How do I make my discord bot delete it's own previous message sent?

Question

Currently, I have a command in my bot where it will react to anything with discord.gg in the message. I want the bot to be able to post the embed message each time a discord invite is posted, but delete the last embed message it sent so it would look like the bot is keeping one specific message at the end of a channel.

This is what the code looks like right now, thank you for your help!

let keyword15 = ["discord.gg"];
if (msg.author.bot) return;
if((msg.content.toLowerCase().includes(keyword15) )
){          
    const embed2 = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setDescription('Promotion Operator \n ▫️ **Do not post outside the advertisement channel.** \n ▫️ **Do not advertise your server via DM.**')
    .setColor(0x000000)
    msg.channel.send(embed2);    
}

Kraken Kraken · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-20T12:20:40

I wouldn't know how to delete the last embed but, I have came up with another solution you could try.

let keyword15 = ["discord.gg"];
if (msg.author.bot) return;
if((msg.content.toLowerCase().includes(keyword15) )
){          
    const embed2 = new Discord.MessageEmbed()
    .setDescription('Promotion Operator \n ▫️ **Do not post outside the advertisement channel.** \n ▫️ **Do not advertise your server via DM.**')
    .setColor(0x000000)
    msg.channel.send(embed2).then(msg => {
msg.delete(300000)
});
}

that there will delete the embed after 5 minutes, You can always change the time, Just keep in mind discord uses milliseconds so if you want to use 10 minutes you would have to put in 600000, etc.

How do I make my discord bot delete it's own previous message sent?

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