear'])
async def clear(ctx, number):
    mgs = [] #Empty list to put all the messages in the log
    number = int(number) #Converting the amount of messages to delete to an 
    #integer(number)
    async for x in ctx.logs_from(ctx.message.channel, limit = number):
        mgs.append(x)
    await ctx.delete_messages(mgs)

Answer 3

I have created this command myself and I am sharing it with you.

First I would add the code and then explain.

Code:

@MyBot.command(pass_context=True)
@commands.has_permissions(administrator=True)
async def clear(ctx, limit):
    await ctx.message.delete()
    limit = int(limit)
    deleted = await ctx.channel.purge(limit=limit)
    cofirmdelete_embed = discord.Embed(title='Delete Successfull!', description=f'Deleted {len(deleted)} messages in #{ctx.channel}', color=0x4fff4d)
    await ctx.channel.send(embed=cofirmdelete_embed, delete_after=4.0)

Explanation:

• @command.has_permissions(administrator=True) is added so that this command can be used by administrators only. You can use any discord permissions here and set them to True or False as per your wish. Eg: manage_messages=True

• In async def clear(ctx, limit), limit is the amount of messages that you want to delete.

• ctx.message.delete() deletes the command that you enter to clear. That is, when you give the bot command: !clear it would first delete this command and then execute the latter.

• deleted is the variable that I use to get the number of messages that were deleted.

• await ctx.channel.purge(limit=limit). Here, purge is a coroutine in the discord.py library. It deleted the messages with the limit that was added by the user.

• In the confirmdelete_embed, I have added a description where I have added len(delete). This counts the number of deleted messages and then add it to the embed.

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This was all that I could explain. I am still here if something comes up or you have any doubt. Feel free to ask me.