DiscordAPIError: Unknown Message (help pls)

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Good morning, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm trying to edit a message that I sent with my bot a few days ago, but it won't let me edit it.

I'm sure it's because it's been about 7 days, but even so, I would like to know if there is a way to edit that message.

Thanks and again, sorry for the inconvenience.

      client.on('message', async (message) => {
    if (message.content === '!update-info') {
        if (!message.member.hasPermission('MANAGE_MESSAGES')) {
            return message.channel.send('Only server moderators can run this command!')
        }
        const guild = client.guilds.cache.get('734517639732396122');
        if (!guild) return console.log('Unable to find guild.');
        
        const channel = guild.channels.cache.find(c => c.id === '737363248126492772' && c.type === 'text');
        if (!channel) return console.log('Unable to find channel.');
        
        try {
            const messageedit = await message.channel.messages.fetch('815522275344252928');
            if (!message) return console.log('Unable to find message.');
        
             await messageedit.edit("__**Reacciona para activar notificacioness**__\n\n`Actualizaciones:` <:update:815505836880429087> \n`Twitter:` <:twitter:815505836842942474> \n`Facebook:` <:facebook:815505775278424084>\n`Instagram:` <:instagram:815505836608454667>");
            console.log('Mensaje de informacion actualizado.');
        } catch(err) {
            console.error(err);
        }
        message.delete();
    }
  });

DiscordAPIError: Unknown Message

at RequestHandler.execute (/home/bungee/Discord-Bots/Uniito-bot/node_modules/discord.js/src/rest/RequestHandler.js:154:13)

at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5) at async RequestHandler.push (/home/bungee/Discord-Bots/Uniito-bot/node_modules/discord.js/src/rest/RequestHandler.js:39:14)

at async MessageManager._fetchId (/home/bungee/Discord-Bots/Uniito-bot/node_modules/discord.js/src/managers/MessageManager.js:135

at async Client. (/home/bungee/Discord-Bots/Uniito-bot/client.js:105:33) { method: 'get', path: '/channels/738226897690820680/messages/815522275344252928', code: 10008, httpStatus: 404 }

in your request to that channel - getting that message you're getting a 404 error.. That message doesn't exist.. It might have been deleted ? But the error is correct.. The API is telling you there is no message there. — Pogrindis
also you're checking if message is defined after calling it.. Maybe you mean messageedit ? — Pogrindis

Pogrindis Pogrindis · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-03T14:23:36

The error is correct, but you're not catching your error because you have a mixup in your logic.

        const messageedit = await message.channel.messages.fetch('815522275344252928');
        if (!message) return console.log('Unable to find message.');

I believe your if should be

        const messageedit = await message.channel.messages.fetch('815522275344252928');
        if (!messageedit) return console.log('Unable to find message.');

This case would check the response of the fetch request..

DiscordAPIError: Unknown Message (help pls)

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