How do i delete the previous messages that my discord bot sent in a specific channel?

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I'm trying to make a discord bot that sends a message in a specific channel for telling users when my Minecraft server is on or off. I just need to send 2 embeds one for starting and another for turning off like this:

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I'm trying to delete the old messages the bot has sent but I don't know how.

import discord
import sys
import os
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
Ntime = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
txtStart = ()
client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))
    channel = client.get_channel(800317242910834699)
    embed= discord.Embed(title="[ Server Status ]", description="Running...", color=discord.Color.green())
    embed.add_field(name="success At :", value=Ntime, inline=True)
    file = discord.File(os.path.join("D:\Scripts\Discord/ServerStarted.gif"), filename="ServerStarted.gif")
    embed.set_thumbnail(url="attachment://ServerStarted.gif")
    message = await channel.send(file=file, embed=embed)

    embed= discord.Embed(title="[ Server Status ]", description="shutting down...", color=discord.Color.red())
    embed.add_field(name="success At :", value=Ntime, inline=True)
    file = discord.File(os.path.join("D:\Scripts\Discord/ServerStoped.gif"), filename="ServerStoped.gif")
    embed.set_thumbnail(url="attachment://ServerStoped.gif")
    await channel.send(file=file, embed=embed)
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1 Answers

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votes

You can use the TextChannel.purge method:

await channel.purge(limit=1)

Remember to send the message afterwards, not beforehand.

Note that this method will delete the oldest message in the channel, if you want to delete the latest message sent by the bot you can use use a check function:

def is_me(m):
    return m.author == client.user

await channel.purge(limit=1, check=is_me)

Reference: